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7 Simple Steps to Find Your New Job Now
Follow this quick methodology to reorient your job search process for a successful transition from unemployment to a lucrative dream job you'll love.
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Introducing Humans of Development: Adeniyi Charles Ajayi
A global health journey profoundly shaped by trust with local communities.
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Impossible Math: Can State Department Spend $21 Billion in 10 Weeks?
A stress test of the federal government's ability to execute at unprecedented scale under impossible conditions.
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95 Applications, 7 Interviews, 1 Job: The 24-Hour Rule That Changed Everything
Here’s what worked for me. I hope some of these tips help you too:
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Anthropic Just Revealed the Playbook for Using AI in Your Job Search
Yes, in every job application regardless of which company or role you are applying for today
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Key Job Search Resources

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Don’t Let ChatGPT Dehumanize Your Job Search Efforts
Please be human in your job search. Use artificial intelligence sparingly to help you be more effective.
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Write AI-Crafted Resumes in Minutes: Download Our Toolkit
Use the AI-Crafted Resume Toolkit to write better resumes in minutes without effort
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What is Different in the 2025 Job Market?
This job market today is radically different than in 2022, much less 2012. You need to have different job search strategies to succeed in your career…
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Informational Interviews: Networking Made Easy
How to find thought leaders for informational interviews and what questions to ask them that will help your job search
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7 Frequently Asked Questions About the Recruitment Process
How to get recruiters to notice you and invite you in for an interview when you are job searching while unemployed
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Getting A Job Versus The Job
You may need a job now, but is it the job you really want? Be sure you are clear the difference between a job to provide you income and a career that…
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Good News! Multiple States Want to Hire You
Several states are heavily recruiting those laid off for state government roles, including: New York State, Hawaii, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania…
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Get a Job Faster with Friends in Job Search Councils
Job Search Councils accelerate your job search process based off the book Never Search Alone. Join us to accelerate your job search today!
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Linkedin Career Change Tips & Tricks

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Excite Recruiters Now: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile with ChatGPT
Generative AI is the secret tool for better, faster LinkedIn profile updates that excite recruiters and intrigue hiring managers
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9 Ways to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile for Recruiters to Find You Now
LinkedIn is your digital business card. Make it beautiful for algorithms and humans to search the database and recruit you for a new job
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Two AI Prompts for Awesome LinkedIn Profile Updates
Use Generative AI to update your LinkedIn profile, excite recruiters that are looking for qualified candidates just like you, and get your new job…
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Career Pivot Profile Clinic - Accelerate Your Job Search Today!
Invest in a Career Pivot Profile Clinic to improve your resume and LinkedIn profile, get interviews, and accelerate your job search
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10 Ways to Improve LinkedIn Job Targeting
LinkedIn usually sends junk job offers. Train the LinkedIn algorithm to send you jobs you actually want to see using these 10 proven actions!
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Generative AI Career Pivot Tools

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$25,000 Mistake: 73% of Employers Expect Salary Negotiations. Are You Ready to Ask?
Introducing our new AI-Improved Interview and Salary Negotiation Toolkit
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Get Hired Faster: Download ChatGPT Job Search Networking Toolkit
How to use AI to improve your job search networking in minutes and without effort
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7 Ways to Use AI for Job Search Success
Stop sending crappy CVs into the abyss. Go beyond ghosting. Use AI to improve your employment opportunities today
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8 Answers to Your Questions on Generative AI Job Searching
Answers to your questions about using Generative AI to accelerate your job search
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Get Past AI Recruiter Gatekeepers with ChatGPT Prompts
Recruiters and HR use Artificial Intelligence too. Here is how you can beat them at their own game with sample Generative AI prompts for ChatGPT
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Managing Job Search Emotions

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Navigating the Emotional Highs and Lows in Job Searching
How to keep going and be positive when the job search process drags on
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Unemployment Grief You Feel But No One Sees
You are grieving. You are not alone. Please recognize and accept the loss of purpose and paycheck.
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Maintain Your Job Search Mojo with a Self-Care Plan
Job searching is mentally and physically exhausting. You are depleting your dopamine looking for work. Here is how to regain your mojo!
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Beware: 5 Job Advertisement Scams Designed to Trick You
There are evil people who want to take your money when you’re most vulnerable: unemployed and looking for a job
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5 Signs of Layoff Trauma: Your Emotions Are Valid
Stress is a normal part of going through the five stages of grief during unemployment. Accept your feelings and mood swings as normal
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People Are Getting RIF Notices. Please Say This to Them.
Reduction in Force notices are hard for us all. Please reach out respectfully to your peers and colleagues with these phrases that will strengthen your…
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4 Mental Health Options for You Now
Unemployment is an emotional train wreck for me. Probably for you, too. Here are four mental health solutions that can help you in the career change…
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Keeping Your Values While Looking for Employment
Your humanitarian ethos is key to your identity. Don't lose it in the job search. Focus on organizations that follow the values you believe in for an…
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Stop the Resume Rewriting Madness: A Better Way with AI
Free yourself from the drudgery of rewriting your resume and cover letter by hand each time you apply to a new job opportunity
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Introducing Humans of Development: Chandrika (Shani) Jayant
What a shift from the private sector into international development can teach us about our work
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The UN System Is Collapsing and Taking Careers With It
Expect over 20,000 job losses across the UN system with most layoffs happening in Geneva
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7 Truths About Hiring in 2025 From Company Recruiters
Social impact job seekers have our own questions about the recruiting process
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Parenting While DOGE’d? Me Too! Let’s Talk About It.
A special Ask Me Anything event with the founder of Pivoting Parents
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Executive Recruiter Job Search Advice for Humanitarian Job Seekers
Please do not recreate the flat tire of blindly sending out applications to every job ad you see.
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Introducing Humans of Development: Regina Rabenhorst
What it’s really like to coach leaders and teams across NGOs, and government
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