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“Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner
How do you get to the top? I mean really the top, like an Astronaut, CEO or CFO or Chief Anything? Most of us start our careers, fresh out of school, and our dream is [...]

“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.” – John G. Pollard
Timing is everything in life and in business. Too young for the early days Wall Street boom, too old for the Internet boom and just right for every major recession since WWII. But opportunity is what you make of [...]

“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 [...]

“Money don’t get everything it’s true. What it don’t get I can’t use.” – from the song “Money” by Barrett Strong and performed by The Beatles
Now I’m not trying to say that business is only about money, but let’s face it, business is about money. Number one on the list in 1955 was General Motors [...]

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
I remember looking for my first “real” job (as opposed to those that I held during college). First of all, there were no personal computers, there were typewriters. This meant you were [...]

“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. [...]

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” – Calvin Coolidge
Time flies, can it really be Christmas again? By now you’ve opened your presents and, with any luck, there is no coal [...]

“And I’m already gone And I’m feelin’ strong” – Jack Tempchin and Robert Arnold Strandlund
I was looking at my weekly LinkedIn updates (which I usually ignore) the other day and noticed that one of my former coworkers had a new profile (and a new job). So I got to thinking, where are all of my [...]

This is the second post in the Job Search Marketing Toolkit series and today’s post will focus on Cover Letters. While not as important as your resume, your cover letter is typically the first thing a recruiter or company HR representative sees. If it is missing or poorly put together it is unlikely they will [...]

Targeted search is what you should be doing in your job search. This includes companies, job search engines, recruiters and networking. Today’s post continues our review of targeted job search engines, picking industries and job functions not covered in the prior post.

Account Coordinator – This site, which part of the Beyond.com community, is targeted to [...]