JibberJobber Blog
advocacy for the job seeker
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Giveaway: Networking for the Novice, Nervous or Naive Job Seeker
New: an EVENING JibberJobber User Webinar TOMORROW, March 9th at 7p EST. Register here. (other webinars listed here) LinkedIn for Job Seekers DVD for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.Sorry about last week’s Giveaway (I skipped it!). Here’s the question for this week: WHY do we (in general) HATE networking? Leave your answer in the blog post (not on Facebook) I’ll have Tom Dezell, author of the book Networking for the Novice, Nervous or Naive Job Seeker choose the... |
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Favorite Friday: Networking Introductions (HOW TO)
New: an EVENING JibberJobber User Webinar on Tuesday, March 9th at 7p EST. Register here. (other webinars listed here) LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.I get a lot of emails from people who are introducing themselves or introducing others. I also get a lot of LinkedIn invitations. Many of them are not put together well, or the responses are not put together well. Here are THREE of my favorite posts where I talk about how to introduce someone, or yourself: Job... |
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What I Think About Job Boards
New: an EVENING JibberJobber User Webinar on Tuesday, March 9th at 7p EST. Register here. (other webinars listed here) LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. About once a week someone sends me a message saying they are not happy with the job search results in JibberJobber. Here’s a message someone wrote when they deleted their JJ account: “All the jobs I find here I’m seeing on other sites.” They think JibberJobber is a job board. In... |
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When Recruiters Eliminate You
New: an EVENING JibberJobber User Webinar on Tuesday, March 9th at 7p EST. Register here. (other webinars listed here) LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. Barry Deutsch, from Impact Hiring Solutions, writes one of the best blogs for job seekers I’ve seen. You can follow him on Twitter (@Barry_at_IMPACT). He recently wrote The Best Recruiters Eliminate YOU With their First Question, which is a must-read if you are (or want to) work with recruiters. It... |
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Universal Job Skills
New: an EVENING JibberJobber User Webinar on Tuesday, March 9th at 7p EST. Register here. (other webinars listed here) LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.I was quoted in Forbes.com on their article titled The Seven Most Universal Job Skills. Here’s the list (to see explanations go to the Forbes article): Top-Notch Communication Skills (Andrea Kay’s recommendation) Creativity (my recommendation) Curiosity (my recommendation) Good Writing Ability... |
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Favorite Friday: Substantiate Yourself
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.I’m going to go back to my old posts and share the ones that I love the most…. either because they got a lot of reaction and stimulated discussion (which means the readers back then loved it) or because I thought it was profound, even if no one commented on it :p December 12th, 2006. JibberJobber was barely 6 months old. I talked about an idea that proved to be a turning point in my job search. Even though... |
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The Pregnant Job Search
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.Jacob Share has an interesting post called Pregnant Job Hunting: When You Should and When You Shouldn’t. I’ve never looked for a job while pregnant so I really don’t know where to weigh in (except for one thing, below). I do remember hearing more than one manager say “I will never hire a woman again,” because maternity leave was a blow to the small company. I’ve heard that a few times, but... |
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Unemployment and Underemployment
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.An article in Yahoo News is titled Nearly 20 percent of U.S. workers underemployed. Combine that with about 10% unemployment in the U.S. and you have about 30% of our workforce that cannot generate any, or enough, income. I’d guess (with NOTHING to back this up, just a guess) there is another 10% who have moved from the gov’ts misleading stat of “unemployed” to whatever they move to after they run... |
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I wondered: Will I ever walk again?
