by Barbara Safani | Jun 21, 2010 | career management
According to the most recent report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more employees left their jobs voluntarily in March (1.9M) than were laid off (1.8M). You may be wondering why so many are quitting their jobs in what is still a volatile economy, but the...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 18, 2010 | networking
Many people think that networking during a job search means calling everyone you know and asking them for a job. They associate networking with being pushy, overbearing, and an overall pest. People often shy away from networking because they don’t want to be...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 17, 2010 | career management
This month’s Career Collective topic is How to Heat Up Your Job Search. As we approach the hot days of summer, my clients sometimes tell me they plan to put their job search on hold during the summer months because they think that everyone is out of town and no...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 17, 2010 | career management, resume
When hiring managers read resumes, one of the first things they look at is dates of employment. If they see multiple short employment stints, they will often assume that you are a job hopper, question your ability to stay at one company for long, and move on to the...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 3, 2010 | career management
I’m sitting in my office crying. I’m crying because I just read an article in the recent issue of New York Magazine about a student who plunged to his death by jumping out of an 11th floor window at his school 16 months ago. This is not the first time...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 2, 2010 | career management
As a kid growing up in the 70s, a lot of the pop culture I embraced revolved around famous people who were married and worked together. I watched Sonny & Cher, sang the number one hit song by Captain & Tennille incessantly, watched every I Love Lucy re-run I...
by Barbara Safani | Jun 1, 2010 | career management, networking, on-line identity
According to Human Resource Executive Online, Brelyn Hammernik, a technical recruiter, was recently sued by her former company, TEKsystems, an IT staffing firm, after she sent messages to members of her LinkedIn network — members who also happened to be current...
by Barbara Safani | May 13, 2010 | interviews
Everyone needs an elevator pitch which is a quick overview of who you are and the value you can bring to an organization. This overview of your competencies was coined the elevator pitch because the message should be succinct enough to deliver to an important...
by Barbara Safani | May 3, 2010 | career management, on-line identity
I’ve written frequently about the value of journaling during a job search as a way to record your activity and your feelings during the process. By keeping track of what’s happening along the journey you can learn many valuable lessons and potentially...
by Barbara Safani | Apr 30, 2010 | on-line identity
I’ve never really been a big fan of Poison or Bret Michaels. I don’t have any of his music on my iPod and when Rock of Love came out I rolled my eyes. But all that changed this week when it was reported that Bret Michaels had suffered from a brain...
