The popularity of LinkedIn has soared - the year over year growth is 200%, and the economy is the culprit. I’m seeing people on Twitter talking about their education, and looking for work, asking for leads. Facebook has seen growth as well, with people friending others, no matter how remote, i...

Since last Monday I’ve been giving presentations on using tools for job search and career management (and even social marketing). I’m amazed at the percentage of people who are really, really new to this stuff.  A lot of people have known about tools, and even the tactics and strategies...

Every Friday I’m sharing each of my ten revenue streams. With this post I only have 4 left (this is #6 of 10). I’m big on diversifying personal income, whether you are an entrepreneur or an employee. My intention with this series is to inspire or encourage you with your own diverse revenue strea...

Every Friday I’m sharing each of the ten revenue streams that I finally put down on paper. With this post I only have 5 left (this is #5 out of 10).  I’m big on diversifying personal income, whether you are an entrepreneur or an employee.  My intention with this series is to inspire or encoura...

If you are like me you would have thought you didn’t have enough money to write your own resume.  I should have engaged a professional resume writer, but I couldn’t figure out where the few hundred dollars would come from.  Plus, I thought I was smart enough to write my own resume - af...

I was listening to a teleseminar recently with Jack Chapman (salary negotiations expert) and Orville Pierson (of Lee Hecht Harrison), both legendary thought leaders in the job search space. Orville asked the listeners, all career coaches, resume writers, career counselors and related professionals, ...

Looks like Fridays are turning into sharing my revenue streams.  I didn’t mean to be so transparent about this, and I’m a little uncomfortable as I feel I’m kind of opening the kimono … something I wouldn’t have been comfortable doing a few years ago. But I talk a lot ...

Perhaps no other economic downturn in the last 20 years is causing the same level of reverberations through the nation's economy as the recession we're now in the midst of. While everyone's concerned about their future in one degree or another, perhaps no group is as concerned as recent college grad...

Two new articles on the Wall Street Journal today demonstrate the great lengths that many job seekers are going to in order to get the job. The first piece is quite shocking and goes into great detail about how job seekers are scrambling to secure the few crumbs of retail jobs that remain by cheatin...

The sky is falling! Alcoa announces they are cutting their “global workforce” by 13%, or 13,500 employees, by the end of 2009. No it’s not! FBI plans large hiring blitz of agents, experts. I think Obama will create a ton of jobs.  That could be good. It could also create a ton of ...