Indispensable by Monday (book) – SAVE a Company MONEY?

There are a few job search folks who boil your value prop (or, the reason hiring managers hire someone) to two things.  They say:
Companies hire you because you will either make them money or save them money.
It’s taken a while for me to really see any position, and any work activity, in either of these [...]

Email Subject Lines & Effective Communication

Tom Clifford wrote an invaluable post titled Why Precise Email Subject Lines Are Like Diamonds.  I’ve been doing a lot of corporate communication lately so I thought I’d read the first part to see what he had to say … I devoured the entire post.  I especially like the end, where he gives examples of [...]

Long Term Unemployment and Bankruptcy

I’ve had these to blog posts open for a few days and I just can’t get them out of my mind.
First is Long-Term Unemployment: 80 Percent Of People Jobless Last Summer Still Out Of Work from the Huffington Post.
Second is 7 Wildly Successful People Who Survived Bankruptcy from Mental Floss.
They tie together… some thoughts:

8 out [...]

How Recruiters Use LinkedIn

Brad, the partner of one of my favorite bloggers at Impact Hiring Solutions, wrote a must read post titled How Recruiters Search Using LinkedIn & What We Look For.
This is required reading… here are some excerpts:

So much has been written on the importance of a complete and compelling LinkedIn profile.  I am currently working on [...]

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 [...]

Networking at a Networking Event

Remember the first networking event you went to – you know, the one where you were really going to network?
I remember mine.  It was shortly after I lost my job.  I was really concerned about networking with other job seekers.  I judged them to be broken, problematic and useless to me in my job search.
Little [...]

Resumes will die, won’t they? More discussion…

Yesterday I talked about the value of a professional resume, where I quoted a recruiter who said “Good writers … are … worth every dollar invested in my opinion.” Very cool insight from someone who probably looks at thousands of resumes each month.
Recently on my JibberJobber blog I wrote a post titled Why Resumes [...]

Age Discrimination

On Peter’s LinkedIn Profile there are two questions that have received some excellent answers:
At what age do you think age discrimination (for older workers) starts?
What should older workers do about age discrimination?
Age discrimination is TOUGH.  When I started my job search I was 32.  I felt OLD compared to the college kids that were getting [...]

When the Job Search is Hard (& The Dip)

I “met” Seth Godin a couple of years ago when he was in town to speak in front of about 600 people.  I was part of the team who brought him here and was able to lug his bags from the entrance of the facility to the presentation, and then from there to the car [...]

Working Moms and Careers

I’m not a working mom.  Just thought I’d clear the air on that one.
I did, however, come across a really cool resource for working moms (or soon-to-be working moms).  The Working Mother Experience is a blog that supports a 250 page book with “essays written by EMC women (and one man) from around the world. [...]