As the holiday season arrives many job seekers make a bad decision – to lessen, or shut down all-together, their job search with the thought they’ll renew and resume their search in the new year. Bad decision! Why? A misunderstanding of how hiring happens. Many job seekers mistakenly believe that employers stop hiring during theRead… Read more »
Bah-Humbug. Not really, but when it comes to those holiday traditions… Spending money you don’t have, on presents you don’t want to buy, to travel to places you don’t want to go, on entertaining you don’t want to do. Spending time you don’t have, with people you don’t want to see, on holiday traditions youRead… Read more »
Scott Smith, Nick Papagiannis and I had the opportunity to kick off Social Media Week Chicago with a presentation titled “Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers, AND Google Happy” to a packed house at Morningstar in Chicago. If you missed it, we’ve created a Storify for the event hashtag and embedded the livestream andRead… Read more »
Basis Technology is offering an Autopsy training class directly following the Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (http://OSDFCon.org) in Chantilly, VA. This is part of an initial push to establish the premier training program for this powerful open source digital forensics tool. For those who have already downloaded and tried Autopsy (and there are over 12,000Read… Read more »
Our Fall Cleared Job Fair schedule: Sept 5 – Springfield, Va Oct 1 – Tysons Corner, Va Oct 24 – BWI, Md Nov 21, – Crystal City, Va 98% of Cleared Job Seekers Recommend Cleared Job Fairs We survey the job seekers who attend Cleared Job Fairs in an effort to continually improve customer serviceRead… Read more »
Don’t be afraid to ask the right people for references. The right people are your former bosses. Tell your references: 1. I’d like you to be a reference in my job search. 2. Why you’re asking them to be a reference. “I remember what a great boss you were,” or “I learned a lot fromRead… Read more »
Recently I was at a meeting with military folks transitioning to the civilian work world. Several asked for my card. Not one has contacted me in the weeks since. An old friend has been looking for work for a year. Many people who know him ask me about his progress. And then say ‘he neverRead… Read more »
Sitting in your chair looking at job ads? Search agents out on your favorite sites? Think that is job search? Well, actually, no. I regularly hear job seekers complain about not finding good jobs online or never hearing back from all the resumes they have submitted to job ads. Blasting out your resume to everyRead… Read more »
Since Graph Search was announced by Facebook, bloggers and digital nerds have been singing its praises and aggressively speculating on what other search engines/sites this new tool will take down (Google watch out! Yelp you’re going down! FourSquare don’t even think about it!). Through the buzz, I have remained cautious, and then I came acrossRead… Read more »
“It’s no secret that careers in health care are booming. In fact, the U.S. Department of Labor expects the health care and social assistance industry to add 5.6 million jobs from 2010 to 2020 – more than any other field.” The U.S. Department of Labor projects 68,000 new medical and health services manager jobs toRead… Read more »