Consider creating multiple sources of income for your household. Just as financial planners tell us to diversify our investments to minimize risk, and smart business owner seek out several sources of income (i.e. they don’t rely on a single customer for all of their business income), it can also be smart to establish multiple [...]

In the book Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, author Seth Godin talks about the importance of being remarkable. He’s talking about building a business and marketing a product, but this advice applies to job searching too. After all, when you’re job searching you are marketing a product (you) to employers.
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Decision making is a very personal process, and there is no single correct way to come to a good decision. You may be tend to use very tangible, concrete information for your decision making, or you may be more of an intuitive person who uses information that is abstract and theoretical to inform your [...]

Effective job searching is all about marketing. If you know anything about how to market products and services, you know how to job search.
One basic tenet of marketing is that you should never try to be all things to all people. Find a target audience and speak directly to those people. Show [...]

Social networking sites like Facebook can have an impact on your job search; whether the impact is positive or negative depends on how you choose to use the site.
Your Facebook Friend List
Facebook can be a fantastic networking tool. Adding colleagues, particularly former co-workers or acquaintances to your friend list and sending a quick note [...]

After working with hundreds of clients, I can say with confidence that the biggest predictor of career success is attitude.
No matter what the labor market dishes out, or what barriers to employment people may face, those who are willing to do what it takes - including those tasks that are difficult and nerve wracking - [...]