LinkedIn Networking

  By Matt Baker Related to my last post about networking, I’d like to point out how you can use your LinkedIn account to leverage your network to its fullest potential. Imagine that you have an upcoming interview with a company.  You would love to get an insider’s view on the position—what the interview will be like, how you can best prepare, what the interviewer is looking for,...
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How To Craft A Job Search Elevator ...

By Susan AdamsVia Forbes.com  When Anita Attridge worked in human resources at Merck andXerox, she frequently kicked off job interviews with a standard request: Tell me about yourself. A striking number of applicants couldn’t answer her coherently. “You’d get everything from, ‘Where do you want me to start?’ to their whole life story,” says Attridge, who is now a coach with...
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Embrace the Future

By Joshua Kirn I vividly remember an advertisement that would frequently appear on PBS when I was still in elementary school.  The ad showed a boy sitting in front of a computer and a girl with a dictionary.  The announcer gave them a word to define, and the two children began to search.  The boy had turned on his computer and opened a program when the girl announced that she had found the...
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