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Over the last week, our intern and our receptionist left to go back to school. MBA and undergrad respectively. Neither school was teaching either of these smart, high upside, people the skills that they need to be developing and nurturing TODAY. To me, those skills are: Networking. Personal Marketing. Skill Evolution and Development. Networking – Its [...]

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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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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 recently started getting involved with a non-profit. It offers a program for 6th-12th graders on creating, funding and launching a business.(It is amazingly cool. I am helping them with some operational elements as they prep to expand from 4 schools to 17!) Seth has a compelling post about business models. Seth lays out his concept [...]

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I went to a training session on Thursday night. The event was about using social media. It was sponsored by a local “networking” group. I am officially sick of networking. Because it isn’t networking. It is begging and whoring yourself.  There are many of these events in Rochester. All of them crammed full of the [...]

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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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Linked from Tom Peters….this is a post from Advertising Age: What to Do When Your Friends Get Laid Off. 1 – be a friend. 2 – network – put them in touch with your network. twitter, facebook, linkedin. 3 – collect everyone you know that has been laid off into a group. share. help. It [...]

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Hey! That’s me! Sarah Needleman wrote a very good article on Dec. 9 in the WSJ: Explaining Your Layoff to a Job Recruiter. She provides a few excellent pieces of advice. 1 – don’t be too focused on a geographic area. “cast a wide net”, Needleman recommends. Don’t rule out ANYTHING. All industries, sizes of [...]

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So now we will find out if all this personal branding and networking, social and otherwise, is all that I believe it to be. I was laid off yesterday. (Along with many many others. I would put it at 50 ish people). I came home, grabbed a fresh notebook and got to work. I opened [...]

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