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ShareI was thinking some more about yesterday’s post suggesting you’ll have better job search odds if you do everything you can to make the job search less impersonal.
I said:
If you’re just relying on Monster or other online job boards, sure you can send your resume out 300 times in a matter of hours. But this [...]

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From Gawker.
Apparently, job fairs are now drawing lines around the block.

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ShareYou of course know the phrase about the grass being greener on the other side of the fence.
Sometimes, though, the grass is plenty green on THIS side.
I thought of that this weekend when perusing some job search survey data. I’ve posted before about playing the odds in your job search. And you have to figure [...]

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ShareI once gave you my one best tip for writing a better resume. This has prompted several people to write and ask if I have a similar one “best tip” for job interviews.
I do, and it’s a very simple one.
Zen And the Art of Job Interviews
When it comes time to prepare clients for a job [...]

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ShareHere’s a different philosophical take. From the make lemons from lemonade department…
A bad job market might mean you’re not going to get your dream job for a while. But maybe you should take this time as an opportunity to figure out where you want to see yourself when the bad times end.
The storm will pass. [...]

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ShareI’m not a big fan of motivational posts. I much prefer to give you tangible tips and hacks, so this is probably as close as I’m going to get to this sort of thing.But the proper job search attitude is important, and I’ll tell you why. You can’t land the sort of job you [...]

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Share…Or, how to find a job when no one’s hiring.
This was one of the early posts I wrote for this blog. As I say, not to praise my own powers of prediction, but we were seeing in ResumeWriters.com sales numbers that things were getting tough out there as much as a year ago.
I began my [...]

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ShareHave spent the last few days at the Career Directors International conference here in (actually) Sunny Seattle.
Yes, career professionals have their conferences too.
I’ve had a great time and gotten a lot of great insights from the assembled career and HR pros. The next half dozen or so posts will probably come from ideas generated here.
One [...]

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ShareAs I promised last week, it’s time to take a step back and assess where we’re at.
You may have noticed that things have been crazy and scary in our economy recently. The good news is that hopefully Hank, over there to the right, might finally have landed on a mixture of fixes that will keep [...]

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ShareAs you know if you read regularly, I share some of the anecdotal data I get from looking at ResumeWriters.com sales figures from time to time. It’s not scientific, but it can be interesting. We were seeing mortgage broker clients last year before the housing crisis even started, and we saw banking clients looking for [...]

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