Frustration-Free Job Postings … A Myth?
When it comes to hiring, it is important to understand and translate the necessary KSAs into a job posting. This is more important than using keywords to create the meta tags to find resumes that may...
View ArticleQUESTION: Why Does Everyone Have to be a Leader These Days?
It seems employers are looking for leaders, not doers or followers. This concerns me, because everyone is a leader in something, but generally, most of us are followers or facilitators on the job....
View ArticleWho Are We?
The Women’s Guild conducted a brief survey recently, asking women to rank issues that are important to them. The results were surprising. Housing was the number one concern, followed by dignity and...
View ArticleDo You Have a Product or Service to Offer?
The Women’s Guild would like to help you promote your product or service. If you are a woman over 50 who wishes to showcase her legitimate product or service, please contact us. We will review your...
View ArticleHappy Halloween!
When we were kids (I’ve been wanting to say that for a while now) we had so much fun dressing up for Halloween as princesses and queens, cowgirls and Indians, nurses and waitresses, soldiers and...
View ArticleJob Clubs in Your Neighborhood
The Department of Labor established a program, Job Clubs, in 2014 to address the issue of the long time unemployed. The program collaborates with community and religious organizations to help the...
View ArticleSocial Media and Hate – Report, Block, and Neutralize!
I felt compelled to write about this today, because I received three links on this topic from three different sources on the very same day, today, regarding the power of social media and its use as a...
View ArticleIn Honor of My Brother
Recently, my brother passed away from cancer. I have no doubt many of you have experienced similar situations. My family is coping with my brother’s death, but like any such loss, we are struggling...
View ArticleZen of Soaking
One of the things I loved about living overseas was the soaking tub. There isn’t anything like it, unless it’s a hot spring! In the U.S., most people are apt to purchase large, balky hot tubs that...
View ArticleRoll Call for your Representative
I’m really liking this service, GovTrack.us. It tracks not only your representative’s voting activity, but all votes, details, and summaries of the legislation as it moves through the Legislature....
View ArticleDon’t Give Up on the Ones You Love
Every day is a challenge for me, good and bad; this is who I am. I constantly challenge myself to be a better person, yet it is sometimes difficult to tell if I’ve met my goal. Some days I’m a good...
View ArticleThe Road to Prosperity is Paved in Clichés
Don’t you just love clichés? Last evening, I was watching Dead Like Me on Amazon prime, and I took special note of episode 9, because the dad’s lecture struck a chord with me. He said, “When you are...
View ArticleWhere Are You From?
We are all from somewhere. The sum of our birthplace, past residences, current home, even non-physical emotional “places” combine to inform our senses of self. I am “from” Baltimore, more specifically...
View ArticleIs YOUR Town the Best Place to Thrive?
You know your town best – is it a great place for someone 50 and up to live a good life? There are tons of reports on the Internet about the best places to live and retire. Sites like Sperling, Money...
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