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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 companies don’t advertise or post their job openings. It’s more comon than you think!

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“I didn’t get the job because they promoted someone from within.”
I have heard this story before. It happens. Unfortunately, if you are a job seeker on the outside of the company you would LOVE to work for, it’s easy to conclude you have no chance hell of getting in the door unless it is on [...]

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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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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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When looking for a job we like and a successful career we usually think about skills, knowledge and motivation. I guess this makes sense. After all, jobs are about what we do. Work is the application of skills and knowledge.
The reasoning therefore, is to find organizations, that need your knowledge and skills and you will be [...]

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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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I met with a group of job seekers the other day to talk about the hidden job market. When I asked how big people thought the hidden job market is, people pretty much agreed that 70-80% of all jobs out there that get filled are never advertised, published or posted. But why? Why would employers [...]

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