The end of December is one of the hardest times of the year to be unemployed. The peer pressure for good cheer is outrageous, the financial pressure of gifts is huge even for those with a steady paycheck, and the constant catchup with friends and family means everyone will ask, “how are you doing?”
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Browsing category "Job Hunt"How to deal with unemployment in the face of holiday cheer
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December 21st, 2009
Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work
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December 16th, 2009
My company, Brazen Careerist, partnered with PayScale to come up with a list of the Top 50 Employers for Gen Y. The list is based on what we at Brazen Careerist know about Gen Y and the new workplace, and what PayScale knows about slicing and dicing workplace data. 4 Lies about social media
October 21st, 2009
Everyone knows that the best way to get a job is to leverage your network. And almost everyone knows that social media is a great way to build your network. 6 Tips for doing a long-distance job hunt
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September 25th, 2009
Here is my advice about job hunting long-distance: Forget it. It's not going to work for most of you, and you'll need to relocate before you get the job. But for a few of you, there's hope for a long-distance job hunt will work. So, here's some advice if you must make it work: Hatemail: Email I get that I hate
June 22nd, 2009
People always ask me to answer questions on my blog. So I am sort of going to answer questions. Questions I hate (that I have edited to save people from the trauma I probably caused David Dellifield): How to recognize bad advice about work
May 12th, 2009
Be careful who you take career advice from. Knowing who to take advice from is a really good skill for any aspect of your life, but especially in the field of work, because work is changing very fast right now. A lot of advice that was good ten years ago is not good now. And [...] Three times you should lie at work
May 11th, 2009
Everyone thinks transparency and authenticity are great. But sometimes you need to rein them in. I’ve talked about how I do this with my blog, which is really an example of how I rein myself in at work. There are times we each have to do this at work, and in some cases, we need [...] How to pick the people you work with
Posted to: Job Hunt | Office Politics
May 6th, 2009
Pick who you work with very carefully. Because you are likely to become like them. So the first thing is to know what’s important to you about you – what you want to become. What you like about yourself. And then, surround yourself with people who match your aspirations for yourself. How to deal with reference checks
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April 28th, 2009
Reference checks used to matter a lot. Fifty years ago. When people only changed jobs twice in their life, and they didn’t know anyone outside of their company, it made sense that the second company called the first company. Gold digging Web 2.0 style
April 16th, 2009
The guy I’m sort of dating asks me, “Do you know Glenda Bautista?” The new post-college prestige job is retail
April 15th, 2009
It used to be that the best post-college jobs were the ones that gave you a sense of security (law, medicine) or financial windfall (banking). But the finance industry and grad-school route are both dead ends at this point. 5 Things to do when you're unemployed. Hint: It's not job hunting.
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March 6th, 2009
Let’s say you get fired, or laid off, or you quit because after two weeks you know you’re at the worst company on the planet. In all of those cases, you will face the interview question: What happened at your last job? 5 Emerging trends from the recession
February 20th, 2009
As the recession persists, we can watch social shifts and cultural trends. Some are good, some are bad. But in either case, one way to control how the recession affects you is to watch the larger trends and decide where you want to fit. How to beat the system to get a great job
February 5th, 2009
When you want to get a new job, don’t look at your resume to see what you could get. Instead, take time to build a resume that meets the requirements of the jobs you want. This doesn’t mean using keywords that are in the job description. That is not going to work. Instead, look at [...] Don't try to dodge the recession with grad school
February 3rd, 2009
A recession is typically a good time for graduate schools. Their application pool goes up because people see them as safe shelter from the storm. The scariest part of a down economy is the idea of having no income. Of course, graduate school does not solve for that. But graduate school does solve the second [...] How to figure out what you should be doing with your life
January 15th, 2009
There is no other way to figure out where you belong than to make time to do it and give yourself space to fail, give yourself time to be lost. If you think you have to get it right the first time, you won't have the space really to investigate, and you'll convince yourself that [...] Focus on learning in the face of recession
December 3rd, 2008
I announced last week that I'll be running a poll on my sidebar each week. I’m aiming for a new one every Tuesday. Reason to give thanks: There is no job shortage for young people
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November 26th, 2008
I know that we have a bad economy, so bad that we have a not-yet-President who is running the country from the Chicago Hilton so that the markets don't implode while Bush gives pardons for cronies. Job hunt tip: The mentor matters more than the company
July 22nd, 2008
I noticed in the New York Times Book Review last week, there was a nice review of Jim Krusoe's new book, Girl Factory. I was happy to see that, because Jim Krusoe was my first—and most influential—writing teacher. Three tips for job hunting, and one good book
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April 24th, 2008
A lot of times we think we know what we're doing in the job hunt, and then someone surprises us with information we didn't think of. My latest bunch of surprises came from the book, What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here? by Cynthia Shapiro, who I have interviewed before, [...] |
USA Today features me & the farmer and our failed prenup. http://bit.ly/9wN4RI The article stresses out the farmer. He feeds it to the pigs. 5 days ago
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