Recalling your past accomplishments is an important step during the job search process and in managing your career. ...
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Career Management
Taking Control of Your Career
Yesterday's post was about looking for a new job while you are employed. This post is about why we are looking for new work.
DDI conducted a survey last summer Pulse of the Workforce and declares ...
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Who Do I Turn To For Advice?
Sometimes we don't have all the answers. What to do? The answers we are looking for could be about our career, our personal life, our finances, our car, technology or any other area. ...
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Job Satisfaction- Got it?
It seems that the US has hit rock bottom...well, job satisfaction is at an all time low. However, this should come as no surprise. Many have been holding on to jobs, just waiting for the tide to ...
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Need A Little Help From Your Friends?
Gosh, I love the Beatles. I could listen to them all day! Each song inspires or connects to wonderful memories. As a job seeker, you don't want to lose sight of the happy, ...
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Executive’s Set the Pace for Job Search Trends
The 2009 ExecuNet Executive Job Market Intelligence Report is out! Understanding what is happening with these C-Level folks (CEO, CFO, COO, CMO, CIO, etc) offers wisdom for us all.
This summary is ...
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Are you happy in your job?
There's been some talk around the web about what will happen when the economy turns around. The talk has to do with all those discontent workers looking for new jobs. Will it happen? ...
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Our Professional and Personal Lives are Blending
Sharing information is a personal value of mine. I hope that by sharing information that people reading it or hearing it will come up with solutions or new approaches or innovation of some sort ...
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What’s Your Job Search Style?
We all have some sort of style that we feel most comfortable with. Thumbing through the newest issue of House Beautiful, I was drawn to their predictions of what will be Hot in 2010. ...
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Are You Determined to Get a Job or Ride Out Unemployment
Possibly the worst thing to happen this year, in my opinion, was for Unemployment Insurance benefits to be extended...and extended. This is creating a false safety net for many unemployed ...
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Good and Bad Trends
There is a silver lining in every cloud, or so they say. Sometimes it can be difficult to see where that lining may be hiding. It is there, somewhere.
Some regions of the country are experiencing ...
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How Are You Communicating?
Communication is crucial. A message is mostly interpreted by non-verbal cues, not the actual words we use. However, for the last few years there has been a huge movement towards social networks and ...
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What Will You Do Differently This Week?
We are creatures of habit. Many of us desire routines, rituals, stability. It is dangerous to be lulled into the complacency of habits. We need to continue to move forward and ...
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What is your plan for finding a new job?
Do you have a plan? According to a recent survey hosted by Robert Half, 82% of those surveyed said they were ready. The survey also asked who had an updated resume. 44% said it ...
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Who Are Your Friends?
I am not a natural-born networker. I prefer "hanging" with those people I know well. I have a schedule that doesn't allow me to meet people after work. Those are ...
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Can You Adapt? Are You Ready?
There are many changes that impact the way we work and the skills and knowledge employers are looking for. Are you ready? Will you be able to adapt? ...
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How Quickly Things Change
Many of you may have seen this video before, but it certainly gets you thinking...
How does this impact you? How does this impact your work?What changes can you make? ...
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Too much to do, too little time
We all seem to be racing the clock. Well, perhaps just me. I've over committed this year. I raised my hand one too many times.
Sometimes we do this because we want to ...
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6 Steps to Managing Your Career
When I first started thinking about blogging, I consulted with several great mentors/advisers. One wise mentor recommended a visual layout for my process of career advisement. While I struggled to ...
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Dream Big
With summer almost over, there is another opportunity to set some goals for the upcoming school year.
I found a post, Big Dream Guidance System, about chopping your big dreams into smaller ...
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Do You Need Mentors?
I realize every day how much I don't know and still have to learn. Does that make me a life-long-learner of life? Yes. There are those that learn by attending colleges and acquire degrees. I prefer ...
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Starting A New Job? Remember These Things
With the job market opening up and seeing people land jobs, it is probably a good idea to remind people how to keep this new job.
Starting a new job can be stressful- akin to starting college. ...
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Technology isn’t Just for Geeks
It occurred to me last night as I was organizing ideas from a brainstorming meeting that "technology" isn't its own category any longer. It is incorporated into every function and ...
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Want to know the truth about your next job?
You've been searching and interviewing and all for the pursuit of that golden ring (a new job)! The harsh reality is that 60+% of you won't be in that job 18 months from now. ...
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You Don’t Need to Confess You are Unemployed
When you are introducing yourself to someone new it is not necessary to include the phrase "I've been laid off" or something similar within the first few seconds of your elevator ...
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The Aftershock of This Recession
What's life going to be like 1-3 years from now? Will businesses continue to layoff? Will things ever get back to normal?
In my constant quest for this answer, not just because I ...
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How to Spot an “A” Player
Pierre loves his job. I could tell from the minute I saw him. He walked with a lightness in his step and his head held high (not too high). He worked the room by engaging people in light, ...
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What Will You Do When You “Retire”?
If you are like most baby boomers, you are looking forward to your well deserved retirement. It is the goal/dream you've literally been working towards your whole life. "Ah, the day I ...
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The New World of Work
While living a week without contact with the outside world, I convinced myself that the employment situation was improving. I began to believe that people were landing jobs, companies ...
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More Great Blogs
I am regularly adding blogs to my Google reader. It is fun to stumble upon a great writer, or someone covering a great topic, or a fresh perspective, or a style similar or very different ...
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