Category Archives: Career

Reasons for Job Hunting Success

I have a ton of books on my many book shelves and one that I was compelled to pick up today was from legendary Zig Ziglar. This book, Top Performance, reveals an interesting fact:

Fifteen percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job, is determined by your [...]

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30 Days to a New Job – Case Study

by Kevin Donlin from Guerrilla Resume
Following 7 months of struggle, one Minnesota man recently made a simple change in his job search and was hired for a new position only 30 days later.
Here's the story …
Scott Bornstein, from suburban St. Paul, had what he thought was a well written resume. But "every time I sent [...]

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How a Small Town Job Seeker Finds a Job in a Big City

Tim Heard is the owner of eSearch Associates, a search and staffing firm that focuses primarily on information technology, project management, and legal technology jobs and recruiting. He is at the helm of the Career Management blog today to answer the question, “What’s the best way to get a job in a big city if [...]

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Performance Reviews: How Effective Are They?

It's time to finally put the performance review out of its misery.
This corporate sham is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. Everybody does it, and almost everyone who's evaluated hates it. It's a pretentious, bogus practice that produces absolutely nothing that any thinking executive should call a [...]

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The Best Way to Find a Job? The Job Finds You!

by Kevin Donlin, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Here's the transcript from a phone interview that Kevin Donlin, from Guerrilla Job Search International, recently did with one happy Guerrilla Job Hunter, Scott Melrose, from Mokena, Illinois.
He was hired for an executive position by an employer who found him on Linkedin, after he re-did his online profile to match [...]

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