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Bring Your A-Game to Career Transition
As an outplacement services professional, sometimes I am called upon by an employer to be on-site in order to offer career transition services within minutes of an employee discharge. Sometimes the conversation goes very well. Sometimes the conversation doesn’t go...
Resume Blunders: Please Don’t Talk About Your Pet Lizard
This is a guest post by Eric Olavson. A resume is much shorter and less poetic than the Odyssey. It should be a short document that can be scanned—not read—and a resume should never be appreciated for its literary merit. To better your resume, make sure to avoid the following list of common blunders: Blunder [...]
Your First LinkedIn Connections
Congratulations- you are on LinkedIn! Growing your connections is fun and interesting. It will definitely help you to network more effectively. It will open your eyes to a lot of interesting people doing different things all around the world. Before you start connecting, make sure your profile is in tip top shape. It should [...]
What Can Managers Do To Change A Company?s Culture
One concern managers have about a training seminar is what happens the next day, or the next, or the next. How do they keep the learning experienced in the seminar alive? In my field, how do they make the etiquette...
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Is my Job Search Really a Full-time Job?
Elaine Varelas discusses how to time manage your job search.
Sleep researcher examines the mystery of shut-eye
By Cindy Atoji Keene In the quest to understand the mystery of sleep, researcher Erin Evans has studied the effects of sleep deprivation in high stress work situations, from astronauts to police and doctors. ?Sleep is more complicated than...
Building Your Social Presence Is Like Baking a Cake
This is a guest post by Joe Hanson. In the 1840s, temperature controlled ovens and baking powder changed the cake baking game forever. Cakes went from being purely a delicious treat to an art form. Baking a cake is both an art and a science, requiring aesthetics, balance, and detail. When you’re finished putting together [...]
Five Things You Can Do to Enhance Your Interview Skills
Learn how to talk about yourself. Many of my clients tell me “I hate talking about myself.” While you may not be in love with this activity, it is simply a task that is necessary in order to find a...
Personal Branding & Executive Resumes - What No One Is Talking About
Every once in a while I get to step back and look at the work I do with my clients from a larger, more expansive perspective. Ordinarily, we are laser focused on developing branded executive resumes and LinkedIn profiles that...
Same name, not same person
Q: I love my married name. It's a rhyme-y, memorable name, which is a vast improvement over my maiden name, and I feel it's a nice fit for my line of work. Unfortunately, someone in the entertainment industry also feels...
The Value of a Hand-Written Thank You Note
It used to be that hand-written thank you notes or cards were standard operating procedure in polite society after an interview or an informational meeting. If someone didn’t send one, it was a major faux pas. In our modern society, we have moved away from the hand-written anything, so it’s not necessarily such an egregious [...]
Your expectations impact everyone. Even rats.
Pay attention to your expectations, says Paul Hellman, because they influence everyone's behavior.
LinkedIn InMails: 7 Ways to Get Responses
This is a guest blog post by Lisa Rangel. Need help making the most of LinkedIn’s InMail Feature? As one of LinkedIn’s Experts serving as a Moderator for the Job Seeker Premium Group, I offer this advice to executive and professional job seekers on how to optimize the use of LinkedIn’s InMail feature and increase [...]
JobMob To Be Attacked By Global Terrorist Hackers
JobMob is on the list of 1300 Israel-related sites that Hacker group Anonymous has threatened to attack this weekend.
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When Your Resume Is Useless And When It Is Useful
This is a guest post by Randy Block. After a speech, I often encounter someone from the audience who approaches me and asks: “What do you think of my resume?” I smile and ask: “What job are you applying for?” More often than not, they respond with: “Nothing in particular. I just want to know [...]
How EQ, not IQ can propel your job search
Western society, particularly North America, has trumpeted the merits of academic intelligence. But only in the last couple of decades, has emotional intelligence been highlighted. Recently in Time magizine a prominent story about EI in a major American news magazine. Show More Summary
Hosting A Business Meal Is An Opportunity To Shine
The opportunity has finally arrived. You?ve attended business meals with your boss and with clients, but you haven?t hosted one yourself. This is your chance to shine. But it can also be your chance to flame out. You might choose...
Workplace Survivor: Toxic Work Environments
This is a guest post by Dawn Rasmussen. It’s an all-to-common condition: people suffering from toxic work environments. We’re not talking about hazardous materials… but instead: hazardous people. A horrible boss or co-worker might have their own agenda, is experiencing mental issues, is power-hungry and thrives on stomping on people, or is just downright evil. [...]
My Published White Paper – Futurecasting: When Big Data, Social Data API & CRM come together, what will be the impact on Fortune 500 Hiring?
Futurecasting When Big Data, Social Data API and CRM come together, what will be the impact on Fortune 500 Hiring? Working with leading talent strategy consultant Dave Mendoza, Futurestep published a new report into “Futurecasting” – the high-impact concept that could transform the business of recruiting. Currently, most organizations are only scratching the surface when [...]
