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“When the truth is found to be lies” – “Somebody to Love”, performed by Jefferson Airplane (written by Darby Slick) Very tough times at work lately. So, in order to put some hope in my day, I went off and purchased a lottery ticket. I’m not sure about you, but for me buying a lottery ticket [...] [...]
“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.” – George Bernard Shaw So much to do and so little time. Job Search Boards, recruiters, company career sites, social sites and so on. So where do you start? How much time should you spend on all of the [...] [...]
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” – Phyllis Diller Yes, even job search requires Spring cleaning every once and awhile. If you’ve been on the job hunt for a few months or more, it is not a bad idea to take another look [...] [...]
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean Working in a big company has its highs and lows. You might not know everyone in the office personally on a day-to-day basis. But your opportunity to network and make connections in the long run increases drastically. Larger companies also tend to [...] [...]
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle You know what they say “you don’t know what you don’t know”. With the vast wealth of information on the Internet, it is virtually impossible to cover any one topic from beginning to end with all of the links [...] [...]
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill It’s 10:30pm and I’m on my way home from work. No, I don’t work the night shift. By the time I get home (11:30pm or so), there will be 5 hours (if I’m lucky) before I have to get up for [...] [...]
“To succeed in life in today’s world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.” – Chin-Ning Chu It’s Graduation time again. You know, Pomp and Circumstance or “Pomp and no jobs perchance” for many. Whether Parent or lucky Grad, there is lots of anticipation for when and where that first job will [...] [...]
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon Spring. It’s that time of year again. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing and your parents are telling you to get a job. For some its a break between college semesters and for others it’s the cold hard reality of “time to [...] [...]
“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call.” – Liz Carpenter You are out for lunch one day and you get a call from a recruiter who has this amazing job opportunity, but he needs your latest resume in 15 minutes. You are no where near a computer, [...] [...]
“When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.” – Armand Hammer I’ve posted lots of links to the companies on Fortune‘s Best Companies to Work for list, typically running from top to bottom. But then I got to thinking, what about those companies on the list that are hiring the [...] [...]
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