Posts Tagged ‘hidden job market’
CNN – How to Overcome Being Overqualified
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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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“No Problem, Mon”: A Lesson in a Jamaican Job Search You Can Apply Today
I was at the boat yard last week and got an unexpected reminder on how to conduct a networking based job search from a Jamaican boat worker.
He was an older man with the rough weathered face of someone who has spent a lifetime working in the glare of the sun on the sea. He was repairing [...]
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Why Should they Care?
I am an introvert. No kidding. Personally, I don’t find networking to be very natural. As a result, I need to have a clearer sense of purpose and see better results in order to find it worthwhile.
Some great networkers believe the universe is working in their favor and they just need to put their “energy” out there and good things [...]
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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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CNN Money.com – How Age Proof Your Career
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Pick Up the That Outdated Old Phone & Get a Job
In the last couple of weeks I have had conversations with several twenty-somethings about professional communications and the job search. I was shocked but should not have been surprised when they told me how uncomfortable they are talking on the phone.
Why? Because this group rarely uses the phone to communicate verbally to one another. They [...]
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The Theory of Weak Ties
Kim Thomson wrote today in the SF Gate (The San Francisco Chronicle’s website) about a woman who had exhausted her primary network of friends in her job search. She decided it was time to turn to her “acquaintances” network and it was from one of these “weak tie” sources where she unexpectedly landed a job [...]
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When Networking, the World Might Not Seem So Small (After All)
Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride is where guests ride passively in a half-sunken barge through a darkened canal to an endless choir of animatronic dolls singing the same verses over and over and over again. I wonder in awe at the ability of that darn song to get trapped in the subconscious. Can you hear it [...]
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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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