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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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The Keys To Unlocking Your Most Successful Career by Joann S. Lublin from the July 6, 2010 WSJ online is possibly the best article I have read all year about managing your career. Great, great stuff. Five simple lessons. 1. Network effectively. I already love Lublin. You’ve seen me rant about this before. She recommends [...]

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We’re coming up on the sixth year anniversary of writing this blog. It has come in a few different looks. I started it as “Diligentia” which is just laughable now. I really can’t remember why i thought that was a good idea. BUT – I did start off with a tagline of “a blog about [...]

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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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Picked this up from Tom Peters who I think picked it up from Guy Kawasaki. Excellent piece on the need for failure in order to achieve long term success.

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Hannah has turned me on to upmo.com Link to a page on their site that lists 3 networking email templates. You could easily use them as a phone call script as well. Templates: Getting Reconnected Job-finder Intro A Thankful Request I would lose the “I’m incredibly busy right now” line from the Job-finder Intro template. [...]

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Hannah linked to a study by UpMo.com on the habits of elite networkers. She linked via facebook so I don’t feel like I am repeating anything. It’s an interesting article that shows the linkages between networking and career success and income status. There are some good takeaways from the article: 1. Network. Do it. 2. [...]

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Hannah was on TV last night talking about resumes. Give her some love and check her out! Link. I had trouble with audio in Firefox.

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Props to Hannah for pointing this out in her blog. Here is a great intro to LinkedIn – most of you know I am a LinkedIn fiend. This is a very easy to handle explanation. What is LinkedIn? from LinkedIn Marketing on Vimeo.

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