Career Etiquette

Category: Career Etiquette

office etiquette
Career Etiquette
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How Your Office Etiquette Can Win You the Job Offer!

The need for office etiquette With many people working from home in the past few years, it’s likely their office etiquette has suffered. And the Gen Z employees who entered the workforce from their homes haven’t even learned office etiquette yet. In fact, many companies who are calling their employees

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adult child
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How NOT to Ruin Your Adult Child’s Career

Below is a re-post of a past blog topic. This re-post is timely and necessary, in that I’ve recently received emails from parents wanting me to work with their adult child. In addition, I’ve been seeing numerous news articles about why millennials are getting fired. If you’re the parent of

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unemployed
Career Etiquette
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Answer, “What Do You Do?” When Unemployed

It’s the question we all get when first meeting someone. “So, what do you do?” Although it’s not specified in the question, we know the person’s asking what we do for a living. But how do we answer this when unemployed, and without feeling like a failure? A lot of

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2020
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Who Needs a Day Off From 2020?

I know I sure could use a day off from 2020! For the first time in a long time, I’m experiencing writers block for this blog, and I just need a little time off from trying to come up with my next topic. This year has been so eventful, but

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thank you notes
Career Etiquette
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Write the Best Thank You Notes for Your Interviews

Update: I failed to clarify early on in the original post that a type written thank you note should be sent via snail mail. Thank you to one of my readers for bringing this to my attention! This is the month we celebrate thanksgiving. Therefore, it’s only fitting to have

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LinkedIn
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Stop Looking Desperate on LinkedIn

Most professionals have a LinkedIn profile, but typically say they don’t do anything with it. That is, until they need to start looking for another job. After their profile has sat dormant for months or even years, they will dust it off, update it, and do one of two things.

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recruiters
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Keep Recruiters Interested in You

This Wednesday is the virtual Amazon Career Day. Amazon recruiters are looking to fill more than 30,000 technology and corporate job openings, 500 of which will be located here in Nashville. Whether you’re in the market for a job with Amazon, or with another company, there are some things you

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linkedin etiquette
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

LinkedIn Etiquette You Need to Know When Networking Remotely

Even as businesses and offices start to reopen, networking is likely to remain virtual through the fall. Which is why it’s important for you to know how to use LinkedIn effectively, using proper LinkedIn etiquette. This means doing more than just setting up or updating your profile and letting it

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video interviews
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Make Phone and Video Interviews Run More Smoothly

I have a few clients who’ve done video interviews in recent weeks due to COVID-19. While phone and video interviews are nothing new, at least not to first-round interview screenings, they’ve temporarily replaced all in-person job interviews during the quarantine. Companies are likely to continue holding remote interviews throughout the

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top 10
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Here Are the Top 10 Most Popular paNASH Blog Posts of 2019

Can you believe we’ve reached not only the end of another year but also the end of another decade? I’ve been writing much of the past decade, and for the past four years I’ve been writing blog posts on topics related to pursuing your passions and finding new work and

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ghosting
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Did You Get Ghosted After Your Interview? What to Do Now

This is a re-post of a previous blog of mine on the topic of interview ghosting. The post has gone viral on Medium, and I was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the same topic this past summer. Since tomorrow is Halloween, I thought it would be appropriate to

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