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All the Right Networking in All the Wrong Places
It dawned on me while I was at a breakfast meeting for some Association of Whatever. It was the typical event with time set aside for networking before the program began. I don’t remember what the program was about but I do recall I wasn’t interested in the topic.
So why did I spend $35 to attend? I [...]
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The Illogical Game of Hide and Seek Jobs.
Why companies don’t advertise or post their job openings. It’s more comon than you think!
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When Being Open Closes Doors
When the market is tight I often have job seekers tell me that they are very open to any kind of opportunity. Open to move for the right position, open to take a pay cut and open to ‘just about anything”.
The hope of course is that openness will help land a job more quickly on [...]
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The Straight Line Job Search
I had a client who just hated networking. This was not new of course, but he was really serious about it. He did not like to ask for favors. He did not like the fuzziness of it and it seem to him like a bit of a crap-shoot to meet with people in hopes that [...]
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Rainy Day Job Search
I am in Seattle today, my old home town. I love this place with the grey skies, moss on the sidewalks and the really good restaurants tucked away on side Seattle streets with the rain dampened sound of the city and the faint sweet smell (at least to me) of low tide in the distance.
I met [...]
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The Only Unemployment Rate I Care About is Mine.
The announcement by the Bureau of labor Statistics that the Unemployment Rate is 10.2% is grim news indeed. Of course, those in the news business who figure if bad news sells, worse news should sell even better have taken the “if you think that’s bad, look at this!” approach. Brian Sullivan of Fox Business News [...]
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Should You Take a Job With a Company That’s Laying People Off?
I was poking around a few of my favorite job sites this morning, and discovered that a particular company was announcing that it was hiring. Great! So what’s the problem? One of my dear friends had just been laid off from that very company not one month ago. Oh. Ouch. Chances are excellent that candidates [...]
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If You’re Worried About Acing the Job Interview, You’re Barking Up the Wrong Tree
It’s hard to be choosy these days, isn’t it? It’s hard to hold onto hope and high standards for what kind of job you’d like to ultimately land when you’re surrounded by messages that the job market world is coming to an end. Buy into the terrible headlines that people are losing jobs right [...]
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Should You Take a Job That You Don’t Want?
“Should you really take a job you don’t want?” In today’s job marketplace, it seems terribly ungrateful to look a gift job offer in the mouth. But let’s face it, just because the job market is squeakingly tight that doesn’t mean you should take the first job that’s offered to you.
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Discouraged? How to Re-Energize Your Job Search
Did you happen to see NY Times article about how the nation is flooded with millions of would-be job seekers who have just plain given up? No? Well. Don’t bother. It’s a bummer. (But I linked this article to the online page anyway, just in case you’re like me and you just have to take [...]
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