Career Collective post: Once a month, a group of career professionals blog on a subject topical and timely for a job seeker. We’ll post our thoughts on our own blog and link to the post of our colleagues on the same topic.
This month’s topic: What do you do when you’re really, really, really discouraged about [...]
Archive of posts tagged Job Search
Job Search Tweets
When Susan Whitcomb, Deb Dib and Chandlee Bryan put out a call for job search tweets for inclusion in their upcoming book, The Twitter Job Search Guide: Find a Job and Advance Your Career in Just 15 Minutes a Day, (set for release early March 2010), I gladly dug through my Twitter stream and found [...]
Basic computer skills? Please define.
I received this message from Matthew, via Facebook. It’s a good question. I decided to share it and my answer to Matthew here. THANKS MATTHEW.
January 28 at 5:12pm
Dear Ms. Bugni,
In your post (which was very well-written, by the way) you mention the necessity of having “basic computer skills” to compete in today’s job [...]
There is no such thing as “Just”
“It’s not who we are that holds us back….it’s who we think we are not!”
This quote floats by on Twitter occasionally. I liked it so well the first time I saw it, I wrote it down on a post- it note and put it at eye-level in front of me. Not sure who coined it, but it’s [...]
Tenacity and Plans B, C, D …
I went to my computer early last Monday morning (12-20) around 2:30 a.m. I live with six dogs and an “old bladder” so middle of the night computer visits are normal for me. I check email or catch up on Twitter until I get sleepy again. Sometimes, on Twitter, I’ll find another night owl or someone [...]
Targeted company searches
The Professional Association of Resume Writers had a great conversation on their elist about how to identify companies in a specific geographic areas – like San Francisco metro and in a specific industry — life medical device or biotech – recently.
The ideas for conducting targeted searches were so good, I consolidated all the posts and [...]
Networking opportunities in Wilmington, NC
I did some research on local networking opportunities a while back for a job seeker. She and I met though the Job Angels initiative originally started on Twitter. She recently graduated with an engineering degree and moved from Michigan to Wilmington, NC. She knew virtually no one and was anxious to launch her career. She [...]
