5 Guaranteed Steps to Staying Unemployed

Do you make these mistakes on your resume? Being unemployed for seven months sucks. Seeing someone you love suffer hurts my heart. My friend wasn’t getting any interviews from her resume that she was submitting to job boards. I told her not to submit to job boards, but she didn’t listen. And she also wouldn’t…

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LinkedIn Profile Rules to Land 6-Figure Jobs

LinkedIn Profile Rules to Land 6-Figure Jobs It’s frustrating when you have worked hard and succeeded your entire career, only to actively look for a job for the first time in a while, and no one responds. No one replies back to your submitted application.

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Do You Think Like a Marketer in Your Job Search?

  Waiting for recruiters to call you with a job opening… Trolling job boards hoping the right job surfaces so you can scramble your resume and cover note and submit it via the online portal – hopefully capturing a schmidge of a recruiter’s glance to garner an interview call… These are some of the ways…

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Google Job Search Engine: Can You Finally Stop Networking?

Google for Jobs, launched on 6/20/2017, is Google‘s new job search engine that aggregates job postings from across the web. When you run a Google search, for example “Chief Marketing Officer NYC,” you receive search results for CMO jobs posted from websites like Glassdoor, Linkedin, Angelist, ZipRecruiter, Indeed and a variety of other job posting…

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Why the Spray & Pray Job Search Technique Doesn’t Work Anymore

In 1999, when Monster promoted itself with its “When I Want To Grow Up” TV ad during the Super Bowl, it put Monster’s job search services on the map. Candidates would upload their resumes and, bada-boom-bada-bing, the candidate had interview calls within the day. And if the candidate wanted, the candidate would submit their resume…

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6 Right Ways to Use Job Boards… and One Wrong Way

  I am a huge advocate of networking with new contacts and existing connections to land your next job. Studies from CareerXRoads, JobVite and SHRM and others show networking to be the most effective way to get hired. However, that does not mean a job seeker should ignore job boards in conducting their job search.…

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