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As I write this message, I am frustrated.  Well, to be perfectly honest, I'm kind of ticked off.  My evening started out great.  I finished my original president's message for October, got home at a reasonable hour, had a nice meal, and then sat down with a favorite magazine that had been sitting unopened on my coffee table since it arrived in my mailbox a few weeks ago.  "You are not going to believe this," I told my husband with a few added ... (Read More)

I was reading a fantastic article on ERE the other day about social media recruiting strategies. There are a lot of blogs and articles on this topic lately and I often share my thoughts as well. This one was especially poignant because it spoke directly to strategy. Everyone is talking about what we should do and here is a great strategy to help get us there. For me, the biggest trigger to launch into a conversation about social media with recruiters is when they mention ... (Read More)

For this article, I went through the dozens of books I’ve reviewed in Career Jockey’s Book Review topic and forced myself to pick only three books. (BTW, Career Jockey has been totally revamped. You might want to check it out.) I had to make some tough calls, but these are the ones that together contain the meat of what every job seeker needs to know. Book #1 - What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by ... (Read More)

I sit here in my office, with a job, with a home, and not having to chose between eating this week or taking prescribed medicine... and I think of next week. The meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday was never really something I did. I always thought about the food, and having the day off, but not about being thankful. Now... it is different this year. I am rrrrreeeeeaaaallllyyyyy thankful and aware of what might have been. What has gone on for the past year doesn't really ... (Read More)

Keywords are a central feature of our business day.  We use them to search our resume databases and to parse through the profiles and resumes posted on job boards and social networking sites.  The problem, of course, is that we pesky humans have a bad habit of using different words to express the same idea.  That variability in human expression makes it difficult to know which keywords will actually identify the best candidates for each of your ... (Read More)

The positive growth turned in by the American economy in the third quarter of this year suggests that maybe, just maybe this Great Recession is now in our rear view mirror.  As it fades away, of course, the tales will begin about what we did during this terrible time.  While recounting those legends is surely important, so too is sharing the insights we’ve acquired from our experience.  Cataclysmic events often alter our perceptions of the ... (Read More)

This weekend I was introduced to Byron Katie. I am so grateful and thought instantly that I had to share her with our South Florida job seekers. Byron Katie provides a process to challenge our thoughts, our beliefs, our stories if you will. For me, quite often I find myself totally engaged in my head in a conversation with someone that hasn't happened or worrying about a situation that has not even occurred or thinking about what I think of something that someone said, ... (Read More)