Over at Wired, there is an article that suggests layoffs are good both for you and for the technology industry. It’s a provocative title, to be sure. The argument is that workers in Silicon Valley have a culture of not doing work they don’t like — so they job-hop. Not for promotions or climbing the… Continue Reading
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30 Career Management Tips — Provide Personal Communication
This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities. Today’s tip: Provide personal communication. There’s e-mail, instant messenger, Twitter, Blackberry’s, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and snail mail. What do they all have in common? Not talking with the person on the other end of… Continue Reading
Twitter tips: 4 ways to discover job leads for the job seeker
photo credit: TarikB Twitter, on the face of it, is overwhelming. Especially to job seekers. How can you find job leads in 140 characters? Well, there are some good, workable strategies you can use to generate job leads using Twitter. Twitter won’t get you the job — but it can let you know a job… Continue Reading