http://blog.jeanbaur.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My book on finding your way from job-loss crisis to career resilience is currently available for pre-sale on both Amazon and Barnes & Nobel. What makes this book different is that it uses examples or case studies to show what has happened to job seekers of all backgrounds, functions and ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=25 The book I've been working on, ELIMINATED! NOW WHAT? will be coming out in November, published by JIST Publications. Closer to that time, I'll become more active in terms of updating this blog and connecting to others. Stay tuned. Jean http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=24 I've recently received a few emails from people visiting my website, and a few are at their wit's end. They've either exhausted Unemployment or don't qualify, they've tried to find a new job, and now they're in a state of panic and they risk losing everything they've worked so hard ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=23 In my work as both a career counselor and a writer, I've witnessed successful methods for encouraging others to help, as well as tactics that are sure to fail. Since both looking for work and trying to get published as a writer involve a lot of rejection, I thought it ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=22 For those of you in transition (that's the polite way of saying out of work), this may be a particularly challenging time. As an active career counselor who has partnered with thousands of people looking for work, let me share my perspective. The first thing I remind my clients is that ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=21 What you do in the first few days of job loss matters. And the same applies to how you handle an on-going career crisis. So first of all, recognize that this is an emotional time, a difficult transition, and that you’re not making any big decisions. Secondly, you want to ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=19 Those of you who are gardeners know what an intense time of year this is. Yesterday I put in my first vegetables--a little early for Pennsylvania, but I planted crops that like the cold: lettuce and radishes and am hoping that the string beans and cukes aren't freaked out by ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=18 Here in PA it's almost mid-April and just in the last few days the trees have burst into bloom, the grass is green and the air smells wonderful. My flowering quince is showing off and I've got fantastic tulips (which I tricked the rabbits out of eating by covering them ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=17 It doesn't feel like spring yet here, but Jean let me outside today, and when she wasn't looking (she was planting pansies), I jumped up on the roof and went all the way to the top and looked around. Great view and the squirrels were freaked out. I wandered around, ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=16 One of the speakers I heard at the AWP conference was Ron Carlson and I have almost finished reading his profoundly helpful book on the writing process: "Ron Carlson Writes a Story." It's published by Graywolf Press and offers a step-by-step approach to writing. He clearly is someone who knows ... http://blog.jeanbaur.com/?p=15