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by Bonnie Bell, MA, MDiv., Principal and Director of Career/Life Coaching
June 19, 2017
Who doesn’t love a vacation? The mere word, which means “planned time spent not working,” along with other descriptors such as “break, breathing space, intermission, recess, recreation, respite, and rest,” immediately releases some sort of dream...
May 9, 2017
The cover letter will never go out of style or cease to be of importance in the application process. A well-written cover letter, or LinkedIn message, for that matter, can literally be the added attraction to the application package that grabs the attenti...
March 4, 2017
I heard this twist on a familiar phrase at a meeting recently. The person who repeated it didn’t know where she’d heard it either, so I have no idea where it came from. If you happen to know the source, please let me know. Meanwhile, I plan to assign ...
January 12, 2017
By the time you read this, the new year will be at least a couple of weeks old, and if you made any new year’s resolutions at all, you may have already broken them. The statistics on keeping new year’s resolutions are not favorable. According to Ray W...
December 23, 2016
Myth #4: The only type of work available to older applicants is part-time. This is so not true! And oddly enough, younger workers who would prefer to work part-time rather than full-time for various reasons, including child-rearing, are convinced that the...
December 19, 2016
The Wall Street Journal’s Encore Section is always a treasure trove of inspiration and information for us all, no matter our age, but the November 28, 2016 cover story brings especially good news for the over-40 crowd: “Five Myths About Landing a Good...
Politics still impact financial markets in the short term, as shown by the Dow Industrial Average fa...
A discussion of the Trump administration’s actions and policies that are relevant to investors and
A caption to a Wall Street Journal article from November 2016 read, “Home prices set a record in S...
More Than $82 Million Awarded for Arts Projects Nationwide Includes $13,000 awarded to Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir Oakland, CA — National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects across the country in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included […]
