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Three Ways to Prepare for a Career Change

Take This Job and … You are at your wit’s end. You hate your current job, but you don’t know where to turn. You have to make money to survive, but this just isn’t cutting it. You hate what you do and you can’t imagine spending the rest of your life with this kind of [...]

Fifty Questions You Need the Answers to Before an Interview

These are just some of the questions you could be asked at an interview. Because most of us view interviews with the same sense of anticipation as we would about a visit to the dentist we often do not think about them. Here are a few suggestions: 1. Tell me about yourself? 2. Why do [...]

The Interview Follow Up Call

After any interview, you want to make sure they remember you. That is where interview follow up comes into play. In our technological society today, you have several options for follow up on an interview. Follow up on your interview could be considered the third step in your interview process. The first being a resume’ [...]

Job Search Savvy: Conduct a Targeted People Search

Who’s in Your Circle? Each of us has a circle of friends, acquaintances, colleagues, coworkers, parents from the PTA, fellow soccer coaches, members of the knitting club, and so forth. Many job seekers have a robust circle of connections in the offline realm. In the online space, the circles can vary somewhat dramatically. In the [...]

Create a Job Search Business Card

The Smallest Marketing Tool Boasts Maximum Power Job searches average six months! Good strategies, like a targeted position, networking or relationship building, a great resume and an effective short “pitch” will all tighten the job hunt timeline. Innovative ideas, used wisely, can accelerate those timelines further. Re-inventing the business card as a job search tool [...]

Your Job Search Survival Kit: Don’t Leave Home Without It

Picture this: you’re in the grocery store, stuck in line behind a gentleman paying for $100 worth of groceries in all pennies. You strike up a conversation with the woman behind you, find out she’s the hiring manager at the company of your dreams, and guess what: she wants to bring you in for an [...]

A Boomers’ Guide to Choosing Volunteer Opportunities

A Boomers’ Guide to Choosing Volunteer Opportunities

The face of volunteerism is changing. Challenging economical conditions, advances in technology, and boomers approaching retirement age are major influences on how non-profit organizations operate differently than in the past. There are many more people seeking help from service organizations, but there are also many more people who are volunteering. These and other social trends [...]

The Best Approach to Job Search: Blend Traditional and Social Media Tactics

The most successful job searches are neither dumb luck nor magic. They are developed from strong networks that the job seeker has already built, both online and off. Effective job seekers must integrate social media outreach with the more traditional approach in order to present a consistent, aligned, professional image. Recruiters are evaluated in part [...]

7 ‘No-Brainer’ Job Search Mistakes Too Many Jobseekers Make

Those jobseekers who do not read this article will very likely make one, or more, of the seven job search mistakes about to be mentioned in this missive, and it will cost them the job offers they were hoping to find. Guess what… so will most of the people who do read this job search [...]

Job Searches – What Today’s Employers Are Looking For

Most companies boast that they hire the best people. So, how does it happen that you often come across less than stellar colleagues and wonder how on Earth they got hired? Well, scientific research proved that interviews predict only about 30% of successful job performance. This means that out of 100 people who performed well [...]