Career Resolutions for the New Year: Boost Your Professional Growth in 2025
Our team at DNA* encourages you to embrace the start of a new year and set clear resolutions that empower you to take charge of your professional growth! The steps you take now will set the foundation for a fulfilling and successful 2025. We hope to be a part of your journey as you look for opportunities that fit not only your skill set but your values so you can flourish in your career. We can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store! Happy New Year.
What to Consider When Building Your Career
Finding the right job opportunity goes beyond applying to a posting that is looking for your experience and skill set. It requires you to take a deeper look and consider how the work environment, culture, and values of the company aligns with your career goals, personal preferences, and long-term ambitions.
Reclaiming Your Power: Using Interviews To Determine Job Fit
Interviews are a tool for employers to gather enough information to find the right person for the job, but they are also an opportunity for interviewees to determine whether the opportunity, company, and interview experience is compatible with their values, career, and experience. No matter a candidate’s circumstance - unemployed, actively seeking, or passively looking - an interview should be approached as an opportunity to conduct their own assessment.
A New Era, Resume Free
This antiquated document only hinders the advancements and evolution of how we find work and how we hire people. Rather than implementing new technologies and advancements only to be anchored down and limited by this outdated requirement, we suggest taking a new approach that meets the needs of the modern job market by saying goodbye to the resume and joining Do Not Apply (DNA*).
Stigmatizing Career Breaks: How Resumes Reinforce Bias Against Job Seekers
When reviewing a resume, a recruiter makes a lot of assumptions that determine if the candidate is a potential fit for the role. Having never talked to the person or interacted with them outside of their application or resume, assumptions are used to save time and create a resemblance of efficiency in the recruitment process, especially when hundreds of applicants are involved. Certain characteristics are categorized as “red flags” and lead evaluators to take a pause when determining legitimacy or quality of experiences and character.
Shaking Up Hiring & Career Development
A pillar of any successful and competitive company is the ability to innovate by adapting to new technologies, tools, and processes...
Silent Job Search - Are You Being Ghosted?
Getting ghosted is no longer reserved for the dating scene, it is now a very common experience in the job market.