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How can Twitter Lists help Job Seekers? Top 400 job posters on Twitter

Learn how to find and use lists of top job posters, top recruiters, top hiring managers, and get listed as a top job seeker on Twitter.READ»

reCareered: Who’s Hiring in Health Care - November 2009

Hospitals, Federal Government, Nursing Homes, Home Health, Clinics, and Outsourced Health Services top Health Care hiring during November 2009, based on job advertisements open for 30 days from the top job boards.READ»

Step Out of Your Comfort Zone - Why are job seekers are afraid to change?

How can candidates break free from the vicious cycle of fear of change?READ»

reCareered: Whos Hiring – Top Employers week of 11-2-09

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 11/2/09.READ»

Toss Your Resume in the Trash and Tell Employers Your Story

How do you craft a resume that tells a compelling story? Don't even try it. Throw away your resume and focus on creating a narrative.READ»

How To Optimise Your Job Search

Affiliating yourself with a Recruitment Agent is an excellent way to optimise your job search and ensure you’re covering the market from all angles. Here are some tips on how to deal effectively with a Recruitment Agent to give you the best chance of securing your ideal role.READ»

Set the Employment Blender to 'Liquify'

That sucking sound is your resume going into the vortex.READ»

Googling for Headhunters... and Finding Fakes

Who you gonna call to find headhunters when Google fakes it?READ»

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Who’s Hiring? Week of 9/25/09

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding. READ»

Headhunters seeking passive candidates fighting war-for-talent in hidden job market with permanent positions

a few terms and practices that I wish disappear from the employment world READ»

Behind the Rebranding Campaign of Wal-Mart’s Scarlet Woman

Nearly three years after being fired by Wal-Mart, marketer Julie Roehm faces her toughest rebranding campaign ever.READ»

Why "Branding" Isn't Just Another Trendy Buzz Word

Our personal and professional brands are subject to the same type of exposure over time as many traditional consumer product brands. READ»

So, what's the deal... for REAL?

Many factors clashing together have made this a time in our economic history like none that we have seen before. With unemployment at a 25 year high, competition is fierce for the limited supply of available jobs. For obvious ...READ»

Are You One of the Top 10%?

This past weekend, I had an engaging conversation about the younger generation with one of my best friends who serves as an HR Manager for a major Fortune 500 company in Denver, Colorado. Are discussion began with leadership in ...READ»

Don’t get “ism’d” away from your goals!

In an ideal world, we wouldn’t continue hearing about society’s ills defined by terms ending in “ism.” Those being, ageism, racism, classism, sexism, and any other “ism’s” used to label discriminatory behavior. Sure ...READ»

Your Solution May Be The Problem

I believe a problem cannot exist unless there is already a solution. What keeps us from discovering it is succumbing to all of the assumptions we make about the problem in the first place. READ»

Shine Bright in Dark Times

This column is called Leading Change and is written for people taking the reins in their hands, whether by choice or not. In organizations today it is often the latter. Circumstances are not what we would like them to be. ...READ»

TMI, advice, opinions & other confusion for job seekers

These days, there may seem to be a shortage of jobs, but absolutely no shortage of information on how to get one! Recently, I’ve noticed an influx of experts touting all sorts of solutions for job seekers. Various sources of ...READ»

Judging Talent by Watching American Idol

Are you truly talented or are you putting on a show? READ»

social media networking for job seekers

tips that might help people gain the most advantage from their career-oriented social media networking experiences. READ»

Education isn’t just about MBAs

It is today’s hot trend. University students dream about finishing their undergraduate degreesand applying for an MBA.  It is thethingto do.  Many of them don’t evenunderstand why they need one, but they figure a trend is a ...READ»

How's that career treating you?

The concept that organization leads to higher productivity applies to many aspects of our lives. One significant area that tends to get neglected is the professional side of life... READ»

A Social Entrepreneur's Tale: A Newbie Navigates the Skoll World Forum

On Monday evening, in a hotel room in London, Kjerstin Erickson made her hit list. Laid out in Excel, it is meticulous: name, organization, responsibility--65 names in all. The next day, Erickson boarded a train and made her way ...READ»

Turn-by-Turn Career Directions

We test-drive UpMo, a new Web tool that gives you a road map for your profession and tells you how to get there.READ»

Classrooms

Thinking Beyond Your Current CircumstancesREAD»