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“Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.” –Yogi Berra
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word “industry”, the first thing I think of is smokestacks (hence the picture). I’m sure that has something to do with my age . Job search is much the same as today’s quote [...]

“It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.“  – Albert Einstein
You know the old saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. I’ve had many jobs that tested that quote and, while it probably has some truth to it, that is [...]

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
So what tools are you using for your job search? I ask this question all of the time and I’m constantly amazed at how many people leverage so few of the tools available to them. [...]

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” – Ben Stein
Whatever you do for a living (or whatever you want to do for a living) requires focus if you want to be successful. The “shotgun” approach to job search does not really work (as [...]

“Long-range planning works best in the short term” – Doug Evelyn
One of the brand new, “just out of school” guys that I work with is always asking questions about how to get ahead, should he get his MBA, what types of jobs should he be doing 5 years from now, how does he prepare for [...]

“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
I remember all of the jobs I had while I was in college and none of them, thankfully, led to the career I pursued once I graduated. I [...]

‘The journey is the reward.” – Chinese Proverb
Okay, maybe it is a bit too early to be thinking about the Holidays. But if you are a college student, you will be coming home (or at least on your winter break) in the next few weeks. And, as the proverb above indicates, you are well on [...]

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin
So everything I read lately says that, even when the economy starts to rebound (and many think it has already started), new job creation will lag. Now who am I to dispute that bit of wisdom? But [...]

“It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine” – Michael Stipe, William Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills
Yes, the world of job search has changed. The most dramatic change has been to job search boards (the fathers of which were Monster.com and HotJobs.com). But this change was on the horizon [...]

There are hundreds of job search boards on the Internet. The vast majority of those are not very helpful at best and a waste of time at worst. You could easily spend all of your time searching for job search boards and posting your resume. This would not be time well spent. As I’ve mentioned [...]