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You’ve got 30 seconds

Posted on 28. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

You’ve got 30 seconds
The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you’ve got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less.
It’s unfair, it’s imprecise, and there’s a good chance that I make horrible mistakes, but there’s a lot more of you than me, and [...]

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Top 10 Reasons for failing interviews.

Posted on 26. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

Top 10 Reasons for failing interviews.
How well do you think you do in an interview?
You can read book after book on how to interview well but the truth is in the telling, and on the day it’s about how the interviewer sees YOU. Not your skills, not your knowledge, not your education or qualification, [...]

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Networking, Personal Contacts Best Way to Find a Job

Posted on 21. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

Networking, Personal Contacts Best Way to Find a Job
ICraiglist, Monster and CareerBuilder are fine but if you’re really serious about finding a job, personal contacts and off-line networking are still the best methods.
A new Hudson survey finds that networking was the most common way workers (28 percent) and managers (33 percent) alike secured their current [...]

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15 Things You Can Do Right Now To Help Your Career

Posted on 20. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

15 Things You Can Do Right Now To Help Your Career
Most career advice you receive focuses on the big picture: how to get ahead, how to “win,” and such things that are on a much larger scale than the daily grind that most of us face. In fact, it is that day to day [...]

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Smart way to say: I quit

Posted on 20. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

Smart way to say: I quit
IT IS a fantasy every employee has had at least once in their working life. Walking into the boss’s office and telling him what to do with your job. But there is a right way and a wrong way to resign.
The wrong way can lead to bad feelings between you [...]

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Thinking about a career makeover?

Posted on 19. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

Thinking about a career makeover?

As he climbed the corporate ladder through a series of advertising and marketing jobs, Brian Sprinkle could never let go of the idea that what he really wanted to do was coach youth sports.
A former college soccer goaltender at Longwood College, now Longwood University, in Farmville, Va., Sprinkle coached youth soccer [...]

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You’re Older? So Sell Your Wisdom

Posted on 12. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

You’re Older? So Sell Your Wisdom
Ageism is real, but you can beat it by emphasizing your skills and building relationships
Age discrimination is against the law, but highly qualified people in their 50s and 60s still get passed over for jobs they might have landed easily if they were 20 years younger. Jeannette Woodward, 65, a [...]

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Finding your way to a new job

Posted on 12. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

Finding your way to a new job
If you don’t enjoy your career, life is too short not to look elsewhere. The trick is figuring out where to look.
The decision to leave a job isn’t easy. How do you know when dreading the upcoming workday becomes more than just fatigue? If you quit, will people think [...]

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Market yourself: Build a better profile

Posted on 12. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

Market yourself: Build a better profile
It’s tempting to think that all you need to do to find work is upload your resume and wait for recruiters to knock down your door…but don’t.
I’ve worked with a lot of new consultants over the years and without a doubt, the thing they have the most trouble with is [...]

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Did You Lie On Your Resume?

Posted on 07. Feb, 2007 by Bill.

Did You Lie On Your Resume?
Say you spent two years “finding yourself,” living at home, watching a lot of daytime television and letting your mother do your laundry. Now it’s time to get a job. But how do you explain those two missing years?
Fake it, says former headhunter Derek Johnson. On his free site, Fakeresume.com, [...]

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