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The Verbal Tic Of Doom: Why The "Vocal Fry" Is Killing Your Job Search

If you've fallen into the annoying and off-putting vocal fry habit, unlearn it if you ever want to get hired or promoted. Or should we say, "unlearrrrrn it if you everrrr want to get hirrrrred or promoted?" READ MORE›

Company Muse Makes Your Job Search Less Sucky

Typically, you don't know what it feels like to work at a company until you actually start the job. A new website wants to fix that.READ MORE›

Talented Terrors, "Bless Their Hearts," And Other Job Candidates You Should Avoid Like The Plague

If the only change you made at your company was to avoid hiring the people who are likely to fail, you’d have twice as many high performers. Imagine the monumental successes you’d be racking up with double the uber-achievers you've got now. Here's how to recognize the people you shouldn't hire--even if they look great on paper. READ MORE›

What It Takes To Get A Job At Google

Dying to work at Google? So, apparently, is everyone else in the world--which is why South African job-search firm JobVine put together a handy infographic on what to expect if you're one of the million people who apply to the search giant each year. READ MORE›

Baked In: BranchOut Lets You Manage Your Climb Up the Ladder From Within Facebook

The career networking app's CEO says Facebook will be dominated by "utilities" in the years to come, starting with ones like this.READ MORE›

Who's Firing - Layoffs week ended 5-7-10

Who's Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the week ended 5-7-10. For the past week retail, government, publishing, banking and energy employers announced the largest layoffs... READ MORE›

6 Ways To Become the Top Dog Before Your Interview

Did you realize that nearly all hiring managers pre-rank candidates before they've interviewed even one? If you're the top candidate before interviews, then it's basically your job to lose. So how can you position yourself as the to READ MORE›

Why Every Job Seeker Needs To Blog

Blogging is one of the most powerful things a job seeker can do to advance a job search. Learn why job seekers need to blog, what blogging can do for job search, how to start, and time/resource commitments ... You don't even have to write READ MORE›

Top 3 Job Search Strategies To Set Yourself Apart

Today's article describes 3 strategies to help you stand out from the crowd. Differentiation is critical to candidates seeking additional opportunities ...READ MORE›

Linkedin Company Follow Helps Job Seekers Find The "Hidden Job Market"

Linkedin unveiled an interesting new capability - Company Follow. This new feature can provide some valuable new help for job seekers. Let's look at what's included in the Company Follow feature and how job seekers can use it ... READ MORE›

Why Employers Look For Purple Squirrels

A purple squirrel is rarely found in nature - that's why recruiters use the term for candidates that have combinations of skill sets that are also rarely found. Learn 5 ways to respond to a multi-subject matter expert job description ... READ MORE›

Online job search techniques for job seekers

The type of job an individual is looking for will determine which job board the individual will visit.READ MORE›

Declutter Your Inbox: Send Rejection Emails to Job Candidates

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Free Career Advice Doesn’t Always = Good Career Advice

I know there’s a bit of sweet irony in my questioning the value of free career advice when I’ve also been giving it away through my blog posts. But what concerns me actually isn’t the fact that it’s free, it’s the quality of ...READ MORE›

Top Jobs 2010: How to Search Smarter

The fast-food industry is hiring, but don't go all American Beauty on us yet. The next decade is all about HOW you search, not where you search.READ MORE›

• Top Jobs 2010
• Seven Radical Steps for Career Changers
• The (Home) Office

Attention Career-Seekers: MyPath Taps Social Network to Plot Your Next Move

This morning I discovered after taking a 20-minute career assessment test on MyPath.com that, in addition to being a writer (a career I've built happily over more than a decade), I also possess the skills to be a teacher or a public ...READ MORE›

Nonsense At Work

Playing hard to getShould you or shouldn’t you play hard to get when trying to make a sale or hoping to land a job - that is the question.I once landed a good job because I played hard to get, by accident.  I wasn’t sure ...READ MORE›

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 MORE›