by Barbara Safani | Sep 8, 2008 | career management
According to 24/7 Wall Street, some of the country’s most well-known companies including Citibank, Sears, Washington Mutual, AT&T, IBM Merck, Ford, Circuit City, Rite-Aid, Gap, and AIG will need to cut thousands of jobs before the end of the year in order to...
by Barbara Safani | Sep 7, 2008 | career management, networking, on-line identity
I just got an invitation to connect from someone on LinkedIn with the following message: “Since you are a person I trust, I want to invite you to join my network on LinkedIn.” I have some real issues with this invitation and here’s why: This message...
by Barbara Safani | Sep 2, 2008 | career management, networking, on-line identity
Over on the Stealth Networking Blog, Liz Lynch writes about networking apathy and ways to overcome it. Sometimes people who struggle with networking resist it because they feel the process is unnatural and puts them in situations where they are not comfortable. The...
by Barbara Safani | Aug 22, 2008 | career management
What happens when you find a position that looks like a great match, but it requires that you work for someone who is 10, 15, or even 20 years younger than you? As people stay in the workforce longer, this may be one of the new realities of the 21st century workforce....
by Barbara Safani | Aug 21, 2008 | career management, resume
If you have been following the Olympics and the women’s gymnastic competition, you already know that there has been some speculation around the ages of some of the Chinese gymnasts. In light of some new evidence, the IOC is planning an investigation to determine...
by Barbara Safani | Aug 15, 2008 | career management, resume
Scot Herrick of Cube Rules recently commented on my blog about his distaste for “corporate speak” on resumes and that got me thinking about where much of this “corporate speak” originates…from job postings. So I took a quick tour...
