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All posts by Kathleen Smith

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  You Don’t Have to Connect with Everyone

  A challenge for many who want to move onto social media, especially to support their job search, is how to “connect” or “link” or “friend” some requests, but not all requests. If you’re a cleared job seeker with very little online experience, this is especially true… more

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  Fear is the Mind Killer

  Fear seems to be something that we have become very comfortable with. The activity of worrying about the unknown occupies a fair amount of our time from how will we handle a possible budget action months in advance or a weather pattern. We know being gripped in fear is one of the… more

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  The Biggest Benefit of Job Boards to Employers

  There is a big benefit to a company's regular presence on job boards: branding. Before I go any further, let me suggest a working definition for branding in recruitment: the reputation/image/’slot’ the employer holds in its prospective employees’ minds. In other words, … more

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  The Uniform

  It sounded like an oxymoron - Women in Homeland Security Fashion Show.  But this very powerful event, which brought together women from all levels of their careers from both industry and agency, showed us that we can all go outside of our comfort zone. We realized that we are ve… more

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  LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements

  Do you need to make some sense of LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements? Recently LinkedIn made several changes to profiles and profile features. Every job search should use multiple resources such as LinkedIn, networking, and job boards like ClearedJobs.Net, to research and levera… more