Ideas for Job Search, Career and Life

If you had a list of things you could fix to so that people would more likely follow you on Twitter, would that make you feel better?

I was watching a Sunday football game and kept seeing more brand promise examples. Every commercial ended with a simple statement of potential value. To “sear in” a basic benefit before our minds head back to the game. I was looking for them, of course, but I wonder if any of these were captured by the average football fan.

Your career happiness has a number of triggers. Whether you are just kicking off your career or being kicked by it these days, you should be thinking about this fit. Because being happy at work, is one of those big expectations many of us bring into a career. And the absence of a happy career leaves other aspects of life upside down.

No one wears a t-shirt to a job search networking event. Do they? Well, you shouldn’t. But if you thought about it and wanted to wear one of these, please pull them out of your virtual closet. Right now. And burn them.

Let's just assume it's haunted. I don't care. Whatever it takes to get you out. And into the world of the living. Deal?

Have we lost focus of the basic value in LinkedIn? Have we over-complicated our use of this awesome tool? This post shares a simple, but powerful example of how we should be using LinkedIn.

Can you use an infographic to tell your career story? Here I review the pros and cons of one man's attempt to tell his story with pictures . . .

So no resume is perfectly honest. We all embellish a bit and hide a few things, right? But, what if you wrote a really honest one? What would it say and reveal about you?

Today I’d like to share a daydream with you. A real one I had back in 2007 during my job search. So consider this a quick break in your day. A moment to cheer for the good guys. And perhaps teach something to interviewer types around the world. About fair play and how candidates (fellow humans) should be treated.

Reducing the quantity of incoming email ... this isn’t about filtering out the good stuff, it’s about optimizing your ability to find it and act on it.

Being in transition. Of any kind. Can be hard on us. We over-plan, get self-critical and lose perspective. What If you could think like a child again?

Being in transition. Of any kind. Can be hard on us. We over-plan, get self-critical and lose perspective. What If you could think like a child again?

For your personal or business brand . . . how's your message being delivered?

Results from the last three questions on the survey are being released today. And they were focused on the job interview. Questions asked of former or current hiring managers.

Learn to identify your biggest time-wasters, you can turn those minutes and hours into productivity.

So I wanted to know how different age groups viewed social or career networking. So that we could do a better job connecting with each other. Here's what I found . . .

Call me forward thinking if you’d like. But lately I’ve been thinking about you. And one day when your job search will end.