In order to emerge from the interviewing process a winner and reach your earning potential, you must be prepared to do homework and work. First of all, do not discuss salary. The employer should want you. Discuss what you can do for them and how you are valuable to them. The reason that an employer …
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Restarting career after extended break
Employers like candidates, who are employed, naturally, but that can be a bad thing too, if too long at one employer or skills at that employer are dated. What matters most is practical skills. A candidate reentering the job market must first assess if their skill set is still what employers want and relevant / current. …
How to Properly Do a Job Interview
The standard approach to an interview is to just show up and roll with the flow. Some people might rehearse possible questions, but that is usually as far as it goes. In this article, I will talk about the proper way to prepare for and handle an interview. Before going into details, let us step …
Searching for a job in an ever changing world
I have noticed over the years all the changes. Changes take all forms. Star Trek went from a very crude television series in the 1960s to quite a marvel in the latest Star Trek: Into Darkness complete with Imax and 3D, although I only saw the 3D, not the Imax. In the 1960s, there was …
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The Dichotomy of a City and its Job Market
I was going through old articles that I had saved from several years back and one of them from six years ago asked if outsourcing and H1-B visas were getting rid of America’s technical edge and eroding our middle class. I would say that the prediction came true, but things are more nuanced. Definitely, going …
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Surviving a Prolonged Economic Downturn
Many people are facing dire times during a prolonged economic downturn, which started by and large in late 2007, although depending upon your specialty, the beginnings of the recession started in the ‘80s with the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs to other countries. It was just a matter of time before white collar work got …
Have you heard? Recession is over and 1 interview for 10…
Today’s Los Angeles Times begs for a commentary, sadly not in a positive way. The problem with a lot of people in the media and in government is that they live in a bubble, separate from other people in the world and the problems they face. You hear citations of talking with “experts”, economists and …
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Memories of Saint Landon
Unless I am mistaken, I think that I am the first to anoint the omnipotent Michael Landon as Saint. After watching an episode last night of Little House, originally written for Bonanza, I thought of two things. One, Michael Landon solves every problem large and small. He can raise people from the almost / virtually …
The Democrats are Always Wrong
Hello everyone! I am finally writing my first post on this blog. I have been meaning to start my political blog for years, but never got around to it. Finally, I got a push recently, when I had to start another business related blog. Hopefully my writings will get read and maybe help society. I …
Obama: Economic Team verses Polling Team
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Unemployment, the Recession, and the Media
I guess by writing a blog on this topic the mere posting of my thoughts makes me part of the media, albeit with currently a very small readership and no national magazine presence, but then even Fareed Zakaria started somewhere. Still everywhere I read, I just get frustrated, although there are some bright spots. Andy …
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Jobfish 2010 vs. Excel – Not a Fair Fight
While conventional thinking leads many job seekers to manage their search with the same tools they used in college or while employed, programs like Excel do not make the most sense in today’s economy. Clicking links, pasting them in Excel, manually entering contact and adjusting columns may feel “comfortable” out of pure familiarity, but with …
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