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All posts by Patra Frame

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  Career or Job: Making the Most of Your Future

  Much of the time we seek career options and growth. Sometimes, perhaps due to care for aging parents or an ill spouse, you just need a place-holder job that pays the bills but allows you to leave it at the door. Either way, you can improve your future with these basics. Tip 1.… more

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  What to Ask When Researching and Interviewing Target Employers

  Research is an often ignored or minimal aspect of job search. Given the huge wave of change that has swept government contracting over the last five years, this is especially dangerous. Many of today’s big names are a totally different company than they were even a year or two … more

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  Salary Reality Bites

  The past five years have been quite difficult for people in the cleared space and throughout government contracting. Jobs have disappeared while existing pay rates have been cut. On average, wages started declining in 2010 and that process increased as sequestration kicked in. In… more

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  4 Steps to Create Your Next Success

  When people start looking for a new position, most often they think of one-up or lateral jobs and pull out an old resume to update. Few of us have a really certain idea of what we want to be when we grow up, even in mid-career. And don’t get me started about "passion" or "if yo… more

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  Is It Time to Reboot Your Job Search or Your Career

  Are you feeling stuck at work? Is your search taking far longer than you expected? Have you missed promotions or pay increases? Lost more than you can recoup holding out for the perfect paycheck? For at least two decades I have regularly talked with people who were unemployed for… more