Archive for the 'jobseeker' Tag
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Source: visual.ly via Career Enlightenment on Pinterest 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 [...]
Posted in 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 |
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Sunday, January 20th, 2013
Self proclaimed experts continue to insist that jobseekers should blog. I’ve written well over 1000 blog posts and I have to say the more I blogged, the worse my so called career has gone. Other people may have benefited from blogging, but it isn’t advantageous nor necessary for everyone to blog. To paraphrase a famous [...]
Posted in Blogging, Self Marketing |
and Tagged: Chris Abraham, Diane Cline, Eric Shannon, expert advice, job search, jobseeker, Lindsay Olson, Max Gladwell, Nathan Marz, resume, Top 10, unemployed |
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
During all the time I’ve been unemployed I’ve done way too much thinking. I’ve also done a lot of reading. I’ve tried to learn stuff. I’ve tried to do a lot of things. Marvel at my resume. There is no shortage of advice for jobseekers both online and in the newspapers. Twitter is a source [...]
Posted in Blogging, Excel, Self Marketing |
and Tagged: advice, breakeven analysis, CFA Level 1, Facebook, job interview, job search, jobseeker, LinkedIn, PHP, quotations, quotes, resume, spreadsheet, Top 10, Twitter, valuation, VBA, web mashup |
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
I’ve spent a lot of time working on my mashup codebase, more than I intended, that is for sure. I’m not a software developer anymore but I can fool people online if I can keep my distaste for PHP under control. I’ve made changes to just about every class and added support for more APIs, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Internet, Online Social Networks, Search Engines |
and Tagged: API, blogs, Google, Google labs, IceRocket, job search, jobseeker, Klout, Kred, mBlast, PeerIndex, PHP, Pinterest, social graph, social web, Technorati, Topsy.com, Twitter, twitterverse |
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
I actually have an interview tomorrow, the company in question got my application and the next day contacted me and the day after we’re sitting down to talk. I wish more companies could be like that. Even if I don’t get the job, just knowing I was considered seriously and not just filed in some [...]
Posted in 40K, Miniature Painting, Vancouver |
and Tagged: Astronomi-con, job search, jobseeker, LinkedIn, networking, Relic Entertainment |
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