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.Last summer I ripped my calf pretty bad in a sports accident. Well, the accident was that I was a out-of-shape dude playing capture the flag with a bunch of eight year olds. I hobbled around on what I thought was a pulled muscle for a week. At the end of that week I lept in a heroic effort to save my amost 3 year old from burning herself when she got something out of the microwave. That leap did my calf in. I went to... |
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Giveaway: LinkedIn For Job Seekers (LinkedIn DVD)
This DVD is currently on sale at 50% off (only $25). But it is still useful and, well, awesome. I’ll ship the LinkedIn DVD in a week, when I announce the winner. The question is: What value do you think you should get out of LinkedIn, or a social marketing strategy, that you aren’t? (and why?) Answer in the BLOG comments, not on Facebook. The winner of last week was Becky, who said it is her lizard brain (a la Seth Godin) that keeps her from crushing it. |
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How To Manipulate a CSV File
Man, just typing the title of this post makes me cringe with boredom. However, I have used this technique many times over my career, and just recently the issue came up from a JibberJobber user who imported his Contacts. His problem was that the first name and last name were in the same column, but we want that broken out when you do the import. Fixing this is actually really simple. In my user webinars I talk about opening a csv file in Excel, so you can see the pretty columns and rows…... |
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AOL + Jason Alba
So I’m now writing for AOL… I’ve written a few posts/articles, and today one of them was good enough to hit the “welcome screen,” which means quiet a few people might see it. Quite a few = lots. Here’s an image of my article on the AOL welcome screen: This article was edited and changed a few times, which is something I’m not used to (can’t you tell, from my writing, that I’m not used to being edited? :p) Pretty cool stuff. If you are coming... |
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Are You Afraid of Success?
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.In yesterday’s giveaway question I asked if you were not crushing int because you were afraid of success. I’m not asking if you are afraid of FAILING, I’m asking if you are afraid of SUCCEEDING. With success comes responsibility. It might come in the form of money, or a title, or recognition, etc. Sometimes I look at stuff people do and wonder if they are intentionally doing wrong things because they... |
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Giveaway: Crush It!
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. I’m just about done reading this through again and am ready to drop it in the mail to anyone who wins this week’s giveaway. You know the rules… just answer the question in the comments on the blog (not on Facebook). My biggest issue with this book is that it talks too much about social marketing… Gary built a huge business using social tools and so that’s what he talks about (I think he talks... |
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Rob Frankel’s Ten Steps to Saving Your Butt
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here. You know how I feel about “job security”… there is none. Even those who do “everything right” in their career can get canned for one of a million reasons. Even so, here’s a fun list from Rob Frankel… he created it for his employees to help them know what they could do to become more valuable, or as Rob says, to save their butts. The full list is here… here are the first... |
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Job Search vs. Organize Your Files
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.Many years ago I worked at the FBI as a clerk. When I first started there we didn’t have an office or cubicles, but eventually someone fought for us to have our own little space. It was really nice and we ended up with our own oversized cubicles. Going from nothing to a full suite was really cool. I look back on that time and remember a distinct activity I did when I was bored (I was frequently bored there). I... |
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Giveaway: 12 Boxes of Golden Grahams cereal
LinkedIn for Job Seekers for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.Seriously (or is it, cerealously)…. 12 boxes of Golden Grahams cereal. Not a book, not a DVD. Cereal You know how this is done (if you don’t, read about other Monday Giveaways here)… the question is: What was your funniest or most awkward job experience? Leave your answer in the blog comment, below! Good luck! Dear FTC: this cereal giveaway is possible because of General Mills. I’m not touching... |
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My daughter cut her own bangs (related to your job loss)
LinkedIn for Job Seekers (the DVD) for $49.95 $25. Check out all the specials here.My three year old daughter cut her own bangs this week. Actually, the appropriate word is not “cut,” it is “butchered.” Just like every other kid in the world, she found some alone time with a mirror and scissors, and she had just seen my wife trim her bangs. So it was something she wanted to do. At first she was pretty proud of the job she did. But as people started noticing and talking... |
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Question: If a job seeker has no money, what can he GIVE?
When I figured “it” out (it = my job search), everything changed. The biggest change was in my happiness and excitement. I was jazzed about life and my job search. Why? Because I had figured out what I could GIVE. I couldn’t give money, or lunches, or anything that would be out-of-pocket. Even $10, like what I blogged about yesterday, was out of the question. How could I give $10 to someone when one of my kids needed food, or shoes, or ____ (there’s always something,... |
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Ten Bucks for Keisha
My buddy Daniel Johnson changes his status regularly, and this one caught my attention: Dan doesn’t know I’m writing this post right now. He just knows I contributed, that’s all. Dan is… how do I put this… the salt of the earth. Dan is one of those really good, genuine people. We’ve known each other virtually since 2006. I have always had a lot of respect for what Dan does for job seekers (a lot). He’s one of the first bloggers I wanted to get to... |