Category Archives: Job search tips

Your Perfect Pitch: who are you, in 30 seconds or less

You need to be able to tell a potential employer who you are and how you can help, usually in 30 second or less. Continue reading

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Unpaid Intern: maybe not as free as companies once hoped

Workers’ rights, such things as health insurance, retirement accounts, paid time off, are fading into the past in today’s difficult job market. So I was happy to see at least one corporate attempt to get something for nothing threatened recently. Continue reading

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The Internship: a movie where art imitates life, and gets scary

The Internship, this summer’s movie that reunites comic partners Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson (see Wedding Crashers) is billed as a comedy and can be quite funny. But it also struck me as art imitating life, to a frighteningly realistic … Continue reading

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One resume is enough, even in today’s specialized job market

One fascinating point he makes – a resume reviewer spends only six second looking at a resume. A good reason to grab them at the start. Continue reading

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Know somebody at a potential employer– keep it to yourself

Name dropping can make you seem smug and can irritate an HR person who might feel you’re belittling their role by mentioning your contact, writes Andrew Klappholz on TheLadders.com.
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What happens when you don’t get that job you wanted?

tThe point that potential employers make hiring mistakes is a valid one to help get you back in job hunting mode. Continue reading

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What’s the Best Job Hunting Tip? Believe in Yourself

You can’t go into interviews seeming hopeless or worthless, no one wants to hire someone who doesn’t believe in themselves. Continue reading

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Job tours of duty are getting shorter, another reason to always be job hunting

He wrote of a Harvard Business Review article detailing how the amount of time people can expect to spend at a given job is becoming shorter and shorter. That point is a basic premise of my book, Always Be Job Hunting, so it’s nice to see confirmation of it. Continue reading

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Spring Means Gearing Up for a New Job Hunting Season

You don’t have to be a new grad to start searching this time of year, everyone who is job hunting (and that means you), should spruce up their job-hunting tools and techniques and enter the fray this time of year. Continue reading

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What Path Do You Think Will Lead to Your Next Job?

So keep networking and always be job hunting; whenever you meet someone new professionally, add that person to your potential job search network. Continue reading

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