Career Digital

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The Best Job Search Sites – Vol 3

“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move” – Arabic Proverb

So which are you? Successful job search is all about putting in the time to get your resume out there and cultivating your contacts. Networking is a key component, but you need to [...]

Dealing with Job Loss

“Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” – Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States

Job loss is not easy to deal with. Whether you knew it was going to happen or you were surprised. My post “I [...]

Leveraging Social Networks for Career Management

Networking, while always a key component of job search, has taken on more importance as business social networks have become increasingly more popular. The article and links below reminds us that Social Networking has become the preferred destination of choice for employers when looking for potential hires.

“Wall Street Recruiters and Employees Increasingly Use Social [...]

Career Sites & Job Search Links from Readers

Thanks to those of you who have been kind enough to forward links to other related and interesting sites.  I’m dedicating this post to listing and reviewing those links.

LinkedIn for Job Search – A step-by-step guide (posted on jobsearchdebugged.com) on leveraging LinkedIn for your job search.  The e-book downloads as a pdf file (once [...]