Are Recruiters Worth Your Time?
(I’m sure the recruiters reading this post are saying “are certain candidates worth MY time?”) Within 30 days of getting my own personal pink slip I had 30 recruiters in …
Jason Alba
Quick maps update – new features!
A few days ago I posted on the Google Maps interface, and got some some nice notice by a GoogleMaps watcher (this is a very interesting website, by the way). …
Is Labor Day the faux holiday?
I enjoyed reading some posts about Labor Day, why it was created and all that interesting stuff. I’ve always been intruiged by holidays (why they are when they are, what …
My Favorite Recruiters – all 5 of them!
Yesterday I went to a small network meeting and someone asked for a list of local recruiters – the discussion quickly went towards “how do you work with recruiters” and …
personal branding revisited
I have a few buddies (job seekers and business owners) that are interested in looking at how a website or blog could improve your personal (or company) brand. Since I …
Stinky Resume?
After six weeks of job searching I finally broke down and went to a two-day workshop to help me hone my job search skills and techniques. By this time I …
What’s new?
… and today is Saturday! I actually wrote this on Thursday and set it to auto-post yesterday, but that didn’t work. Geez, who can trust technology?? Here is yesterday’s post …
Did I Hurt Your Tender Feelings?
I hope I don’t hurt anyone’s feelings with this post. But I gotta get it off my chest. Following up from yesterday’s post about the conflict of interest of the …
Conflict of Interest
When I started my job search in January I thought that there were a ton of resources at my disposal. And there were. The most obvious was the state department …
Low hanging *OUCH* fruit
Some of you job seekers may have heard about this letter – it has been huge news on the recruiter blogsphere, and others (thanks to FunnyBusiness for the pic!). I …