You spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing over your resume. But where does it live? It lives on your desktop. This is why your resume alone may not be enough to land your next job. ...
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5 Unwritten Rules for Starting a New Job
To hold on to your new job, you have to make the right first impression and get the approval of your peers and management. ...
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Find The Right Company Culture
6 Ways To Learn About It
You want to find a place to work where you feel you belong, right? You want to do work you enjoy alongside people you like. Your happiness and success depend on both.
It ...
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Attention: New Grads, Don’t Give Up On Your Job Search Until You Read This
Finding and landing a job isn't easy for you as a new college graduate. You invested a lot of money and incurred a bunch of debt to make yourself look employable, so why can't you land a job? Have you ...
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10 Things Motivated Employees Do
Motivated employees don't let bureaucracy get in the way. They don't cast blame. And they don't wait for someone to grant them permission! Be that employee! ...
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Get Noticed. Get Promoted
If you've been working long hours in seclusion, you've probably fallen off the radar of people in your network, recruiters and maybe even your manager. Isn't it time you get noticed and get promoted? ...
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Leave A Legacy
What legacy do you want to leave? What impact do you want to make? How do you want your peers and management to perceive you? Today is the day to think about creating the right reputation! ...
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10 Tips to Keep Your Network Alive and Well
If you keep your network alive by staying in touch with people, you'll never have to build it from scratch again. It's time-consuming and hard work to build a network, but a lot less work to maintain ...
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Are You Ready For Social Recruiting?
Social Recruiting Humanizes The Process
Despite the dismal response most job seekers get after they have submitted an application, some companies are trying to engage and respond to questions through ...
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The Real Reasons the Company Has Gone Silent After the Interview
There are so many reasons the company may have gone silent after the interview.
Instead of thinking the worse or making assumptions, think about the reasons why the company hasn't said anything. ...
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Restarting Your Job Search
Has job search got your down? It happens to everyone. Restarting your job search isn't hard. ...
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12 Careers Expected To Be In-Demand in 2014
Hot, in-demand, expected to grow, good-paying jobs still exist! This is always good to hear! The trick is, landing them! You may have the exact match of skills, but, simply applying online for your ...
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Choosing A Career Can Be Overwhelming
Choosing a career, either for the first time or later in life, can be overwhelming, confusing, frustrating and/or just a pain in the ass. So how do you go about making the best choice? ...
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Gratitude Changes Everything
Having an attitude of gratitude could be the secret to happiness. ...
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Professionalism Takes More Than Wearing A Suit
Typical career advice for new graduates includes "what to wear" advice, but that is just the tip of the professionalism iceberg. What does it really take to be a professional in today's work ...
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Never End Up In the Dreaded Black Hole Again
Don't let your resume end up in the dreaded black hole again! ...
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Stop Calling It An Informational Interview
The term informational interview sends the wrong message! Even worse, only job seekers ask for them! So can we make a deal. If you are serious about your career, stop asking for informational ...
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Less Focus on the Resume, More Focus on Your Digital Footprint
Instead of obsessing over your resume, spend more time focusing on your digital footprint! ...
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Are You Ready For Your Video Interview?
Your next job interview may be a video interview...like it or not.
Video interviews are just one more way companies are trying to improve their recruitment process and I think it's good news for ...
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Lead The Pack With Your Love For Social Media
Can you use your social media savvy and love for social media to help your career? ...
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Signs Your Interview Didn’t Go Well
You know the feeling... the job interview didn't go well, but what can you do about it?
Here are 10 different scenarios of job interviews gone bad and what you can do to turn it around. ...
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6 Things That Will Damage Your Job Search
Sharing these 6 things on social media will damage your job search. Clean up your online presence today! ...
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The ROI of Social Recruiting Exists
The newly released Social Recruiting Survey results by Jobvite provides proof that social recruiting works and that there's ROI in social recruiting! ...
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Advice On How To Follow Up During Job Search
Have you ever asked anyone for their opinion about when or how to best follow up during job search - such as after sending a job application or an interview? What I bet you've found is that you get ...
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Contemporary Advice To Improve Your Career
Quotes from Great Thinkers and Leaders
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." - Dorothy Gale
Neither you nor Dorothy are in Kansas anymore. The workplace has drastically changed ...
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Be the 9 Percent- Unplug
Do you have a summer vacation planned? If so, might I suggest you leave your technology behind!
We live in a schizophrenic society. Our time is constantly divided between too many to-dos, ...
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5 Types of Interviewees You Don’t Want To Be
Contrary to popular belief, you probably aren't innately good at interviewing, believe me! Avoid job interview mistakes and missteps and don't be one of these five types of interviewees. ...
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Introverts- Tap Into Your Strengths During Job Search
During job search, introverts can tap into their many strengths to become strong networkers and great at job interviews.
Learn what strengths introverts possess and how to make the most of them ...
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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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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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