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Update Your References with LinkedIn.com
Whether you're out pounding the pavement, or are still gainfully employed, you need to be on LinkedIn.com! Linkedin is one of the best resources around for tracking down former co-workers, customers, and supervisors and you'll find it will really come in handy when...
Resume Critiques and the Ladders.com
My association with other professional resume writers includes an e-group thread that allows us to ask questions of one another (such as, how do you write a resume for a person getting out of jail? etc.) Over the past couple of days the topic has been about the...
Put Yourself in Their Shoes
If you've ever had to hire an employee, you know what a risk it can be. You have to ask yourself, will the person fit in with the rest of the staff? Will s/he steal from the company? Do they have a work ethic? Are they lying to me? Etc, etc, etc. That's why when I sit...
Job Fair Tips
Yesterday's unemployment numbers were downright scary -- 533,000 jobs lost in October. For the jobs that are available, it's an employer's market, and to streamline the process and find the best candidates possible, many are using job fairs to fill their positions....
Dialing while Drunk
I got 3 very strange voicemails the other day that came in the middle of the night. They were 3 minute recordings of background noise which appeared to be from a bachelor party for one of 3 guys I heard chattering away not realizing they had an audience. The first...
Your ego is showing
I spend a lot of time in professional chatrooms for various occupations to get my feel for the challenges and requirements of different jobs. The threads back and forth are interesting and informative. One thing I've noticed among the replies, is how people sign their...
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