8. February 2010

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The Best Opportunities Are The Ones You Make For Yourself – Your Guide To Home-Based Business

If either the state of the nation’s economy or job market, or your own personal dissatisfactions have ever led you to thinking about starting up a home-based business, then you are far from being alone.  According to the Office of Advocacy, 52% of all small businesses are estimated to be home-based – and that’s only the [...]

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6. February 2010

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Recruiters and Hiring Managers Blacklist Job Candidates

I’ve just been reading an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about recruiting firms and hiring managers blacklisting job candidates.  According to the report, it is not just those described as ‘liars, losers and misfits’ who are not being referred to potential employers by recruiters, or are being flagged up as undesirable in terms [...]

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5. February 2010

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Business Meeting Protocols

Yesterday I spoke about how important business meetings can be in terms of allowing you an opportunity to stand out in the workplace.  Like many other situations, however, there are certain protocols (often unspoken) which need to be observed if you are to make the best impression.  Here are a few guidelines to remember: Be on [...]

4. February 2010

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Company Meetings – A Waste Of Time Or A Chance To Shine?

We’ve probably all seen a sign like this taped up in an office at some time or another:   ARE YOU LONELY???  Don’t like working on your own? Hate making decisions?   Then Call A Meeting!!  You can… SEE people DRAW flowcharts FEEL important FORM sub-committees IMPRESS your colleagues MAKE meaningless recommendations  All on COMPANY TIME!!!  MEETINGS… THE PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE TO WORK   Okay, so it’s pretty amusing and I’m sure we’ve all [...]

3. February 2010

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Tweeters Beware! Is Your P***word Safe?

Reports are literally coming out as we speak about a file-sharing scam involving Twitter which I thought my job-hunting friends might want to know about. According to a report just out, Twitter has discovered a number of rogue file-sharing sites set up purposely to skim usernames and passwords.  The torrent sites in question, which are usually [...]

1. February 2010

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Stop Procrastinating…No, Now! Not Later!

We’ve all heard the old saying ‘procrastination is the thief of time’, and boy whoever first came out with it certainly wasn’t wrong.  Procrastination doesn’t only eat away the minutes and the hours, but the weeks, the months and the years.  Before we know what’s hit us, a whole lifetime has passed and we’re still [...]

30. January 2010

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More Tips For Improving Your Skills During Unemployment

Yesterday I talked about the need to work on updating your existing skills and learn new ones while you are unemployed.  Often, of course, a period of unemployment leaves you with additional time on your hands and so expanding and revitalizing your skills is an extremely constructive way of filling those extra hours, as well [...]

29. January 2010

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Unemployed? That’s No Excuse For Not Improving Your Skills!

Having talked yesterday about the benefits of updating existing skills and learning new ones while you are in employment, I got to thinking about the kinds of things that the unemployed can do to improve their chances of getting back into and remaining in the workplace. Of course, any devoted but unemployed job seeker will already [...]

28. January 2010

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What’s So Great About Learning New Skills…And Updating Your Existing Ones?

You don’t have to listen too hard or for too long to anybody in the careers field before you’ll hear them talk about the importance of learning new skills and keeping your existing ones up-to-date. Why do we make such a big deal about it? Lots of reasons… First of all, why do businesses employ people? [...]

27. January 2010

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Have You Updated Your Facebook Privacy Settings Yet?

Regular users of Facebook will already have seen a pop-up appear on their screens some weeks ago when they logged in, to let them know that the social network site has adjusted its privacy settings.  If you haven’t logged in lately though, it might just be worthwhile doing so now. Basically, what the ‘powers-that-be’ at Facebook [...]

25. January 2010

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Job Search Engine Links Up With LinkedIn

Job boards, especially when jobs are so hard to come by, do of course have their place.  The one thing that perhaps they were lacking, however, was the inability to benefit from personal connections.  In most cases, hopeful candidates just winged off their applications to some unknown recruiter and hoped that theirs was good enough [...]

23. January 2010

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How Up-To-Date Is Your Job Search Advice?

I’ve been talking over the course of my last few posts about some of the frustrations experienced by unemployed graduates and school-leavers and their parents, and today I want to look at the situation that sometimes arises when well-meaning parents offer advice that might have been relevant in their day, but is now, quite frankly, [...]

22. January 2010

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So, You Want To Be A Tattooist…

As I mentioned yesterday, most parents have high hopes for their children’s futures.  For some, that means nothing more than wanting to see them happy and reasonably secure, but for others it translates into very fixed ideas about what is or is not an acceptable choice of career.  As they dream of their children becoming [...]

21. January 2010

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Why Do Parents Nag At Their Unemployed Children?

Yesterday, I looked at some of the frustrations experienced by those graduates and school-leavers who find themselves cast adrift in the big wide world with no clue as to which direction to set sail.  As promised, today I want to take a look from the other perspective…that of the parents. In some ways, it’s quite easy [...]

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