Poll: What are the biggest challenges for your job search?

Job search

We would love to hear from you what your biggest challenges are when it comes to looking for a new job. Thank you for your time – Gracias / Danke [...]

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Job Search Handbook Part III: Defining your USP

How-to

USP, according to Wikipedia entry is “The Unique Selling Proposition (also Unique Selling Point) is a marketing concept that was first proposed as a theory to explain a pattern among [...]

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How to get a recruiter to call you (JobPounce sample tip)

communication

As you may know, JobPounce sessions include a unique methodology and techniques to help job seekers find their next job. Here’s a quick sample of one the techniques we teach [...]

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Posts for first time visitors

Currently employed

If you are a new visitor, here are some of posts you should absolutely read – one of the reasons is that these are my favorites posts Are you relevant? [...]

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Welcome Mercury News readers

communication

A warm welcome to our Mercury News friends and thank you for following us from today’s story. Here are a couple of things that we would like to suggest: 1) [...]

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JobPounce – let the sessions begin!

Job search

JobPounce sessions were kicked off last Saturday, June 13th in CareerTiger’s downtown San Jose office. Rather then we telling you more about how it went, let’s hear it from the participants [...]

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Slay the monster(.com)

Job search

You have a critical choice to make during your job quest. Should you use job boards like Monster / Hotjobs / CareerBuilder? The answer is yes – ONLY if you [...]

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Pam’s EFCN Bay Area Workshop

Job search

Pamela Slim is on my High Council of Jedi Knights (her term, not mine) and she is conducting an all day workshop in the Bay Area on June 25th as [...]

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We heard you and we are changing!

Job search

Thank you for your incredible feedback around the Silicon Valley JobPounce event. We received numerous pieces of feedback regarding the event and here are some of the common themes that [...]

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Job Search Handbook Part II: Job Search Strategy

How-to

Imagine a symphony orchestra trying to make music with no notes and no conductor. Though the players might be very skilled, but they would lack focus and coordination. And the [...]

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