Monthly Archives: April 2011
Honesty on Your Resume
| April 27, 2011 | Posted by admin under DIRECT - Target/Resume |
Honesty on Your Resume – Judi Perkins Those who have been out of work several months, or are working outside their area of expertise in order to make ends meet, tend to want to hide that on their resume. They’re…
Don’t Do What You Love
| April 27, 2011 | Posted by admin under DECODE - Assess/Plan |
Don’t Do What You Love by Dorie Clark It’s common wisdom these days that you should follow your passion. But executives can hurt their careers when they care about something too much. Here are four reasons to think twice before…
10 important Twitter career resources
| April 25, 2011 | Posted by admin under DECLARE - Network/Interview |
10 important Twitter career resources By Anthony Balderrama, CareerBuilder Writer Why use Twitter during a job hunt? Twitter can be overwhelming when you log on because, if you’re following many people, their messages roll down the screen quickly and you…
Greatest Weakness Question
| April 25, 2011 | Posted by admin under DECLARE - Network/Interview |
Bounce back when interviewers ask about your “weaknesses” By Anthony Balderrama, CareerBuilder Writer Honesty, with a twist – Similarly, weaknesses should be positioned as a strength that can benefit the employer. Honesty, with progress Put yourself in the interviewer’s shoes
Forget the Thank You Letter, Lose the Job?
| April 25, 2011 | Posted by admin under DECIDE - Negotiate/Followup |
Forget the Thank You Letter, Lose the Job? By: Barbara Safani According to a recent survey, 22 percent of the 2,800 employers surveyed said they were less likely to hire a candidate who neglects to send a thank you letter.…
Spring Clean Your LinkedIn Presence
| April 25, 2011 | Posted by admin under DECLARE - Network/Interview |
4 Easy Ways to Spring Clean Your LinkedIn Presence Lindsey Pollak, Career Coach & LinkedIn Ambassador For those of us who live in cold weather climates, turning the calendar page to April is a glorious moment. Although it’s still cold…
A Minimum-Wage Job?
| April 24, 2011 | Posted by admin under DECODE - Assess/Plan |
A Minimum-Wage Job? By DENNIS NISHI Experts blame part of the unemployment trend on how employers view idle workers. People who have been out of work for a year or longer are less likely to be hired, which is why…
WeAllNeedJobs
| April 23, 2011 | Posted by admin under DECLARE - Network/Interview |
San Francisco Unemployment Campaign: 18 California Jobless Advertise Themselves On Billboards Tired of getting nowhere in their search for work, 18 unemployed Californians are advertising themselves on billboards throughout the San Francisco area’s public transit system. “Let’s face it,” the…
How to Market Your Skills in Your Job Search
| April 22, 2011 | Posted by admin under DECODE - Assess/Plan |
How to Market Your Skills in Your Job Search By Curt Rosengren If you‘ve ever looked for a job, you’ve probably seen skills checklists, ones that ask you to tick off every skill on the page that sounds like you.…
Tech jobs boom like it’s 1999
| April 22, 2011 | Posted by admin under DIRECT - Target/Resume |
Tech jobs boom like it’s 1999 By Jon Swartz Tech workers like Mersy are coveted commodities as the high-tech industry undergoes its biggest hiring binge in more than a decade. Not since the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s has…
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