You can craft your Declaration of Independence—your career manifesto. This personal declaration can guide you toward a career that aligns with your strengths, values, skills, and personality-based interests. This manifesto can be your GPS for improvement, achievement, and success.

Your LinkedIn profile choices make it difficult for many job seekers to be found in searches.

That is because they need to strategically use LinkedIn's auto-complete and drop-down options to complete sections of their profiles.

While you cannot control what questions are asked of you in an interview, you do control how you respond (or don’t). You do not have to answer a question that doesn’t sit right with you.

Don't be shy about speaking about your accomplishments. Your interviewer wants to hear them and remember, your competition is talking about theirs.

One thing that petrifies job seekers is having to explain a termination. Whether a layoff, rules violation, or performance issue, no one likes to talk about why they did not choose to leave an organization.

Many job seekers get adjectives and adverbs happy when writing a resume.

A job search is part art and part science. Most people are familiar with the science side, which involves systematic and data-driven aspects like researching employers, optimizing LinkedIn profiles for searchability, and ensuring the ATS can read your resume information.

Yet the art part of a job search is equally important and often overlooked.

Yesterday, did you ever stare at your computer screen and wonder, "Is this all there is?"

If you did (or if not yesterday, in the recent past), you can join millions of people worldwide who were thinking the same thing.

Yet how many people do something about it?

Many job seekers fall into the trap of a transactional approach, expecting recruiters to act as personal career counselors.