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Debra Wheatman, President of Careers Done Write, provides expert insight to the job search process that puts your career in gear with tips for interviewing, networking, job search strategies and how to create a winning resume and cover letter.
Are you doomjobbing? Here’s how to avoid the burnout.
The modern job hunt can feel less like a career transition and more like a psychological endurance test. If you have ever found yourself awake at 2:00 AM, eyes glazed over, mindlessly clicking the "Easy Apply" button on LinkedIn for roles you barely qualify for or even want, you aren't just job hunting. You are doomjobbing….
Perishable Code, Enduring Minds
This week, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, was booed as he delivered a commencement address to the University of Arizona’s graduates. He told graduates that AI would "touch every profession" and urged them to embrace it, famously saying, "When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on." To a stadium full of roughly 10,000 graduates facing an incredibly daunting entry-level job market, the message was widely criticized as tone-deaf "AI cheerleading." Students felt the billionaire tech investor was minimizing very real economic anxieties about automation, eliminating the exact jobs they had just spent four years training for….
Avoid Unconscious Biases in Hiring
Unconscious bias, the most common heuristic trap, is a significant hurdle in contemporary recruitment and often results in a homogenous workforce and the exclusion of top-tier talent. Because these biases are involuntary, they cannot be abated with willpower alone. Instead, hiring companies should design processes that create “speed bumps” to disrupt these mental shortcuts….
Eight Trends that Will Shape the Workforce in the New Year
The 2026 job market is poised for transformation. As companies adapt to rapid shifts in technology, changing employee expectations, and external factors such as globalization, the new year is set to break the old rules. Some trends we will see will be evolutionary. Others will be revolutionary. Regardless, these dramatic changes will fundamentally reshape the way companies hire and source talent, and how people actually work….