If you’re looking for a job, don’t leave it to chance. You want to keep ahead of the game to make sure you manage your own career. Cal Brown, author of When Life Strikes: Weathering Financial Storms, offers the following suggestions to help you maintain control and succeed with your career goals.
Painless ways to control your online reputation
Many job-seekers underestimate how important it is to have an online presence—a digital footprint to help convince potential hiring managers that they are right for the job. Yesterday’s post about Jobvite’s recent survey should convince you: there is no question a person’s online reputation makes a big difference for job-search success.
Managing request for LinkedIn recommendations
How should you manage your LinkedIn recommendations?
Stop looking for a job and land one now!
You’ve heard the news. It sometimes seems virtually impossible to land a job. Some employers are receiving 25,000 applicants and insisting NONE of them are qualified.
A Mother’s Day tribute
In honor of Mother’s Day, I dedicate this post in memory of my mom. Few people doubt the important role mothers serve. A book by Stephan Poulter, The Mother Factor: How Your Mother’s Emotional Legacy Impacts Your Life, suggests that “There may be a direct link between our career success and our mothers.†(Hat tip, […]