Posts Tagged ‘Unlock the Hidden Job Market’
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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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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Recent college grads need perseverance in tough market
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Fired to Hired With Tory Johnson – Unlock the Hidden Job Market
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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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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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‘Tis the season to follow the money.
A client of mine got a verbal job offer but the job will not start until January. What’s going on here? Why can’t he start now? What’s the big deal of a of a months of pay when the hiring manager tells my client that her team is swamped with work and desperate for help?
Simple, this is [...]
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Employers Hire 4 Million in July: 1.5 Million More Jobs Than Job Openings – Huh?
This Sunday the New York Times reported that there were only 2.4 million job openings in July for the 14.5 million unemployed. This means there is a 6-1 ratio of job seekers to jobs – the worst ratio since the U.S. Government began tracking the data in 2000. To get this number, the Bureau of [...]
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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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