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Build your self-esteem during unemployment: A starter guide
Quite often, career professionals like myself deal with the "employability factor" to help you get hired, but sometimes dismiss an issue that can make or break a prolonged period of unemployment, battered self-esteem. So how do you stay calm, composed and maintain self- esteem in tough economy times? Here are some tips you may to consider as a starter guide to self-improvement. Imagine yourself as a Dart Board. Everything and everyone else around you may become Dart Pins, at one point... |
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Do you care about your picture on Social networks?
www.laurentbrouat.comYour picture on Social networks is the killer app…You don’t believe me?Piskorski a Harvard professor made that discovery: “I just wondered why people spend so much time on these sites (social networks); what do they do?” The biggest discovery: pictures. “People just love to look at pictures,” says Piskorski. “That’s the killer app of all online social networks. Seventy percent of all actions are related to viewing pictures or viewing other people’s profiles.” Now... |
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Taking Control of Your Career
Yesterday's post was about looking for a new job while you are employed. This post is about why we are looking for new work. DDI conducted a survey last summer Pulse of the Workforce and declares that our workforce is stagnant. Here is one of the questions they asked: 44% will be leaving when the economy improves. What can be done to fix this? None of us really want to look for a new job. It would be easier to stay where we are and make the situation better. But do companies understand... |
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Q3A Update
http://blog.danmiller.ca My team and I spent about 4 1/2 hours today working on our Quake mod and FINALLY managed to make some progress. Not only did we solve the problem of increasing a bots health but after a lot of searching and looking through code we figured out and implemented a ton of new features today. I don't want to give them all away just yet, we want to keep a few secret for the final unveiling near the end of the semester but I will mention a few things right now. Locational Damage... |
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Job Hunting - It's Who You Know
Reposted from CareerAlley "'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat." - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland I've never really been a big believer of networking as the main job search strategy. In fact, for whatever reason, I've always felt that "who you know" plays a very small part in landing a job (despite the statistics). But just last week I helped someone I know get a job by referring... |
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Modding Mayhem
http://blog.danmiller.ca Its good to be back! For those of you wondering what the heck I'm talking about, somehow the internet line that runs to my house (which my ISP didn't bury) got cut a few days ago, resulting in no internet. Since I really don't have anything better to do at home, and after watching Whose Line Is It Anyway? for and entire day, I decided to stay at the college after my classes, because there's internet there. This resulted in lots of Age of Empires and Starcraft games, which... |
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Website Redesigned
Originally Posted: March 2 - http://blog.danmiller.ca I have uploaded the new version of my website, there is still some content I need to add on a couple of the pages and I'm considering a background other then white. Other then that the look and feel is complete, so check it out! Other updates are I have uploaded my Java Calculator that Jason Racine and myself designed and built for the final project in Java programming last semester. We received 110% for our efforts, be sure to try out the... |
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Job Portals going social!!
