Career Pivot & Strategies

OCD is my superpower  Hey Bee Hey! Blogger Bee here to bring you another Taste Of Honey. This week I am coming to you from Maine. I spent the weekend with some Cuckoo Bees. These are parasitic bees that lay their eggs in the nests of other bees. Remarkably, there were two different families of Bees at the dinner table asking questions. The other Bees are called Carpenter Bees. These bees drill holes in wood to create their nests. In our community, as Bees we come together to

Hey Bee, Hey!! Blogger Bee here with another Taste Of Honey!! This week, MommaBee is busy in the hive with our annual Black Friday Sale .  This year, the board of Bees took a lot of time out to consider the economic situations of the Bees across the country. This year has been especially hard in our community due to all the sudden changes in the political as well as economic conditions around the country. This week, the Taste Of Honey will be a Jar of honey. We want to make s

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Hey Bee, hey! Blogger Bee here with another  Taste Of Honey.  I am just returning from visiting some Bees in Michigan this week and helping them to prepare for the winter cluster project. During the winter months, Bees form a Winter Cluster  to stay warm and active. We prepare during the summer months by storing a large amount of honey. As the fall begins, we get the hives arranged and organized. Today, I am responding to an email inquiry we received in the hive from one of o

Hey Bee Hey, It's Momma Bee here. There are over 100,000 members in our hive . There are so many success stories. Everytime a post comes in the hive saying “I got the Job ” the bees in the hive start buzzing around in circles doing our rendition of a praise dance.  We are so excited by these stories of absolute triumph, I decided to share them with everyone. As soon as the post goes up the bee keepers that have done services for the bees are alerted in our chat. Oftentimes,

All it took was a few broken crayons. Not the fancy ones. Not the box with all the exotic colors. No, just a box of eight basic colors. The picture was one that only a mother can love. Or at least that's what we all thought, in the beginning. That was before all it took was a picture to make a difference. Cayla was eight years old when she drew her first recognizable picture. It was a simple picture of a crooked drawn house with a tree in the front, and a sun in the sky. The

So many times during interview prep, Bees tell me, “I didn’t turn my camera on because I have my bonnet on.” And every time, I remind them this is a Black company, we all have bonnets on the counter. You don’t have to be perfect; you just have to show up. Prep isn’t just resumes and talking points. Sometimes we prep in closets, sometimes in tears but always with hope, laughter, and purpose.

Hey bee hey! Blogger bee here! I am just buzzing with excitement after leaving Hollow Log Lane with the Bumblebees. The Bumblebee colony is mainly filled with Teacher Bees. But like so many Teachers , they are looking at the cost of living in this economy, and some have taken their skills to a new level. I found several bees who were scared to take the buzz into a new career and had a few questions for Momma Bee . So I am buzzing over to the hive to sit down with Momma Bee  a

Hey Bee Hey! Blogger Bee here bringing you another Taste Of Honey. Earlier in the week, I received some questions from our new ADHD Bees. They were looking into careers and wanted to know what skill sets they could use to find employment. Our new ADHD Bees were feeling kind of down because they didn’t just want a job but rather a taste of honey to help them navigate into a career where they could use the unique skills they possess. I went over to Momma Bee this week and asked

Hey Bee, hey!!  Blogger Bee here to bring you another  Taste Of Honey.  This week we are going on a special adventure. I'm heading over to one of the coldest states in the country. I buzzed in over the weekend, and I am still trying to get my bearings with the consistent daylight and no actual nighttime. There are a lot of our  introverted Bees  who live in this region, and they are asking for a taste of honey from Momma Bee. This morning, I am meeting some of our solitary (i

Hey Bee Hey, blogger Bee checking in. Whey June was definitely a busy month in the hive. We were so excited that we were able to push out so many large jars of honey out to the bees. I decided to go on Hollow stem road this week and check in on some of our widow bees. Mamma bee sent me on a mission to check on them. As I buzzed over Hollow Stem road, I saw some of our widow  Bees waking up from a nap. One of our Bees just became a widow a short time ago so the other widows we

From the time Cynthia was a kid, she loved the game of hopscotch. She could balance on one leg with ease. Sometimes she would just hold her position on one leg in mid-air, just to prove to herself that she could. She was a risk-taker. Knowing she could fall at any moment. But she never did. She loved it so much that she trained other girls how to hopscotch. She even created a hopscotch team, and when it was time to take their hopscotch game to the next level, she created a ca

Hey Bee, it's your favorite blogger, Bee, here to bring you a Jar of Honey! I know I know I usually bring you a Taste of Honey, but this week we want to bring you enough honey to share with the entire family! So I went down to “Hollow Tree” lane to find Momma Bee. I wanted to ask her the question that many Bees are asking. With the recent cut of funding for some of our Job core Bees, our family Bees need a little extra honey. I wanted to get to the core of the family. Junete

Hey Bee Hey! Whey last week I spent some time on Pollination Boulevard with the Bumble Bees. The music was buzzing extra loud over the weekend. So much work is being done this month.The Bees were transferring Pollen over to the hive at warp speed. The faster they work the louder the buzz. This week I am on Hollow Tree lane. The senior bees are busy whipping up some sweet treats for the bees. The worker bees are over on Daisy Lane today. Just as  I started to dip into the hone

Hey Bees, it's your favorite blogger Bee. It has been a really busy week in the hive. There is a swarm of Bees preparing huge jars of honey just in time for our Black On The Job Juneteenth sale . It's all wings on deck this month.  I stopped by Momma Bee’s honeycomb Hideout and caught her right in the center of several baby bees and their mom. Momma bee was busy passing out honey to the single mom bees this week. I sat down and thought I would grab a Taste of Honey for you.

Hey Bee Hey! It’s blogger Bee here with a taste of honey. I decided to take a different route today. You can usually find me buzzing around Honeycomb Boulevard but today I decided to fly out to Pollination Avenue and check on the Bumble Bees. The JUNETEENTH SALE brings all the Bees out to work. It's our biggest sale of the year. And Pollination Avenue is beautifully lit with bold beautiful colors. We are bringing all the honey out. I ran into Momma Bee and she was busy grab

Buzzing around the streets of BOTJ this week. Looks like some of the Bees are gearing up for career change . While most of the Un-United States Of America is frantic and panicking over all the extreme overnight changes over the past six months. We are not granted the luxury of gossip. So many of us are transitioning to new spaces in our careers. There is so much buzzing on the streets! Many of you spoke to me about grabbing you a little taste of honey from Momma Bee so that y

Bee Prepared is a new feature we are using to pour honey into our Bees. As the CEO of Black on the Job I am honored to be able to have so many amazing Black people in the hive committed to the same goal. That is to get each and every Black person to six figures. As the hive is constantly growing we want to make sure we have our antennas up to answer all our bees in the hive that has questions. We know sometimes we think that a question we have is not relevant or important

Buzzing around the honeycomb hive this week looking for some sticky notes to share with the bees. Unbeknownst to me I ran into a bee giving away a taste of honey. As I buzzed by  Momma Bee asked if I wanted a taste of “Interview Preparation” to share with the bees. Taste Of Honey The biggest mistake we often make while preparing for an interview is thinking that re-reading and rehearsing our resume the day before the interview is a form of preparation. It is not. Although re