Posts for "job search"


20 Questions Smart Employees Ask Themselves

From Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
February 7, 2012 at 6:30 am
These 20 questions cover five key areas that are critical to your accurately evaluating how well you’re doing at work. Your answers (or score) predict whether you’re likely ... (more)

What Does Google Say About You?

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career and Job Search Blog
February 7, 2012 at 2:30 am
In a(n)… ExecuNet survey about reputation management and Internet presence, 86 percent of executive recruiters say they routinely scour online sources for information ... (more)

Project Plan Your Job Search

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career and Job Search Blog
February 7, 2012 at 1:00 am
Are you struggling to stay on top of your job search? Do you need help in prioritizing your time? It can be a challenge whether you are doing a search while working a job or in ... (more)

Injured Workers Need Guidance to Return to Work

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career and Job Search Blog
February 6, 2012 at 1:00 am
Job seekers with a work injury need career guidance to address issues only they experience due to their unique situation. I recently asked the injured workers I am currently assisting ... (more)

Job Hunting? You May Be Able to Get a Tax Deduction

From Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog
February 1, 2012 at 1:44 am
Job Hunting? You May Be Able to Get a Tax Deduction is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about ... (more)

4 People You Should Not Take Entertainment Career Advice From

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career and Job Search Blog
January 30, 2012 at 1:00 am
When you are in school or just starting out, a lot of people will offer up their opinions about what you should do with your life. When you share your showbiz aspirations, everyone ... (more)

How to Use the Law of Attraction in Your Job Search

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career and Job Search Blog
January 30, 2012 at 12:30 am
Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which no man is familiar, these “magnets” attract to us the forces, ... (more)

Give Your Job Search an Extreme Makeover in 2012!

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career and Job Search Blog
January 27, 2012 at 2:30 am
Be honest: How is that New Year’s resolution list working for you? Now that it’s (already) the end of January, have you followed through, or did the resolutions ... (more)

Itemized Deductions vs. Standard Deduction

From Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog
January 26, 2012 at 6:54 am
Itemized Deductions vs. Standard Deduction is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about Money!How ... (more)

Career ADD and the Job Search – Number One Mistake

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 24, 2012 at 2:30 am
The job search can be a daunting exercise for those of us with Career ADD. Not only does it push all or most of our anxiety buttons, but we can quickly become paralyzed before ... (more)

‘I’m Educated, I’m Interviewing and I’m Not Getting Any Offers’

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 24, 2012 at 1:30 am
Hi Dorothy, My two Master’s degrees are in International Business in 2008 and International Relations in early 2010. I was looking for a middle management role given my education ... (more)

The 2 Great Job Search Anomalies

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 23, 2012 at 2:00 am
As we enter a new year, it may be worthwhile to confront two job search realities most people either don’t know about or ignore. I call them “the two great job search anomalies.” The ... (more)

Two Important Things to Do While You’re Unemployed

From Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
January 21, 2012 at 6:30 am
I hope you’re not one of those people who said, “I’m making my job search a full-time job.” I’ve known people who do that. They spend — or at least ... (more)

What Athletes Can Teach Job Seekers About Career Success

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 20, 2012 at 2:00 am
Have you ever seen a world class athlete before their event? If you have, you might have seen them with their eyes closed and head moving. What they’re doing is not some weird ... (more)

How to Keep Your Career Resolutions

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 20, 2012 at 1:00 am
Did you know the most common New Year’s resolutions have to do with health, wealth and career? If you made a resolution to get a better job, or make more money, or just enjoy ... (more)

Jump Starting Your Career

From March Communications
January 19, 2012 at 3:50 pm
With approximately 1,706,000 students at the bachelor’s degree level projected to graduate in 2012, there are a plethora of young professionals who are about to begin their ... (more)

Tips for Making Your Online Image Employer-Ready

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 19, 2012 at 1:30 am
Finding out information about other people is much easier than it used to be. Professionals are now going to great lengths to create their own personal brands online. Many people ... (more)

Top Social Networking Sites for Job Seekers

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 19, 2012 at 12:30 am
If you’re looking to make the most of the Internet in your job search, make sure to check out the following websites and applications: Twitter You can raise your visibility as ... (more)

5 Job Search Lessons You Learned in Kindergarten

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 18, 2012 at 2:00 am
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “All you need to know you learned in Kindergarten.” There’s a reason for that – many fundamental things, such as manners, reading and ... (more)

Skip Dinner and Movie = Get Better Job

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 17, 2012 at 2:00 am
I recently went to a movie and dinner with my family. Total cost for a matinee and burgers after? $125+! Now, I realize family time is important, but as a career coach, a strange ... (more)

‘I Know You’re Trying to Help My Career But Don’t’

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 16, 2012 at 1:30 am
“Really, I know you are trying to help me, but don’t.” Is that what you want to say to your friends, family, and even co-workers who want to “help” you in your ... (more)

2 Key Ways to Focus Your Job Hunt Message

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 16, 2012 at 1:00 am
After years of very high unemployment, things appear to be turning around. The N.Y. Times reported the U.S. added 200,000 jobs in December, 2011. This was the sixth straight month ... (more)

6 Tips for the Long-term Unemployed

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 15, 2012 at 2:00 am
Recently, CBS MoneyWatch columnist, Amy Levin-Epstein asked me what the long-term unemployed need to do in 2012 to get a job. With mixed-reviews on the economy and job growth, ... (more)

Appearances Matter in Your Job Search

From CAREEREALISM » CAREEREALISM | Career Management and Job Search Blog
January 13, 2012 at 2:00 am
Whether you’re applying for engineer jobs, social worker jobs, sales jobs, media jobs or some other professional position, you must keep in mind appearances matter – both in ... (more)

5 Ways to Use the Internet for Your Job Hunt

From Lindsay Olson
January 12, 2012 at 4:08 pm
You know you can use the Internet to look for a job and to network to find one, but here are other ways you can do your own research to better position you to be hired.Research ... (more)