Posts Tagged ‘resumes’
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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When the “insider” has only an outside chance to get the job you want.
“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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Degree-less and Doomed??? You have got to be kidding.
I am all for college degrees. In fact I have a couple myself. But for many people, getting the college degree didn’t happen either by plan or by circumstances. Despite this they have built a good career holding the types of professional jobs even though their peers in similar positions had degrees.
How does this happen?
Simple actually. These degree-less people [...]
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Why the 1-2-3 of a Typical Job Search Does Not Add Up
I read yet another disappointing job search advice column in a special section of this Sunday’s Union Tribune. It was the same old tripe that gets trotted out and passed off for quality job search advice.
I call it the 1-2-3 of job search. Which often adds up to a big zero in today’s economy. It goes [...]
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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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Locked Out by a Factor of “Too”
Job seekers – all job seekers – have, or at least believe they have, some vulnerability that they feel gets in the way of their ability to get hired. Under qualified, over qualified, too old, too young, too ugly, too pretty, wrong color, wrong name, wrong town – the list goes on. It is not [...]
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