Google Tips for Job Seekers

Last week I found a post on Huffington Post titled Handy Google Search Tips: 19 Simple Tricks You Need To Know. I went through them and realized many of them would be useful for someone in a job search… here are my fav’s:
5. look up definitions.  I think I know the meaning of many words [...]

Don’t Network “too much”

I read some great posts recently about networking “too much.” I thought it was a weird idea since job seekers are supposed to network a lot… that’s where the next job will likely come from, right?
The posts (I wish I could find them again) talked about two different aspects:

Doing the easy parts of networking [...]

Job Search: Ask For Help!

Your friends and family want to help you land a job, they just don’t know how to help you.
I was inspired by a post on Keith Ferrazzi’s blog from Wednesday talking about Joy Meredith, who is in a job search and is making it easy for her contacts to know how to help her.  Check [...]

Job Search: Stop Networking?

I got an email from the director of Career Directors, Laura DeCarlo, sharing a post to Scott’s Hello My Name Is blog post titled If You Seriously Can’t Execute (At Least) One of Your Ideas After Reading This Blog Post, Then I Am Just Going to Snap. It’s a great post… I see this stuff [...]

Job Search: Where Is The Green Grass

Last night I was at a family event to celebrate the end of year for a class for one of my kids.  I was talking to some of the dads about “stuff” and we got onto the topic of careers and business.  At one point I said:
“Yeah, I sometimes think about you with your steady [...]

Write Your Own Job Search Story

Last year I wrote about a job search vision statement.  I want to take the same concept in a different direction… first, some background.
I’m an entrepreneur at heart.  I love the idea of building and creating a business, company, value, etc.  I anxiously await each edition of Inc Magazine that comes to me and I [...]

The Job Search Doesn’t Have To Be Lonely

One day I was talking about networking with a fellow job seeker.  John was an amazing networker and probably had “lunches” and “breakfasts” about 4 times a day.  He didn’t eat much, but he was using his time effectively to get in front of a network contact, just him and them, with no interruptions.
During our [...]

How did you lose your job?

There are many ways to lose a job, I’ll share mine and I’d love to hear yours.
I was laid off.  This is different than being fired (you don’t get unemployment insurance if you are fired, IIRC), but pretty much the same as RIF’d (Reduction In Force), downsized, rightsized, etc.
My layoff happened over the phone.  I [...]

You Are Now Free To Do What You Want

Since I lost my job I’ve done stuff I never thought I would have, or could have done.  This is all stuff I’ve wanted to do but never got around to doing it.
Tonight I was thinking about WHY I have done this stuff since I lost my job, and not before (when I was working).  [...]

Job Search Tips: Networking vs. Socializing

I was at lunch with a buddy this last week when he started talking about a very interesting concept: networking vs. socializing.  He was talking about how his kids socialize (they do it very well), but they don’t know how to network.  Perhaps here are some differences:
Socializing = hanging out
Networking = nurturing relationships
Socializing = no [...]