Archive for November 2009
What is it that sets one candidate apart from another when it comes to the job search? The interview. It’s that simple, if you interview, you increase your chances of getting a job exponentially. Read below to find some incredible tips to make you stand out from the crowd once you sit in front of the interviewer.
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Consider "Word Bullets" for Your Cover Letter
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“Word bullets” are a way to make your cover letter stand out. Word bullets (which can be used with regular bullets), also break up the text and are excellent for spotlighting words or phrases from the ad or job posting you’re responding to. By pulling these words out of the ad, you can focus your letter sharply on how you meet the requirements that relate to those words. See an example of a letter that uses word bullets.
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A Storied Career: Are You New to Organizational Storytelling?
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If you’re a newbie in the world of organizational or applied storytelling, you will likely appreciate Robert Star’s slideshow, Release the Stories in Your Organization. The concepts and arguments in favor of storytelling in organizations will be familiar to veterans of organizational storytelling, but they are nicely organized and presented. Of course, my usual critique of presentations about storytelling applies — like most, this one seems to have no stories.
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Lindsey Pollak: Audio Download: Lindsey interviewed by William Arruda of Reach Personal Branding
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many thanks to William Arruda, founder of Reach Personal Branding and author of Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand, for read more
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Employment Digest: 3 Tips to Handle Resume Career Gaps
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First things first: anyone who’s spent a considerable amount of time working professionally will have gaps in their resume. It’s a natural by-product of tackling new career opportunities,…
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JibberJobber Blog: Nick Corcodilos (aka: Ask the Headhunter): How to Work With Headhunters
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I met Nick Corcodilos in Savannah at a conference. He was telling a bunch of resume writers that resumes were useless, and why they were useless.
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College Recruiter Blog: How to Measure Results from Social Media Ads, Efforts
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When evaluating various metrics and tools for tracking social media, what should marketing and communications professionals look for? First, know what you want to measure. The most complex tools in the world won’t do you any good if they don’t…
Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com
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JobRadio.fm: GE’s Vic Bhagat talks about bringing jobs to Michigan
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Check out this interview about GE’s new tech center which is bringing hundreds of jobs to Michigan.
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Employment Digest: Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter – Career Strategist – CareerTrends.net
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The Career Goddess: Enduring Truths for Careers and Job Search
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The University of Wisconsin has had many distinguished alumni and faculty who have been known to produce noteworthy quotes.
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A Storied Career: Is the Internet Killing — or Nourishing — Storytelling?
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Ben Macintyre’s Times of London article from two weeks ago, The internet is killing storytelling continues to generate huge buzz on Twitter, and I expected to vehemently disagree with it. But I surprised myself by acknowledging that Macintyre has a few good points.
First, I like the staccato spew of his opening salvo:
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Avoid the Bloated Resume
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One of our favorite quotes about resumes comes from Mark Nelson, former partner of Dale Dauten of syndicated career-column fame. Describing a two-page resume with long paragraphs and tiny type, Nelson says: “This resume is like a lonely guy who can’t get a date, so he sits at home and eats and gets bigger and bigger. I meet people all the time who think employers are going to get excited by lots of detail in their resumes. No.
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Employment Digest: Should Women Over 50 Become Retired Stay at Home Moms and Entrepreneurs?
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Now that women are getting older, what do we have left? Well, let’s take an inventory. Physically, our bodies are definitely not that of a twenty year old! Well, that was pretty obvious. How…
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The M.A.P. Maker: Will you affirm the Charter for Compassion?
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A while ago I posted about the upcoming Charter for Compassion. As I write this, 17, 710 people have affirmed it. Will you? Watch this video and visit the Charter for Compassion site. Clicking on “affirm” is easy. The challenge…
Curt Rosengren
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The M.A.P. Maker: Will you affirm the Charter for Compassion?
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A while ago I posted about the upcoming Charter for Compassion. As I write this, 17, 710 people have affirmed it. Will you?
Watch this video and visit the Charter for Compassion site. Clicking on “affirm” is easy. The challenge - and the potential goldmine - is incorporating the ideas more deeply into your life and spreading the ideas to others. If you want to make a difference with the way you show up in the world, this is a great place to start.
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The Glass Hammer: The Shape of Things to Come: The FWA’s Economic Forum Inaugural Event
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Get That Job: Your feedback wanted for Day 30 of NaPodPoMo
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Three and a half years ago I had a business plan, and I had a management-visualization-an-example/”>vision statement for my business.
I thought I would have a gazillion signups on JibberJobber, and that a percentage (high or low, didn’t matter – because even a low percentage of a gazillion is a lot) would have upgraded.
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Keppie Careers: Going rogue – advice for the rest of us
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JobRadio.fm: Job search tales: Your next job may be with your ex-employer
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What is it that sets one candidate apart from another when it comes to the job search? The interview. It’s that simple, if you interview, you increase your chances of getting a job exponentially. Read below to find some incredible tips to make you stand out from the crowd once you sit in front of the interviewer.
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Employment Digest: View all Video Interviews Here…
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Watch, listen and learn from leading coaches, experts, authors and thought leaders on careers. These short interviews are the perfect starting point in your career efforts.
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The M.A.P. Maker: Visual Self-exploration: Your Life in Pictures #2
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Welcome to this week’s installment in the Your Life in Pictures series. In this series, you will find photos to use as a point of departure for self-exploration.
This week’s photo:
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Bud Bilanich: Success and Life Lessons from Jill Koenig
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My Common Sense Success System is based on what I call the Four C’s of Success: Clarity, Commitment, Confidence and Competence. I discuss the Four C’s in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success, Your Success GPS and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Profession