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The Super Bowl for Job Seekers

February 2, 2009 at 11:34 am

Like millions of other people, I watched the Super Bowl last night. And, I couldn’t help but notice that three of the major online job boards ran commercials. The TV commercials for Monster, Careerbuilder, and The Ladders were very entertaining. But, the likelihood of getting your next job by submitting your resume in response to [...]

On Dreams and Goals

January 19, 2009 at 1:02 pm

Today commemorates the birthday of Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader. If he had lived, he would have been celebrating 80 years on this earth. I took a few minutes this morning to listen and watch—again—Dr. King’s most famous speech, I Have A Dream. It never fails to inspire me. If it has been [...]

Think Outside the Box During a Job Search

December 10, 2008 at 2:24 pm

If you’ve recently been “downsized” from your job or see a layoff coming soon, you certainly aren’t alone. Almost 2 million jobs have been lost in 2008 and the U.S. unemployment rate is the highest it has been in more than a decade. Some industries and regions have been hit harder than others. Unless you’ve [...]

What IT Workers Want

September 18, 2008 at 7:53 am

“The State of Employee Engagement 2008″ study by Blessingwhite found that information technology (IT) workers are the least engaged of all the different staff areas studied. And, this lack of engagement isn’t isolated to North America. The study noted that IT workers across the world tend to identify more with their profession than with their [...]

Get Ready To Be Entrepreneurial

September 10, 2008 at 8:04 am

There was an interesting article by Marshall Goldsmith in the August 25th issue of Business Week entitled We’re All Entrepreneurs, Advice for the Young that Transcends Age. The article paints a fairly harsh picture of the current and future world of work in North America. We know that Job security and corporate paternalism are relics [...]

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Engaged? Not Gen Y According to Study

August 20, 2008 at 1:14 pm

The most disengaged employees in workplaces around the world are those in Gen Y – people born in the early 1980s through the early 1990s. So, we are talking about workers up to age 28. The study was conducted by BlessingWhite and looked at employee engagement levels at companies on four continents. When I stopped [...]

Getting Back On Track

August 10, 2008 at 4:15 pm

I took an assessment not too long ago that was designed to identify characteristics or behaviors that might derail someone in a management or leadership position. As it turned out, I have very few areas to be concerned about. The assessment told me that I was a bit too cautious at times, which was no [...]

Career Guide for Gen Y

August 3, 2008 at 8:00 am

I just finished reading Daniel Pink’s new book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. I loved this little book, which is written in the Japanese manga style. It’s similar to a comic book in that it uses illustrations to tell the story with very little text. Manga is very [...]

Times Have Changed

July 29, 2008 at 7:00 am

I remember the advice I got early in my career. It was something like, “The thing to do is get a job with a big, stable company with good benefits and a pension and stay there until your retire.” It was pretty good advice, given the business landscape in the U.S. during the early 1970′s. [...]

Where to Get Noticed – Part 2

July 17, 2008 at 7:30 pm

As promised, here is the second part of the article, Where to Get Noticed, by author Jill Lublin. If you missed part 1, you can read it here. Where to – GET NOTICED! Part II Organizations OK, now you know that you have to take action and begin. The question is where do you start? [...]

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