Infographic: The Ultimate Social Media Guide to Getting a Job
Beginning steps to build and use profiles on the leading social media platforms. Great stuff from CIPHR! The Ultimate Social Media Guide to Getting a Job by CIPHR.com at CIPHR.com
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You Are Not a Used Car
It’s obvious, when you think about it, that your resume and your job search is an exercise in selling. But there are many different kinds of selling. In “Simple Daily Habits of the Delightfully Successful”, HubSpot’s Dharmesh Shah presents a working definition of sales that doesn’t sacrifice your self-respect: …Not used car-style sales. Selling doesn’t involve…
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Ghost Stole Your Resume?
A woman in Georgia claims a ghost stole her $5,000 resume, and I was asked to comment. I suppose my work is a kind of ghost writing… What didn’t make it into the article: I wondered why a ghost would need to steal someone’s resume. Then I realized that we have many stories about the…
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Librarian’s Tips to Get a Library Job
I love libraries, but it can be incredibly hard for librarians to make a career of their calling. Here’s one of my favorite librarians (and one of my favorite off-kilter friends) with job search advice for her would-be colleagues: If it were up to me…I’d get the job.
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How to Prepare for a Job Interview with Thomas Edison
Apparently Thomas Edison invented bizarre interview questions, too. Could you score the required 90% or better with questions like these? Who was Francis Marion? Where is the River Volga? Who invented logarithms? What is the first line in The Aeneid? What war material did Chile export to the Allies during the War? Where is the…
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Online chat: Job Search Strategy to Find a Job NOW
I’m hosting this week’s HireFriday chat on Twitter. January 6th Noon ET, 11 Central, 9am Pacific. Details on the HireFriday site. The perfect job search requires mastering a number of skills: career goals, assessment tools, resume writing, cover letters, references, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation, work/life balance, etc. There are hundreds of books and thousands of…