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by Kurt Schmidt

What is your resume supposed to do?

Resumes are important but they are not the most important part of your job search. A resume on its own will not get you a job. However, ensuring that your resume keeps the process moving is critical. Typically people spend [...]

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What’s Your Value Proposition?

Why anyone does what they do at work, strategically, is their value within their organization.  It’s more than a mission statement or a goal in that value is a precise term and has context.  Extracting and understanding value is the [...]

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Thank you NOVA!

Every seat was taken.  The organizers were a little surprised and I was a touch intimidated.  I’m not a practiced public speaker (but I will be soon).  I agreed to do the event a month or so ago and assembled [...]

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Mojo Promo Alert: $0.99 in the USA & £0.99 in the UK All Weekend!

modernjobsearch: Get your job search MoJo working today!  Modern Job Search (Kindle Version) is on sale this weekend for only $0.99 (USA) and £0.99 (UK).  The big sale starts on Friday, September 18th at 8:00 AM GMT in the UK and 8:00 [...]

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Mojo Promo Alert: $0.99 in the USA & £0.99 in the UK All Weekend!

Get your job search MoJo working today!  Modern Job Search (Kindle Version) is on sale this weekend for only $0.99 (USA) and £0.99 (UK).  The big sale starts on Friday, September 18th at 8:00 AM GMT in the UK and 8:00 AM [...]

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From LinkedIn: I call BS: Bad Advice and Recruiters

I don’t have a lot of time for blogging but wrote this for LinkedIn recently and wanted to publish it here as well: Lately there have been what seems like a lot of “articles” published on LinkedIn that are highly [...]

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MoJo Search Holiday Promotion – Starting at $0.99!

Still shopping for Christmas gifts?  Know someone looking for a job?  Get the unemployed person you love Modern Job Search and help them get their job search on the right track! Modern Job Search goes on sale starting Friday, December 19th at [...]

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LinkedIn Update: The “Friend Invitation”

Aren’t new features great?  Well okay, not all the time…but this time I think so! You may not have noticed but LinkedIn recently made a very significant change to the categories used to validate invitations to connect with other members [...]

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Follow Me on Twitter for More MoJo: @MoJoSearch

Lately I’m working on so many recruiting projects that there’s been little time for blogging!  I feel guilty about that but I have to take projects when I get them.  So it goes.  The good news is that, while blog [...]

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IMPORTANT: Never resign until you know for sure!

Susan Adam’s recent Forbes column, “How A Criminal Background Check Can Cost You The Job” is a necessary read for pretty much anyone who is looking for a job in today’s market.  All of my large corporate clients do background checks and [...]

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