When you’re unemployed and desperately searching for work—and your student loans are already in repayment—it makes you wonder exactly why you’re paying those bills. While some may follow the lead of a woman who sued to get her tuition back, there are other avenues to securing income and making ends meet. The Job Search Searching [...]
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20 Tips for Navigating a Networking Event
Two out of three people get a job through networking. Most job seekers spend the majority of their time scouring online postings and blasting their resumes to job boards. Ask any hiring manager or recruiter where they find most of their candidates, and time and time again they will say through a referral or a [...]
Throw Out Your Elevator Speech!
Do you have a polished “elevator speech”? How often does it work, and what is it really intended to do? Think about it. In the world of sales an elevator speech is intended to: Get the other person interested enough in your product or service to either 1) buy from you and/or 2) get a [...]
Is Copyright Right For You?
Are you in a creative industry where you thrive on generating ideas? Are you a freelance writer, software designer, architect, or professional dancer? Whether you are or not, protecting an idea may be important to you at some point, now or in the future. A copyright allows the creator of an original work to control [...]
Resume Makeover: Making Your Resume Stand Out
Could you hand a Recruiting Director your resume right now with complete confidence that you are marketing the best you? Your resume deserves the extra attention. Recruiting Directors typically spend only fifteen seconds looking at a resume. That means you have to catch their attention right away. Now, this doesn’t mean your resume should be [...]
“Recession-Proofing” Your Happiness
Sorry to begin the title of this post with a sort of “non-word”. However, with all the talk about the troubled economic state of our nation I have been hearing the term “recession-proofing” in relation to many things: recession-proofing your relationship, your business, your budget, your IRA/401K, and the list goes on and on. I [...]
Recession-Busting Tips for Getting a Job in Tough Times
There is a lot of doom and gloom out there. With all the grim headlines, it’s pretty easy to feel down and out about your job search. If you were laid off, downsized, or euphemized, then it’s hard to stay positive and vigilant about taking a bright, successful next step. The good news is that [...]
Recession-Busting Tips for Getting a Job in Tough Times
There is a lot of doom and gloom out there. With all the grim headlines, it’s pretty easy to feel down and out about your job search. If you were laid off, downsized, or euphemized, then it’s hard to stay positive and vigilant about taking a bright, successful next step. The good news is that [...]
The Importance of Differentiation Part 2: Master Your Offline Brand
When 26 year old William Reigle became a victim of downsizing at an otherwise stable IT company in downtown Chicago he made a realization: working at the same office for the first four years after graduating college had left him in a vulnerable position. Other young professionals who had made job changes in recent years [...]
You Have a New Friend Request
Today’s economic environment has proven that almost every industry and profession provides little job security. Whether we work for a Fortune 500 corporation or start-up business, we are all “self-employed”. Corporate downsizing, outsourcing and consolidation are ever increasing the volatility in our employment and the frequency of our job changes. Networking, both social and professional, [...]
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