Welcome Monday, right?
Before you dig into your email looking for that invite to an interview, stop!
Open up your calendar first! See what activities you've got going on for the day. Now, if you ...
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Summary Sunday: Job Search Round Up
Sunday's are the day I round up my favorite posts from the week and share them here. These are written by other sources and people. I encourage you to visit these sites and read more of their work! ...
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Visually Showcase Your Talent
It is time to for you to showcase your talent and build a name for yourself, no matter what type of work you do or what stage of your career you're in! ...
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Fix It Friday: Networking Efforts Not Working
On Friday's I share my answers to job seeker questions! This one is about what to do when networking isn't working (the way you want it to)! ...
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Dating and Job Search Have A Lot In Common
It is amazing how many similarities there are between finding a job and dating. What you may know from experience is that they both take time and effort to produce the results you want!
Landing ...
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Motivation Monday: That Feeling of Accomplishment
What is it that gives you satisfaction? When do you feel like you're on a roll? When are you happiest? I think part of the answer to these three questions has to do with completing tasks and getting ...
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Small Business Saturday: Content Creation Requires Curation
In order to write great blog posts, I need to read a lot and that requires curation. ...
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Motivation Monday: Newton’s Three Career Laws
Today's motivation comes from Sir Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion. Now wait, before you click away, it relates to your career, really! ...
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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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Summary Sunday: Build an Online Presence of Excellence
This is my summary of great posts from the week. ...
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Small Business Saturday: Figuring Out Google+
What the plus?! (Lifting from Guy Kawasaki's eBook title here.) But seriously, what is Google+ and why should you care? Because part of your long-term strategy is creating brand awareness (either your ...
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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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Small Business Saturday: Content Marketing 101
Traveling in the way-back machine, a new business would hang a shingle, get listed in the yellow pages, print up business cards and have some promotional material and Voila! Oh, how things have ...
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Career Development Carnival: February 2013
To lift us out of the winter ho-hums, this Career Development Carnival is devoted to sharing favorite quotes from our contributing bloggers. Lynn Dessert and I are pleased to have the opportunity to ...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Time Management Legacy
Lincoln Was Right: Good (Leftover) Things Come to Those Who Wait
by David Ellis, Content and Community Manager at YouTern
“Good things come to those who wait. But only those things left behind ...
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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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Motivation Monday: From the Wizard of Oz
My all time favorite movie is "The Wizard of Oz." I could watch it over and over again (and have). I seem to find great meaning in this film which of course, relate to careers, job search and ...
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Summary Sunday: Clarifying Networking
Perhaps one of the most misunderstood and botched activities in career management is networking. Either people don't do it, they do it wrong, or some combination of those two. Only a small number of ...
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This Is What We Need To Teach
Is it fair to say that today's youth are a reflection of their parents and societal influences? If this is true, we need to stop complaining about Generation Y and do something about it.
Floating ...
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Motivation Monday: Your Punch List
As I was looking around the house this weekend, I happened to notice some repair work that needed to get done. Nothing major, but none-the-less, noticeable things. I realized that I'd been walking by ...
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8 Things The Big Game Can Teach You About Job Search
Even if you aren't a football fan, last Sunday's game offers eight lessons that apply to job search!
A power outage, great commercials, and a winning underdog! That's what makes an exciting ...
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Small Business Saturday
As a small business owner or solopreneur (business-of-one), I often find it challenging to do everything that needs to get done in a day or even a week. There are many hats to wear and often times, I ...
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Starting a Side Gig: 6 Essential Tools to Get You Going
Having the right tools for the right task can make all the difference when it comes to starting a side gig. The fact is, freelancing can sometimes involve the strenuous chore of task management, ...
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Summary Sunday: Implementing Your Job Search
Getting your job search off the ground can feel overwhelming and/or confusing. There is a lot of advice out there and often it seems contradictory. But maybe it isn't. I think most career and job ...
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When LinkedIn Becomes A Pay-To-Use Product
The headlines read:
LINKEDIN SNUBS 400M+ USERS
Today, LinkedIn announced they will only allow paid subscribers access to their accounts infuriating their 400 million loyal customers...
Reality ...
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How To Get the Most From A Carnival?
There's a carnival going on! The Career Development Carnival is over on Elephants at Work. No, it isn't the kind with rides and games. A blog carnival is defined by Wikipedia as
A blog article that ...
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College Seniors: Get Your Act Together NOW!
If your graduation is coming up this spring, NOW is the time to get your job search into full-swing. Actually, I hope you started thinking about this last year.
When you were in high school, you ...
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Motivation Monday: Are You Kissing Enough Frogs?
You've heard the saying "You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince," right? I think this same logic applies to your job search. In order for you to find your prince (or princess) you ...
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Summaries of Stuff You Share
I am going to be writing a future post with some thoughts on how an ordinary job seeker could use curating tools, but, today I wanted to show you what they look like. There are tons of options out ...
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Ponderings on a Tuesday
I've been surfing social media streams all morning looking for ideas and creative thoughts to share and have come up with very little, OK, nothing. But while I was searching, these thoughts came to ...
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