Linkedin Success in Short Simple Steps

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley Linkedin is the Facebook of the corporate universe and anyone who’s anyone has an account. Therein lays one of its biggest challenges – everyone has a Linkedin profile and if you’re not careful, your [...] [...]

Patience is a Virtue (but a job would be better) – Wish Upon a Job Part III

“The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.” – Charles Dickens A friend of mine found out that their job would be ending in 6 to 12 months. That sounded like more than enough time to find a great job with time to spare. Plenty of time to be patient [...] [...]

Majoring in Employment – College Job Search

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.” – Robert Frost You are somewhere in your (hopefully) four year college career and, if you’ve not already figured this out, the experience is likely to be different than you envisioned when you began. Whatever [...] [...]

5 Reasons Why You Need More Than a Good Resume to Stand Out from the Crowd

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” – Whitney M. Young You’ve probably heard hundreds of times that your resume is the most important document in your job search, and, that is  so. But if you want to stand out from [...] [...]

Get to know the new rules in job search

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you’ll discover will be wonderful.  What you’ll discover is yourself.” – Alan Alda The days of going directly to companies HR departments with printed resumes or posting them via snail mail are history now. With internet job search [...] [...]

Top Picks for Job Search – Companies on “The List”

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” – Hunter S. Thompson So when you look for job opportunities, do you just do a search based on job openings or do you have a “list”? If you are now thinking “what list?” then this post is for you. So, just like today’s quote, getting the right job [...] [...]

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 was [...] [...]

5 Smart Tips for LinkedIn Self-Promotion

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffett By Marc Saltzman for IT Insider Smartly executed self-promotion is the key to career advancement, and in our hyper-connected days, LinkedIn is one of the best tools to help you do this. The question isn’t whether you should be on LinkedIn, the mega-popular professional networking service, [...] [...]

Use the Internet to Find a Job – Part 3: Marketing You

“An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.“  William Castle Author Byline: Matthew Warzel Author Website: http://www.mjwcareers.com Here is a list of the ways to market you on the Internet. We discuss each topic [...] [...]

Growing a Professional Network: Using LinkedIn’s Groups

“More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.“  – Peter Drucker Author Byline: Christina Archer is a career agent, recruiting specialist, professional resume writer, and author with I-CareerSearch. Author Website: http://icareersearch.wordpress.com When it comes to embarking on a serious job search, we constantly [...] [...]