Blog
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Discover Your Dream Career: A New (and Free!) Course on Choosing a Career Path
I recently launched my first online mini-course! This new free mini-course will help you set your compass in the right direction and take the first steps toward a new career.
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Career Idea Interview with CareerDork
My friend and fellow career theory nerd Megan Chambers of CareerDork has started a video series about career ideas, and interviewed me for her second episode! In each Career Idea Interview episode, Megan chats with another career coach about the career development ideas they want to share out to the wider community. In my interview, we discussed agency—being able to...
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Is a two-page resume OK?
One of the most common questions I get about resumes is the page limit question. Resumes should only be one page, right?
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How to Keep Track of Your Job Search
The other day I read an article about the job market here in Colorado that shared a story of a woman who had applied to over 880 jobs in the past 14 months. She knew exactly how many jobs she had applied to because she was keeping track of them in a spreadsheet.
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How to Find Remote Jobs
After many companies pivoted to remote work in 2020, demand for remote jobs and their flexibility continues to grow. In many industries, the temporary switch to remote work during the pandemic demonstrated that many jobs could be done just as effectively—or even more effectively—from home. It’s no wonder than remote work can be a win-win for organizations and workers. In...
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Work and Career Post-Roe
Careers are a culmination of life decisions—deciding what kinds of jobs to pursue, deciding where to work, deciding if and where to go to college, deciding to move to a new place, deciding when to retire, deciding when and if to get married, and deciding if and when to have kids. Making these decisions effectively, confidently, and from a place...
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7 Resources LGBTQ+ Workers & Job Seekers Need to Know About
This post was updated on September 19, 2025. One of the biggest victories for LGBTQ+ people in the United States happened in June 2020, when the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that workers are protected under federal law from discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Even with this nationwide legal protection,...
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Identify What Matters
Career development is about much more than finding a job. In the broadest sense, it means engaging in a process to get to know yourself and your goals better, and then deciding your best path to pursuing those goals.
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Podcast: What You Can Control in Your Job Search
Last May, I joined Emilie Aries of Bossed Up for my first-ever podcast interview! Early in the pandemic there was a lot of uncertainty as the job market quickly shrank, and job seekers were struggling to find openings. Now at the end of 2021 the job market feels like the opposite of last year, with many employers struggling to get...
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Names, Pronouns, and Your Resume
I often get questions from clients and from other career specialists about how to navigate chosen names and personal pronouns on application materials like resumes, cover letters, and graduate school applications. No matter who we are, our names are the first thing that someone sees on our application. And in recent years, sharing personal pronouns in a variety of professional...
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What is career guidance?
You may have noticed that the Pride in Your Path, LLC, mission statement refers to career coaching in a specific way: career guidance. Why do I use this term to refer to the work I do?
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What does career mean?
Most of the time when we hear the word “career,” we think about jobs. Career services is where college students get jobs, career counseling is how we get help to get jobs, and career education is training to get a job. It sounds pretty straightforward—but it’s only part of the picture.
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Announcing Pride in Your Path
I am pleased to announce the launch of my new business, Pride in Your Path! 🎉