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During my lengthy job search (I’m available) I’ve written and collected a lot of blog postings. Despite experts continuing to insist, you can blog your way to a new job, I’m not convinced that will work for everyone. So I’ve collected together in one place the best advice and resources both on my website and elsewhere.

My Posts

• Looking for a job online
• Moving to Vancouver and Finding a Job
• The largest employers in Vancouver
• How not to write a Cover Letter

More Advice

• The complete job search guide – how to land a job at a great company
• 5 Parts to a Good Cover Letter
• How to Prepare for an Interview
• How Guy Kawasaki would apply for a job at Yahoo
• The Real Secret to Career Success: Confidence
• 10 Costly Job-Search Mistakes You Have to Stop Making
• The 10 Most Common Mistakes Made During Job Interviews
• You Will be Googled
• Ten Interview Questions Designed To Trick You
• 10 Big Differences Between the Job Search of Today and Yesterday
• How to get a job using Craigslist
• The secret life of a resume
• 8 Ways to Fast-Track Your Application
• Out of Work, but Staying a Strong Candidate
• How can I paper over big gaps on my résumé?
• Why I Won’t Hire You
• 12 Things You Should Never Do When Applying For A Job
• 12 Tips On Acing Your Next Phone Interview
• Job Hunting Using Social Media
• 10 Ways to Find a Job with Twitter
• Career Guidance for This Century
• HOW TO: Set Up an Online Resume
• 3 Ways to Demonstrate Your Value in a Job Search
• 4 Ways to Defeat Job Search Desperation
• Show, Don’t Tell: The Future of Resumes
• What to Know Before You Apply to a Startup

One of the most important tools for jobseekers is RSS and Atom feeds. I’ve written on how they can be leveraged and sourced, but I also found a video clip explaining how I and others use them in our job search.

Final Thoughts

You have to fill your time while unemployed in a positive way. Volunteer or learn a new skill. Demonstrate you are talented and hardworking. I ended up doing a lot of reading plus collecting a lot of quotations. I eventually made a web mashup, some of them are a source of motivation, insight, and inspiration. One book I read was “Rework” from which I previously posted the following excerpt:

Hire great writers

If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position, hire the best writer. It doesn’t matter if that person is a marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever; their writing skills pay off.

That’s because being a good writer is about more than writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand. They can put themselves in some else’s shoes. They know what to omit. And those qualities you want in any candidate.

Writing is making a comeback all over our society. Look at how much people e-mail and text-message now rather than talk on the phone. Look at how much communication happens via instant messaging and blogging. Writing is today’s currency of good ideas.

Related posts:

1. My Best Writing Advice
2. Looking for a job online
3. Looking for work advice and resources
4. Blog your way to a better career (no really)

This entry was originaly posted on January 22nd, 2013, it was last edited on March 15th, 2013 and is filed under: Blogging, Online Social Networks, Self Marketing, Vancouver and tagged: advice, agents, blog, career, cover letter, expert, Facebook, feeds, insight, inspiration, interview, job, job search, jobseeker, LinkedIn, motivation, online, personal brand, personal branding, quotation, reputation, resume, RSS, social media, Twitter.