I recently blogged about how ChatGPT is going to take your job (and the jobs of many others)… let’s turn the tables a little and learn how to use ChatGPT in your job search! First, perspective: The Internet was an awesome technological advancement. I remember, years ago, when my boss would book all of his travel (flights, hotel, car rental, etc.) by himself instead of asking an admin to do it for him. I thought it was a waste of time for him to do all of this administrative stuff when he could have easily given it to someone else. Then, I learned that either way he was going to do a lot of wor ..read more

I have been saving some articles I’ve read, wanting to comment on them here on my JibberJobber blog. This one seems perfect: ChatGPT may be coming for our jobs. Here’ are the 10 roles AI is most likely to replace. Last year, in January, I stared at my screen wondering what my job and income was going to be. I stared in February and in March, and then going into April I had to pull myself out of a funk to actually get some work done. I was seeing ChatGPT become so powerful, even in it’s infancy, that I could imagine that very quickly we would not have a need for authors, content/course creators ..read more

If you have, or are working on, a degree, the last thing you want to read is a post talking about your useless college degree. It’s not me who’s spouting this rhetoric. Oh, believe me, I have my own opinions about formal education. It doesn’t seem to be what it used to be, etc. etc. But instead of listening to me about a useless college degree, let’s hear what a VP at LinkedIn said in this post, titled The ‘shelf life’ of a college degree is ‘shrinking pretty dramatically in the age of AI, LinkedIn VP says: “Over the past few decades, because of the internet age, when we think about workforce ..read more

My friend, Nick Corcodilos, Ask the Headhunter on Get Hired! I met Nick years ago at a resume writer / career coach conference he was keynoting at. I was mesmerized by his style and message. It was a no-holds-barred, blunt message to career professionals about the changes he saw coming in the near future. It was awesome. I was fortunate to connect with him at that conference, and we’ve stayed in touch since then. I subscribe to his newsletter and have shared multiple messages from him over the years because his thinking is just spot on. Here are some of the mentions on my blog: To get on his ..read more

I seriously thought I already wrote this blog post but, well, here we are. A month ago tomorrow I published Get Hired the book, to help people who are in a job search today. I announced it last July and as I was writing it felt like it was my magnus opus… a culmination of what I’ve been doing since 2006. This book came together, on paper, quickly, but only because I had spent the last 18 years focused on job search. As I’ve travelled the U.S. speaking to job clubs, job ministries, and other organizations, I’ve contemplated strategies and tactics. I’ve talked to job seekers and career prof ..read more

Every once in a while, but not often, you can get a really good deal on Pluralsight. Right now you can get Pluralsight 50% off of the normal price (for an annual upgrade… month-t0-month is 33% off, which is still pretty good). I wanted to share this with you because everyone needs continuing education. Techies, who probably make up the bulk of Pluralsight’s audience, have chosen a career where they have to always be learning. Certain professions need continuing education to keep their licenses or other designations current. But really, who shouldn’t continue to learn? Never Heard of Pluralsig ..read more

I’ve been dabbling in the artificial intelligence (AI) world for a while and want to share some things that are relevant to job seekers. In this post about AI jobs to look at I’m not going to share how to find a job using AI, but I’ll likely do that over this year. I want to shift the conversation job seekers have from how to use AI to find a job to AI jobs to look at, perhaps thinking about changing roles, even industries. If you feel new to how businesses use AI, check out this article: 10 Ways Businesses Are Using ChatGPT Right Now. Read this with the question, how could I add value to an o ..read more

Have you thought about macros for your career?  Let me back up and give some context. A few years ago I started the keto diet. There are variations of the keto diet but the main idea is that there are three macro nutrients that you need to track: protein, fat, and carbs. Every version of keto I’ve heard of has you eating a lot of protein, usually a high (or medium-high) amount of fat, and low carbs. How low on carbs? The keto diet I was following had a daily limit of 20 carbs a day. One time I looked at the label of a loaf of white bread and saw that each slice had 20 carbs. Dang, this w ..read more

My friend and one of the best bloggers in the job search and career space, Nick Corcodilos, at Ask the Headhunter, wrote about the job search fallacy yesterday. His post, The Job Offer Fallacy: A Deadly Assumption, is a great (and timely) post. A week or two ago I was on a call with a friend who had a job offer, turned in their notice at their current job, and the same day had the job offer rescinded because of budget reasons. It was devastating, to say the least. Because they turned in notice they weren’t qualified for unemployment. All because they trusted the written offer. You assume it i ..read more

  TLDR: New book coming out titled The Principled Job Search! Sign up to get an email when it is available on this simple Google form. Many years ago, while presenting at a job club, I talked about making sure that you were doing a principled job search. I hadn’t planned on talking about a principled job search. I don’t remember that phrase being a phrase I had thought about much (although I do love talking and thinking about principles). It just kind of came out. And then someone interrupted me and asked what did I mean “principled job search.” The question surprised me because the answe ..read more