Archive for July, 2011

Organize Your Job Search with Social Bookmarking

Organize Your Job Search with Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking tools are a great solution to help you organize your website bookmarks, access them across multiple computers and mobile devices, and share and discover links with other people (the “social” part of social bookmarking). It’s also a clever way to organize the many job search sites...
July 26th, 2011 | Feature, Social Networking | Read More

Take a New Look at Networking

Take a New Look at Networking
What happens when you simply send out résumés and wait for something to occur?  Generally, very little…unless you can count massive frustration as an outcome.  We have all been there and done that, including career consultants in pre-Internet times. But the game has truly changed and now has few...
July 20th, 2011 | Feature, Networking | Read More

How to Change Career Direction Completely

How to Change Career Direction Completely
Let’s say you’ve been working in your industry for quite awhile now. It started right after high school or after college, and before you knew it, you’d put in five years, ten, fifteen, twenty? But after such a long investment, maybe you find yourself thinking at times that you’d like to try something...
July 12th, 2011 | Feature, Strategy | Read More

Internet Safety Mistakes

Internet Safety Mistakes
Social media websites and job search engines are excellent resources, but if you’re not careful, you might inadvertently make too much personal information available to absolute strangers. Guarding what information you make available online can be one of your most effective defenses against identity...
July 6th, 2011 | Feature, Strategy | Read More