What Will 2015 Hold For You? 2015 Theme: The Year of the Cookie
December was really interesting – we had a lot more signups and upgrades than what we normally saw in the last few Decembers. I can tell that people are getting …
Annual Theme
Friction and Communication in the Job Search
I’ve been working with a young graphics artist to clean up JibberJobber. We’ve been working on “cleaning up” JibberJobber for the last almost-eight years, since we went live. The problem …
Communication: What I want you to learn from yesterday’s post
Yesterday I announced that we simplified JibberJobber. Yes, it is ironic that the blog post to announce it was one of the more complex posts I’ve written. But something I …
Communication: How (mechanics) vs Why (objectives)
I recently was listening to a technical presentation and as I was listening I had a profound thought. I hope I communicate it well below. Note: the person who did …
2013 THEME: Consistency Wins
I have a card from my business coach Mark Leblanc sitting right in front of me. I see it every day. On the card is a picture of Mark speaking …
Personal Branding: Are you Obnoxious or Pleasant?
In the last month I’ve received many messages from people. Most of them are very pleasant, kind, thankful, excited, etc. A small handful of them are impatient, obnoxious, blaming, mad, …
The Media (and other distribution channels) are liers and are for sale – how that affects your job search
I have learned, over the years, that media is a distribution channel that is easily persuaded. PR companies make gazillions from companies and people who want us, the stupid public, …
Job Search Communication, Emailing Many People, Mass Emails, Spamming
Great post by Kara Stringer on Recruiting Blogs titled Mass Mailing and Spam. Job seekers should write monthly newsletters to their friends and family (and professional acquaintances) letting them know what …
Job Search Communication, Email Signature Critique
Nathan Adams is a resume writer out of Charlotte, NC. We recently exchanged some emails and after looking at his email signature about three times I was struck with something …
Job Search Communication: Tag Clouds in your email Signature? COOL!
Last year I got an email from Linda Bidlack, and “Organization Development and Talent Management Consultant.” Linda does “Career Assessment, Job Search, and Coaching.” I got all that from her signature. I got …