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Your Résumé Is Mostly Useless

Many job-seekers spend time, worry and money on their résumés, trying very hard to make them perfect.  They agonize over each line and each word. What makes it worse is that everyone thinks they are a résumé expert.  Headhunters say one thing.  HR professionals say something else.  Your...

10 Signs You Need Help With Your Job Search

Do you really need help finding an Executive job?  Why would anyone need a “coach” for this? I hear this question all of the time.  The answer, unfortunately, is usually “yes.”  Here are some questions to help you decide. 1).  You’ve been unemployed more than a month and you have had less than...

The Web Can Be Friend or Foe

Every new technology can be a “mixed blessing.” My cell phone makes me more accessible — and wakes me up early in the morning with some marketing call or wrong number. My computer gave me repetitive stress syndrome. My copier ate an important document. And so on. But the most dangerous technology...