The New Year is usually the time when most people examine their current job status and make a resolution for change in the coming year. An intelligent career marketing strategy should incorporate research on the current trends in industry, demographics, and culture. Take a look at Fast Company's 10 ...
Not Just Another Downsizing
I thought I'd close out this year with an uplifting story about a company that downsized with dignity. When Cox Media, distributors of the ValuePak blue coupon mailers, decided they needed to close a plant with 440 employees, they employed some real out of the box thinking to show both the employees...
Scrubbing Digital Dirt
Yesterday I blogged about some new tools for improving your online visbility and removing unwanted entries from your profile. Today I read an article on Dice referencing a recent survey conducted by ExecuNet stating that 75% of 102 executive recruiters perform routine online searches as part of thei...
New Tools for Managing Your Online Identity
U.S.A. Today recently ran an article about managing your online identity that showcases new tools for organizing and clarifying a person's online references, improving search rankings, differentiating people with common names from one another, and cleaning up digital dirt.ClaimId users can create a ...
Jibber Jobber
Jibber Jobber, a personal relationship management tool that allows you to manage a job search and optimize your network relationships, just came out with some significant new features that allow job seekers to search LinkedIn for contacts that are in their target companies and connect with people wh...
The Job Seeker Experience
For all the job seekers out there that are spending a lot of time applying to companies through their corporate websites, read Gerry Crispin's post, Buying Fertilizer is Like Applying to Your Company. Gerry's thought provoking and humorous post discusses the abysmal statistics surrounding quality re...
Portfolios Are Not Just for Creative Professionals
Over on the Simply Hired Blog, there is a post about the value of candidate portfolios and I couldn't agree more. Lately I have been working on an assignment consulting with a number of career transition clients in creative fields including art directors, photo retouchers, writers, and web developer...
Reconnecting With Your Network During the Holiday Season
Sometimes it's awkward to reconnect with contacts who you haven't spoken to in a long time. The holiday season is a natural time to reach out to your network and extend your best wishes for the New Year. Holiday cards provide a natural “touch point” or opportunity to reconnect with friends, fami...
Tough Interview Situation
This week I am participating in George Blomgren's tough situations blog. Here's this week's situation...After several months of fruitless job hunting following graduation, Sarah finally finds herself interviewing for the company that she really wants to work for, in the field she wants to get into. ...
Get Passive to Increase Job Search Activity
No, that's not a typo...Let me elaborate. I just returned from the Kennedy Recruiting Conference and a key message I heard in several of the presentations was that recruiters are better off spending the bulk of their time sourcing passive job seekers for their open positions, because passive job see...