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My 14 year old daughter recently finished two hard years of intense Shakespeare studies. I remember the first few months wondering if she would keep up with it… she did, and by the end she had excelled beyond anything I ever learned about Shakespeare.
A huge lesson she learned is that she can “do hard things.” [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Required Reading author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
December 16th, 2011
There is a lot of talk about whether someone who has been self employed can successfully enter the workforce again.
Because of my raw blog posts over the years, I’ve said I was “unemployable.” That is, if a potential employer saw stuff I have written, they might think I wasn’t going to be a good team [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Interviews, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
December 12th, 2011
Job seekers tend to have a fear of the phone.
It weighs too much, so they can’t pick it up and make a call. Or, pushing ALL the numbers to dial out is too tiring, so they don’t do the last 1 or 2, and the call doesn’t go through. Or, there’s a powerful magnet that [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Fun With a Purpose, Job Search Tools, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
December 5th, 2011
Can you network over a turkey?
What better place is there?
If you get together with family and friends at Thanksgiving, you have a great opportunity to spend time with people, and help them help you in your job search.
Make it clear what you are looking for, and how they can help you, and ASK FOR HELP.
You [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Career Education, Fun With a Purpose, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
November 23rd, 2011
For the last 3+ years I’ve been speaking around the country to thousands and thousands of job seekers. I’m writing this from a hotel room, preparing for a presentation to a group of students hoping to enhance their careers with advanced degrees!
People spend a lot of time and energy on things like LinkedIn, their resume, [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Interviews, Required Reading, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
November 18th, 2011
Is it your role, or your duty, to help a recruiter remember who you are?
If they are good, shouldn’t they remember who you are?? Isn’t that THEIR JOB?
It might be a part of their job, but if they aren’t doing that part of their job well, is it their FAULT?
Some recruiters will be really good [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Fun With a Purpose, Interviews, Networking, Recruiters, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
November 16th, 2011
What’s the worst that could happen if you lie to a recruiter?
If you are a job seeker, you could essentially become blacklisted by the recruiter, his firm, and their contacts.
Recruiters are networkers.
They talk.
If you lie, they can find out. If they find out, they will question everything else you’ve told them.
Check out this Recruiting Blogs [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Recruiters, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
November 2nd, 2011
I’m going to keep this post really short because you need to spend time reading a long post from Chris Brabic titled What I learned in Vegas: #HRTechConf Wrap-Up
This is from the HR Technology Conference, so it’s not totally about job search, but there was a lot of talent management talk, for sure.
Chris talks about [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Networking, Recruiters, Required Reading, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
October 31st, 2011
Gavin Redelman posted this on Recruiting Blogs: Five Myths About Job Searching
His myths are:
The smartest person always gets the job
Direct experience is most important
Dating a co-worker will lead to career doom
Applying for jobs online is the only way to find a new job
Writing a cover letter is a waste of time
I’d like to include:
It is [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
October 27th, 2011
Alison Doyle wrote a great post on the Job Search . About site about a topic that everyone talks about… but the flip side of the coin.
Networking is supposedly how you are going to land your next gig.
What if it just doesn’t work for you??
Read her post here.
Her points include:
Walk in (to companies).
Have someone call [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Interviews, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
October 24th, 2011
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