Another piece of advice from Penelope Trunk’s blog: Work is more fun when you have friends. True, a job is more fun when you have work friends: people to meet for lunch, people who add spice to meetings, and people who help you out when you’re overloaded. I would say, just don’t assume they’re friend-friends. […]
Career Advice and Opinions
Career Change in a Pay-Per-Click Environment
Today’s Wall Street Journal (March 9, 2009, page B4: Recruiters Use Search Engines to Lure Job Hunters” by Sarah Needleman) reports that recruiters increasingly turn to Google adwords and other forms of pay per click advertising (ppc). That is, they buy ads that you see next to your search results. Developing and writing these ads […]
Job Search With These Networks
Copywriter Perry Belcher found this valuable link: 10 Ning Networks for Job Hunting.
Changing careers? Some good advice
Here’s some good career change advice from Penelope Trunk, qoted in someone else’s blog. I especially like the part about easing into a new job. She also says your worst enemy is inertia. So true. Click here for more.
Can you find a new job by beating the system?
Penelope Trunk, The Brazen Careerist, says yes. Here’s a list of tips she just published in her own blog. They’re pretty good tips, but I’d be cautious about working for free. Writing a free column is a good move because she’d win whether or not she got invited to become a paid columnist. Getting the […]
Need a job? Check out these new tips.
Job search goes Hollywood! A Michigan community college helps unemployed workers train for the film industry. Read the story here. One woman in that story learned about the program by broadcasting her story. She opened a Facebook page and told all her friends she needed a job. Someone emailed her about the program. Here are […]