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Network Magic
Originally posted by Elizabeth Creith in Elizabeth Creith’s Scriptorium Feb 12, 2013 as “That Network Thing”, and used by permission. On Friday a friend of mine who is also a professional artist in...
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No, Really: Please Don’t Endorse Me!
Click Happy? Don’t Endorse What You Haven’t Experienced LinkedIn endorsements are built to be cheap. Any first-degree connection who is click-happy, intimidated or fooled by the LinkedIn prompt panels...
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How Investing An Hour Up Front Can Dramatically Reduce Your Job Search Effort
Trying to decide where you want to work next? Being pulled back and forth by conflicting priorities, and chasing dozens of potential leads, and the faster you go, the more you end up nowhere? One of...
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Reaching Your Goals: When Effort Isn’t Enough
“I put great effort into life in general. I really try, but I seem to have no effect,” she writes, her tone bordering on petulance. “We all know,” she continues, “that insanity is doing the same thing...
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Change One Word – Triple Your Chances of Being Found
One of the cornerstones of The Portable YouTM approach to career and work search is that you must describe and advertise yourself using the same language your potential customer uses. At the simplest...
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Get Off the Shelf!
Here on the threshold of 2014, let’s imagine you’ve just written a book and it’s ready to bring to market. Your book is a niche product, and unlikely to be picked up by a mass-market publisher, so you...
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Congratulations: You Just Got Endorsed by the Invisible Man!
You log into LinkedIn and up pops a new endorsement! It’s for Rutebaga Wrangling! From one of your LinkedIn connections…you glance at the picture…trying to recall that face…but there is NO FACE....
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No More Rutabaga Wrangling: Now You Control LinkedIn Endorsements
Ever since LinkedIn introduced Endorsements, and permitted – nay, provoked – every well-meaning connection under the sun to endorse us – we have not been quite happy. Whether it was endorsements for...
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Opportunity Knocks? Why I Said “No” to the Job
I just turned down a contract that would have paid me well. Again. The work to which I said “No” was squarely within my competence and uses the most highly compensated skill I have, RFP response. Why...
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Things That Go “Boom!”
I’ve posted before on the perils of fast-twitch hell, the thoughtless knee-jerk social media behaviour sparked by the desire to be fast and first. Now it seems we must either educate, or keep an...
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Red Wagon Wheels or Jerking the Sense of Urgency
An old Walt Disney movie called Toby Tyler tells the story of an orphan who ran away to join the circus. His constant companion was a pet chimpanzee (“Mr. Stubbs”) who followed him everywhere. One day...
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She Changed One Word…
A former colleague was facing a dilemma. Embedded with an old-style, large organization as a contract editor, she was hoping her next contract would be with a leaner, livelier company. But her phone...
View ArticleWill Your Resume Open Doors?
“I’ve sent my resumé out dozens of times, and nobody answers.” “I gave them my resumé and that’s the last I ever heard….” You’ve spent hours on your resumé, incorporated multiple suggestions from...
View ArticleDear Job Seeker: I Don’t Care If You’re Passionate
Yes, I know my HR department (whom I don’t control and to whom I pay insufficient attention) has asked for a dedicated, energetic, goal-oriented leader with a passion for quality. And I know your...
View ArticleJob Seeker? Put First Things First
Lots of jobs are going begging; just keep applying until you get lucky. Become an entrepreneur – there’s funding for that. Try the Second Career program. There’s funding for that. Become a contractor...
View ArticleResumé Crafting: Answering the Three Real Questions
The always excellent career coach Marcia LaReau recently posted on the importance of selecting the right bullet points for your resume when applying for a job. Marcia notes that resumé readers don’t...
View ArticleReaching Your Goals: When Effort Isn’t Enough
“I put great effort into life in general. I really try, but I seem to have no effect,” she writes, her tone bordering on petulance. “We all know,” she continues, “that insanity is doing the same thing...
View ArticleChange One Word – Triple Your Chances of Being Found
One of the cornerstones of The Portable YouTM approach to career and work search is that you must describe and advertise yourself using the same language your potential customer uses. At the simplest...
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Here on the threshold of 2014, let’s imagine you’ve just written a book and it’s ready to bring to market. Your book is a niche product, and unlikely to be picked up by a mass-market publisher, so you...
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