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The Best Cities For Finding Employment Right Now

With the employment picture finally perking up in some major metropolitan areas, job seekers might be tempted to limit their job search to the areas with the healthiest employment numbers. But low…

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Finding Inside Connections to Help With Your Job Search

In order to stand apart from the crowd and get your resume to the top of the heap, you’ve heard you should find inside connections to help grease the wheel, oops, I mean facilitate the process…

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5 Steps to Making a Fresh Start for Job Search

New Year, new start (right?)! Any resolutions? How many will you keep and how many will you break? If you are like most people, you will probably break some. If finding a new job was one of your…

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7 Dirty Little Secrets of Job Hunting

Trying to make any kind of career shift can be incredibly frustrating, and through my current search I’ve found there are some dirty little secrets most people just don’t talk about when it comes to job…

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4 Secrets To Be Strategic About Your Job Search

Spring came early this year to parts of the country, including my home state of Michigan. Now the job market looks to be warming up, too…

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Keep your mind open while looking for a job

Searching for jobs in today’s environment is a labyrinth of dead ends, mysteries, and rejection. It is easy to get overwhelmed with all the keyword choices to ‘help’ narrow your search. Few potential employers…

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Reinvent Your Career and Job Search – Part 1

I ran into an old friend (metaphorically speaking) that I used to work with very early in my career. We hadn’t been in contact for probably 12 years or so even though we spent 11 years (across two companies…

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753,000 Job Gains in 3rd Quarter 2011 Largest Since 2006

From June to September 2011 gross job gains from opening and expanding private sector establishments were 7.1 million, an increase of 166,000 jobs from the previous quarter, the U.S. Bureau of Labor…

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No. 1 Way To Jump Start A Stalled Job Search

A recent study shows the average job seeker gives up looking for work after five months. Meanwhile, the length of time it takes to find work in the US is currently hovering at more than seven months…

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Job Search Depressing You? Try A Little Harder

A new study by Connie Wanberg, Associate Dean at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and three other academics, takes a look at what happens to people’s mental health when they…

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How to Leverage Applicant Tracking Systems To Land a Job

Since paper applications are going the way of the dinosaur in favor of digital job postings, it only seems logical to have more automated recruitment processes. Along with increased technology in the…

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8 Ways to Be A Smart Job Seeker

We are all familiar with the hardships involved in being an unemployed job seeker. Not only is it frustrating and depressing when you can’t find a job, but the feelings become magnified as the length…

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Job Seekers, Beware! 7 Mistakes to Dodge at All Costs

Are you in the process of searching for a new job but can’t seem to get the callbacks you want? It may be that you’re making some common yet avoidable mistakes along the way…

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How to Deal with Job Search Frustration

Is your job search getting the best of you? With so many people competing for jobs, it is understandable that you are frustrated about not having landed some opportunity. However, you can’t give up…

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20 Insider Job Search Tips from Recruiters: Ignore at Your Peril

Have you caught up the the technology of job search yet? I am amazed that there are CIOs of big companies out there who don’t have a built-out LinkedIn profile – just name…

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