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The Savvy Networker: 5 Workarounds for a Spotty Work History

Liz Ryan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Is your employment history the kind that we used to call “checkered”? Well, you’re not alone, or even in the minority. People bounce around between jobs, industries, and locations like crazy these days–but the result can be that your resume mak

The Savvy Networker: 5 Workarounds for a Spotty Work History

Liz Ryan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Is your employment history the kind that we used to call "checkered"? Well, you're not alone, or even in the minority. People bounce around between jobs, industries, and locations like crazy these days--but the result can be that your resume mak

The Savvy Networker: 5 Workarounds for a Spotty Work History

Liz Ryan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: 5 Workarounds for a Spotty Work History

Liz Ryan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Job Talkin’: Get LinkedIn

Brad Karsh — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0000

It would be the understatement of the century to say that social media is changing our lives. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more are changing the way we socialize, read news, choose restaurants, network, and do business. And for many of us, they'r

Job Talkin’: Get LinkedIn

Brad Karsh — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Job Talkin’: Get LinkedIn

Brad Karsh — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: 5 New Skills Job Seekers Need

Liz Ryan — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Job seekers have had the same list of critical skills to brush up or acquire for decades--things like careful follow-up, attention to grammar and punctuation, and great listening skills. But today's overcrowded job market and the ever-shrinking atten

The Savvy Networker: 5 New Skills Job Seekers Need

Liz Ryan — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: 5 New Skills Job Seekers Need

Liz Ryan — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: 10 Job-Search “Old Wives’ Tales”

Liz Ryan — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0000

My husband's grandmother was a terrific lady. She raised her three kids in a dirt-floor shack and made homemade diapers out of flour sacks, and I learned a tremendous amount from her. I gave her a lot of slack when she'd share unsolicited mothering a

The Savvy Networker: 10 Job-Search “Old Wives’ Tales”

Liz Ryan — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: 10 Job-Search “Old Wives’ Tales”

Liz Ryan — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: Are you Being Paid Fairly?

Liz Ryan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

The spring of 2008 seems like a million years ago--that's when many of us heard for the first time that the country (if not the world) was heading into a major recession. Two weary years later, we're used to the idea and, for better or worse, largely

The Savvy Networker: Are you Being Paid Fairly?

Liz Ryan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: Are you Being Paid Fairly?

Liz Ryan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: 5 Sneaky Ways to Find Out a Hiring Manager’s Name

Liz Ryan — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Wide-awake job seekers know that if they send their resume into the Black Hole of HR, it's never going to be seen again. The odds of getting an interview that way are close to nil. I like to tell job seekers that it's safer to play the lottery--at le

The Savvy Networker: 5 Sneaky Ways to Find Out a Hiring Manager’s Name

Liz Ryan — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: 5 Sneaky Ways to Find Out a Hiring Manager’s Name

Liz Ryan — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: 5 Sneaky Ways to Find Out a Hiring Manager’s Name

Liz Ryan — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: Why Job-Search Gimmicks Don’t Work

Liz Ryan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

Every week or two, a front-page story in the local paper trumpets, "Man Camps Out in Front of Employer, Gets Job!" In a rough economy like this one, people are taking drastic measures to find employment. They send food gifts to their target comp

The Savvy Networker: Why Job-Search Gimmicks Don’t Work

Liz Ryan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

The Savvy Networker: Why Job-Search Gimmicks Don’t Work

Liz Ryan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Get-It-Done Guy: 6 Drastic Tips for Crushing Overwhelm and Living Easy

Stever Robbins — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000

I'm in the middle of launching my new book, "Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More." You'd think with a book like that, I would be a master at never getting overwhelmed? Nah. I'm as prone to over-committing as anyone. But once I'm i

The Get-It-Done Guy: 6 Drastic Tips for Crushing Overwhelm and Living Easy

Stever Robbins — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0000