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Job Seekers: How Is a Job Search like Space Travel?

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The subject of comparing the quest to find employment to a space voyage is rich with visual images of blasting off into the unknown, overcoming difficult situations, and encountering mission ending dangers. This moves the journey through uncharted waters or hacking through a forest to a new dimension. Maybe that could be the topic for another time, but for now the focus is on a simpler aspect of the trip. Of all the unknowns that… Read More »Job Seekers: How Is a Job Search like Space Travel?

Stretch Your Resume, Not the Truth

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Answering the age old question about tailoring a resume to the job sounds good in theory until you try to do it. Obviously, hiring managers are looking for the right person for the job based on a variety of criteria and these change from company to company. Rather than be faced with an infinite number of varieties of job-matching resumes, most people will resort to the one-size-fits-all version. This is probably a pendulum swing toward… Read More »Stretch Your Resume, Not the Truth

The Weekender: Another Job Seeker Special Edition – Archives v.2

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            Corporate Compensation Guide for the Job Seeker – A popular topic of discussion among job seekers is how to negotiate salary when the day comes that an offer is forthcoming. It is also a popular topic on websites, blog posts, Twitter chats and around Starbucks…just about anywhere that is a forum for such a conversation. Family and friends will help with advice along with the professionals, but the result is… Read More »The Weekender: Another Job Seeker Special Edition – Archives v.2

Job Seekers: Write a Script to Tell Your Story and Then Be the Star

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Everyone is unique. We go about living our lives and most of the time we follow rules which force us to appear like everyone else. We pride ourselves on being individuals and then conform to norms that make us all the same. A job search is no different. In order to be accepted as a serious candidate there must be a certain amount of adoption of the standards set by those who are hiring. A… Read More »Job Seekers: Write a Script to Tell Your Story and Then Be the Star

Job Seekers: Are You In a “Balls Out” Job Search?

I know you have heard the term “balls out” used with regard to something going very fast. It has become one of those phrases with a meaning that is universally understood even without a detailed knowledge of its origin. I have a t-shirt that I bought to support the “Balls Out Racing Team” at the Reading Motorcycle Club that teaches boys and girls as young as age ten about the value of competition in tackling… Read More »Job Seekers: Are You In a “Balls Out” Job Search?