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goal
Goal-setting
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Sunday Inspiration: Recognize Your Gift, Know Your Goal

Welcome to “Sunday Inspiration,” a bi-weekly devotional for those seeking spiritual encouragement in the pursuit of their passions. Each post comes from an outside resource (as referenced). I hope these posts will inspire and motivate you in your life and career in addition to our weekly original blog posts. Enjoy!

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career fairs
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Are Career Fairs Worth Your Time and Energy?

I’m not sure why career fairs still exist. Many are so ineffective for both candidates and recruiters. Yet companies continue to pour more money into them and candidates continue to pour more time into them. Companies spend tens of thousands of dollars on registration fees, travel, fancy displays, swag, and

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career advice
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Career Advice No One Will Ever Share With You (Re-post)

As a career coach, I’m always responding to career-related questions with various tips and career advice. I recently received a question asking, “What are a few unique pieces of career advice nobody ever mentions?” This is a good one because there are a lot of possible answers to it, but

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behavioral interview questions
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

The Secret to Answering Behavioral Interview Questions

“Tell me about a time when…” UGH! Behavioral interview questions. No job seeker enjoys answering these questions. Myself included. They’re just as dreaded as the “What’s your greatest weakness?” question. I can remember back in grad school doing my first mock interview with the career center on campus. It was

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stereotypes
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Avoid Stereotypes That Hurt Your Child’s Career

Millennials and Gen Z’ers sometimes get a bad rap for not having the ability to appropriately handle unpleasant obstacles. But there’s one millennial who is defying all the stereotypes. Her name is Kristen Hadeed. She’s the owner of a successful business she started while in college which now employees over

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hard work
Inspirational/Motivational
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Sunday Inspiration: Success Requires Hard Work and Integrity

Welcome to “Sunday Inspiration,” a bi-weekly devotional for those seeking spiritual encouragement in the pursuit of their passions. Each post comes from an outside resource (as referenced). I hope these posts will inspire and motivate you in your life and career in addition to our weekly original blog posts. Enjoy!

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stop overthinking networking
Career Etiquette
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Why You Need to Stop Overthinking Networking

Networking is necessary not just for a successful job search, but also for a successful career as a whole. In fact it’s so important you should spend 80% of your job search networking and only 20% applying to online job postings. This is because 80% of the working population found

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catch-22
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Get Experience When You Can’t Get Hired Without It

Be careful who you get your career advice from This post is in response to an article on Medium (“How to Get Your Dream Job Without Experience”) that shared a suggestion for how to overcome the common career catch-22: Not being able to get your dream job because you lack

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career help
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Know When It’s Time to Get Career Help

My freshman year of college I found myself struggling in my college algebra class. In fact, my entire class was struggling. That’s because our professor always let us out of class 20 minutes early and never assigned us any homework. At first we all thought this was great! What college

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nightmare job
Career Change/Career Transition
Lori Bumgarner Béen

Are You Stuck In a Nightmare Job? Share It Here!

Some of my clients hire me to help them find their dream job. Others hire me just to help them get out of their nightmare job. I’ve heard some stories about nightmare jobs that are real doozies. But none of them beat my dad’s story of his first job out

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career ruin
Career Advice
Lori Bumgarner Béen

How to Avoid Common Mistakes That Could Ruin Your Career

There are many wrong moves you can make in your career. We’ve all fallen on our faces a few times, especially during the learning curve of a new job. But some mistakes are worse than others. Today I’m focusing on some of the common mistakes that can ruin your career

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