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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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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:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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JobRadio.fm: Job search tales: Your next job may be with your ex-employer
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Keppie Careers: Going rogue – advice for the rest of us
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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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Get That Job: Your feedback wanted for Day 30 of NaPodPoMo
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The Glass Hammer: The Shape of Things to Come: The FWA’s Economic Forum Inaugural Event
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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 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