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Tag Archives: Networking

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  Postponing Your Job Search During the Holidays: A Bad Choice

  As the holiday season arrives many job seekers make a bad decision - to lessen, or shut down all-together, their job search with the thought they’ll renew and resume their search in the new year. Bad decision! Why? A misunderstanding of how hiring happens. Many job seeker… more

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  Calling Potential Contacts

  In every human being, there is an intrinsic part that wants to help others. There is also an intrinsic part that prompts us to reach out to ask for help. In this digital age, sometimes it works to pick up the phone and talk directly to potential connections. But when job seeke… more

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  Networking With Civilians: Four Steps To Effective Sea Stories

  Networks are groups of people who know you, not just people who know you exist. One of the best ways to become a real person in the eyes of others is to talk about your experiences and ideas. Face-to-face conversations are the chance for you to add context and depth to your exper… more

• Smart and Senior – Job Search Tips

  Every job fair in the past 18 months which I have attended or heard of has had more senior-level people attending. So your ‘competition’ is increasing. What should you do? Tip 1.  It’s who knows you, not just who you know. You need to involve your current network ef… more

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  6 Successful Job Seeker Traits

  One of my clients walked into our job search team meeting one day and declared:  “Persistence. I think it just really takes persistence to get a job today.” The comment started me thinking. What had I noticed about the traits of successful job seekers?  What did they see… more