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Pulling a “Heath Shuler:” The Right Way to Get Someone Else’s Job by Alexandra Levit - Nov, 2010 Pulling a “Heath Shuler:” The Right Way to Get Someone Else’s Job The Nation sums up Congressman Heath Shuler like this: A chiseled ex-football star and devout Southern Baptist from the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina (WNC), Shuler was the prize recruit of Rahm Emanuel’s class of ’06. Despite his conservative stances on guns, abortion, immigration and gay rights, Democratic activists in WNC rallied behind Shuler,... |
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PROOF THE HIDDEN JOB MARKET EXISTS by Mary Sherwood Sevinsky - Nov, 2010 If you are looking for work you, no doubt, have heard of THE HIDDEN JOB MARKET. You may have even heard TOO MUCH of it. I know that in working with my clients in Delaware and Maryland, I include the Hidden Job Market in nearly every vocational counseling session… Why? Here is a recent success story that illustrates just WHY THE HIDDEN JOB MARKET IS CRUCIAL TO JOB SEARCH: I have been working with a career electrician for se... |
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Two Costly Job-Search Mistakes and How to Avoid Them by Kevin Donlin - Nov, 2010 If you’ve been struggling to find work this year, you’ve got company. The average job search lasts 33.9 weeks -- more than 8 months -- according to October 2010 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Times continue to be tough. And times may stay tough for you, if you’re making one or both of the following mistakes, which plague most job seekers … Mistake #1: “Sure, that person got a job, but my situat... |
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Greetings by Suzanne Bates - Nov, 2010 I’m in Bora Bora at the Four Seasons Resort for a business meeting (yes, business), a place that qualifies as paradise on earth. The hotel “rooms” on this enchanting Tahitian island are huts built over the water on concrete stilts. We are looking across a tranquil, sparkling turquoise bay at a mountain perpetually ringed by clouds. The resort staff is first rate. Every time they encounter a guest, whether piloting golf car... |
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Wait, I’m Not Ready For This Conversation by Suzanne Bates - Nov, 2010 It was my freshman year at the University of Illinois and I had invited a guy from 101 English for dinner at my place. The chicken and homemade cheesecake (my first) were a triumph. We hadn’t even kissed but both suspected where it was headed when the doorbell rang. It was my high school boyfriend of two years. He had driven an hour and a half to ”surprise me.” For those of you old enough to remember life B.T. (Before Tex... |
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Create a Promising Career from Personal Passion by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 "All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of us seek a sense of reward from our work, and get frustrated if we don’t get it. We’re driven by some form of need – whether it’s desperation to pay th... |
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7 Business Travel Musts by Alexandra Levit - Nov, 2010 Over the weekend, I hung out with a friend who travels every week for business. We traded the following tips for business travelers, which will hopefully make your on-the-road life more bearable: Follow the expense rules. Before traveling, read the fine print. Some companies insist that you use a company smartphone for all communication. Others won’t pay for your lunch because you’d be buying it yourself if you were in the... |
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Career Need a Boost? Give ‘Em Something to Talk About! by Dawn Lennon - Nov, 2010 It’s easy to feel lost in the crowd these days. We’re often smothered in a crush of candidates for jobs we want or sequestered among a sea of cubicles. The pace of the daily grind makes face-to-face contact with our bosses brief and infrequent. Feeling faceless is dispiriting. It’s important to be seen. Acting out, complaining, or decorating our cubicles like Mardi Gras take us down the wrong path. A better strategy is to... |
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Surviving Your Day Job: Rekindling Passion for Your Job by Tai Goodwin - Nov, 2010 Just like any other relationship, your relationship with your job is going to have its’ ups and downs. In some cases it can be clear that the best solution is for the two of you to separate – meaning you will need to find a new job. In other cases, making a few changes to how you work can rekindle your passion for what you do, allowing you to keep your job and your sanity. You may not have any physical signs of burnout, but... |
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4 Secrets to a New Job in 6 Weeks by Kevin Donlin - Nov, 2010 Vince Wiskovitch, from Nassau County, New York, was just hired for a legal position after searching only 6 weeks for a job. By comparison, the average job search in America now lasts 33.3 weeks. Read on to learn the 4 things he did to get hired 27 weeks faster than average … 1) Don’t send a cover letter. Send a sales letter The best cover letters are really sales letters -- they use proven selling tactics to convi... |
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