I was checking out the CareerHub blog - a great resource in its own right - and made my way to this article by Richard Nelson Bolles. Bolles is the author of What Color is Your Parachute? (check our "Recommended Reading" links on the right sidebar) and here offers the best kind of advice: extremely simple, applicable to many different aspects of life, and holding the potential to change your career and your world...
Ask for what you want! Bolles says it so well it should be on t-shirts, bumper stickers, and motivational posters the world over: "If you don't ask, the answer is always no." You've worked too hard - both to get to where you are now and to plan for where you're headed - to not feel that this is your right. I love how Bolles notes, for example, that by asking an employer at the end of an interview, "Can you offer me this job?", you get them thinking with their gut and potentially eliminate a lot of waiting around and worrying.
As always, you can ask me and my teammates anything you want, and here at HQ we're constantly hammering out more new ways to be there for you. Check out our Live Help feature on the main site, upper left - all you have to do is know how to click and type! I've had some great conversations on it already and our President, Todd Hecht, loves using it too. I don't know what some of your past jobs have been like, but to me it's pretty amazing to know that you're just a click away from a no-holds-barred conversation with the head honcho (who in his previous life was a recruiter and knows both sides of the career search game in mind-blowing detail). Remember, if you don't ask...
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