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TweetShareShort answer? Yes. Let me explain. Job searching in a city you don’t live in is not easy. It’s not impossible, but it’s definitely difficult. The first thing is the expense. Are you going to be able to fly/drive to wherever the interview is, each and every time you have an interview? Is the company [...]

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TweetShareToo many job searching campaigns revolve around a ‘post and pray’ strategy; job seekers post their resume on a popular job board, then sit back and pray they get a call from an interested employer. Yes, it can work – occasionally. But opportunities tend to come more frequently to those who are out beating the [...]

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TweetShareSo you’ve recently been let go from your company and are receiving unemployment benefits when an amazing thing happens – you get a job offer. But it’s not the offer you were hoping for. While it will definitely pay the bills, it will result in you taking less than 50-percent of what you were making. [...]

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TweetShareThe typical advice says that you should tell everyone that you are looking. But is that really helpful for management-level jobs or jobs in a very specific industry, say finance? Will people really get leads from their manicurist? If I could choose between help from my manicurist or the Managing Director of a bulge-bracket investment [...]

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TweetShareWhen you’re searching for a job, you can easily run out of energy and motivation. At first, it seems simple to develop a cover letter and update your resume, but when a job search wears on, you can get pretty worn down. When a job search lasts for more than a month or two, this [...]

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TweetShareOver the course of my career, I’ve heard the following a lot. Lately, we’ve been hearing it more than I’d like to say: “I’ve sent my resume out over 300 times now. I haven’t gotten anything back. NOTHING. Not an email. Not a phone call. Not even an autoreply!” These days, things are even worse. [...]

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TweetShareThere are hundreds of sample resume sites on the internet. I mean, literally hundreds. Do a search for “sample resumes” or “free sample resumes” and the like, and your head will spin with the amount of resume samples out there. So, I wanted to do a different sort of post here. Less an advice post [...]

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TweetShareA great article this weekend about how to make sure your email gets read. We’re inundated with email these days. A lot of it spam. How can you make sure your email gets read? This is especially important for job seekers. Especially if you’re sending in a job application, what can you do to make [...]

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TweetShareAnother week, another article on how employers might be discriminating against the unemployed in this job market. This is a persistent meme that has been floating around since the recession began a couple of years ago. The idea is that employers look around and see a hirerers market. They can pick and choose who they [...]

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TweetShareA lot of you liked this post wherein I shared some data about which industries might be hiring. So, again, I want to do what I did there and rip off someone else’s chart to give you some data. This time, we’re looking backward. So far in this recession, which industries shed jobs and which [...]

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