Archive for December, 2008

A Holiday Gift to You

Joe, the “Job Search Guy” and I discussed the best gift we could give you during this holiday season to refresh your faith and help you succeed at your job search. We chose James Arthur Ray’s “Ten Tips for Thriving…

10 Great Cities for Salary Growth

We all want to know what’s going to happen with the job market in 2009, especially where salaries are concerned. Is a raise in your future? It might just come down to where you live. Yet the most recent and complete numbers for salary growth in metro

10 Great Cities for Salary Growth

We all want to know what’s going to happen with the job market in 2009, especially where salaries are concerned. Is a raise in your future? It might just come down to where you live. Yet the most recent and complete numbers for salary growth in metro

10 Great Cities for Salary Growth

We all want to know what’s going to happen with the job market in 2009, especially where salaries are concerned. Is a raise in your future? It might just come down to where you live. Yet the most recent and complete numbers for salary growth in metro

10 Great Cities for Salary Growth

We all want to know what’s going to happen with the job market in 2009, especially where salaries are concerned. Is a raise in your future? It might just come down to where you live. Yet the most recent and complete numbers for salary growth in metro

10 Great Cities for Salary Growth

We all want to know what’s going to happen with the job market in 2009, especially where salaries are concerned. Is a raise in your future? It might just come down to where you live. Yet the most recent and complete numbers for salary growth in metro

Credit or Finance Problems? Some Timely Pointers from an Expert.

Joe Turner interviews Scott Deschene, a financial consultant specializing in debt management and debt elimination about critical areas you need to know about your debt and strategies you can use to mitigate potential financial losses while keeping your credit clean….

The Savvy Networker: How to Ask for a Networking Introduction

Introductions are the fuel that make networking go — and most of us know people who know people we’d like to know. It’s one thing to have a friend whose sister plays bridge with the CEO of a well-known company. It’s another thing to ask, “Say, can y

Build Your Own Personal Brand to Break Through the Competition

Joe Turner interviews Helene Sigman, Personal & Corporate Branding expert on why you need a personal brand and how you can develop your own unique brand statement that can cut through the white noise of the increased competition you’re facing…

OK. Who Wants to Start Laying off Reporters?

I opened my email this morning to “Breaking News” emails from the New York Times, CNN, ABC News and a few others all sending me emails about the dramatic, huge, shocking and unexpected unemployment figures. My question is: since the news media caused most of the layoffs with their constant barrage of sensationalist reporting, why are they surprised? I am a huge fan of freedom of speech. However, I do not admire irresponsible, commercialized reporting whose apparent goal is to simply sell more newspapers and more ads.