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How To Get a Near Six-Figure Job When You Are Unemployed

Category : Career Change, Career Management, careers, Interviewing, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding, Resume Writing, success, The Right Outlook, transitions, unemployment, work, Workspaces

I love this business of career management, and I especially love it when I hear of client’s success in landing the job of their dreams. Take, for instance, the phone call I received last evening from my client who had...


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How To Get a Near Six-Figure Job When You Are Unemployed

Category : Career Change, Career Management, careers, Interviewing, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding, Resume Writing, success, The Right Outlook, transitions, unemployment, work, Workspaces

I love this business of career management, and I especially love it when I hear of client’s success in landing the job of their dreams. Take, for instance, the phone call I received last evening from my client who had...


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Here Comes The Judge

Category : Career Change, Career Hub, Career Management, careers, employment, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding, Resume Writing, resumes, transitions, Workspaces

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. – John Adams Several years ago, I provided resume-writing services to a judge...


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Thinking Errors

Category : Career Change, Career Management, careers, employment, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Online Career Marketing, outplacement, personal-branding, Resume Writing, transitions, unemployment, Workspaces

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Shakespeare, Hamlet Are you familiar with the term “thinking errors?” If not, you can read more here about how common thinking errors can “skew your judgment and make...


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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Category : Career Change, Career Management, careers, decision-making, employment, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Online Career Marketing, outplacement, personal-branding, transitions, Workspaces

Over the week-end, my son and his fiancé came into town. As we headed to one of many pre-wedding take-care-of-business stops, all of which required decisions, I asked the bride and groom-to-be if they were familiar with different styles, makes...


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Your Executive Resume: No Longer Your Calling Card?

Category : Career Management, job-search, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding, Web/Tech

Many things may happen before a recruiter or hiring authority ever sees your resume. These are some: s/he Googles your name, searches for you on LinkedIn, checks Facebook to see what kind of person you are, checks Twitter for evidence...


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Drip Dry

Category : Career Change, Career Hub, Career Management, careers, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding, Resume Writing, resumes, transitions

Wouldn’t it be nice if there existed one universal hand-dryer system? I was in a beautiful new office building yesterday and for the life of me, could not get the towel dispenser to work. No matter what I tried, nothing...


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Job Seekers and Your Super Bowl Sunday Ad

Category : Career Management, careers, CBS Sunday, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Just For Fun, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding, Sports, Super Bowl Sunday 2012

Let's pretend that television producers have approached you with an offer too good to refuse: "We understand that you are looking for a new j-o-b and here's what we're going to do to help you this Super Bowl Sunday 2012....


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Others

Category : Career Change, Career Management, careers, employment, job hunt, job-search, jobs, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding, transitions, Web/Tech, Workspaces

During a blogging and job search presentation I delivered a few weeks ago, one of the participant questions had to do with “what to say when you write a blog or make a tweet." A tip one of my English...


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Job Search Next Practices: Online Identity as Competitive Advantage

Category : Career Change, Career Management, job-search, Online Career Marketing, personal-branding

You'd be surprised, but only about one out of 10 of the technology executive clients I speak to have a built-out online identity - that is, they show up in more places than just LinkedIn. The time is past when...


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