by Barbara Safani | Mar 16, 2009 | career management
Carer Diva wrote a great post on how frequently people pass up free career advice. Eve Tahmincioglu references the fact that many companies that go through layoffs offer career assistance services (often referred to as outplacement) as part of their severance packages...
by Barbara Safani | Mar 11, 2009 | career management
I just reviewed a job posting for a mid to senior level IT position with a major electronics company. The list of qualifications was so generic that it was obvious that absolutely no effort was put into benchmarking the job and determining what the key qualifiers...
by Barbara Safani | Mar 10, 2009 | career management
Career Solvers is pleased to announce a partnership with leading members of the careers community on Twitter called March Career Madness. During the entire month of March you can follow our career advice by searching for #mcm on Twitter Search or by following the...
by Barbara Safani | Mar 7, 2009 | career management, networking
I receive a lot of invitations on LinkedIn and while I am happy to accept most of them, sometimes the invite process is so poorly managed that the last thing I want to do is connect. Since I seem to see the same LinkedIn networking mistakes repeated over and over, I...
by Barbara Safani | Mar 6, 2009 | career management, career research, interviews
Last week I wrote about networking lessons learned from my son, so I couldn’t go more than a few days without writing about my daughter and what lessons she has taught me that can be applied to a job search. My daughter is into performing; mostly singing and...
