Find Your Next Job While Employed, Avoid Unemployment at All Costs
Paul Hill -Alert: If you are employed you may want to reread this article and take action Warning: If you are unemployed you may NOT want to read this article. Recently I was a panelist on a TV show dedicated to helping people with career issues. One of the...
LinkedIn: Job Search, Networking, and Profile Optimization
Paul Hill - Many experts say “if you are not on LinkedIn you don’t exist as a professional.” I say if you are on LinkedIn you still may not exist if you don’t have an optimized profile. For all intent and purposes, not having an optimized profile is the same as not...
7 Great Reasons to Join a Job Search and Career Mastermind Group
Based on the principles of Napoleon Hill from his book Think and Grow Rich, a Mastermind group can help you get through the challenges of a job search or the obstacles to stepping-up in your career. How a job search and career mastermind can help you? A group of...
End Long Term Unemployment with Targeted Job Search
If you are reading this you are probably coming to the realisation that sending out another resume is just not going to get you the job you want. You are probably creeping into long term unemployment, classified as 26+ weeks without work, or you are already well...
Career Management through Professional Connections
The work landscape is ever evolving and changing. Working professionals are afraid of losing their jobs. We are faced with headlines and articles like this one, “Innovation, Optimism and Jobs” from the New York Times that technology is great and not so great, creating...
Job Search and Sources of Hire
LinkedIn, Referrals, Social Recruiting and Job Boards Effectiveness How important is LinkedIn, other social networks, referrals, and company career web pages to your successful job search and how dismal are job boards? The “New 2013 Social Recruiting Survey" by...
Job search paralysis and the inner-dialogue
How to change the conversation with yourself, take action and get hired? In my work as a job search trainer I see first-hand how people come up with reason after reason to justify their passive approach to job search, which usually is characterized by sending out...
How to Land Your Next Contract
Throughout my career I have often been asked “How do I get into the consulting game and land that first contract?” I always begin by answering, “You need to first understand what type of consultant you are or want to be.” Over my 25 years in the job search industry, I...
How to craft a resume that will catch an employer’s eye
When you think of beginning a job search you probably also think of preparing a great resume. At some point in the job search process, regardless of your job search tactic, networking, targeted marketing, or applying to jobs online, you will need to provide a resume....
Ask and you shall receive …
Guest Blog from Karena DeSouza Have you ever needed something, but didn’t know who to ask, or where to begin, to get that information? With six degrees of separation, the prize could be lurking even closer than you know! At the inaugural HAPPEN @ Night event in...