Yearly Archives: 2011

PUT YOURSELF IN THIS SITUATION:  How YOU will respond to an important hiring manager who tells you, “I don’t care what your last employer told you to do…if you kept  your job, I know you did that much. I want to know what you did for your previous employers that were standout, made things better […]

Employers are in business to produce $$dinero$$. As YOU navigate the web-of-work, your efforts should be directed to the company’s sensitivity…its bottom line and how you can influence it. Are you an expense, or an investment?  Unfortunately, many employers don’t comprehend how their employee’s individual and collective actions impact their bottom line on a daily […]

 “When considering even the most distant Facebook user in the Siberian tundra or the Peruvian rain forest, a friend of your friend knows a friend of their friend.”  I’ve blogged, pleaded, begged, and implored the virtues of word-of-mouth job-search. Here are the new stats from The New York Times:  Six Degrees of Separation Exists No […]

Onboarding. The word is reminiscent of the golden days of train travel and is mindful of a PC naughty word. But it’s also the current shorthand for new employee orientation. In Job-Search: Will YOUR prospective employer ‘onboard’ new hires for success? (From Maxwell, Locke, and Ritter – see below and read for objectives of effective […]

Are you noticing the changes? Or, are you Freddie the Frog on the stove in cold water? You don’t notice the heat rising until too late; but, if you suddenly get placed in the new enviroment, the boiling water smarts…big time. Today’s workplace demands are shaping up like this: *2011 is the year starting Baby […]

 Network, The Noun: Your personal friends and family and their networks. Network, The Verb: Finding fast whom you need to get what you want and helping others do the same. Network, The Purpose: Find a job! To advance your job-search one linear step at a time. Six Degrees of Separation? Not in job-search, landing a prized […]

In Think and Grow Rich (1937), Napoleon Hill suggested job search techniques that most people are only beginning to apply today…by Lynn Cogan. “The internet and other technologies have greatly influenced the 21st century job search process: from the ease of researching companies, to the widespread use of networking, to customization of résumés for each […]