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5 Steps to Making a Fresh Start for Job Search

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

New Year, new start (right?)! Any resolutions? How many will you keep and how many will you break? [...]

Who’s Hiring in Finance Vol 2- Targeted Job Search

“When the truth is found to be lies” – “Somebody to Love”, performed by Jefferson Airplane (written by Darby Slick)

Very tough times at work lately. So, in order to put some hope in my day, I went off and purchased a lottery ticket. I’m not sure about you, but for me buying a lottery [...]

Top Five List for Job Search Repairs and Maintenance

“Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.” – Benny Hill

If you’ve been a long time reader of CareerAlley, you will notice that I’ve been including a fair number of “Top List” posts. This helps me shake up the content a bit but also provides readers with a quick hit list [...]

Targeted Job Search – Who’s Hiring in Technology Vol 5

“Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. [...]

Overwhelmed with Job Search – Job Search Boards

“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.” – George Bernard Shaw

So much to do and so little time. Job Search Boards, recruiters, company career sites, social sites and so on. So where do you start? How much time should you spend on all of [...]

College Grad Job Search – The Dog Days of Summer

“Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.” – Unknown

Half way through the summer and no job prospects? Parents on your back (of course they are thinking about your $200,000+ college education)? You are not alone. Some of my friends’ kids are now home from college having graduated a few [...]

1000 things you don’t want in your job hunt

“I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.” – Stephen Wright

Author: Noel Chua

GOING ONLY FOR BRANDING Do you actually hold on to the top name job boards or portals? In the event that sure, you’re question one’s own probabilities of entering [...]

Would You Move For The Right Job?

Relocating for a job is a fairly common practice, especially with the low job security of today’s economy. But moving can result in heavy personal costs and should be extensively thought about before leaping to take a job. Here’s how you can best enter a relocation type situation. [...]

Creative Ways to Get Noticed Online

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw

It’s an understatement to say the Internet is big. It’s impossible even to accurately describe its reach as for every few Web sites that die every day, [...]

Job Search Reviews – I Read it on the Web

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

You know what they say “you don’t know what you don’t know”. With the vast wealth of information on the Internet, it is virtually impossible to cover any one topic from beginning to end with all of the [...]