Job Searching Tips

There’s a Bully at the Office — How Do You Deal with It?

Job Searching Tips — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:40:07 +0000

We spend a significant number of hours toiling away at our offices. Often we run into difficult personalities. Some come in the form of passive aggressive personalities, where others seem to push and prod in an attempt to control the outcomes (or directly control you). It is frustrating. How do you deal with it?
One way [...]
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Understanding the Problem Gives You a Better Solution

Job Searching Tips — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:03:40 +0000

As a coach, I work with clients all the time who struggle to make tough career decisions. Here’s what’s interesting about this: usually they’re so focused on trying to find a solution that they don’t notice that they’re not sure what the real problem is.
Here’s an example. Joseph is struggling because he’s not [...]
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Job Search Success: It’s In Your Head

Job Searching Tips — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:40:05 +0000

If you’re looking for a job, success may be as close as your kitchen cabinet … or between your ears.
That’s according to best-selling author of “Swim With The Sharks” and Twin Cities business leader, Harvey Mackay (www.HarveyMackay.com).
In his latest book, “Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door: Job Search Secrets No One [...]
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Your Time Budget — Advice on How to Balance Your Life

Job Searching Tips — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:19:49 +0000

Now that the Great Recession has enshrined the New Frugality in the popular consciousness, it only makes sense to try taking a budgetary approach to time management.
Or so it seems to me, but then again, I do have a long history of deficit spending – if only when it comes to time.
It’s not so much [...]
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Assertiveness Techniques To Give You Power to Stand Up for Yourself with Co-Workers

Job Searching Tips — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:50:24 +0000

Assertiveness training is one of the most important tools anyone can have in life, especially when standing up to difficult and toxic co-workers. Rid yourself of childhood restrictions, fear, hesitation, and social misinformation. Know the difference between being aggressive – which includes bullying, yelling, screaming, intimidation – versus being assertive – which consists of being [...]
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Problems or Opportunities? — Down to Earth Ways to Find Solutions

Job Searching Tips — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:40:09 +0000

I think we’ve all become quite weary of those overly cheery types who declare that there’s no such thing as a problem, everything is an opportunity.
No, I don’t buy it either.
But if we step back, there’s a useful idea within the concept that we should consider. The fact is that when people are faced [...]
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Maybe recruitment agencies aren’t so bad after all

Job Searching Tips — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:20:04 +0000

The decision by recruitment agency critic and job seeker advocate, Diane Lee, to discontinue her EventItUp website coincides with the release of the inaugural Executive Monitor report, a joint research project between Phillip Tusing (Destination Talent blog) and niche job board SixFigures.

The report is a summary of the findings from a survey of 1332 Australian executives gathered across the
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Giveaway: Networking for the Novice, Nervous or Naive Job Seeker

Job Searching Tips — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:20:03 +0000

New: an EVENING JibberJobber User Webinar TOMORROW, March 9th at 7p EST. Register here. (other webinars listed here)

LinkedIn for Job Seekers DVD for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.

Sorry about last week’s Giveaway (I skipped it!). Here’s the question for this week:

WHY do we (in general) HATE networking?

Leave your answer in the blog post (not on Facebook) I’ll have Tom Dezell, author of the book Networking for the Novice, Nervous or Naive Job Seeker choose the best answer. This is open until the next Giveaway (next Monday).

You can find Tom’s book on Amazon here, or check out his book website, or his awesome new blog here. Check out this very cool post by Eve Tahmincioglu (Career Diva) where she interviews Tom (Wussy networkers don’t get the job).

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Building Your Online BillBoard with LinkedIn

Job Searching Tips — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:03:46 +0000

With an industry steeped in consumerism, advertising space is of critical importance. Companies know the importance of getting their message out. You are the owner of YOUR BRAND and YOUR IMAGE. You own the advertising rights to YOU. In a competitive landscape, the message around your skills and capabilities is important. [...]
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The Do’s & Don’ts of Handling Crunch Time

Job Searching Tips — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:40:06 +0000

These days, due to a combination of circumstances, including the whims of government agencies, non-profit organizations, private sector clients and – no doubt – serious sunspot activity, I’m currently juggling more competing deadlines than you could shake a Palm Pilot at.
As I try to stay sane and meet my responsibilities, I’ve made up a list [...]
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