Google Tips for Job SeekersLast 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: August 2nd, 2010
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? Doing the easy parts of networking [...] July 27th, 2010
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. June 4th, 2010
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 [...] June 2nd, 2010
Job Search: Where Is The Green GrassLast 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: May 4th, 2010
Write Your Own Job Search StoryLast year I wrote about a job search vision statement. I want to take the same concept in a different direction… first, some background. April 13th, 2010
The Job Search Doesn’t Have To Be LonelyOne 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. January 11th, 2010
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. November 9th, 2009
You Are Now Free To Do What You WantSince 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. August 27th, 2009
Job Search Tips: Networking vs. SocializingI 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: July 7th, 2009
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