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The best way to introduce yourself to a company that doesn’t appear to be actively looking is to know the “What, where and how you can help the company”. I can give you a better-than-even chance to get the door to open to be able to introduce yourself, perhaps even create a job that is just right for you. It will take time and careful preparation but it will pay a dividend.

Step 1 – Functional strengths: Begin by listing all your functional strengths across the top of a she… Continue

An Easy 5-Step Method for Choosing a Major & Ultimately Defining Future Job Satisfaction

Start with the end in mind. As with writing a speech, you determine what your objective is and what you want your audience to have when they leave the auditorium and THEN you begin to write your speech, make sense? Same with the job search and too, picking a major, internships, related clubs and activities, and more: You begin with the end in mind

Every step you take, even in the moment,… Continue

You're job search is not doomed but without networking you are doomed to suffer a longer more difficult one.

Although networking is important it is only one piece in a multiple-channel job search marketing strategy. You help yourself best by working ALL your channels. Some other channels are,

· Online networking portholes such as LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace;
· Recruiters and Search Firms;
· Job sites such as Indeed, Ladders and CareerBuilder;
· Targeted mailing and Informational I… Continue

Show me someone who hasn’t fantasized getting in the car and leaving it all behind and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t drive. The banks are a mess, credit is awful, the U.S auto industry is a mess, unemployment is climbing still, we’re all out of money, gas prices are on the rise again … oh yeah … and according to the G-8 Summit our planet is melting!

Many people mistakenly assume if a company is not actively looking for someone then a job isn’t available. The experience of many job-hunters m… Continue