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Over ten years ago, I read a great book The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers by James Citrin and Richard Smith. I pulled the book from my dusty bookshelf the other day and began reading it again. It is interesting
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How can you drop back into the workforce after you have dropped out or been unemployed for a long time?
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When it is time to look for a new career path or even just a new job, many people go straight to LinkedIn or some online job posting site and start applying to jobs. Even though you can sometimes get replies, which is
Networking
Networking groups are just as important to your job search as are your resume and LinkedIn profile. It is a frequent question if career networking groups are useful to people in job transition. The line of inquiry
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Nowadays, the phrase “Follow your passion” in relation to finding a job has become a sure-fire career suicide mission; that is, unless your passion is numbers or something computer-based. It is unfortunate how some
Career Management
With hiring on hold for now and employers increasingly wary of whether another economic slowdown is in store, employees should be extra cautious to avoid committing any "career killers."
Resumes
When we look around at the changes that have occurred in communication within the past decade, the focus appears to be upon brevity and accessibility of information. More specifically, when communicating with others, we
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Marketing, sales, general managers, CEO’s, CFO’s CIO’s CHRO’s are all pretty much in agreement that one of the most difficult challenges every business faces is effective communication. To take that a step further,
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To some people, especially among those who did not grow up with it, the word “social media” is extremely foreign and a little intimidating. Because it can be intimidating and unknown territory, some prefer to cast it
