I’ve been interviewing with a lot of companies lately, and I recently heard a comment on the state of the industry that attracted my attention. An employer I was talking to mentioned, off-hand, that despite the economic conditions and the number of people looking for jobs, companies are having a surprisingly difficult time finding personnel [...]
Posts Tagged ‘job search’
The Topiary Personnel Roster
Posted in employment, job search, markets, work, workplace, tagged Career, economy, engineering, job search, management, society, work, workplace on 18 August, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
No, really — Fix your résumé!
Posted in employment, job search, Personal, society, workplace, tagged excellence, job search, jobs, Personal on 29 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes people are just so strange. In case anyone blinked and missed it, we’re in the middle of a recession, an economic downturn, whatever you want to call it. A lot of people are out looking for a job (or two) as we hit higher unemployment rates than we’ve seen in decades. And yet, people [...]
Resume review scam
Posted in employment, job search, tagged Career, job search, scams, tools on 29 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If, like many of my friends, you are searching for a new job — unemployed, underemployed, looking for new horizons — you may be tempted to try the “free resume review” service from The Ladders. What’s the harm in getting a little free advice, right? If so, I recommend you read this informative and courageous [...]
LinkedIn, but with light little links
Posted in technology, work, tagged job search, linkedin, networking, software, tools, work on 25 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
LinkedIn just borrowed yet one more feature from Facebook — and that’s a good thing. As of this week, you can see two little links that say “Reply privately” and “Add comment” after the status line updates of each your contact. So if one contact says he or she is preparing a white paper on [...]
Keeping informed with Google Reader
Posted in employment, job search, work, tagged Career, job search, software, tools on 19 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here is tip for my friends who are in-between jobs or looking out for new opportunities. (This is also useful for just about anyone on the Web.) Google Reader has a very easy and friendly interface that lets you collect and organize many sources of of information, as long as they have a feed. That [...]
Tell me who you are, what you do
Posted in employment, job search, tagged excellence, Friends, job search, networking, work on 11 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an invitation to all my friends — and they are many — who are looking for a job these day. It’s a crappy, crappy economic climate we’re in, and the year is shaping up to be rough; I want to help those I can. I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago [...]
LinkedIn for job seekers — and German speakers
Posted in job search, technology, workplace, tagged Career, job search, linkedin, networking, software, tools on 10 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Blogger Guy Kawasaki had a good post last week on 10 ways to use LinkedIn for job search. A day later, Adam Nash followed with his own thoughts on the official LinkedIn blog. If you know nothing of LinkedIn, I suggest you take a look — especially if you’re thinking about a possible job change [...]
More career tips and tools
Posted in books, employment, job search, workplace, tagged excellence, job search, linkedin, networking, tools, work, workplace on 26 January, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I have a frightening number of friends who are looking for jobs right now; either they have been laid off or they feel they might be about to. Fantastic people, with lots of qualifications in a variety of domains and great personalities, reliable, experienced. Web designers, technical writers, librarians, teachers, purchasers, project analysts, plant ecologists, [...]
2008 wrap-up
Posted in current events, family, Personal, work, tagged Career, economy, family, job search on 31 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s time for the inescapable recap of what was for me, like for so many, a year of jolts and changes. The year started relatively well; I was one of the only people at my company to get a bonus despite lean times, for having fully achieved my 2007 objectives. The first few months of [...]
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