I recently saw Barbara Safani’s AOL article titled Resume Mistakes That Keep Hiring Managers Amused But Cost You The Interview.
Barbara pulls some mistake examples from various sites and include things from typos to “subtle” humor.
Go read the list of things. I wanted to share this with you for two reasons:
First, you MUST proof your resume, [...]
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Pamela Slim had a nice post about Malcolm Gladwell’s work and his categorizing of three different types of people you might network with (quoted from her blog):
Connectors: “These people who link us up with the world, who bridge Omaha and Sharon, who introduce us to our social circles – these people on whom we rely [...]
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Have you ever heard this question?
It can come up in a number of different scenerios, and your response can be great or it can be the end of the relationship.
I don’t want a novel, I don’t want something irrelevant, I want something that draws me in. I want something that is thoughtful and makes me [...]
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Whether you are in a job search or not, I invite you to call a job seeker.
That’s right… out of the blue, pick up the phone and have a real conversation.
You could say something like:
I was just thinking of you and wanted to see how your job search was going. Is there anything I [...]
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My friend John has a thing he calls his “chicken list.” This is the list of people he’s afraid to call… he’s a chicken when it comes to those names.
He makes himself call someone from his chicken list regularly. He psyches himself up, telling himself that they can’t hurt him… and he makes [...]
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Last week I talked about why your job search is going nowhere and made the funny (but true) comment:
Playing soduko online would have been more productive.
Still cracks me up to read that :p
I don’t want to steer you away from doing stuff online, though. I just want you to think about what you are doing [...]
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I just read this on a local newspaper site:
“Hours of his days the past nine months have been spent in front of his laptop screen.”
I remember those days. Totally fruitless. Playing soduko online would have been more productive.
“I’ve spent about two hours a day, 10 to 15 hours a week searching for jobs,” the business [...]
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Can you help me?
Seriously, can you give me a hand?
Actually, what I really want is an introduction.
Any introduction will do. Oh wait, how about an introduction to that really, really big company.
Please?
No? WHY NOT????
I see this ALL THE TIME. Here’s an example, from a LinkedIn Group:
I can’t help this person.
Even though I immediately thought about [...]
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I remember a few years ago I had a very sour experience with someone who thought I owed them a great deal of gratitude and credit. The story is really twisted but I remember being on the phone listening to this person spew negative on me for about 15 minutes.
The spew was unfounded and I [...]
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My last post was about networking too much… at the end I talked about the IMPORTANT and URGENT tasks.
Recently I read an awesome idea on how to ensure you are moving forward (not just doing *stuff* but really moving forward with your goals/objectives).
The idea is the simplest I’ve heard but it makes a lot of sense. Here’s [...]
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