Lately, I’ve been thinking about the issue of gender stereotyping when it comes to job hunting. It’s totally un-PC to say that women are better at making personal connections than men, but that’s exactly what Sam Pease, a vice president at the Boston career-coaching and job search firm, New Directions, told me when I asked him about it. And I totally agree.
“Men tend to be less open about needing things. Women, generally speaking, are better at it,” says Pease. “They’re more honest about what they’re looking for, and about what they’re good at. Men want to put it in a box; they don’t want to think about it from an emotional standpoint.”
In fact, it dawned on me that almost all of the comments and messages I’ve received in response to this blog have come from women. It took me a while to notice because, frankly, I’m used to talking to women about all sorts of things — both professional and personal. For my book The List: 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life, I interviewed 89 women about their mid-life adventures. Each interview was like an “Oprah” show.
That’s what women do. We talk. In many ways, that makes us natural networkers. It’s not that women are necessarily big schmoozers, but rather that we’re fairly open about ourselves-more so than most men.
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor
via Do Women Have An Edge In The Job Search? – Careers Articles.
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