Are you staring at the field in the job application that requires you to input your salary, especially numerically, so you can’t even get away with writing “negotiable”? Don’t know how to answer? I have a better way for you to apply to jobs that require this of you.

It’s a tough job climate out there. Unprecedented would be an understatement. Although many companies have frozen hiring, many still are! I wrote a 9-point game plan for getting responses from hiring managers in this gloomy job market, plus a template you can adapt and use. It works.

If you are facing joblessness due to the many layoffs that sent shockwaves through the economy this month, you are not alone. Here are 11 sectors that are projected to grow during — and because of — the COVID19 crisis, along with my online course suggestions to help you retrain and prepare. Don’t mope. Get to it.

A reader email asks how to quantify achievements and accomplishments in a resume when the company he worked for failed and he's embarrassed about it. But he forgets one thing: failure is a necessary and intrinsic component of success. Recovering from failure demonstrates grit, and it’s precisely what hiring managers screen for in candidates. Developing and positioning a failure narrative is more interesting to hiring managers than a long list of successes, as long as you can prove you learned.

In today's read, I draw on a Missouri governor and Navy SEAL, a knight of King Arthur's round table, a stonecutter, an Italian economist named Wilfredo Pareto, and the Apostle Matthew to convince you that you don't suck at your job. You just don't care about it that much.

If you hate everything and suspect you might be good at nothing, this one's for you.

EXCALIBUR!

There are two things I worry about: anti-vaxxers bringing back the plague, and seeing one of these 8 mistakes in a resume again, just like a plague.

I've read a lot of job applications. 1,000? 2,000? I don't know. Lots. I see these too often, and I'm taking a stand!

Do you feel boxed in at work, in a role too small for you, performing tasks that confine your potential to a lesser space? I wrote this as a manifesto about breaking patterns of chasing emotionally unavailable partners. While this is primarily about our personal lives, it is also about acknowledging and honoring our needs in all aspects of our lives, and taking the power to demand exactly as much as we need.

I came across this article about a giant tape flower sculpture while researching persuasive storytelling. Mad…