Previous Issues
November 14, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 12

• Issue Theme: Quintessential Careers 15th Anniversary
• Main Feature: Expert Job-Search Answers and Advice from Career Experts
• Special Feature: 15 Best Places to Visit on Quintessential Careers
• Bonus Feature: 15 Indispensable Career and Job-Search Books
• Extra Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Strengthening Your Career Network
• Quintessential Site Award: Our 15 Favorite Quintessential Sites
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

November 7, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 11

• Issue Theme: Job Action Day 2011
• Job Action Day Book Excerpt: Boomers into Business: How to Turn What You Know Into Dough
• Job Action Day Skill-Up Feature #1: Skill Up To Step Up Your Career Future
• Job Action Day Skill-Up Feature #2: 4 Ways Job-seekers Can "Skill Up" in a Post-Recession Economy
• Job Action Day Skill-Up Feature #3: Skill Up: Raise Your Career Metabolism, Bring Your A+ Game, and Develop More Magnetism
• Job Action Day Start-Up Feature: 10 Steps to Bullet-Proof Your Career in the New World of Work
• Job Action Day Speak-Up Feature: Speak Up: 8 Ways to Be a Change Agent in a Jobs Crisis
• Job Action Day Expert Tips Feature: Skill Up, Start Up, Speak Up: Expert Tips to Fire Up Your Job Search
• Quintessential Site Award: Create Jobs for USA
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

October 17, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 10

• Issue Theme: Teens and College-Bound
• Main Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Getting Accepted into College
• Special Feature: Another Option After High School: Trade/Vocational Schools
• Bonus Feature: Teen Job-Search Tutorial: Tools for High School Students
• Quintessential Site Award: Vocational Information Center
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

September 12, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 09

• Issue Theme: Workplace/Skills
• Main Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Obtaining Your Next Promotion
• Special Feature: As Long As The Work Gets Done: A Revolutionary Way to Make Work Not Suck
• Bonus Feature: Use Stories to Prove Your Skills
• Book Excerpt: The Art of Workplace Diplomacy Distinguishes Successful Careerists
• Extra Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Excelling at Work
• Quintessential Site Award: GoROWE
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

August 15, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 08

• Issue Theme: Back to Campus/Internships
• Main Feature: College Major Reality Quiz: Do You Know Fact from Myth? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
• Special Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Gaining Valuable Experience in College
• Bonus Feature: Seven Characteristics of Sought-After Interns
• Quintessential Site Award: CollegeTips.com
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

July 11, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 07

• Issue Theme: Older Workers/Age Discrimination
• Main Feature: Seniors Survive in the Workplace by Knowing What Works for Them
• Special Feature: Mature Job-Seekers: Are You Practicing Reverse Age Discrimination in Your Job Hunt?
• Bonus Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Fighting Age Discrimination
• Quintessential Reading: QuintZine's Review of Career Books
• Quintessential Site Award: WorkForce50
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

June 13, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 06

• Issue Theme: Job Interviewing
• Main Feature: Why Should We Hire You? Responding to the Job-Interview Concern that Underlies All Questions
• Special Feature: Smart People, Dumb Interviews: Why the Best Candidate Doesn't Always Get the Job
• Bonus Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Acing the Job Interview
• A Quintet of Quick Questions: QuintZine's Q&A with a Career Expert: Pamela Skillings
• A Quintet of Quick Questions: QuintZine's Q&A with a Career Expert: Ellyn Enisman
• Quintessential Site Award: Tim's Strategy
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

May 16, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 05

• Issue Theme: Resumes and Cover Letters
• Main Feature: No-Cost White Paper: Cover Letter Reboot: A Crowdsourced Update of Traditional Cover-letter Advice for Today's Job Search
• Special Feature: Cover Letters Not Getting Read? Introducing the 5-Point Power Note
• Bonus Feature: Job-Search: Breakable Rules and Outdated Beliefs
• Extra Feature: 15 Quick Tips for a Winning Resume
• A Quintet of Quick Questions: QuintZine's Q&A with a Career Expert
• Quintessential Site Award: Blue Sky Resumes Blog
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

April 18, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 04

• Issue Theme: College Grads
• Main Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Landing a Job at Graduation
• Special Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Career and Job-Fair Success
• Quintessential Site Award: iHipo
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

March 14, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 03

• Issue Theme: Job-Hunting; Annual Report on Job-Hunting
• Main Feature: The Era of Personalized Job Search and Recruiting: Extending the Conversation. A Quintessential Careers Annual Report 2011
• Special Feature: Contrasting Good Job-Search to Weak Job-Search
• Bonus Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Finding a New Job
• Extra Feature: Tools and Resources to Maximize Your Personalized Job Search
• Quintessential Site Award: BranchOut
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

February 14, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 02

• Issue Theme: Entrepreneurship
• Main Feature: Are You Ready to Start and Run Your Own Business? A Quintessential Careers Entrepreneurship Assessment
• Special Feature: Do You Have What It Takes to be a Patchworker?
• Bonus Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Succeeding as a Solopreneur
• Quintessential Reading: QuintZine's Review of Career Books: The 9-to-5 Cure
• A Quintet of Quick Questions: QuintZine's Q&A with a Career Expert
• Quintessential Site Award: Enhance My Marketing
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

January 10, 2011: Volume 12, Issue 01

• Issue Theme: Self-Assessment
• Main Feature: Dependable Strengths®: Finding Your Unique Excellence
• Special Feature: Take Charge of Your Career Direction: Career Assessments Can Point the Way!
• Bonus Feature: 15 Quick Self-Assessment Tips
• Quintessential Site Award: Career Assessment Goddess Blog
• Q Tips: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life

For previous issues, please go to our prior year archives.

QuintZine A publication of Quintessential Careers Publisher: Dr. Randall S. Hansen Editor: Katharine Hansen ISSN: 1528-9443