10 Tips to Write an Awful Cover Letter

There are plenty of books, blogs and websites that instruct job seekers how to write the perfect cover letter. Despite the glut of resources available, I still hear stories from hiring managers who share their accounts of horribly written and inappropriate cover letters that they receive daily from...

August 24th, 2010 | Featured, Resume, The Search, Video | Read More

How to Design Your Resume for Maximum Impact

April 20th, 2010 | Featured, Resume, The Search, Video | Read More

10 Questions NEVER to Ask in a Job Interview

Job seekers are inundated with advice on how to prepare for their job interviews. We’ve even posted our own series on how to answer the 5 toughest interview questions. But few sites provide the job seeker with advice on what NOT to ask during their interview. Your interviewer is going to expect...

March 22nd, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 8: Raising Your Profile

In our ongoing real-life, real-time job search experiment with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn, we shift our focus to raising Tim’s personal profile online. In earlier episodes, Tim was guided through the process of creating his online persona on assorted social media platforms, crafting his...

March 19th, 2010 | Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 7: Your Bio

As we continue our real-life, real-time job search experiment with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn, we focus on one of the essential, yet often overlook elements of the job search that may prove even more important than your resume: your online bio. As the job search process shifts even more to the...

March 15th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Your Resume Just Isn’t Enough

March 8th, 2010 | Interviewing, Resume, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 3: Creating a Personal Brand

Day 3 of our real-life, real-time job search with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn continues with a focus on how to create and market your personal brand. Over the course of our first couple of days, we instructed Tim how to create his social media identities, how to create a blog focusing on his...

March 4th, 2010 | Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 2: Your Blog

Our real-life, real-time job search experiment continues with Episode 2: Your Blog. Yesterday we suggested to our job seeking executive, Tim Krenn, that he create his social media identities on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, that he take a headshot that could be used across all the social media platforms...

March 2nd, 2010 | Job Search Experiment, Uncategorized, Video | Read More

Real-life, Real-time Job Search Experiment: Episode 1

This week starts a new real-life real-time experiment detailing the job search efforts of Tim Krenn, a Cleveland sales executive who like millions of Americans recently found himself out of work and in need of a new job. Tim approached me a couple of weeks ago asking for advice on how to refine his...

March 1st, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Resume, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Interview Tips From Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was photographed this week glancing at the palm of her hand while engaged in a tv interview. A closeup of her hand revealed that she had written three phrases on the palm of her hand: Energy Tax cuts Lift American spirits While some in the media mocked her reliance on crib notes to help...

February 9th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, The Search, Video | Read More

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