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“Blue moon, you saw me standin’ alone Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own” – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
“Once in a blue moon”. Is that how often you get interviews? I know that sometimes it feels like that. Everything you do in your job search is meant to get you [...]

“Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.” – Jerry Della Femina
Closing the sale. That’s what it is all about in Job Search, selling yourself, closing the deal, elevator speeches, etc. Intuitively, you would think that someone who is good at marketing and advertising would have an easier time selling themselves [...]

“Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
You graduated when? It’s September and you don’t have a job yet? Have you heard these words  lately (like from your parents)? Okay, so it is September and you’ve been looking for a job (just like the 10’s of thousands [...]

“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben
You know what they say – “another day, another dollar. One million days, one million dollars”. Of course one million days is 2,740 years. The world of financial [...]

“Fast company, fast company, you’re goin’ nowhere, you’re goin’ nowhere fast” – Don Henley & Glenn Frey
Did you ever wonder what it must be like to be on the “ground floor” of the next best thing? Imagine having been one of the first 100 employees of Microsoft, Apple, Google or even GE? That’s part of [...]

“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.” – Dennis Ritchie
Statistics, we love to quote them. And you know what they say – “so many statistics, so little time”. But there are some interesting statistics regarding Tech jobs like, did you know that Phoenix is [...]

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner
Okay, so I’ve taken for granted that everyone knows what the Fortune 500 is, so just to clarify I thought I would give a brief definition.  According to Wikipedia, the Fortune 500 is “an annual list compiled [...]

“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.” – Dan Quayle
Whether you’ve just started college or you graduated last year (or anywhere between the two), it’s never too early or too late to create or update your Job Marketing Toolkit.  Just about everything you’ve done can be leveraged in your search for [...]

“On the road again – Just can’t wait to get on the road again.” – Willie Nelson
I was speaking with one of the recruiters that I work with and he told me that he has trouble filling all of the job openings he has. He told me that he has lots of mediocre applicants but [...]

“I get up at seven, yeah, And I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin’, Yes, I’m workin’ all the time.” Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
So who is your agent? No, I’m not talking about movies, TV or stage, I’m talking about your recruiting agent (and not the US Army, although [...]