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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein When it comes to IT sales jobs, you may be thinking that you will simply be in a call centre selling a service over the phone; on the contrary, there are many roles within IT sales that could be [...] [...]
“Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. [...] [...]
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison The beauty of a “functional job” (like Technology, Finance, HR, etc.) is that you can either work for a company that specializes in what you do (Technology Companies, Financial Institutions, Executive Recruiters, etc.) OR you can practice [...] [...]
” The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Albert Einstein As you’ve no doubt figured out by now, there is a list for everything. I’m not sure if it is just that the lists are more accessible via the Internet or if the Internet has inspired more lists (I’m sure it’s a [...] [...]
“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.” – Edward Tufte I’ve worked in partnership with a number of the larger technology companies. We all have our “external view” of a company’s profile and corporate image. You really don’t get a good feel for what a company is actually like until you’ve [...] [...]
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else” – James M. Barrie Author Byline: Ali Webster, Pinstripe Author Website: http://www.pinstripetalent.com/recruitalicious A few weeks ago, I held a roundtable discussion with recruiters on their opinions of and experience with social media sites. Mentioning LinkedIn elicited a positive response and Facebook stimulated a robust discussion [...] [...]
“When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.” – John Lennon When I was growing up I used to go to a pond near my house with my friends to look for tadpoles. It was [...] [...]
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” – Carl Sagan Most (if not all) job searches must leverage technology to be successful these days. Even the “low tech” methods require that you have a resume in Word, pdf or some other electronic [...] [...]
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.” – Dennis Ritchie Statistics, we love to quote them. And you know what they say – “so many statistics, so little time”. But there are some interesting statistics regarding Tech jobs like, did you know that Phoenix is [...] [...]
It’s been some time since I’ve done a targeted job search post so I thought why not approach the topic again. While today’s post is focused on technology, the concepts and methodologies for focusing on this career choice can be applied to all career choices. I’ve said many times that, even in this economy, there [...] [...]
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