THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE INTERVIEW
Somewhere in America, a hiring manager is sitting in a conference room explaining that the company desperately needs someone with 20 years of leadership experience,…
Just Reorganize It: The Nike Layoff-Hire Whiplash Olympics
There is a very specific kind of emotional vertigo that happens when you open LinkedIn in the evening, expecting maybe one humblebrag, two motivational quotes,…
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The Cease and Desist Achievement Badge: LinkedIn’s Funniest Career Milestone
There are certain career achievements nobody puts on the five-year plan because polite society has not yet figured out how to include them between “promotion,”…
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Laid Off From a Job You Hated: Freedom With a Payment Due
There is a very specific emotional confusion that happens when you get laid off from a job you already hated, because society wants you to…
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Children’s Ministry Has Better Questions Than Corporate America
Every Sunday, I work part time in children’s ministry, which means I clock into the one workplace where the questions are chaotic, honest, spiritually ambitious,…
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Thank You for Deleting My Department With Clarity and Compassion
There is a special kind of corporate nausea that arrives during layoff season, and it does not come quietly, either; it walks in wearing a…
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The Job Hunt Survival Circus: Now Featuring Rejection Emails, Fake Hope, and One Raccoon in Middle Management
I never planned to become the narrator of job search survival stories, but somewhere between the first ghosted application, the twelfth rejection email written with…
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The Zoom Panel Was Late, So I Interviewed Them Instead
There is a very specific kind of silence that happens when you join a Zoom interview on time and nobody else is there. It is…
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The Years We Lost Politely
There are questions that arrive like small talk and then immediately turn into spiritual burglary. They walk into the room dressed like they just want…
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The Offer Letter My Brain Sent at 3:17 A.M.
There are few betrayals in modern life more elegant, more emotionally unnecessary, and more on brand for this era than dreaming that you finally got…
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Overqualified and Underwanted: The Corporate Panic of Meeting Someone Who Actually Knows What They’re Doing
There is a very specific kind of sentence that arrives in the modern hiring process wearing a nice blazer, speaking in a careful tone, and…
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Heaven Has Not Left You on Read: Prayers, Rejections, and the Divine Mystery of Why Cheryl Keeps Winning
There is a very specific kind of late night spirituality that does not happen in church, does not happen during morning devotionals, and certainly does…
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From Applicant to Coupon Holder: The Day the Hiring Process Became a Loyalty Program
There was a time, not that long ago, when applying for a job at least carried the illusion of dignity. A fragile, theatrical, heavily caffeinated…
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