How to Land Your Next Contract and Keep Your Pipeline Full
Consulting or contracting can be a very lucrative way of making a living if you treat your practice as a business. In Part I of this two part series I shared with you the importance of being a business owner and not a Wannabe Consultant. Let’s examine what you need to...
Is your resume keeping you unemployed?
Long term unemployment can wreak havoc on one’s finances. I met with Paul Hill, author of The Panic Free Job Search and we talked about the effects of long-term unemployment and how to break out of its grasp and get re-hired quickly. Over reliance on your resume may...
How To End The Cycle Of Rejection With The Panic Free Job Search
The Panic Free Job Search will help you to be irresistible to employers. Want to have financial security and never, ever have to do a traditional job search again? The Panic Free Job Search: Unleash the Power of the Web and Social Networking to Get Hired is about...
Job Search Boot Camp: The Answer to Getting a Job
I am often asked: “Why should I attend a job search boot camp or get help from a job search expert?” The quick answer of course is because it works and if you could get hired in a great job on your own you would have done it by now. It usually takes about 3 months...
Throw that resume out….not so fast!
There is a lot of debate about the death of the resume. Many pundits have declared the resume dead because of the advent of sites like LinkedIn and GetHired.com. Most cite LinkedIn as “the proof” that the resume is no longer needed as a job hunter’s tool. Before you...
A Career Job Loss and How to Get Back on Track
Losing a “career job” often leads to unemployment stress and getting off track. Quit fooling around, get off your butt and get a job! Advice that is easy to give to the unemployed, sure if you are sitting pretty and you are employed. For the individual that is fired...
Employees are ill prepared for job loss
Bombarded by newscasts, newspaper articles, tweets, posts, and friendly chatter about unemployment as well as underemployment running high for many professionals and throw in a backdrop of civil unrest and countries going bankrupt; employees should take pause to...
Reinventing Digital Job Search: How One CEO is Disrupting the Old Job Boards
Suki Shah CEO of GetHired.com is a true trailblazer and is really reinventing the way employers and job seekers connect in today's digital world. The importance of video Job hunters have been sold on ineffective job boards and many find the process of applying online,...
The words that get you hired
Over 25 years of employer post-interview debriefings has proven to me the disconnect that exists between the ways job seekers describe themselves in interviews and the level of position they are seeking. The job seekers/candidates did so even when they were briefed...
The Panic Free Telephone Interview Preparation
The telephone interview is a standard screening practice for most employers today and it is also one of the most overlooked areas of job search preparation for a job-hunter. With so much invested in a job search and the outcome resting on a positive result to a...