Job Search Essentials: Dealing with Job Search Depression

My most commented blog post is Depression Clouds Everything.  It has over 500 comments. I didn’t expect one or two comments… I thought it would be a touch subject.
But it affects every job seeker I’ve met.  And their spouse, kids, parents, neighbors, etc.
This is the pink elephant of the job search… not many talk about [...]

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Age Discrimination in the Job Search

Last year I spoke to thousands of people.  Probably somewhere around 10,000 people (I should keep track, but I don’t).
One of the most common issues that comes up is discrimination – specifically, age discrimination.
Chris Russell, at Secrets of the Job Hunt, wrote a post titled How to fight age discrimination.  It is a collection of [...]

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The Job Search is hard. Do it anyway.

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.” [...]

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The Job Search is 99% Communication

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, [...]

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Job Search Tips from HRTechConf: Current Job Search Talk

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 [...]

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Job Search: High Value Activities

I’m getting ready to learn from “Growing Your Business” mentor Mark LeBlanc, in Salt Lake City.
One of Mark’s messages has had a significant impact on how I run my business.  It is deceptively simple, yet is really, really powerful.
In a business, he says, we need to identify three “high value activities.”  Those are activities that [...]

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Job Seekers: Stop Working So Hard!

Another insightful Recruiting Blogs post from a recruiter, Julie Pentis, titled: Job Seekers: Stop Working So Hard!
You’ve heard the job search is a numbers game, right?  It used to be, for sure.
Julie writes:
I had someone apply for 15 of our job openings the other day. Fifteen! And all the job openings called for completely different [...]

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Recruiter Insight: Top Ten Interview Blunders

Recruiters.  Whether you love them or hate them (if you hate them, you might not understand what their role is in your job search), you have to admit, they know a ton about job search interviews.
Crystal T wrote a post on Recruiting Blogs called Top Ten Interview Blunders.  You must read it.
As I look at [...]

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Job Search Idea from a Master Gardener

Recently I had a “master gardener” in my home, and I took advantage of the opportunity to walk through my yard to ask him his advice.
I expected to get a lot of advice, and have a lot of tasks to accomplish.
But when we were done, I realized he had consistently shared just one thing:
I need [...]

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Job Search Questions on LinkedIn

Here are some recent questions you can find on Peter’s LinkedIn Profile.  His first degree contacts get these in email (sometimes) – but you can find them just by going to his Profile and then looking for this box on the right column:

Here are some questions he’s asked recently – check them out… the answers [...]

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