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Five Best Ways to Use Twitter for Your Job Search! by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 Twitter can be a tremendous, fast moving tool in your Job Search Toolbox. Here are 5 ways to get the most out of it. 1. Follow and read job search experts. The amount of excellent ideas, tips, leads, news, informative articles, and best practices going by all day long is amazing. Use Twellow’s directory for Employment > Career > Job Search to find excellent people to follow. You’ll find outstanding advice that applies to yo... |
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Five Twitter “FAIL’s” for your Job Search by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 Twitter can be a great asset for your job search. There are people to meet that you probably wouldn’t get to meet otherwise. There is real-time industry and job field information that is hard to match. There are helpful opinions and advice to be found everywhere. There are job postings, as well as company information. Twitter is unlike anything else. However, here are five things people do that keep them from getting any wo... |
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Give Before You Get! by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 Two of the most difficult things for most people in their job search: Maintain a PMA (Positive Mental Attitude), and Networking. One tool to help with both of those issues: Volunteering! Particularly in today’s economy, there is a tremendous need for volunteers in all kinds of excellent service organizations. With a little digging, you can find opportunities to do virtually anything that interests you, that can serve ... |
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I've Got a Contact Name! Now What? by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 So, you were...Networking, or Searching on LinkedIn, or Running a Google Search, or some other way you got a contact name at a company that you are interested in pursuing! Terrific! But NOW WHAT? What do you do with that name? Call them? Email them? Send “Snail Mail”? What do you say? As an introduction, a well planned phone call is ALWAYS more effective than an email or Snail Mail. When making the introduction...reme... |
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Social Media Guidelines for Your Online Job Search by Joshua Waldman - Nov, 2009 Social Media can be a real time sink. There is no doubt. And with out a strategy, the danger of spending hours online and getting nothing accomplished is very real. So in response to this apparent need of saving people time online, Social Media Aggregation services were invented. These services allow you to simply post your update once, and 40 of your social media sites get the update simultaneously. Seems like a good id... |
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What To Do In An Effective Networking Call! by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 Most advice you read for a job search says to call and network with as many people as you can. That’s fine...but what do you say? What’s the objective of the call? How do you attract your contacts rather than repel them? Here are some ideas to make those calls effective! First...Why are you calling? What is your objective for the call? Most people get a networking contact, tell them about their background, and ask if they k... |
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Who Does Your Grandma Know? by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 Networking in a job search is critical. Often people don’t do it because they think they have to know hiring managers in their field in order for it to be productive. Not True! It’s not who YOU know. It’s who you know, knows, and who THEY know! Many people may think of their grandmother as a poor job networking contact. However, you may not know who her neighbors are, or who she knows at her church, or seniors club. You ... |
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Five Social Media Rules for Your Job Search by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 Looking for a new job? Be smart online! Your activity on the internet may make or break your chances of getting a job you want. Too often people sabotage their job search by leaving a trail online of careless, controversial, or foolish posts, pictures, or comments. Others use their time online to create an image that screams “Hire me!” Here are five rules to follow to help insure your success: 1. Maximize your LinkedIn p... |
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How Having A Blog Can Help You Get A Job by Miriam Salpeter - Nov, 2009 I am so excited to share news from a client who just landed a great job. In and of itself, a client landing a job isn’t extraordinary – that is the point of hiring me to help, after all! What is special about this client is that she was in a transitional search. She was finding that there were not a lot of opportunities in her field, so she needed to make a change. She was looking for jobs doing things she had not done before... |
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Know Thy Customer! by Bernadette Boas - Nov, 2009 As a business owner myself of a growing business I spend a great deal of time networking throughout the week with peers, service partners, customers and of course prospects. What I am often surprised by is the number of business owners who introduce themselves and goes on to explain that they provide their services or products ‘to anyone that needs...”. Make note of the comment ‘ to anyone...”. Let me ask you somethin... |
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