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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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Interesting article on yahoo today “School Buds: 20 Harvard Classmates Advising Obama” looks at the power of president-elect Obama’s various networks. He is currently tapping into his Harvard Law, Chicago politics and D.C. Senate netwoks to staff his team. A.B.N. Always Be Networking. Great line in this article that says Obama was the glue. He [...]

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Dana Mattioli writes an article in the WSJ online edition detailing the trials of people attending job fairs. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? are you attending job fairs. Mattioli’s first subject spent an hour and 45 minutes on the bus, 45 minutes WAITING IN LINE, and then another 30 minutes actually inside the event to [...]

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Alina Tugend continued extended her article on how to use the web to find a job from the NYT. “When Job Hunting, Be Your Own Salesman” contains excellent, common sense advice to the thing we all dread most – “networking”. She collects a series of tips from various folks: Know the goal of the conversation [...]

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My friend, Hannah, sent me a link to a posting from Cathy Kraft at CFO-Coach.com. Kraft provides an excellent summary the kool aid that I am handing out these days. Kraft strongly advises that you should be taking over the management of your career and not leaving it up to your boss or HR or [...]

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[Originally posted in the old blog.] First off, I have to apologize to Meg. I had promised her MONTHS ago that I would write a review for her book: Confessions of an Introvert: The Shy Girl’s Guide to Career, Networking and Getting the Most Out of Life. The funny thing is that I don’t know [...]

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My friend, Meghan (Meg) Wier, wrote a book! Confessions of an Introvert: The Shy Girl’s Guide to Career, Networking and Getting the Most Out of Life has just made its way to Amazon! Apparently, she mentions me, albeit indirectly, in this book. It is apparently under the section about people who have had a profound [...]

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