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ABJH Excerpt: Making It to the Big Time

I’ve never had as good a salary or as many benefits as I did when I was in the Guild. No one person has the bargaining power that all employees speaking as one have. Continue reading

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How to Get a Daily Round-up of Job Postings

One caveat though, be as specific as possible. As you can see here, designer can mean many things in a job ad. Continue reading

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ABJH Excerpt: Learning on the Job

Looking back all these years later, I’m struck by the hubris with which I took my first management job. I really did think I knew it all and started out with that attitude, alienating people who’d been at their jobs there for decades by the time I’d arrived. Continue reading

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Always Be Job Hunting Excerpt: Getting a First Job

I graduated from Marquette University in spring, 1975, a time when the country also was reeling from a recession. Despite getting a few interviews, the possibility of finding a full-time job seemed dim. Continue reading

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Why Should You Buy Always Be Job Hunting?

And to give you a flavor for the book, I’ve assembled excerpts I published early in this blog’s existence onto a new page to make it easy for you to peer inside the book to read what you’ll find there. Continue reading

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Should Hostess Workers Have Always Been Job Hunting?

Your unspoken contract with an employer is to do the best job you can as long as you work there, not to go down with a sinking ship and then risk months or years out of work. Continue reading

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How Useful Are Best Places to Work Lists?

Keep a list of those that sound like they might have jobs you’re interested in, even if you’re not looking at the time. This fits into tactics for what I call passive job hunting, namely doing the market intelligence work you need for when you do have to search. Continue reading

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Did You Miss Our Cyber Monday Offer? Here’s Good News

So hurry to take advantage of this fantastic offer, either for yourself, or for those you know who are job hunting, this is the perfect holiday gift. Continue reading

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Cyber Monday Special: Free Shipping & an Autographed Copy of “Always Be Job Hunting”

Always Be Job Hunting wants to be part of today’s Cyber Monday online shopping frenzy, so here’s a special offer for the first 25 purchase responses to this post. Fill out the form below and send to me, the book’s … Continue reading

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Facebook Has a New Jobs App

I gave the new app a try but was a bit disappointed. It found no journalism jobs in the Chicago area. I’m not sure if that speaks to the lack of journalism jobs or the lack of jobs in this new app at the moment. Continue reading

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