I would like to begin by thanking my lucky stars that, in this economy, I have had the good fortune of being gainfully employed for the past two years since graduating college. But, as I start a new chapter in my life, one that I hope turns out to be about a fabulous new career [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Using wardrobe & image to get the job in a hyper-visual, hyper-competitive world. How’s your job search going? You’ve networked. You’ve updated your LinkedIn profile and used social networks to learn about leads. You’ve revamped your resume to tailor your background and experiences to each job posting. And then finally, an opportunity presents itself. You’ve got [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
One of the techniques often suggested as a good method to find an employment opportunity is networking. Some job seekers believe that the sole purpose of networking is to ask other people for employment opportunities or job leads. They view the process of meeting with people with a, “What’s in it for me attitude.” The question [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Building a relationship with a recruiter is essential in your job search. You need to have respect for your recruiter. No matter what you have heard about recruiters or what you think of them, they are providing you a service and they could be your vehicle to a new job. I honestly think this is [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Having A Job Search Strategy Helps Job Seekers Compete. Picture this: You’re training for your first marathon, the long-distance kind of event that covers 26+ miles. You are running against experienced and non-experienced runners. You also figure that you’ll be surrounded by sponsors, organizers, volunteers, cheerleaders, etc.—you will need all of these people to help make [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
The economy as a whole is coming out of a hole. Americans ages 18 to 65 fill unemployment offices daily, looking for resume advice, stipends to help them financially and possible new leads on landing a job. Being a job seeker myself, frustration easily becomes a daily mood in my world of countless no’s from employers. There [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
“A brand is a living entity – and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures” – Michael Eisner, CEO, Disney What Mr. Eisner is saying is that the small things matter when it comes to your organization’s brand. Every interaction impacts the perception participants have of your [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
It’s time to come clean and confess my sin. I’m not proud of this man-crime, so go easy on me. Sometime in early November, I found myself nuking up a monster bowl of buttered popcorn around 2:30 in the morning. A dash of insomnia introduced a movie watching craving that I simply couldn’t turn down. Finally, [...]
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The recession in the UK has understandably made the HR job-seeker’s endeavour significantly more difficult than in times of plenty, but the current challenge appears to be even greater as a result of certain dubious and shoddy practices within the recruitment industry. The shop-window for HR jobs in the UK largely consists of either printed media [...]
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Someone referred me to an article in Time Magazine entitled How Skype is Changing the Job Interview. The title gives it away: the article is all about how Skype is seeing a lot more action in the interviewing process for organizations. After all, it’s free to use (so long as both parties have it) and [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Just this past September ERE held there Expo in Florida. One of the key speakers for the Expo was Mike Grennier of Walmart. Now, I didn’t get to go to the Expo but because all my “friends” were sending back copious twitpics about how much fun it was I decided that I had better watch [...]
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Last week marked the two-month anniversary of my arrival to Oklahoma. After being in California six months, missing home and nowhere to use my degree in communication, it seemed best to go back to the 405. Leaving California with just a pocket full of money, no job, and nowhere to live, I certainly had my work [...]
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Have you all seen that commercial from Verizon? The one where the kids are making fun of their parents for jumping on the Social Media bandwagon with their kewl new phones? I know you have (if not, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14CKzskjn4s). That is what most of my friends are like as well. Hell, in my [old] office, people [...]
Monday, September 7, 2009
Like many other HR professionals I found myself unemployed during one of the worst economic crises this country has ever seen. It has been a rough eight months of uncertainty – leads that didn’t pan out and hopes crushed – but I kept my head up and moved forward. Luckily I recently landed myself a [...]
Monday, August 3, 2009
I wonder why so many people forget to check their attire in the mirror before they go to work. I’m not talking about what you wear after work or at home, but what you put on your body to go to work and get a paycheck. Two real-life examples follow. Recently, a young professional woman got on [...]
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