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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
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
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
A timely and important post from Brazen Careerist on email mistakes that people make. I’ve developed an entire video series on this subject. I’ve been emailing in a professional capacity for almost 15 years, and was an email administrator for a couple of years.
Email is a powerful tool. Just like a knife, it can be [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Education, Job Search Tools, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
November 9th, 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
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
In my last Career Resumes post I talked about your job search competition: other job seekers. Last month on my JibberJobber blog I wrote about “that guy,” the guy who is there and needy when he is in transition, but he disappears after he lands a job.
In the comments, Marc Miller kind of defends them:
What [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Networking, Work/Life Balance, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
October 17th, 2011
A friend told me his company needed to hire someone with my skills. This was a good friend who cared about my employment, and was willing to help where he could.
His brother was the hiring manager, and I knew I had the “in” I needed.
During the interview I could tell the job was mine…. if [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
October 13th, 2011
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