Archive | September, 2010

How NOT to get the job you really, really want

How NOT to get the job you really, really want

Have you considered renting a billboard and promoting your resume that way? If you have, can I make a suggestion? PLEASE DON’T do that. Mark4Hire <– Did it work? No. HirePasha <– Did it work? No, but she started her own company. God bless her. How much did it cost to rent the billboard? $7,000.00) [...]

How to Get The Job You Really, Really Want (Part 3)

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Let’s imagine that you are a Software Engineer and your dream job is to work for Microsoft and develop the next version of Halo. Do you want to stack the deck in your favor? Try this sneaky / strategic move. Find a resume of someone already working there and match your resume as closely (and [...]

How to Get The Job You Really, Really Want (Part 2)

How to Get The Job You Really, Really Want (Part 2)

In my last post I mentioned Linkedin, so in this one I am going to keep that vibe going. In this post, I am going to go a bit deeper in what I posted yesterday. In so many words, find people who work for a company you are interested in and then ask them refer [...]

How To Get the Job You Really, Really Want (Part 1)

How To Get the Job You Really, Really Want (Part 1)

A very good friend of mine is a brilliant fellow named Otis Collier. We have worked together on several occasions and are planning to do a VERY cool project together in the near-future, but more on that later. I wanted to share with you guys a job hunting strategy that he shared with me that [...]

Comic – The Resume Bear is ready for Ladies night!

No romance without finance

How difficult is it to find true love without a job? Julian – The Resume Bear and Pinky – The Panda, put their luck to the test when they go to a local pub on “Ladies Night.”

Top 10 Jobs that will (most likely and least likely) Be Outsourced

Top 10 Jobs that will (most likely and least likely) Be Outsourced

Nancy Folbre is an economic professor at the University of Massachusetts and by all-accounts, she is one smart cookie. Case in point, she did a report on “The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the US Labor Market” that said (among other things) that “Employment growth is ‘polarizing’ into relatively high-skill, high-wage jobs and low-skill, low-wage [...]

How To Pick The Right Career (Part 2)

How To Pick The Right Career (Part 2)

In part 1 of this series I showed you how to research government data to discern if the job you are qualified for (or studying to get a degree in) will be around later. In this post, I am doing more or less the same thing, but from a computer science perspective. In other words, [...]

The Hidden Jobs Report

In an earlier post I wrote about ways to find hidden jobs and as I reflected on that earlier today, I thought it might be useful if I made a weekly report to help you guys out. I mean, if you want me to. Let me know if you find this data useful and how [...]

How to Make Money While You’re Out of Work

How to Make Money While You’re Out of Work

Last year I gave a job-hunting webinar that focused on the in-between time between full-time roles. As you get anxious for the next interview and as you try to stretch your unemployment benefits, you need some income and you need it NOW! So, with that in mind, I share various ways you can legally make [...]

COMIC – The Resume Bear looks for a better tomorrow

Comic – The Resume Bear is looking for work

What would you do if you ran a major corporation? Would you do what it takes to keep people employed?