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  There's a job drought. So, the buzz is about the best platforms on which to hunt and apply. LinkedIn ranks high, of course. Its signature is career everything.  But the brutal reality is that, as a poster on Blind points out, a single opening can attract 500 applications. Not 100. Back in boomer days - yes, we were the luckiest generation in America - the advertised job might bring in about 20 applications, with four actually being flown in for an interview. And the meetings could all take place that day, with no further interviews.  For the initial screening among the 500, you have to retrofit the resume and cover letter for AI and also cost-efficiency. That means everything from using the necessary keywords to documenting that you are an exact fit in experience for the very detailed job specifications. If you get to the interview phase the first one could be conducted remotely by AI. You have to research how to perform in that. I had assessed job candidates and on th...

Nimble Paul Weiss has an excellent track record for transformation. That kicked in when current chair Brad Karp become leader in 2008.  Disruption as Chairman's Signature Karp discerned that the firm couldn't remain a top New York player solely as a litigation player. He built transactional practices.  More recently he got it that global competition was intensifying in the legal sector. He expanded the firm's worldwide footprint. That included enhancing the star quality of the London office by multiple raids on rival Kirkland & Ellis. Currently London is a major profit center for Paul Weiss. Turning Supposed Lemons into Lemonade Now, there's the matter of the flight of nine litigation partners and six litigation associates to boutique Dunn Isaacson Rhee. The latest partners to join are Martha Goodman and Amy Mauser. Most of them specialize in tech matters. Their clients have ranged from Alphabet to Apple. Earlier litigation partner Damian Williams had gone to law fi...

  We were warned that the conflicts in the Middle East were pulling down Futures. Some of us expected another 700-point nosedive on the Dow. But the damage, at least so far, has been less than a 100 points. Boomer hearts rest easy. Dow Jones Industrial Average Index Index: DJI Compare 42,448.36 USD ▼  -66.73 (-0.16%) today June 17, 10:19 AM EDT  ·  Market Open Rattled by the uncertainty? Faith-based Career Coaching. Special expertise with transitions, reskilling and aging. Psychic/tarot readings, upon request. Complimentary consultation with Jane Genova (Text 203-468-8579, janegenova374@gmail.com ). Yes, test out the chemistry.

  "I have two Masters degrees." That's what a woman who wanted to unretire told me during the complimentary coaching consultation I offer. She then added: "I had done contract assignments around the world for multi-national corporations." Gently I informed her that the world of work she had known had changed. Among the disruptions were: Much of higher education is being treated as a liability since employers anticipate they're expected to pay premium wages. Unless the credentials are an exact fit to the very specialized job specifications previous experience doesn't count. Her age would be held against her. ProPublica research documented that harsh reality. In addition, she hadn't kept up with hands-on expertise in technology or had even developed a LinkedIn profile and following. But she is not atypical. And it isn't all about aging. The go-getters among Gen Zers had made all the right moves and now BusinessInsider reports this: "Based on...

Whether the law firms cut a deal with the Trump administration or successfully sued about the legality of the Executive Orders, they have been dramatically impacted.  As The New York Times documents, US President Donald Trump promised change and that's what he set in play in the legal sector. According to those in the loop, he's mildly surprised that he has triggered such an upheaval. Law firms will never be able to return to their pre-election branding and operations.  A leader with a deep understanding of media, Trump has kept this legal story alive way behind the usual expiration dates for such developments.  It was in late March of this year, for instance, that the chair of Paul Weiss Brad Karp made his controversial journey to the Oval Office to negotiate the firm's way out of an Executive Order. That saga, along with its fallouts, remains sticky. In the past few days influential Law.com featured Karp's meeting with litigation partners, reassuring them of the heal...

 It's becoming an evening ritual for boomers to check Dow futures on CNBC. Last night they were rising and we slept soundly. Predictably, the Dow opened this morning up more than 200 points. Dow Jones Industrial Average DJI: ^DJI 42,402.05 +204.26  (+0.48%) As of Mon. Jun 16, 2025 9:30 AM EDT · Free Realtime Quote (USD) · Market open For this we're grateful. Actually, we've settled into a mindset of "enoughness." As long as we seem to have enough for the next 10, 20 years or more we have found a new level of contentment.  In my intuitive coaching I am hearing less about boomers feeling like failures because their college or graduate/professional school classmates have made the big time in wealth, influence and power.  That comparison game has screeched to a halt. They just don't want to be homeless or forced into a kind of pathological frugality. There are already those who lament compulsively that tomatoes went from 82 cents a pound to 98 cents. They don'...