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When Networking Goes Bad

For 15+ years, networking has been my first and foremost prescribed method for an effective job search. Most people understand that people want to work with those they already know and like. Employers would...

Career

Behavior Changes Can Help a Stalled Job Search

For people re-entering the job market after 10 or 20 years of continued employment, and those having been out of the market for three years or more, the changes that have taken place may...

Career

Investing in an Interview

It continues to surprise me when I receive emails from people I have either not heard from for months, or have never heard from before at all, that go something like this: “I have...

Career

Leveraging Unsuccessful Interviews

In previous posts, I have addressed the need to invest time in preparation and being able to bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Tracking your activities and learning why things don’t go...

Career

Resiliency- How Do You Measure Up?

This has been a year filled with endings: banks failing, businesses closing their doors, homes going into foreclosure. Everyone has been impacted by the turbulence in the business world, and the need to adjust...

Career

Making Ends Meet in a Slow Economy

A bartender/server we recently met at a new wine shop in a nearby neighborhood captured my attention. Watching him and listening to his small talk with patrons struck me as something pretty significant- enough...

Career

Taming a Random Search

There is a big difference between random acts and keeping an open mind. Random acts tend to take a person in many directions, without much discrimination or evaluation, and can use up considerable energy....

Career

Creating Opportunity

Most people who appear to get what they want begin with a vision or a goal. The clearer they become about what it is they are going after, the easier it is to set...