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by Kurt Schmidt

Slate: “What Mistakes do Graduates Make…”

This is a thoughtful Q&A on mistakes graduates make in their first jobs with answers by Jason Ewing and Carson Tang from Quora and re-posted by Slate. I think I made a couple of these myself way back when. One [...]

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Business Insider: “How to Get Job Recruiters to Come to You”

I guess “5” is a magic number because so many of these lists have five items – though usually, one or two are redundant.  Business Insider’s Jacquelyn Smith’s article “How to Get Job Recruiters  to Come to You” contains a [...]

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Forbes: “The Happiest and Unhappiest Jobs…”

According to CareerBliss and Susan Adams at Forbes being an Executive Recruiter or Headhunter is the 3rd “happiest” job you can have.  I feel so lucky, though somehow being a headhunter is still ranked behind being a Data Base Administrator [...]

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Mashable – Daily Muse: “5 Job Search Tactics / Stop…”

Jenny Foss for the Daily Muse at Mashable hits the nail on the head with her post about 5 tactics that candidates shouldn’t do.  Like a lot of these types of posts, there’s some redundancy but overall, what she says [...]

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Clueless with a Keyboard: “How to Make Frenemies on LinkedIn”

I’m not going to be shy. I love LinkedIn.  It is has been a truly great asset for headhunting.  That is not to say that it didn’t take a little time and effort to both figure it out and put [...]

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Forbes: “22 Linked In Secrets…”

Forbes Contributor William Arruda’s list of “22 LinkedIn Secrets LinkedIn Won’t Tell You” is pretty helpful in terms of building a good LinkedIn profile and exploiting some of the networking opportunities available. LinkedIn is a great resource and but can [...]

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Where to Begin…

So you’ve just been laid off from your job.  You haven’t updated your resume in ages and you can’t remember the last time you went on a job interview.  However, now, without much warning and with a real sense of [...]

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Welcome to Modern Job Search!

Have you ever wondered what you would do if you were forced to start looking for a job today?  Wait, let me re-phrase that.  Have you ever wondered what you will do when you have to find a new job? [...]

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