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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»

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»

How to Get Motivated and Love Your Job Again

Are you motivated to wake up every morning and go to your job with full enthusiasm? Motivate yourself to strive for excellence...love your job again. READ»

CISCO JOB OPENINGS

System Administrator Location Thornton, Colorado Description Cisco is looking for a System Administrator with 1 to 5 years experience. The ideal candidate will have experience with Linux (redhat), Data Centers and server ...READ»

Career Advice from Jeff Hicks and Alex Bogusky, Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Jeff Hicks has been in advertising for over twenty years. He became CEO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 2004. Alex Bogusky joined Crispin Porter in 1987. He became a partner at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 1996, and then Co-Chairman in February 2008.READ»

• Top Jobs 2009
• The Top Jobs for 2009
• What Should I Do with My Life, Now?
• Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade
• 7 Essential Steps to Surviving a Post-Layoff Existence
• Where in the World to Find a Job
• Career Advice from Rick Webb
• Career Advice from Carisa Bianchi
• Career Advice from Jack Kramer
• Career Advice from Eric Feng
• Career Advice from Fokko Wientjes
• Career Advice from Chuck Jones
• Career Advice from Gary Flake
• Nonprofits? Not a Recessionary Refuge for Job Seekers
• Next-gen Job Sites
• Salary Wizard

Nonprofits? Not a Recessionary Refuge for Job Seekers

Job-seeking refugees from the for-profit world shouldn't go running to the not-for-profit sector.READ»

• Top Jobs 2009
• The Top Jobs for 2009
• What Should I Do with My Life, Now?
• Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade
• 7 Essential Steps to Surviving a Post-Layoff Existence
• Where in the World to Find a Job
• Career Advice from Jeff Hicks and Alex Bogusky
• Career Advice from Rick Webb
• Career Advice from Carisa Bianchi
• Career Advice from Jack Kramer
• Career Advice from Eric Feng
• Career Advice from Fokko Wientjes
• Career Advice from Chuck Jones
• Career Advice from Gary Flake
• Next-gen Job Sites
• Salary Wizard

Five Tips on Finding a New Job

This U.S. News & World Report article (Five Tips on Finding a New Job) appeared February 26, 2008, and provides a great overview of how to be successful in today’s job search market. The article talks about the importance of ...READ»

Opportunity of a Lifetime

I’m quoting this blog entry by Seth Godin, author of a dozen brilliant marketing books and Seth Godin’s Blog. Seth’s comments are simple, yet remarkable. Incredibly encouraging and powerful. Our greatest opportunities are borne ...READ»

FaceBook Strategies (1)– The Power of FaceBook Groups

Want to communicate your subject matter expertise to a targeted audience, or would a scatter shot approach be more effective? If you want a tightly targeted audience, that will have a high likelihood of facing problems that you are ...READ»

How to Take Control of the Interview

Ever get all excited for an interview, only to be frustrated that it didn’t go as well as planned? Maybe your experience wasn’t portrayed in its best light, or your many accomplishments weren’t valued. How can you avoid this ...READ»

Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Job seekers

So what’s all the fuss over Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker? Because Web 2.0 gives every job seeker the opportunity to promote subject matter ...READ»

Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Job seekers

So what’s all the fuss over Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker? Because Web 2.0 gives every job seeker the opportunity to promote subject matter ...READ»

LinkedIN strategies – Tight vs Broad Network

There’s been a controversy going on within the LinkedIN crowd for years. Is it more effective for your job search to build a LinkedIN network of close personal connections? Or instead, build a network with a broad reach, but weak ...READ»

What to Wear? Acing the Interview

A client of mine feels like he always comes in second in interviews. He does well, but he wants to do more than just do well. He wants to Ace the interview. So how do you Ace the interview? How do you communicate that you're ...READ»

LinkedIN Strategies: Recommendations

One of LinkedIN’s more powerful features for job seekers is their recommendations feature. LinkedIN allows users to ask for recommendations from past managers, co workers, business partners and service providers. Some on LinkedIN ...READ»

LinkedIN Strategies: Recommendations

One of LinkedIN’s more powerful features for job seekers is their recommendations feature. LinkedIN allows users to ask for recommendations from past managers, co workers, business partners and service providers. Some on LinkedIN ...READ»

Turn Your 15 Seconds into Interviews

15 Seconds.... That's how long the average reviewer spends on your resume, before making an interview/no interview decision. That's IF your resume gets beyond a database search. To put it in perspective, think about what you can do ...READ»

Send Fewer Resumes

Which do you think is more effective: 1) Sending 100 resumes for many jobs in the hope that a few will be interested in you? or 2) Send a few resumes to a few jobs that you are a perfect fit for? While this strategy is ...READ»

Successful Job Search

Career choice is definitely a key factor in business success. You have to like what you do to truly be successful at it. If you are just moving into a new career I suggest you take a career survey and make sure you were built for ...READ»

How in the world can you demonstrate leadership in a resume?

You can't. Leadership is a skill that you can only demonstrate in person. So why do professional and managerial career changers take up valuable resume space trying to convince their reader that they are leaders? I find that ...READ»

Facebook 101 for Job Seekers

You’re a manager. Why would you want to be on Facebook with a bunch of college kids? Simple…There’s 60 Million people on Facebook now, up from 25 Million 9 months ago. There’s only 15 million college students. Who do you ...READ»