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Know When to Fold ’Em - A Smart Career Strategy by Dawn Lennon - Mar, 2010 Have a job that isn’t going anywhere? Reluctant to leave your work mates? Nervous about changing jobs? Join the club! A lot of people stay where they are, taking the avenue of least resistance. Unfortunately, it’s also the road to nowhere. So if you’re on it, get ready to exit. Being in a dead-end job isn’t the worst that can happen. Staying there too long is. We let ourselves get stuck in our jobs because of naïve or... |
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Achieve Incredible Career Success with an Accountability Partner by Andy Robinson - Mar, 2010 Do You Have an Accountability Partner? ALL of us are extremely busy with the day-to-day demands of our work schedules and personal activities. In the midst of being busy, we often lose site of undertaking the important steps and activities necessary to achieve our career and life goals and objectives. The concept of being held accountable in order to reach your goals is not a new concept in goal achievement but those tha... |
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It's Complicated by Suzanne Bates - Mar, 2010 Not long ago, I sat in on a presentation at a business conference and thought I’d landed on Mars. The program topic was compelling but somehow the presenter managed to take us into outer space. No one was following him. I wondered why this is so complicated. The guy had managed to hide his brilliance under a bushel - seizing confusion from the jaws of clarity. Whenever someone says,”I don’t want to dumb it down,” I know... |
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Handling Discriminatory Questions in an Interview by Bettina Seidman - Mar, 2010 An applicant involved in an employment interview is anxious to please, to impress, and to persuade. And that is as it should be. However, from time to time inappropriate personal questions are asked, which may make an applicant uncomfortable. As a Career Management Coach, I suggest that often these personal questions are more frequently asked of women than of men. Applicants are protected from answering a variety of i... |
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How Twitter Impacts Resumes by Julie Walraven - Mar, 2010 Career Thought Leader Conference TakeAways After spending my week at the Career Thought Leaders Conference in Baltimore, I have so many take-aways and experiences that I could write posts for months. Several of my Twitter friends are anxious to find out what I learned. I am a very experienced resume writer with way more than 15 years of resume writing experience who has read, learned, and mastered the craft of resume wri... |
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Are You In Control of Your Job Search? by Harry Urschel - Mar, 2010 Do you know where your resume has been presented? Do you know who presented your resume? Are you driving, or being taken for a ride? Often, people think that the more their resume gets shown to a company, the better their chances of being considered. That can be true if done right, but often can backfire if handled poorly. Unfortunately, many people handle it poorly. What should you, and what should you not do? Here ar... |
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Unemployment Got You Down? Build Up Your Skills! by Dawn Lennon - Mar, 2010 Being unemployed is your big break. Why? Because you can finally focus all your time on yourself — your future. Most people squander that time. Please don’t let that be you. Stress makes people stupid. Think about it. In the face of the unexpected, fear, or hard criticism, we become confused, befuddled, even frantic. When we reach our stress threshold, our decision-making ability implodes. Not having a job, for whatev... |
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Five Reasons Why Your Social Network Isn’t Working by Tai Goodwin - Mar, 2010 “Are you on Facebook? What’s your Twitter handle? Send me the link to your LinkedIn profile.” Thousands of social networking accounts are created every month. And a large percentage of those new networkers become easily frustrated because it doesn’t seem to be working for them. It’s what I like to call the “Field of Dreams” approach: if you build a profile, thousands of people will find you, become your friend, buying your ... |
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Should You Work With a Recruiter? by Laura Smith-Proulx - Mar, 2010 Considering contacting a recruiter for your job search? You’ll need to first understand how this relationship works, then locate and nurture the best sources of recruiters for your field. First of all, your best option is to contact more than one recruiter during a job search. For jobseekers who don’t grasp the overall strategy of recruiting, this may seem confusing. Can’t the recruiter you called just find you a job? We... |
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Three Things Your Hosting Company Must Offer Before You Should Pay Them by Joshua Waldman - Mar, 2010 Career Enlightenment readers may have noticed a disruption in service recently. All of my websites were down, this one, the video eLearning and the webinar registration. And I’ve spent the last 2 days getting up and running again, and learned a TON. If you are thinking about setting up a blog or website, I would like to share with you 3 things your next hosting company MUST have. By the way, I’m not one to bad mouth o... |
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