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Networking Ninja Tip: Know What You Need

October 15, 2009

There are hundreds of opportunities for networking, and if you take advantage of a fraction of them you’ll likely meet scores of people with whom you can “network.” You can take their info, follow up, schedule a face-to-face meeting. In fact, the networking events that I’ve been to lately are huge proponents of the face-to-face [...]

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How does your personal branding message cut through the noise?

October 14, 2009

If you’ve ever been to a networking event, you’ve probably had an experience like this: you meet fifteen or twenty people, and exchange business cards. You have perfectly professional conversations, talking about all the important companies that you’ve worked for, and the projects that you’ve worked on. Then you go home, and you really remember [...]

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The Do-It-Yourself Behavioral Interview

September 14, 2009

Employers used to ask softball questions. Of course, they didn’t think they were softballs, but as they started to realize their interviews weren’t predicting success, they switched it up a little. They moved from “What would you do if…” to “Tell me about a time when…” And the behavioral interview was born. While a behavioral [...]

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HowTo LinkedIn #7: Take your connections with you

August 17, 2009

Be sure to check out HowTo LinkedIn 1-6, starting with HowTo LinkedIn #1: Creating your unique URL. If you’re networking to build relationships, you may find it easiest to make sure that you’re following up with people regularly by using a system of some kind.  Some people invest in CRM software, others track their networking [...]

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Just say yes: 5 arguments for embracing opportunity

July 31, 2009

Less than a week left to get the free ebook on Results Focused Resumes!  August 5, it goes away.  Want your copy?  Go here. At a previous job, there was one department that could always be relied upon for a “no.”  Can you help me with this?  No.  Do you have a resource that we [...]

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Too much networking: Is there such a thing?

July 22, 2009

Networking is the number one way to get a job. If you subscribe to that notion (and it’s a smart one) then you would think that there’s no such thing as too much networking.  You may be wrong. There’s a difference between networking and effective networking.  And if you overload yourself with new meetings, you’ll [...]

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