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6 Steps for Rekindling Your Career in 2013
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2012 CommentTis the season to begin thinking about New Year's resolutions. Get a jump start on your career and professional development by including some of these items to your list. If you believe your job will last a lifetime or feel your employer owes you training and development, think again. You don't want to get caught unprepared for your next move, either by your choice or someone else's, and you won't if you include these steps to your regular routine.
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Do You Need to Attend Your Company Holiday Party?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2012 CommentIf you're like a lot of people, you might not be too excited to attend your company holiday party this year. You might enjoy drinking punch and eating Christmas cookies with friends and neighbors, but when it comes to doing the same with your co-workers, you're less enthused. In fact, a recent survey by Glassdoor found that only 5 percent of employees named a holiday celebration as a perk they're hoping for at work this year.
No matter how unenthusiastic you may be, going to your office holiday party is a good career move. Even if you'd much rather stay home and watch It's a Wonderful Life for the 11th time, the office holiday party can be important to your career and pay off in the following ways:
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The Top 10 Overused Buzzwords on LinkedIn
Tweet Share on Facebook December 4, 2012 CommentWhile you might feel that saying you have a great "track record" of being "organized" is an accurate way to relate your experience on your resume or LinkedIn profile, hiring managers have had enough of these generic buzzwords. They really do little to describe the specific experience you've gained at a job, and they're too easy to fall back on.
Each year, LinkedIn identifies the top 10 overused buzzwords on LinkedIn profiles. It's interesting to see that the words do change from year to year. Here's the list for 2012:
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5 Reasons Your Online Networking Efforts Aren't Working
Tweet Share on Facebook December 4, 2012 CommentThe majority of your job hunt should be spent networking, but what do you do after you have exhausted your list of contacts in your immediate network?
One option is to network online by sending emails or LinkedIn messages to successful professionals in your industry whom you haven't actually met. In other words, you can "cold-call" professionals online.
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3 Ways LinkedIn Can Help You Nab a Job
Tweet Share on Facebook December 4, 2012 CommentLinkedIn is, by far, the most active and successful social media hunting ground for talent utilized by businesses of all sizes. Moreover, third-party recruiters see LinkedIn as an indispensable tool, as their worth and ability to make placements for their corporate clients is largely dependent on both the size and quality of their networks. So too, LinkedIn has become an indispensable hunting ground for nearly every job hunter.
There is no one "right" way to use LinkedIn, and you're bound only by your imagination. Here are three purposes you should seek to achieve, and some tips about how to accomplish each one:
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Job Market Predictions for 2013 and Beyond
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2012 CommentWhether you're a clerk or a CEO, unemployed, well-employed, or self-employed, it helps to have a sense of what's next. Here's my take:
The prediction I keep making that has been wrong. For the decade since the human genome was decoded, it seemed clear that breakthroughs in individualized medicine were imminent: for example, cancer treatment customized to a person's genetic makeup. But nope, no real breakthroughs yet. However, recent exchanges with leading genetics researchers—Stanford University's William Newsome, the Beijing Genomics Institute's Steve Hsu, University of California’s Richard Haier, and Executive Director of the Society for Neuroscience Marty Saggese—force me to continue making my heretofore wrong prediction. One word of career advice to the next generation of science- and math-oriented students: "biotech."
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Quit Job-Searching. You Might Actually Land a Job When You Do
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2012 CommentHave you ever noticed that the moment you stop looking for something, you find it?
Your keys, your phone, the elusive shopping-list item at your local grocer, or even the love of your life. Sometimes, they seemingly appear out of nowhere at the moment you stop the search itself.
Of course, this applies to the job search as well.
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How to Scare Away a Job Interviewer
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2012 CommentMost job seekers worry about making mistakes in interviews, but most interviewers understand that no one gives a perfect interview and will overlook the occasional flubbed answer. However, it's still possible to scare off your interviewer with a single statement or action. Here are 10 of the most likely ways to spook your interviewer.
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