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Career Management

Career management is an ongoing, life-long process of investing in yourself to achieve your career goals. The career management process begins with setting career goals then continually working to advance and further your career goals. The articles on our blog will help you with all aspects of your career planning, goal setting, and ongoing career management.

9 Keys to Lifelong Job Search and Career Success

No matter what the job market is like...no matter how high or low unemployment is...there are always people who struggle to find a rewarding job while others have remarkable success, conducting fast, effective job searches that result in long-term career success. These former job

2022-10-15T04:39:32+00:00December 21st, 2019|Career Management, Job Search Advice, Personal Marketing|
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The Definitive Guide to Giving and Getting LinkedIn Recommendations

With all the changes to LinkedIn, one thing that never goes out of style is having people say nice things about you on your LinkedIn profile — even if LinkedIn puts different emphasis on the role of LinkedIn Recommendations in the profile. For recruiters

2023-07-22T15:21:52+00:00August 8th, 2017|Career Management, Job Search Advice, Job Search Networking, Online Job Searching, Personal Marketing|
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How to Use the Decision Quadrant to Help with Career Decision Making

As I described in a recent Forbes article, the career decision making quadrant can be a valuable tool for almost every decision you have to make regarding your career. You’ve come to a point in your life where you’ve got several paths from which to

2022-10-15T04:37:46+00:00July 12th, 2017|Career Management|
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How To Land Your Dream Job: Take Proactive Control

You're having that dream again. You know, the one where you forgot about your dream job interview and you're not prepared in the slightest. You've shown up wearing faded pajamas and fuzzy slippers, and to your horror, your resume is written in purple crayon.

2023-10-23T17:01:49+00:00April 20th, 2017|Career Management, Job Search Advice, Personal Marketing|
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What Is a Headhunter? The 5 Types of Recruiters You Need To Know About

What is a headhunter, exactly? Working in the employment services industry as I do, this is one of the most common questions that I encounter. While recruiters (aka headhunters) all do similar things (human resources sourcing, interviewing, and filling positions), there are differences, and many

2023-10-23T17:09:33+00:00March 28th, 2017|Career Management|
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Shhhhh! How To Conduct A Secret Job Search

People change jobs often throughout life. And currently employed people always worry about how to conduct a secret job search. The average person born in the latter years of the baby boom (1957-1964) has held 11.7 jobs from age 18 to age 48, according

2022-11-16T18:17:28+00:00March 9th, 2016|Career Management, Job Search Advice, Personal Marketing|
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Google Search Tips for Job Searching: Find What You Need When You Need It

"Google it"!  How often have you heard that? Whether it's to do some research, find directions, check showtimes or settle a bet, you've probably used the "googlelator" to find information about one thing or another. But have you ever used Google for assistance with

2022-11-16T18:17:14+00:00March 22nd, 2015|Career Management, Job Search Advice, Online Job Searching|
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Six Simple Summer Networking Tactics That Will Help You Get Hired Quickly

    "Summertime, and the living is easy...".  Sure, if you're settled in a job and perhaps even getting ready to go on vacation.  If so, a person could be forgiven for believing that the living is indeed easy.  If, on the other hand, you are

2023-10-23T17:05:42+00:00August 11th, 2014|Career Management, Job Search Networking, Personal Marketing|
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The Different Kinds of Recruiters: What Job Seekers Should Know

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." So wrote William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet.  The meaning of the phrase is simple:  If something we know had another name, it would still be what we know.  But

2022-11-16T18:54:14+00:00April 8th, 2014|Career Management, Job Search Advice|
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