Posts Tagged ‘Martha I. Finney’
Pick Up the That Outdated Old Phone & Get a Job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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What to Do When You’re Flat Out of Friends
(This post is based on some of the principles included in the new book, Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough which I wrote with Duncan Mathison. For a free sample chapter, click here )
If you’ve been following my posts, you’ll know that I’ve been writing [...]
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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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Are You Too Shy to Network?
My friend Patricia Varley is probably the only person I would call a natural networker. Her worldly possessions have been in storage for most of the last 10 years as she goes where her heart tells her to (always beautiful places: Hawaii; Aspen; Naples, FL; San Diego; hey! Why not?). Jobs and projects fall into [...]
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How to Give Good Luck a Leg Up
If you’ve been between jobs for, like, an hour, you already know that wishing will get you only so far. In fact, you might have been wishing that you weren’t on the list of people to get laid off. So you know better than just about anyone that wishing has its limitations.
Now. Luck. That could [...]
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Why “Job Clubs” Are Bad For You
Not that you need the assist, but let’s make this really simple anyway. If you were desperately looking for a gallon of milk, where would you go? To a place where other people who were desperately looking for milk are hanging out? I’m guessing probably not. You’d probably go where there’s milk. Or at least [...]
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Wouldn’t It Be Great If You Could Look Under Your Boss’s Hood?
Okay, so I have a quick question for you. Are you a nut? If I gave you this cup right here, would you be able to confidently take it into the bathroom, knowing that the results wouldn’t hurt your chances of a job? How do you blow off steam when you’re tense? If you found [...]
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