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I remember counseling someone during a transition a few years ago. He was interested in only one thing: salary.
I was in a “bad relationship” with my employer. Not bad enough to leave, but bad enough to know I didn’t like it there. It wasn’t healthy for me at all, and I should have left. The [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Salary & the Market, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
February 3rd, 2012
Here’s a brilliant read that you must digest. As a job seeker it’s easy to get frustrated at recruiters (and hiring managers, HR, etc.) because they aren’t giving us the respect we are used to (the respect we had when we had a job, with a title and a salary).
As a recruiter, Amy has [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Recruiters, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
February 1st, 2012
I’ve seen plenty of bloggers say that “Google is the new resume.” They say “if you aren’t on Google (or LinkedIn), you don’t exist.”
The thinking is valid… to a degree.
Here is what they are trying to say, and my take:
Google is the new resume: Why use the boring old two page document that no one [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Career Education, Networking, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 25th, 2012
I’ve heard debate recently about cover letters – are they important, do you need to write one, etc.
Cover letters are kind of hard to write. Maybe they are more of a pain, really, than they are hard to write. And anything that is a pain to job seekers is questioned… “waa, waa, do we really [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Career Education, Cover Letters, Recruiters, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 23rd, 2012
The short answer: both, and it depends.
Check out this post on Recruiting Blogs by Katie, titled Personality vs. Qualified. She talks about a challenge that regularly comes up. No matter how fair anything should be, there are always nuances, and biases, and circumstances… so there is not one “right answer.”
Here’s Katie’s advice, which should help [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Interviews, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 19th, 2012
In my job search I pieced together a resume and then shot it out to friends and family hoping they would let me know if it was any good.
I was looking for someone to catch a grammar mistake, or a spelling error.
I was hoping someone would think it was awesome and walk it down to [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: 1 Comment
January 11th, 2012
My most commented blog post is Depression Clouds Everything. It has over 500 comments. I didn’t expect one or two comments… I thought it would be a touch subject.
But it affects every job seeker I’ve met. And their spouse, kids, parents, neighbors, etc.
This is the pink elephant of the job search… not many talk about [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Required Reading, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 5th, 2012
Last year I spoke to thousands of people. Probably somewhere around 10,000 people (I should keep track, but I don’t).
One of the most common issues that comes up is discrimination – specifically, age discrimination.
Chris Russell, at Secrets of the Job Hunt, wrote a post titled How to fight age discrimination. It is a collection of [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Networking, Recruiters, Required Reading, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
January 3rd, 2012
I know we are recovering from a busy holiday season, and we have one more big weekend coming up…
I’m already thinking about this next year.
As a job seeker, I remember feeling hopelessness and helplessness. Others could celebrate the time, and look forward with vigor and excitement, but when there is no light at the end [...]
tags: Career Discussions, job search author: Jason Alba comments: 1 Comment
December 29th, 2011
In two days much of the world, and your audience, will shut down to celebrate Christmas.
Some celebrate Christmas, some don’t. Whether you celebrate or not, you are impacted by this holiday season. The world seems to shut down.
So what do you do as a job seeker?
You can do all kinds of stuff … you can [...]
tags: Career Discussions, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
December 23rd, 2011
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