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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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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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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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I know the picture doesn’t match the title of this post but I couldn’t find the movie where someone asks “Will this go on my permanent record?” Seth Godin has a great post about how “google remembers everything”. It is so true. Back when I was a kid, adults would threaten us with infractions and [...]

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It is always nice to be validated. An article from September 26 at The New York Times states “Job Hunting Is, And Isn’t What It Used to Be.” The article states pretty clearly for anyone who did not receive the memo that job boards are a waste of time. Your odds of finding meaningful employment [...]

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Back on April 11th, Seth Godin had a post that caught my eye: “Drip, drip, drip goes the Twit”. He talks about the need to build trust in your BRAND as something that requires constant vigilance. Not when you’ve just been laid off or the sales manager just ganked your quota up another million or [...]

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This has been a great weekend! First, I have won the battle of the Mike Lally’s! I checked my Google page rank yesterday and 4 of the top 5 links belong to ME! Including the number one spot. And the number 2. Secondly, I have FINALLY managed to port the lasts posts over from Diligentia [...]

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