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By Kate Lorenz on Aug 30, 2010 in Books, Featured, Guest posts, Networking | 2 Comments
Does the thought of making small talk make you cringe? Does schmoozing make you feel like a schmuck? Devora Zack, author of “Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed and the Underconnected,” is just like you and has written today’s guest post on this very topic. Zack, who’s the president of Only [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Aug 16, 2010 in Featured, Guest posts, Interviews | 5 Comments
Have you ever been asked a question in an interview that seems to come out of left field? One that makes you skip a beat and make you want to ask, “Come again?” and “Are you serious?” Unfortunately, not all interviewers ask the most kosher questions and it’s easy to become discombobulated. Today’s guest blogger addresses [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jul 28, 2010 in Featured, Interviews, Job Surveys | 289 Comments
In her new book “What Your Body Says,” Sharon Saylor writes, “The most influential part of communication is your nonverbal. Your nonverbal can actually destroy or produce the results you want, such as inspiring employees to do better work, calming angry customers, creating fans in the marketplace and closing sales.” And according to a new [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jul 19, 2010 in Featured, Job Search, News, Video | 16 Comments
This morning President Obama made a plea to the Senate to extend unemployment benefits to 3 million Americans who will stop receiving them this month. He said it’s the government’s responsibility “to offer emergency assistance to people who desperately need it … to help them make ends meet and support their families even as they’re [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jul 12, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, Work | 4 Comments
What do ferryboats, tattoos and running 26.2 miles have in common? According to some experts, they are just a handful of industries that are showing the most promise these days. Over the last two-and-a-half years, we’ve written a lot on recession-proof jobs and the future’s most-wanted workers, but boy were we missing some. Some of [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jul 2, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, News, Video | 18 Comments
At first look, the BLS’s June unemployment numbers give a sharp contrast to May’s large jump in employment. But like every month, we’re going to look at these numbers a little closer. Said one report in the NY Times: Just as last month’s government job report appeared deceptively robust, swollen as it was by 411,000 workers [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jun 29, 2010 in Featured, Job Search | 1 Comment
This week we are attending the annual conference of the Society of Human Resources – the Lollapalooza of HR, if you will. We’re hitting the sessions to learn the inside scoop about the employer side of recruitment and employee engagement and pass them on to you, the job seeker. If you’re on Twitter, you can [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jun 24, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Mature Workers, News | 46 Comments
People are losing their jobs left and right these days, and it’s not because of the economy. It’s because of what they say. Recently, President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his job as commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan because of negative remarks he and his aides made about several officials [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jun 14, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Guest posts, Mature Workers | 9 Comments
Whether you’re a recent grad or a career changer, there’s a common catch-22 that comes with embarking on a new occupation: You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job. How many of us have said, “I’ve got the brains and the know-how, I just need the chance to [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jun 9, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Job Search, Job Surveys | 23 Comments
Even as the job market slowly improves, unemployment still continues to be high, which means competition for open positions remains tough in many areas. CareerBuilder’s annual survey about unusual tactics came out recently and it turns out more and more job seekers are trying everything and anything to stand out from their competitors. Twenty-two percent of [...]
