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Dear Job Seeker,   Hi there, it’s me, the organizational psychologist with whom you’ll be spending the next few hours. I know that you’re nervous and that I’m all that stands between you and this next gig, but I’d like to give you a few pointers to help make this process less painful for both [...]

    Are you (or someone you know) having ongoing career challenges that to go beyond, “It’s a tough business environment these days and everybody feels stressed”? Do you feel as if you have so much work you can never get even the important things accomplished? Worse yet, does it seem you can’t get those [...]

There’s a scene in the movie The Company Men where a laid off executive (Tommy Lee Jones) confronts his old CEO (Craig T. Nelson) and who happens to be his partner who he started the now struggling shipping business with. The fired exec taunts the CEO about all the recent lay offs and good people [...]

Planting words on my MacBook Pro stimulates me emotionally and intellectually as I sow client career stories from bud to blossom.  This focused, brain-powered activity, though invigorating, is physically sedentary and potentially unsustainable if not combined with the appropriate amount of physical activity. In Joe Lavelle’s recent post, “Exercise Like a CEO,” he underscores the [...]

Today’s post is by Katrina Kibben — Social Media Manager at Care.com, an innovative and resourceful social media marketing professional who enjoys helping companies of all sizes use traditional and nontraditional tactics to increase profitability and product awareness. She is working with Care.com’s annual event, Care@Work, which develops smarter ways to work by using new [...]

Ahhh, summer vacation – my favorite time of year. This summer, however, is a very significant summer as it is my last before I graduate from academia and start my life as a “real” person in May 2012.  Naturally I’ve been thinking about how I can spend my last summer of freedom in a productive, [...]

Just having returned from HRevolution, I was filled with tons of ideas, approaches and philosophies.  My head was swimming with where to go next.  I was trying to land on what aspect of HR resonated with me coming out of this UnConference.  Then I remembered . . . I had a conversation with Dwane Lay and William [...]

Today’s post is by Ty Abernethy — founder and CEO of ZuzuHire, a multimedia candidate screening tool incorporating video, voice, essay and multiple-choice questions. He has a background in executive recruiting, and currently manages the finance/accounting recruiting division of Chase Professionals. The hiring process is changing–not only for companies and recruiters, but also for candidates. [...]

Developing Good Career Habits Early on Will Serve the Rest of Your Career. Even the most mundane, front-line roles – whether doling out room keys as a front-desk motel clerk or dishing up burritos and serving beer at your local Mexican restaurant – are of value, not just to the customer, but to you, in [...]

In your job search, you, the job seeker, seek out the employer, but that doesn’t have to be the case throughout your entire career.  There are many ways that you can brand yourself to stand out, increase your visibility in front of career stakeholders and inevitably make employers come to you. Here are just 5 [...]