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I received this way cool email from Linkedin the other day: I know that others received this email too. But I still love it. Here are 76 people…which, by the way, is 18% of my network! 18% of my 423 contacts on linkedin changed gigs in 2010. Some were unemployed. Some changed companies. Some moved [...]

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I took my brother to Career Sherpa’s Employment Club meeting last night. She walked through her presentation on Using Social Media in Your Job Search. This made me feel guilty, because I was working on an update for this same subject. So – here it is. This goes into a lot more detail this time [...]

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I know a couple of people that are re-entering the job market after years of not working or only working part-time. I thought I would share some thoughts and words of encouragement. First. You need some kind of marketing vehicle. Traditionally, this is called a resume. Right now, I have three documents. I have your [...]

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I started writing “a” blog on this day in 2004. I cannot believe it has been six years. I’ve been through a lot in that time.  I was running a telemarketing operation at the time. Then I had back surgery. I tried to launch an outsourcing business with some partners. That failed. I went to [...]

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I just signed an offer letter for a small company looking to do big things here in Rochester. (In fact it is about 3 minutes from my house! Bye Bye Jefferson Road!) I had been out of work for a little over one year. That is a long time. I had/have some immediate thoughts on [...]

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Last night I gave an updated version of my “Managing Your Online Identity: Using Social Media in Your Job Search” presentation to Hannah Morgan’s Career Club in Canandaigua, NY. It is really aimed at anyone who needs to manage their career not just job seekers. Using Social Media In Your Job Search V3.0 Dec 2009 [...]

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Interesting read from the Career Strategies section of the WSJ Online  in the last week or so. Beyond Job Boards: Targeting the Source provides me with some more cannon fodder for my Using Social Media in Your Job Search presentation I am trying to give. I was arguing with CareerSherpa’s Hannah Morgan the other day [...]

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Just read the latest from Penelope Trunk. Do you know who is using social media? Gen X. The average Twitter user is in their 30s. The median age of LinkedIn is 40. The majority of people who are joining Facebook right now are over 35. This is because Gen X wants to meet new people [...]

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Great article from McKinsey Quarterly “When Job Seekers Invade Facebook”. (You will have to register). With the apocalypse upon us, we are seeing a huge rush to “network” via the social networking tools of the day. I love this quote from the article: “There are, of course, powerful economic reasons behind the trend. As sociologist [...]

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