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CareersDiva
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A blog of career and job hunting advice, as well as random job search musings from a career development instructor.
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Do jobs have shelf lives?
I once had an interview with a manager who said he wasn’t concerned about why I left my previous job, which I had been at for about two and a half years because he believed jobs had shelf lives, and that was the life span of most writing jobs i...
Self-marketing, what does that mean?
My experience with marketing and public relations officials during my time as a technology journalist provides insights that could prove valuable to job seekers. When I worked as a member of the press covering technology, PR and marketing officials r...
Networking, Part 2 - Elevator Pitch for Dating!
I’ve always thought that the best way to meet a potential mate was through other people. It just makes sense. Friends can serve as judges and filters of a person’s character, unlike say, an Internet Web site, in which a person can misrep...
Networking - Part 1
I regularly teach my students the importance of networking, and stress that upwards of 65 percent — depending on the study — of all jobs are obtained through networking. A case of one of my former students really drove that home.My studen...
Yana Parker Changed my Life!
OK, that’s hyperbole, but Ms. Parker’s ideas, which she published in the Damn Good Resume Guide, changed the way I thought about resumes. That was back in 1990, before the World Wide Web. Ms. Parker posted a Hypercard stack about resume...
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