Alison Green

JULY 29, 2022

I re-read all the articles on your blog about resume and cover letter writing and did a ton of work on my materials to condense and showcase results. Last week, I got an interview for a position that would let me do the part of my job I find the most interesting and rewarding.

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Alison Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

. “I’ve been a religious reader of your blog since I finished my PhD and stumbled into the ‘real’ world more than a decade ago. part of the second, more formal interview to unleash the magic question (which I paired with ‘are there any concerns about my candidacy that I could address for you?’).

Administration 69

Administration Project Management Engineering Manager 69

Alison Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

My job history since has felt like a series of unfortunate events – highlights from different jobs include: “Color-geddon,” where the CEO insisted we completely redo a major rebrand after it’d already launched because his longest term developer claimed the colors “hurt his eyes” (one of his computer monitors was broken).

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Alison Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

My boss was nice but ineffectual… she didn’t set goals with me, made me take more & more job duties after other people left (By the time I quit, I had 4 other people‘s full-time jobs), and she expressed frustration when I said I wanted more than a 1% raise (“There are other people, in the company, who got NO raise! I was picky!

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Recruitment Manager Compensation 81

Alison Green

MAY 27, 2022

I am so so happy that my company values the work I do and agrees I deserve more, and would like to thank AAM (both my regular reading and the helpful commenters) for helping me have the confidence to ask. The interviews were like a conversation, I asked the magic question , and I said something I don’t say out loud too often.

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Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This post, updates: the ominous recruiter, interviewing with Covid, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Here are three updates from past letter-writers. I wrote it from a very emotional place shortly after we received the bad news. Interviewing with Covid symptoms (#2 at the link).

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Alison Green

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. Thanks for all of the advice. If you have any advice for the current situation with her, I’d love to hear it.

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Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

After I returned to work from a month-long hiatus due to being hospitalized with Covid complications, he spent our first meeting back together berating me for the amount of time I had spent on a previous project. Then my parents’ dog a couple of months after that. Thank you so much, Alison!” I felt so stuck.

Recruitment 81

Recruitment Hospitality Insurance Manager 81

Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Remember the letter-writer whose coworker refused to wear a mask , despite the company mask policy? I wrote to you last year about a non-masking coworker, and wanted to provide a second happy update, if I may. First, I wanted to say thank you for publishing my question, for your advice, and for the encouragement from the commenters.

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Manager 58

Alison Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I was fired less than 30 days after I started for reasons that are still unclear to me; I think they wanted someone who could ramp up faster (I was honest about my experience, or lack thereof, in this industry, and 30 days is a short amount of time for anyone to adjust to a new job, in my opinion). The people here are wonderful (so far!)

Recruitment 68

Recruitment Manager Accounts Benefits 68

Alison Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

This post, updates: the toxic positivity meetings, dramatic responses after not being promoted, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. I encourage it.

Small Business 52

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Alison Green

JULY 17, 2022

Honestly I was really excited to stay based on some other factors, like I have an established reputation and a lot of flexibility, and grandboss (who can be a real jerk) is retiring in three months, and his replacement is very good, thank goodness. What if you had already rejected the offer from LargeCorp based on their promise?).

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Performance Review Education Scaling Manager 74

Peter Winick

JANUARY 27, 2023

An interview with Becky Robinson that originally aired on July 27th, 2022, as part of our Leveraging Thought Leadership Live series on LinkedIn. Have you ever thought about writing a book to codify what your business does, and what it stands for? In addition, we can help you implement marketing, research, and sales. Yeah, this.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If you haven’t gotten your copy — if you are in the US, here are the relevant links: Amazon · Bookshop (support your local bookstore!). Or if you are international, go to the coldstart.com website to find all the pages for Europe, Asia, and more. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks, Andrew. Introduction.

Scaling 63

Scaling Operations Revenue Metrics 63

Peter Winick

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Entering the corporate space after a career in service. An interview with Ryan McCarty and Mark Goulston that originally aired on January 26th, 2021, as part of Leveraging Thought Leadership Live on LinkedIn. How do you use thought leadership? In addition, we can help you implement marketing, research, and sales.

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Real Estate Hospitality Marketing Nonprofit 230

Alison Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

If you submitted a question yesterday, there’s no need to submit it again; I’ve got it in my queue. I’ll post new answers at the top as I go so you don’t have to scroll down to see the latest. Would time travel actually help letter writers? Or would it generate twice as many letters as the timelines branched? Time Travel.

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AIHR

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Imagine a father accompanying his son to a job interview at a well-known stock exchange company. It’s the CEO on the line, saying: “I cannot interview you myself, you’re my son!” After the call, the son turns to his father, who is seated next to him in the car. Let’s start with a short riddle.

Recruitment 72

Recruitment Advertising Onboarding Manager 72

Peter Winick

MARCH 13, 2023

What comes after a business book is published? An interview with Jeremy Utley that originally aired on November 2nd, 2022, as part of our Leveraging Thought Leadership Live series on LinkedIn. Jeremy expresses the gratitude he feels toward those that have come forward to thank him for the book, and the actionable ideas it contains.

Marketing 130

Marketing Metrics Energy Engineering 130

Alison Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

” 2. “I have been reading your blog for a few years now after my sister mentioned how much she loved AAM. I revamped my cover letter and resume with your (wonderful!) I feel so much more confident and am able to see an interview as a conversation where both parties are looking for a good fit. She’s an asset.”

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Assets Manager Benefits 63

Alison Green

JULY 19, 2022

In an interview, I was attempting to express this sentiment: “I know what everyone wants is a rock star, but flashy solo work isn’t for me—what a rock star needs to perform well is a dedicated crew doing set-up, tear down, and all kinds of maintenance behind the scenes. The shortest path was “Do you have a problem?”/”No, The rock star.

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Manager Travel Accounts Marketing 96

Alison Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Commenters were very kind that I needed to do what was best for me, watch for red flags when interviewing, but not letting fear stop me. My previous job search took nearly two years and caused me a great deal of depression, I felt like a recent letter writer that I was unemployable. That’s when I started reading this blog.

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Manager Recruitment Education Benefits 73

Alison Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

1. “I was headhunted for my current job as the only person in the world at the time to do what I do, and after 3.5 Nothing was quite the right fit, and after months of stewing, I finally asked my boss if she knew any details about why I was left out of the budget. ” 2. “Thank you for this blog, Alison.

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Walk Me

APRIL 25, 2022

The idea of “fake it to you make it” might seem like a bold way to take on a new job, but if someone is afraid or lacks the confidence to ask questions, this can lead to disaster. This can include an email, letter or video to welcome them, which can be sent before the first day in the job.

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Onboarding Compliance Manager Digital Transformation 52

Alison Green

JULY 7, 2022

Here are four updates from past letter-writers. Thanks so much for answering my question. It was wild rereading that letter; I’m in a totally different field then. I saw another blog post about paying it forward and I volunteer on a Discord server giving job feedback to people on their resumes and the like. (I

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Recruitment Manager 84

Alison Green

JUNE 21, 2022

This post, updates: I walked in on the company owner having sex, coworker sent a horrible email company-wide after a janitor won our contest, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” Here are three updates from past letter-writers.

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