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By Stephanie Renk and Mark Misiano – 12/02/2025 The U.S. enters 2026 with a labor market that has finally begun to look recognizable again. The labor economy is shifting into a steadier rhythm after a period defined by pandemic-era turbulence, historic quits, aggressive hiring, wage spikes, and wild sectoral swings. What’s emerging is not a […]

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[St. Petersburg, FL], December 2, 2025 – The Professional Association of Résumé Writers and Career Coaches (PARWCC) just announced the launch of its Interview Coaching Bundle, the industry’s first unified training track designed to prepare career professionals for the full spectrum of today’s human and AI-driven interview formats. The bundle combines three programs: The Certified […]

We toss around the word confidence a lot in interview coaching. For many clients, it becomes just another performance goal. The pressure to “perform confidence” can be a huge mental health stressor.  Clients often think confidence means feeling calm, so they may focus on “relaxing”, trying to suppress or transform the physical manifestations of anxiety.  […]

(Inspired by the 1991 children’s book “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” by Laura Numeroff)   If you give a jobseeker a résumé, they’ll probably want to read the job boards.   When they start reading the job boards,  they’ll notice all the great-sounding positions.  Only this time, they’ll see possibility instead of panic. […]

Self-care is like refilling the pitcher from which you pour. If you do not care for yourself, you may begin to dry up, crack, and crumble. As career coaches, we demonstrate compassion for our clients daily. We listen to their stories of job loss, stress over finding new roles, daunting job searches (and “ghosting”), and […]

You’re probably at least passingly familiar with the hit Blink 182 song, All the Small Things. It’s catchy, has a good beat, and I think we’ve all heard it countless times in the 26 years since its release. This song about the importance of small gestures recently came to my mind during a coaching session. […]

I began my still-in-process retirement journey in 2019 following the PARWCC Conference in Clearwater, FL, and the transfer of leadership from the Fox Family to the Phares Family. Now in 2025, as I whittle down my remaining activities, I am confident that Lili Foggle is the right person to lead CIC moving forward (Certified Interview […]

“On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.”  – Dan Lipinski Veterans know all about brands. They call them ranks and grades. They wear them on their sleeves. Their entire future rests on how […]

December can feel strange in the career coaching world. Half your LinkedIn feed is off sipping mulled wine and talking about their “word for the year,” while the other half is launching into orbit like their entire business depends on closing Q4 with a bang. And then there’s you — somewhere in the middle. You’re […]

October 2025 presents a unique moment in the U.S. labor market. With official data releases from the Bureau of Labor Statistics temporarily suspended due to the federal government shutdown, analysts and practitioners turned instead to private-sector indicators and model-based estimates. What those signals reveal is a market that is slowing and selectively competitive, not collapsing. […]

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