Career Digital

My Favorite Job Search and Career Sites – Vol 1

“When the dog bites When the bee stings When I’m feeling sad I simply remember my favorite things And then I don’t feel so bad” –  Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

I’ve seen hundreds of career and job search sites over the three years that I’ve been writing for CareerAlley. While I’ve not kept [...]

Hired Help – Job Search Made Easy

“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of “do it yourself”.” – Marshall McLuhan

I traveled down to Wall Street in NYC from my midtown location the other day having not been down there in a few years. I [...]

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 [...]

The World is Not Flat – Modern Job Search

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight David Eisenhower

My current job is in a  small company (several thousand people) and many of the people I work with have been at this company for 15 to 20 years and [...]

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 [...]

Take Your Job Search Mobile – Vol 1

“You always pass failure on the way to success.” – Mickey Rooney

I was on my way to work today (commuting via public transportation) and when I looked up (from my mobile device), I noticed that almost everyone on the train was looking at a mobile phone, Blackberry, tablet or eReader. If you commute via [...]

What’s New – Job Search and More

“We are currently not planning on conquering the world.” – We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin

Imagine that you’ve been looking for a job for six months and you’ve had virtually no luck. Yes, you get the occasional interest, but nothing serious. You begin to feel like there is [...]

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 [...]

Using the One-To-Many Approach in Online Job Search

“Work hard, have fun and make history.” – Jeff Bezos

Author: Sherrie A. Madia, Ph.D.

Online job search should never completely replace traditional ways of searching for a job.

As any good marketer knows-and that’s what you are, a marketer of yourself-it’s never smart to make assumptions about what works and what doesn’t. Rather, [...]

Job Search at 30,000 Feet

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffet

Flying back from a business trip and I got to thinking about the “30,000 foot view”. You know, the “big picture” or “seeing the forest for the trees” and [...]