Who’s in Charge of Your Career?

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There are a variety of ways that people end up in their careers. Some have known what they wanted to do since they were very young, and that vision they had for their future never wavered. Others faced a bit of indecision in college and tried out a few majors before settling on something that [...]

The Right Way to Connect Your Twitter and LinkedIn Profiles

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Have you connected your LinkedIn and Twitter profiles yet? If you’ve been on social media for a while, I’m sure you have. But this is a topic that’s worth repeating. I’ve been getting quite a few followers over on Twitter lately who are pretty new to that medium; if this applies to you, you may [...]

Five Tips for Playing the (Job Hunt) Game

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Living in Wisconsin, I am one of many who follow the Green Bay Packers. And this season has been a pretty amazing one. Until Sunday night, that is. Not only did they lose the game, they were trounced. I’m guessing that not many people thought that the highest seeded team would go out in their [...]

Keep Smiling!

Sticker from banana: "Place Sticker on Forehead. Smile."

I came across an interesting article on the benefits of smiling. It listed 15 reasons why smiling is good for you. Here’s a few of them that apply to job hunting: “Smiling makes us attractive.” Put yourself in the shoes of an interviewer for a moment. What would you think about a candidate who did [...]

Measuring Job Hunt Success: The Unsolicited Call

The measure of your job search success is not the number of resumes you send out, but the number of unsolicited calls you receive.

While on Twitter last week, an interesting tweet by recruiter and social media strategist Steve Levy caught my eye: The first part of his tweet makes perfect sense and is something that I have talked about here, but the second part — the “unsolicited call” — intrigued me. So I asked Steve if he would [...]

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