To find your next job you'll need a process. There are six steps to managing your job search you'll want to follow. You'll learn how to create a strategy to help land the right job. ...
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Summary Sunday: Job Search Is Different Today
Job search is different today! During these unusual times job seekers are facing unfamiliar situations during interviews, networking and even career fairs. This week's summary will help you prepare ...
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Learn New Skills With These Online Classes
Online classes are an easy way to learn new skills. Check out these 16 training providers offering online classes and uplevel your skills any time any where. ...
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A Super Simple Way To Get Your News
If you are looking for a super simple way to get news to help with your career and job search, then you should know about this news reading platform. ...
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Emphasize These 3 In-Demand Skills To Boost Your Career
Employers have raised the bar on what they expect from new employees. You've seen those job postings requiring everything but the kitchen sink. So how can employers get away with this? Because they ...
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Career Development Carnival: October 2013
I am pleased to present this month's carnival and its collection of informative and thought-provoking posts!
You will find a brief summary under each article and I hope you decide to click through to ...
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Top 10 Blogs To Stay Up-to-Date
Here's a list of the top 10 blogs to stay up-to-date with your career and what's going on in today's world. ...
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5 Workplace Trends That Sway
I find it fascinating to watch trends in the workplace. As a former HR practitioner, I have enough first-hand knowledge to understand how policy changes rock a company.
This post was initially ...
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How To Get The Most From A Webinar
In order to get the most from a webinar, you'll need to have the right tools, set-up, and mindset. This post is about best-practices to maximize your online learning experience. ...
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Make the Most of Your Unemployment by Learning
What are you doing during this period of unemployment to increase your skills and marketability? Teach yourself new things. Learn new technology. Become better at taking initiative. ...
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Summary Sunday: Whole Lotta Job Search Stuff
Every Sunday I review my tweets to rally together some of the most important or favorites shared. It is not only a week-in-review for me, but if you aren't on Twitter, it is my chance to inform and ...
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Motivation Monday: Learn & Teach
Taking the Focus off of YOU
When you teach others, the emphasis is on helping others. So what can you teach someone? Anyone!
Think about the natural talents that you take for ...
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Monday Motivation: Be curious, generous and learn
Be curious, generous and learn. Use these three words to boost your motivation this Monday? ...
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Summary Sunday
Rise and shine!
I mean this on so many levels! Make the most of your new week and your future! I hope these posts are helpful!
Portfolio Career - What's in a word from Portfolio Careers (by my ...
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Motivation Monday: Learning During Job Search
Today is always the best time to invest in learning new skills and focus on your professional development. Here are some online training resources to help you learn and grow. ...
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What is Career Management Anyway?
Career management is so much more than writing a resume or looking for a new job! It is about making decisions on what you want to do and driving forward to make them a reality. Managing your career ...
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Summary Sunday: Life Lessons
This is a round up of my favorite posts from this week. They cross many topics but all focus on YOUR professional development. Have fun reading. I have provided some teaser points to help convince ...
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Summary Sunday
Generally, I do a lot more reading than I did this week. Here are some of my favorite posts from the week. I shared them on Twitter. I know, many people don't want to be there, so that's why I ...
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Organizing Your eLife
I struggle every day (and have for a long time) with how to file emails. I am afraid to delete messages that I might need in the future. ...
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Retraining Alone Is Not the Answer
For those of you who are not familiar with Peter Weddle and his newsletter and other resources, I encourage you to peruse his site here. His most recent "eye catching" news letter article ...
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Reading Again…
Instead of selecting "beach novels", I've been busy reading "work" related books this summer. While on vacation, I got plenty of comments and a few dirty looks while reading a book that clearly wasn't ...
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Who Do You Need To Know?
Networking doesn't have to be painful. Just ask yourself who you need to know if you want to be smarter, more successful or more productive. ...
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Driving Change from the Bottom
Can change really happen from the bottom and move up the ladder? Do "grass-roots" efforts succeed? I attended the local meetup of "Linchpins are Everywhere Raise the ...
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Seeking Training- Part 1
This week I mentioned the decrease in company training budgets in one of my posts. The result...WE need to pursue our own personal and professional development. So easily said. ...
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Personal Development Is Dying
What happens to the training budgets and staff when a company is in financial trouble? They are cut, right.What kind of budget does a small company (1-100 employees) have for training there ...
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Networking: How to ask for a favor
The other day I received an email asking me to do someone a favor. The request made me feel uncomfortable and I pondered for a day on how to respond. As an active networking job seeker, I am ...
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Summary Sunday
In honor of the droves of folks who have secured new jobs, I thought I would share some of the posts I've read that have a connection to managing your career.
Eight Thoughts on Elegant Leadership ...
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Summary Sunday
This Summary Sunday features posts and videos about the personal branding, social media, updates on employment and professional development.
Yuck, I hear some saying. I don't want to have a ...
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What Are You Reading?
Yesterday I received a package in the mail from my friends at Amazon! I have been waiting for this box for a week and it finally arrived. Like a child on Christmas morning, I tore open the packaging ...
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College-Bound or Career-Bound
What is the purpose of a college education today? Is it:A) Learn to be a great thinkerB) Obtain a degreeC) Teach life skills (career management included)D) Learn cutting edge technology and ...
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