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A couple of weeks ago, I posted some links to a couple of great articles by Sital Rupalia. He left me a comment to say thanks, and I said that as long as she keeps writing great articles, I’ll keep linking to them.
It didn’t take her long to post another great one. This one talks [...]

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That’s right. It’s a little-known fact that in the midst of the current economic crisis and rampant unemployment, there is a labor shortage. This paragraph is taken from an article titled “3 Million Unfilled Jobs in the US” on TimesUnion.com, by Wally Altes:
“One of the great under-reported/unreported stories about the economy is that American employers [...]

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I get a fair share of job search questions from clients, contacts, and friends. I’m wondering, though, if the questions in my little corner of the world and the internet are the same ones that most job seekers are asking. So I’m writing an open question to job-seekers and job search bloggers:
What are the biggest [...]

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Remember my post last week about the “Hire Me” video that I helped my friend put together? Well, we put together the video and put it online, cleaned up her CV, mapped out a strategy, and she was all set and ready to go. That was a Thursday. Then, on Tuesday, I ask her how [...]

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One of the blogs that I follow is YourHRGuy.com, by Lance Haun, who also blogs for Vault.com. I’ve been a fan for a while now, and I couldn’t resist sending you guys to a series of articles he’s put together on “How To Effectively Job Seek In A Recession”. Enjoy!

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A little while ago, Bonnie Lowe of Best Career Strategies asked me to contribute to an eBook titled “Best Career Strategies of 2009 – How to Get Hired or Get Ahead, Even When the Economy is Getting Worse”.
The eBook is now available online, and I encourage you all to download it – dozens of career [...]

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Ok guys. The blog is called “Tough Economy Jobs”, so it’s time to talk a little more about the economy.
So far I’ve been talking mostly about broad job-search paradigms – stuff like adding lots of value by finding your niche. It’s all true, but it still begs the question “how does all this apply when [...]

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A while ago Bonnie Lowe asked subscribers of her Best Interview Strategies website’s newsletter, “If you could have a private conversation with me—or any other career expert—what two questions would you ask?”
She received a LOT of questions… and the answers to those questions may be of interest to YOU.
The first “result” of these questions [...]

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Note: This post is extracted and adapted from the HuntingToHired free eBook titled “Forget Everything You Know About Looking For A Job… And Actually Find One!“
So to quick re-cap, people are still in the mind-set of an industrial rather than knowledge-based labor market, which frustrates them, because they feel that the demand for good jobs [...]

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Note: This post is extracted and adapted from the HuntingToHired free eBook titled “Forget Everything You Know About Looking For A Job… And Actually Find One!“
As a teenager in school, you might have a paper route (maybe not these days, but you know what I mean). As a college student, you might work part-time at [...]

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