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  • Don’t Get Caught With Your Social Media Down
    Five social media platforms that can impact your career
    Today, your social media presence will likely influence your career. According to a recent recruiter survey your online presence can factor into the decision to bring you in for an interview and even whether or not you’re hired. That should be enough of a reason to begin monitoring your social media presence today.

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  • Think 40 Means You’re Finished? Not a Chance
    Job search tips for people over 40
    In a cutthroat world of layoffs, downsizing and unemployment, it’s important for jobseekers over 40 to stay one step ahead of the game. When you’re competing with younger candidates it’s essential to remember that you bring a lot to the table in terms of experience and a strong work ethic.

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  • Heat Up Your Summer Networking
    How to make the most of warm-weather events
    A lot of people take the summer off. That is they don't put much effort into finding a job or building their business. After all, it's summer. Nobody's around. A bunch of folks are on vacation. The rest are taking advantage of summer hours. Even business associations put their monthly dinner events on hiatus till September.

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  • Attend the 2012 Women's Career Strategies Conference on May 22
    This year's Women's Career Strategies Conference, held in Stamford, CT is designed for women who are trying to get a job or get ahead in their current position. During this day-long event you'll hear from over a dozen experts in their respective fields. You'll learn how to enhance and update your image, why it's important to think of yourself as a brand and how to take charge of your career.

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Assess Yourself
- Decision Making Made Easier
Every day we're faced with decisions. What to wear? What to have for lunch? And occasionally we're presented with a biggie like should we go back to school and, if we're lucky, which job we should accept?
 
- Setting SMART Goals
What is your vision of success? The image is different for each of us. For one person it's having the corner office, for another it's having a flexible schedule with plenty of time off to be with their kids.

- How To Find A Job You'll Enjoy
- What's Your Type?
- Make Sure Your Goals Include R & R
- Are You the Weakest Link?
- Goal Tending - Tips for setting goals
- Reflections - Where are you?
- Quick Checklist
- The Entrepreneur's Personality - Quiz
- Take an Assessment

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This Month's Poll

How do you use Social Media?
 
For business
For friends and family
For business and personal
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Results
 

 
 

Managing Your Life
- 11 Smart Career Tips for 2011
Andy Warhol said, "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art." As a passionate executive recruiter, I couldn't agree more, particularly when it comes to professionals being good in managing their careers. Here, for 2011, are 11 smart, specific career tips:
 
- What skills do employers want?
   Communication.
When you're looking for work in a tough job market, it's essential to focus on your transferable skills. In some circles these are also known as soft skills. They include abilities like managing, negotiating and problem solving. And things like the knack of meeting deadlines and getting along with your co-workers. But, the one skill set sought after in every industry is communication.

- How to Keep Your Job — Seven Ways to Avoid
     Being Let Go
- Spring Fashion 2011
- 8 Steps to get you through the day
- What Julie & Julia can teach you about
    setting goals
- Personalized Branding For The Job Interview
- How Do You Accept an Award?
- How to Avoid a Typical Conversation
- Salary Talk During the Job Interview
- Five basics for successful networking
- How's Your Network Working?
- S.M.A.R.T Goals for a Job Search
- Non-verbal Communication During Your Job
    Interview
- Do You Have Presence?
- 5 Aptitudes for Female Business Success
- Do You Need an Intervention?
- The Introverted Leader

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Changing Course
- The Job Interview Is NOT Just About
    the Job Duties
Are you stuck in the notion that the job interview is just about the job duties - it's NOT! Here is what the interviewer is really looking for. "Can he/she do the job?"
 
- Fired? The Interview Solution
There are many questions that plague job seekers. "What salary are you looking for?" is a big one. "Why should we hire you?" is another. And "Why did you leave your last job?" can...

- Ace the Job Interview
- The Five Essentials for an Entrepreneur to
    Start a Business
- Ace the Job Interview: How to communicate
    more effectively during a job interview
- A YOU Plan for the New Economy
- Negative Culture Saps Productivity
- How to Maintain Your Motivation
- What Can You Offer Your Next Employer?
- Optimizing Your Resume For An Internal
    Promotion
- Are You LinkedIn?
- Your Personalized Branding for the Job
    Interview
- Breakdown, Breakthrough
- Grow Your Business in a Slow Economy

     Read More Career Transition Articles
 

On Your Own
- Rising to the top
Congratulations. After months of blood, sweat and tears, your new company, Jane's Designer Clothing, has launched its new web site. Naturally, you're excited to see what happens when someone tries to search for your company, so you launch your favorite search engine, type "Jane's Designer Clothing" into the query box and hit the Search button.
 
- Getting (Almost) Free Press
Each small business owner is on a similar quest. We're constantly on the hunt for new clients. While we know that the best way to get new clients is through referrals, it's difficult to grow a business...

- 10 for '010
- Working at Home? - Be More Productive
- Your Home Office - Organizing Tips
- Using Soundbites in Business
- How to Measure Brand Performance
- In the News - Ezine Publishing
- Mixing Business With Pleasure - TravelTips
- This Job For Hire - Freelance Sites
- On the Road - Travel Tips
- Letter Perfect

     Read More Small Business Articles
 

College Corner
- College Bound: What to know before
    you apply to college
Studies have shown that when the economy is down people tend to go to school. This includes traditional students, those who enter right after high school, and non-traditional students, those over 25 who are starting later or returning to school.
 
- Previewing A Profession
Have you decided what you want to do after college? Do your studies lead to a specific career? Whether you're a traditional student or going back to school later in life...

- Welcome To The World Of Work — How to
    succeed in your first full-time job
- Pomp and Circumstance and Time to Get Down
    to Work
- College 101: Success Skills for Returning to the
    Classroom
- Six Criteria to Determine If An Internship Is
    Legal
 

For Women Only
- Speaking Out - The power of public
   speaking
Back in 1996 I joined a professional women's networking group in Stavanger, Norway. The group was called WIN, which stood for...
 
- The Nice People's Guide to Business
   Politics
I re-entered the workforce after years of being a stay at home mom. I knew that I was good at what I did, but when I first started back in business it...

- Focus on Marriage for Health, Wealth, and
    Happiness
- Summer's Here - Mom Stories
- Practicing for PMS - Mom Stories, Tales from
    the Trenches
- Couch Potato to Mouse Potato
- A Day In The Life
- Oh My God A Girl!
 

 
 
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