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Find a Job Faster With Social Media

If you’re looking for a job in this economy, consider adding social media to your tool kit. Specifically, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn — used correctly — can help you find work faster. To get the latest tips, I spoke with Dan Schawbel, author of Me 2.0, Revised and Updated Edition: 4 Steps to Building Your [...]

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How to Create a Job for Yourself

If you’ve been jobless for an extended period of time, maybe you ought to stop looking for the right job. Instead, try looking for the right employer. If you do, and contact them with the right message, employers may create a job just for you. It happens all the time — even in today’s economy. [...]

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How to Get Inside the Mind of an Employer

There’s an old marketing maxim I live by when advising job seekers. It dates back to the 1930s and comes from Robert Collier, one of the best writers of sales letters who ever lived. It goes like this: To create successful advertising, the writer must enter the conversation already going on in mind of the [...]

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IT Jobs Abound!

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” – Rich Cook The vast majority of companies have some form of technology, but [editorial clarification: "only a few"] not may companies are [...]

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Sales Jobs Abound!

“A sale is not something you pursue, it’s what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer.” – Anonymous You know the old saying, a good salesperson can sell anything. I’m sure there is some truth to it, but to be a successful salesperson takes a certain personality and skill-set that (in [...]

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DHS is Hiring; Tick-Tock, Not Much Time Left

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the organization is on the hunt for upwards of 1,000 IT security professionals to fill an on-going and upcoming IT need. To many’s surprise, the organizations is waiving the requirement for KSAs (the dreaded knowledge, skills, and assessment questions many loathe when applying for government employment), hoping to [...]

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It’s a Blizzard Out There – Blizzard Entertainment is Hiring

Blizzard Entertainment is just one of the many video gaming websites raking in big bucks from online gamers. Intriguing story lines, engaging designs/graphics, and the ability to play with gamers throughout the World is proving a profitable choice for companies … and jobseekers! What’s the Forecast? How would you like working for a company supported [...]

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Job With Google; Listen Up Technical Jobseekers

Google has announced that it’s placed two billboards, one in Cambridge, MA, and the other in Silicon Valley, in an attempt to draw technical jobseekers. The company has created what has been coined an “innovative hiring tactic.” If you understand and can decipher the billboard, which states “{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of [...]

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FedEx IT is Wooing IT Jobseekers Using Blogs

Like many in the resume-writing industry, I often recommend to clients that professional blogging has been uncovered as a great way of promoting your own personal brand. Putting your professional career on the Internet has long been thought to draw employers and recruiters to you. I was first clued into this technique a couple years [...]

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