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Build Your Rolodex Of Networking Contacts

Posted on 29. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

Build Your Rolodex of Networking Contacts
How important is networking in your job search? Take a look at the astonishing numbers surrounding how job hunters ultimately become gainfully employed.
14% of job hunters get jobs through newspaper classifieds. 13% of job hunters get jobs through employment agencies. 5% of job hunters get jobs through career services on [...]

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The Elephant in Your Resume

Posted on 29. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

The Elephant in Your Resume
Self-inflating fibs are easy to spot. So stick to accentuating your positives — and maybe spinning them a little, too Fans of the late, beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss will recall Marco, the protagonist in And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street. Marco is an embellisher: In his [...]

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For young vets, jobs are hard to come by

Posted on 28. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

For young vets, jobs are hard to come by
Paul Briones thought he had done everything right to relaunch his career in the civilian work force.
After serving five years in the Army as a radio operator and GPS tracking specialist, the 26-year-old had become an expert in his field and banked on his military experience to [...]

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Changing Direction In The Middle Of A Career

Posted on 27. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

Changing Direction In The Middle Of A Career
Whether it’s because they’re laid off or their business is cooling off, many Rochester-area residents are switching careers. In uncertain times, some turn to careers that virtually guarantee them a job.
Bruce Rosenbaum owned a business and sold electronics. Lisa Brillian worked at Xerox with engineers and parts buyers [...]

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Are you a baby boomer about to retire? Concider a second career

Posted on 27. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

Are you a baby boomer about to retire? Concider a second career
In the next decade, it is estimated about 76 million baby boomers will hit retirement age, but don’t try to talk to them about it – they are much too busy. And to be honest, they don’t really want to even think about it. [...]

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Career goals rebooted

Posted on 27. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

Career goals rebooted
As an eager freshman in the fall of 2001, Andrew Mo’s career trajectory seemed preordained: He’d learn C++ and Java languages while earning a computer science degree at Stanford University, and then land a Silicon Valley technology job.
The 22-year-old Shanghai, China, native graduated this month with a major in computer science and a [...]

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Attitude Adjustment

Posted on 23. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

Attitude Adjustment
A massive new study of the U.S. workforce has some sobering news for corporate America: many of today’s young workers are massively disaffected with their jobs and often constitute a negative influence on the whole workplace.
The survey, of 7,718 workers in every industry, by researchers from Ken Dychtwald’s Age Wave group, the consulting firm [...]

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Posted on 22. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

Expand Your Professional Network
As a counselor, I help my clients find sources for finding jobs. There has been a big emphasis on using job boards,career and job Web sites and recruiters and agencies. At Pace University we post jobs and have an alumni job listserv and we send daily listings to our alumni. In addition [...]

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Advice for recession-scarred job hunters

Posted on 21. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

Advice for recession-scarred job hunters
With the job market returning and companies hiring again, now comes a new wrinkle: How do you write a resume that explains what you’ve been doing for the past four years?
This was a period, after all, when people with master’s degrees drove cabs. When tech workers bounced from temp job to [...]

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Web portfolios grow beyond techies

Posted on 20. Jun, 2005 by Bill.

Web portfolios grow beyond techies
When the staff at a Scholastic Corp. unit heard that Cindy Eng was being hired as their editorial head earlier this year, they did an online search of her name.Fortunately for Eng, their searches led them right to her Web portfolio, a personal Web site that trumpeted her professional accomplishments, including [...]

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