HOW TO: Use Wordle to Focus Your Resume and Get the Interview
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that the user provides. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Some of you probably already...
View ArticleThe Age of the Perpetual Job Search
The World Has Changed As we approach the new year, it’s a good time to reflect on the past. 2011 was a tough year for many and 2012 is likely to be the beginning of a long-term transition for many job...
View ArticleThe Wrong Way to Use LinkedIn
With all the articles that exist that suggest best practices for using LinkedIn, I thought it was necessary to discuss the wrong way to use LinkedIn. Given that there are so many job seekers, recent...
View ArticleWhat is a Personal Brand?
What is a Personal Brand? Personal branding is a term that has gained a lot of buzz for those who work as a career professional but what is it? Personal branding refers to how we market ourselves...
View ArticleWhy Doing Everything Required of You Won’t Get You A Job
What is “Required” to Get a Job? The question in this headline calls to attention everything that is wrong with the mentality of many job seekers and arguably, many career coaches. The only thing...
View Article3 Universal Rules for Convincing Employers to Hire You
Learning how to market yourself is a critical life skill necessary to develop to achieve your career vision. Often, I get questions from people asking advice on what they can do to convince an...
View ArticleTraditional vs. Reverse Job Search
The Problem with being a Job-Seeker The word job-seeker is often thrown around to describe a person who is “looking” for a job. It’s fine if someone is simply looking for a job as there are many...
View Article5 Companies Disrupting Traditional Recruiting and Job Search
Social media is all the buzz these days but equally fascinating as the explosion in technology we are witnessing is the explosion of innovation. In the book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of...
View ArticleThe New Hire Checklist – 6 Things to Do in Your First 30 Days
The New Hire Checklist The first weeks on the job for any new employee are overwhelming, considering all the introductions, orientation meetings, training sessions, and new hire paperwork and...
View ArticleHow Social Media Enables Us to Be Mind Readers
This blog post is simple. Many career professionals try to get the point across to their clients and students that they must consider the information they disclose on the internet and the potential...
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