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Category Archives: Job Search / Career Development

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  Does Your Resume Show You’ll Make a $10M Error

  Ever write an email and realize – almost as soon as you hit “send” - that you have a typo, grammatical error or other stumble? The embarrassment you feel is nothing compared to the despair most of us feel when we make similar stumbles on resumes, cover letters or other app… more

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  Here’s How to Start Your New Job On the Right Foot

  Congratulations!  You’ve landed that cleared job you wanted and your first day is approaching. You were smart about your job search and now you will need to put those same smarts into a strategy for being successful in the new role. From day one you will need to start build… more

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  So You Didn’t Get the Job, Now What

  You are not the only one who has lost out on a cleared job – honest. Of course the sting of rejection makes you feel as if you’re an outcast. Plenty of successful people were voted off their islands or never made it onto them – Madonna was fired from Dunkin’ Donuts. Je… more

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  How to Cancel or Reschedule an Interview

  There is nothing worse for a hiring manager than carving time out of the day to sit with a cleared job seeker who is clearly going through the motions. That is unless it’s waiting as the clock ticks well past the scheduled time of the interview, with no candidate in sight. I… more

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  Get Ready Now for Better Fall Job Search Results

  Autumn is one of the most active times of the hiring year. Companies, resuming their normal hiring activity following the slower pace of summer, now focus on meeting the staffing needs of programs and projects beginning concurrent with the government’s new fiscal year, for work… more