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“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 [...]

“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.” – Oscar Wilde
The best thing about job search is the worst thing, you just never know where your next job will come from. A former colleague of mine had been looking for a job [...]

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.“  – Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, a friend is “one attached to another by affection or esteem”. Where would we be without our friends? I suppose we don’t give it too much thought until we lose our jobs [...]

How do you restart your job search?

“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 have [...]

“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 Lost [...]

“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 [...]

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.” – Jim Collins
So many of my posts have been about where to find a job (as you would expect). But then I started thinking, what about the not so obvious places to find a job? [...]

“‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
I’ve never really been a big believer of networking as the main job search strategy. In fact, for whatever reason, I’ve [...]

“I read the news today, oh boy.  About a lucky man who made the grade” – Lennon/McCartney
Okay, so you lost your job. Maybe you knew it was going to happen and you weren’t surprised, maybe you had no clue and it was a total shock. However you got here, the truth is you are out [...]