Job Search Tip: Get A Coach (someone who will hold you accountable)
I got this tweet a couple of weeks ago from Craig Murden: I have blogged about this before in the following posts: The Professional Job Search Creed – 1 of …
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How To Take Your Relationship Beyond Superficial
In my How to Help a Job Seeker post, where I share five things you can do to help a job seeker, I shared an experience where I went to …
How To Help A Job Seeker
On my 10 hour job search post there is an interesting discussion about how to do a job search, and keeping your chin up, motivation, advice, etc. Here’s a snippet …
The DIY Resume Book I Recommend Most Often
If you are like me you would have thought you didn’t have enough money to write your own resume. I should have engaged a professional resume writer, but I couldn’t …
Job Search and Networking Introductions
Two years ago (!!) I wrote about giving and receiving virtual introductions, and the problems I was experiencing with both. Check out Introductions gone bad… and Solution to Introductions gone …
Keith Ferrazzi Changed My Life
One of the reasons I didn’t network early in my job search was because I was afraid of n.e.t.w.o.r.k.i.n.g. What an ugly word. What does “hey, let’s go network!” mean …
Go Where The Grass Is Greener (or not)
Everyone wants to work for Google, right? Back in the olden days (around 2000 – 2003) it seemed like this was the hottest place to work… and even the lowest …
Multipe Streams of Income, Income Security, and Reality
I just got a comment from Angelika asking about multiple streams of income… it is actually a great question: “Sounds great for freelancers and gifted speakers. But what could possibly …
Complementary Services and My Second Revenue Stream
Looks like Fridays are turning into sharing my revenue streams. I didn’t mean to be so transparent about this, and I’m a little uncomfortable as I feel I’m kind of …
Happy January 13th! Guess what’s special about today?
Today, three years ago, was the last day at the company that laid me off. It was Friday the 13th, 2006. I found out on Monday that I was going …