Sean Cook, Collegiate Life and Career Coach, is back online and ready to coach higher ed professionals toward career success!
Getting Ready for Placement? Free Career Coaching for Higher Ed Job Seekers!
During my 15-plus years as a Student Affairs professional, I have had many opportunities to coach students and young professionals through their efforts to explore graduate schools, navigate the graduate school application process, and to prepare for placement conferences and job interviews.
I have a master’s degree in Counseling and Guidance Services and a generation of work behind me, at one of America’s best universities. I’ve served on many screening committees, and conducted interviews by phone, at placement exchanges, and in-person (individually and as part of day-long processes). I’ve always felt good about my skills in this area, and my track record for helping students and young professionals with their resume preparation and interview strategies has been pretty good. Many people who I have coached have been able to find jobs and get into graduate school.
I think that having read through a few thousand resumes and conducting several hundred interviews has given me a pretty good idea what people on the hiring side of the table are looking for. Let me put this experience to work for you!
Stripping (my career) to its core.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to strip your job down to the core things you like to do, and jettison the parts that suck out your soul, take up more time and energy than they return in satisfaction, and leave it all behind you? If you are like me, you’ve had […]
Getting Back in the Game
Getting a new job can be a really soul-sucking experience, especially in today’s economy. Candidates are a-plenty, jobs are scarce, and even the simplest low-level opening can draw several hundred applicants. If we’ve come to realize one thing in today’s topsy-turvy world, it’s that colleges and universities are not immune from economic downturns. Budget cuts […]
It's September. Why haven't I found a job?
What should you do if September rolls around, and despite all your best efforts, you still don’t have a job? Don’t give up. Don’t pick over the finer details of what went wrong. Evaluate your strategy, make a new plan and put it into action. Keep exploring, stay connected to your search and your professional network, and keep looking forward. Your next position is out there, waiting for you. You just have some work to do before you find it. Good luck!