LinkUp: A Great Place to Hook Up With Employers

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Recently I talked to G.L. Hoffman, Chairman of  LinkUp.com, a site that aggregates and publishes only jobs listed on corporate web sites from thousands of companies around the U.S. LinkUp came about because of a team of developers and marketers who  understood what the market, i.e. the job seeker...

LinkedIn Recommendations: Get ’em While You Can

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Yesterday I sat in on a fascinating  presentation called "The Risks and Rewards of Online Social Networking in the Workplace" hosted by the Human Resources Association of New York. The presentation was geared towards HR professionals and focused on creating social media policies in the workplace to...

Career Solvers Wins 3 TORI Awards

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Each year Career Directors International (CDI) hosts a resume writing competition called the TORI Awards (Toast of the Resume Industry) where resume writers from around the world compete for first, second, and third place standing and a chance to prove their ability to write strategic, well-written,...

Why Most Job Postings are Useless

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I know there is a lot of career advice out there that suggests creating a cover letter that matches the job posting you are applying to as closely as possible. And while I agree with this in theory, the reality is that most job postings are useless and give very limited information about the positio...

Careers and Relationships: Are You Really That Different From David Letterman?

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As a former HR manager and a current career professional, you'd think I'd be weighing in on the  David Letterman story and reminding people why having a personal relationship with a co-worker is career suicide. And while yes, that seems like the logical thing to say, it's just not that cut and dry....

The Skinny on Employee Compensation: It’s Getting Skinnier and What Does That Mean for Job Seekers?

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Over the past few weeks I've been culling information from various compensation surveys, HR Magazine, and presentations by Mercer Consulting and ORC Worldwide to investigate compensation benchmarks for 2009 and trends for 2010.  Here’s what I have learned and what I believe to be the implications...