What is social about a job portal? Hmmm Tuff one to answer. The reason for writing this post was, the other day I was on Naukri.com (India’s No 1 Job Portal, stats say it). It was a routine task of Job Posting, and I was almost done by submitting it on the site. But then there was a new window – Guess what, I had an option to publish my job posting on my social / professional networking sites. Interesting.. Right? Wonder what made them to introduce this feature on a Job Portal. It will surely... |
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Famous Last Words of Job Seekers
What is the one piece of advice you would give to a fellow job seeker? What worked in your search? What didn't? These questions have been asked many times and the answers come back fairly the same from different successful seekers. However, the answers aren't as specific as I think you are looking for. What you really want to know is: what is the one thing I can do to find a job more quickly. I don't think there is one answer to this question. Here are some of the re-occurring answers to the... |
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Jobs for College Grads Vol 7
Reposted from CareerAlley "Running on - running on empty, Running on - running blind, Running on - running into the sun, But I'm running behind" - Jackson Browne Running on empty? The list of possibilities for job search leads is endless, and if yours is running on empty it's time to fill up. Your biggest problem should be that you have so many job leads and so little time. But don't take my word for it, take a look at the list of resources and leads in this post and get to work. Not to say... |
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Green jobs: get 'em here
Green Job Spider to Aggregate Green Jobs New job search engine to index green jobs across the web Green jobs are growing substantially according to several recent studies. Now a new job search engine called Green Job Spider, aims to aggregate those jobs as the 'Google for green jobs'. With more than 50 green job boards currently scattered across the web, job seekers are having a hard time finding and applying to this fast growing job market. Green Job Spider will enable them to search for these... |
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Job hunting with a conviction on your record
Even if you have a conviction, or have served time, you still need money to survive. Typically, this means you need a job of some type. But, if you have tried to find a job with a conviction on your record, you will have noticed that it's very hard to get employers to accept that you'll be a great member of the team when you've broken the law. Here are a few tips to get you started in the right direction. First, try consulting legal aid about getting your record expunged or sealed. This... |
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10 Cover Letter Tips (Booklet)
Written by Teena Rose, CoverLetterCentral.com Writing an effective cover letter is getting tougher and tougher. How do you start the cover letter? What do you say? How do you write a cover letter that doesn't look like the millions of others this hiring company will receive over the next week alone? These questions cover issues we all struggle with, so don't feel alone. The following booklet contains 10 cover letter tips to help you further write a unique cover letter. Feel free to share this... |
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The best paying jobs
Ever wondered what jobs pay the best? There's a new book out that tells you just that and we have some of them right here. Enjoy. Many people dream about wealth, but only a small fraction of them actually attain it. Those who do generally don’t score high-paying jobs until they’ve spent at least a few years—if not many more—in the world of work. People wanting to achieve high earnings right from the start of their careers may be interested in Laurence Shatkin’s recently released book... |
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Smaller May Be Better
The corporate giants a fading or falling. Where will your new job opportunities lie? In the small companies. If you've never worked in a company with fewer than 1,000+ people, now is your chance! Great Leadership addressed the issue of leadership differences between large and small companies. In the post, Dan McCarthy cites a landmark leadership development study which indicates that great leadership is formed from these experiences: 1. Job changes 2. Challenging, stretch assignments (without... |
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Spamming during your job search
www.laurentbrouat.com When you look for a job, you send emails. And when you send emails, you send emails to unknown people or to HR people willing to get the ball rolling. But do you know that these people are flooded with emails? “A survey of 2,300 Intel employees revealed that people judge nearly onethird of the messages they receive to be unnecessary. Given that those same employees spend about two hours a day processing e-mail (employees surveyed received an average of 350 messages... |
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Who's Hiring from 100 Best Places to Work in IT Vol 1
Reposted from CareerAlley “Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology” - John Tudor Time for another list of companies where you may want to work. This list, provided by Computer World is an interesting list. The important thing to point out here is that the companies on this list are not necessarily technology companies but leverage technology in their companies and industries. So, if you are expecting to see a long list of "who's who"... |
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Being the Office Suck Up
(from “What Happens in Vegas”–Chong is trying to schmooze her boss–and he’s not buying it) — We have all had to put up with our fair share of suck ups at work. They constantly tell the boss how great she looks, and never show up to the boss’s office empty handed. The schmoozing never ends. So, what do these acts of utter transparency get them? Paid, my friend, paid. There are many benefits of being the office suck up. In fact, it should be looked at as an art form. The best at... |
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AIRSTRIKKKKE
Originally Posted: Feb 27/10 - http://blog.danmiller.ca I've been keeping pretty busy the last couple days. I'm starting to apply for some programming and web developer jobs so I spent a good chunk of my night a couple days ago creating a nice looking cover letter to apply with. Other then that theres been my Games Programming project, normal classwork, and my website redesign. Classwork wasn't bad this week, got to brush off the years of dust from my PHP skills and start re-learning that, it... |