In a recent post, Career Rocketeer discussed the importance of building a positive online footprint.
Your online footprint is the digital imprint of your life. It’s the things you created deliberately, with readers in mind, like your LinkedIn profile or VisualCV. But it’s also the comments you made two years ago on a political blog. It’s [...]
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June, 2009
Clean Up Your Online Footprint
When is a Critique Not a Critique?
I’m a little late with this posting, but a couple of weeks ago Jason Alba over at Jibber Jobber wrote an interesting post that got a lot of attention. His main subject was the free resume critique service offered by The Ladders but his comments apply to more than just that company and so I [...]
Don’t Kill Your Resume – Operate On It!
This post by Michael at Human Race Horses makes an argument that I hear often. In these days of social media and web-based job search, can a resume really do the job? Michael thinks not:
Another personal reason for wanting to kill my resume is that in looking at this little historical snapshot from so long [...]
Why Some Jobs Are Like Leather Pants
Last week I linked to this innovative website belonging to a job seeker. I love the site! It’s irreverent, eye-catching and a far better testament to Miel Van Opstal’s creativity than anything he could write on his resume.
A couple of commentors made a good point though and I wanted to spend a little time on [...]
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How to Write a Resume – Step #1: Feel their Pain
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The 7 Deadly Job Search Sins
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What George Costanza Knows About Job Search
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Should I Be on LinkedIn?
I get asked this question all the time. Let me ask you this in return … if you knew of a regular social...
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