Archive for December 2009
A big reason employers shed a far-less-than-expected 11,000 jobs last month is that temporary staffing agencies found slots for 52,000 additional workers, the most since 2004, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said.
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the holiday buzz-shopping, decorating, gift-wrapping, over-eating, and entertaining. To avoid going over the edge, take time for some rest and reflection. Think through your goals for the new year. Then make a list, and check it twice!
If finding new employment is on that list, remember that every great job starts with a great interview! So plan now to take stock of yourself, your presentation, your ability to express yourself, your standards for the company you work for. Use the week between Christmas and New Year’s to take strategic steps to insure a bright future.
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A Storied Career: Video Has Vastly Expanded the Story Universe: Is It a Whole Different Game?
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In my world of curating information in the realm of applied storytelling, the term “digital storytelling” has truly exploded in the last year. It has been big for a few years now and is only getting bigger. I’d estimate that at least a third of storytelling tweets I follow relate to digital storytelling.
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Employment Digest: Write a Resume For Results – The Cover Letter is Critical!
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I have been in the field of human resources for 20 years and can honestly say that the cover leader is the most important submittal I receive, and the one I read first and most carefully. If you want to write a resume for results, a dynamite cover letter is critical!
Why? Well, with today’s market conditions, and with the ease of applicants only having to punch “send” on an email, it’s not unusual to receive up to a thousand resumes for any job that being advertised!
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Personal Branding Blog: 6 Key Characteristics of Effective Book Titles
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Titles are more than just the words that appear on the front cover of your book; effective book titles not only sell more books, they can launch a follow-up series of books while creating a memorable personal brand for the author’s products & services for years to come.
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Secrets of the Job Hunt: Who’s Hiring in Finance Revisited - Vol 1
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“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” - Robert Orben
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Resume to Referral: Brand Transference: Does Ray Ramano Benefit from Jeff Lipschultz’s Online Brand?
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Wikipedia states a personal brand is “… defined as the creation of an asset** that pertains to a particular person or individual; this includes but is not limited to the body, clothing, appearance and knowledge contained within, leading to an indelible impression that is uniquely distinguishable.”
** Have you ever considered how many “assets” make up one person? Many!
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Paula Caligiuri: “Keep Our Team Together!” A 7-Person Creative Department Is Looking for Jobs–as a Team
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On November 5, 2009, weeks after a much-publicized merger, Claudia Haughn, Garry Chrenoff, and five other members of an award-winning creative team for a large television network learned that their department was being eliminated.
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The Career Goddess: How to Cut Your Job Search Time in Half
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The December 2009 Reach Personal Branding Interview on Thursday, Dec. 10 at noon EST features tips and techniques from David Perry and Kevin Donlin, co-authors of Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0.
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good to know: Resume Tips From an Expert (and it’s not me, so you’re good)
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Karen Russo is an experienced, talented recruiter, and she blogs it – which is good for you, because she gives good advice. Her post on the fundamentals of a resume is worth a read.
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Water Cooler Wisdom: Springboard Project’s Recommendations for American Workforce
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As I've talked about before, one of the most exciting projects I've worked on this year is with the Obama administration's Department of Labor. As part of the Springboard Project, I've participated in developing six recommendations to help American workers get the skills they and our businesses need to fill
today’s and tomorrow’s jobs. Today, we're releasing them to the media. They are:
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College Recruiter Blog: Google Fighting Back Against Scammers
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Desperate times create desperate people. And the economy has created a lot of desperate people over the past couple of years. Unfortunately, desperate people created by desperate times also sometimes fall prey to vultures. I don’t know how these scum sleep at night or how they rationalize ripping off anyone but certainly not people who are suffering.
I think back to my time before being self-employed, and ponder on what I did for my career.
On the one hand, I did all the right stuff to build the content of my resume (titles, schooling, etc.).
On the other hand, I did the bare minimum.
I assumed. And I was lazy.
I think I was normal.
I’m not saying that normal means people who don’t do what they *should* … rather, I’m saying I see a lot of people who don’t do what they ought to do.
Bare minimum vs. doing all the right things.
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Secrets of the Job Hunt: 6 Steps for Product Marketing Me: Strategy for the “Unpublished” Job Market
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The best way to introduce yourself to a company with which you would like to work, find a company for which you think you’d like to work or to target companies for the purpose of networking into a position, openings notwithstanding, is to know the “What, Where and How you can help the company”. I can give you a better-than-even chance of getting in the door to introduce yourself and possibly creating a job which is right for you. It’ll take some time and careful preparation but it’ll pay dividends. Here are 6 steps to follow:
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A Storied Career: Thomas Clifford Names Tell Me About Yourself Among His Top 2009 Book Picks
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My friend, corporate-communications media producer, author, and speaker Thomas Clifford, has included my book, Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to Get Jobs and Propel Your Career, on his Top 10 Books of 2009.
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Employment Digest: Job Interview Body Language – The 7 Most Essential Skills
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In these current economic conditions, opportunities to secure a new job are becoming more difficult. Having a great resume and pertinent past experience is important, but is not enough. You are just one of several other candidates who meet the specific requirements for that position. You need to gain an advantage by executing the perfect job interview. Here are the seven most essential skills you need to perform, to complete the ideal job interview.
Here’s an acrostic poem I wrote a few days ago:
Volcano Acrostic Poem
2009-12-01
Violence from the Underworld
Overcomes the peaceful earth.
Love is melting,
Creating scars of ash and tears.
Actions, once forgotten
New magma erupting
Only cinders whisper here.
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JibberJobber Blog: The Worst Time Since The Great Depression?
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I don’t care what the news might say about how things are getting better. And I don’t care if we’re on the upswing from this recession.
The bottom line is, this is really, really hard. We all know business owners who have gone out of business. We all know people who have lost their jobs. We all know people who have been in a job search for over a year. If there is a light at the end of the tunnel it sure seems really dim, or like a pinhole.
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Employment Digest: Cover Letters – The Icing on the Cake
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I get a lot of questions from clients about whether or not they should include a cover letter when sending in their resume. My response is “Would you consider making a peanut butter and jelly…
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Personal Branding Blog: From Function to Feeling in Personal Branding
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There can be major emphasis placed on the importance of function when relating to personal branding.
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Career Rocketeer: Don’t put…in your Cover Letters!
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Your cover letters are an introductory sales pitch with the purpose of persuading employers that reviewing your resume is a good use of their time. The last thing you want to do is give them a reason to eliminate you from the candidate pool.
The following topics should not be mentioned in your cover letter:
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JobRadio.fm: One way to tap your existing job network
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Derek Hayes called in with this tip about how to go about tapping your existing network for job leads.(download) 1 min
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The Glass Hammer: Inspiration at the Annual Women in the City Awards 2009
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By Jane Lucken (London)3
Lindsey Pollak: Winter is the New Summer…for Finding Internships
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This is a guest post from Lauren Porat, co-founder of UrbanInterns.com
As I was perusing the job listings on UrbanInterns.com today, I couldn’t help but note the following excerpts: