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Friday, September 25, 2009

MCITP – SA – A Fundamental Certification for Systems Administrators

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In the new economy, IT professionals need all the help they can get securing their current positions and/or finding new ones. The technology sector is particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of the job market. Companies are looking to restructure their staff (a nice term for layoffs), and newly minted IT graduates hit the market every summer like clockwork. Basic economics teaches us that the ...

Is Your Resume Responsible?

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Is Your Resume Responsible? After reviewing over 150 resumes in a three day time span I decided that there is a serious epidemic out there. A plague so harmful it is costing millions of people thousands of dollars every month. It is called the responsibility virus and it is infecting millions of resumes all across the nation. Think I'm kidding? Take a look at your resume. Does your resume ...

4 Off the Wall Yet Fun Ways to Fill Your Calendar with Job Interviews... and Say Goodbye to ...

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Tired of burning up shoe leather looking for a job? Take a walk on the wild side. Most of us quickly tire of the standard method of job hunting. Find some job listings, find a job you qualify for, submit a resume and wait. It's hard work that all too often never pays off. What if there a fun way to get all the interviews you can handle? Well there are! Read on...

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Executive Interviewing: How to Persuade the Right Way

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When you're interviewing for a job at the executive level – especially if you've been out of work for a while – you may want to try just about any tactic possible to get the job. Because you're used to being aggressive to get your way, you may want to try to persuade the interviewer to give you the job. But there are lines that should be drawn when using this tactic. If you want to use ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

You’re Unemployed. What’s Next?

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With the national unemployment rate at a 26-year high and more than 6.9 million jobs lost in the first eight months of 2009, it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And, many economists are predicting that a recovery may not appear until 2011. With each passing day, more and more business professionals find themselves out of work and searching for a new job. With the flood of ...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Cover Letter No-No's

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Writing a cover letter can sometimes be a bit confusing. You simply don't know what information to add, what to exclude and how exactly to tell your story. For many, this leads to some cover letter mistakes. If you're guilty of writing cover letters that just didn't accomplish what they were supposed to – getting you the job – then you may need to revamp your style. Oh, it would also be good ...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Dell Snaps Up Perot Systems For $3.6B

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Dell Inc. said it will pay $3.6 billion for Perot Systems Corp. in a bid to boost its IT services offering and make the division more competitive against consulting rivals IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Dell will pay approximately $30 per cash for all outstanding shares of Perot Systems, the IT services company founded by former U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot, who is being ...

Mentor CEO Sees Full Fab Capacity By Year End

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BANGALORE, India — Based on recent market data, leading edge fabs may have little or no excess capacity by the end of 2009, a sign that the semiconductor industry is recovering, according to the CEO of Mentor Graphics. Mentor CEO Walden Rhines added during a visit here this week that optimism in the IC industry is spreading to the EDA sector, though most design companies are still limiting ...

EU To Spend 3% Of GDP On R&D By 2010

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PARIS — The European Union spent 229 billion euros on research and development in 2007, representing 1.85 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and said it aims to achieve an R&D intensity of at least 3 percent of GDP by 2010, according to Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. In its 2009 edition of Science, Technology and Innovation in Europe, Eurostat noted that ...

Fewer Job Cuts At Alcatel-Lucent France

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PARIS — Franco-US telecom equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent (Paris, France) announced it has slightly revised downwards the number of job cuts in France. At the end of July, Alcatel-Lucent confirmed its intention to shed about 850 jobs in France in 2009 and 2010. This figure has dropped to 814 job cuts, including 689 at Alcatel-Lucent France, 72 at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and 53 at its ...

What to Do When You're an Overqualified Executive

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The job market is definitely suffering nowadays. With the recession forging ahead and thousands still losing their jobs, it's a wonder that anyone can get hired. However, as some executives are finding out, there is work available. However, it may not be at the level they'd like to work. If you're an executive who has found that you need to seek a lower-level job to get back on your feet, ...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Gauge Employee Satisfaction with Surveys

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You have taken the time to interview, select, and hire your ideal employees. Now, it's important that you retain them. Utilizing surveys allow you to gauge employee morale and level of satisfaction with their job and your company. To ensure that your employees provide honest feedback, you may consider making the survey anonymous. Below are some questions you might consider adding to your ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Performance Review Takes a Page from Facebook

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In the world of Facebook or Twitter, people love to hear feedback about what they're up to. But sit them down for a performance review, and suddenly the experience becomes traumatic. Now companies are taking a page from social networking sites to make the performance evaluation process more fun and useful. Accenture (ACN) has developed a Facebook-style program called Performance Multiplier in ...

“Top 10” Things Employers Need To Know About 1-9/E-Verify Compliance

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Employers have many questions about I‐9 Form/E-Verify compliance and how a paperless Web-based I‐9 Form/E-Verify system solution can improve the efficiency of a company's employment eligibility verification program by reducing risk, eliminating errors, maintaining compliance, and ensuring jobs for legal workers. Here are the "Top 10" things employers need to know about I-9/E-Verify ...

What's Your Next Game?

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It's hard to get excited about our careers sometimes. Especially when bad news surrounds us. Between high unemployment, low morale, and reduced compensation, who can blame you for not wanting to jump out of bed energized and ready to start each day? Maybe what you need is a new game to play. Something that gets you excited again. Whether it's a new job or a new way of doing something in your ...

How to Avoid Exaggerating In Your Resume

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When you're drafting a resume, it is tempting to stretch the truth some so that you appear to be more impressive than maybe your skills might indicate. However, while there is such a thing as packaging your resume in a smart way, choosing words that tell the truth, yet sound sensational, for example, you want to avoid flat-out exaggerating. So, how can you avoid crossing the fine line from ...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Human Resources Speaks Out About What They Want In A Resume

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I had the privilege of attending an HR panel who took the time to share what they wanted to see (and did not want to see) on a job candidate's resume. Here's what they had to say (in my own words): State your objective. You needn't have an "objective" section per se but HR reps agree that they want to know right off the bat that you're well aware of the position for which ...

3 Steps To Make Your Online Resume A Winner

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* The following article by Cliff Flamer of BrightSide Resumes was voted "Best Answer" in the LinkedIn Discussion Post: Is Applying for Jobs Online a Waste of Time? I agree with the overwhelming response of careerists that a job seeker's time is best spent networking and doing company research, as opposed to posting resumes online. It's ...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Get Ready for

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So, where are the jobs? Even as the fog seems to be lifting over housing, manufacturing and the financial sector, the unemployment rate continues to float ever higher. Despite the largest economic bailout in America history, the jobless rate soared to 9.7 percent in August. All told, nearly 7 million jobs have been lost since December 2007. Wasn't that $787 billion stimulus package supposed to ...

Avoiding Resume Quick Sand

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There's probably nothing more frustrating than getting your resume all "prettied up" to send to a company via an online source, only to realize that when you hit the send button, you don't know where in the world it's going. This can be compared to sending your resume in quick sand. It's being sucked into an unseen, unknown world and you don't know if it will ever return some type of response for ...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Employee Traits That Employers Look For, Part 1

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There are two different sets of skills that candidates must possess if they want to be among the ones that employers consider for job openings. The category often referred to as "hard skills" includes the college degree, other educational attainments, general communications abilities and those precisely defined job-related skills that define the specialty. There is a second, increasingly ...

U.S. Invests $6.4 Million In LED Research

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WASHINGTON — The Energy Department will fund LED and organic LED research with funds from the economic stimulus package approved by Congress in February. The Energy Department said Monday (Aug. 24) that four research programs will be funded under a $6.4 million program to fund solid-state lighting research. Three national laboraties and an Army lab will receive funds under the program. ...

MEMC Closing Two U.S. Plants, Cutting 540 Jobs

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SAN FRANCISCO—Silicon supplier MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. will close two U.S. manufacturing facilities and cut about 540 jobs in order to cut costs. MEMC said it would cease production of silicon crystal ingots and wafers at facilities in Sherman, Texas, and at company headquarters in St. Peters, Mo. These closings will occur in stages in 2010 and early 2011, as production shifts to other ...

5 More Job Search Tips that Work to Help You Land a Job You'll Love - Part 2

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5 More Job Search Tips that Work to Help You Land a Job You'll Love - Part 2 In the last article - 5 Job Tips - How to Find a GREAT New Job you dug deep into the real you and ended up with a list of skills liked doing that were also valuable to potential employers. Keep that list handy because now we'll use it to find that great job. Job Tip # 1 Match Your Skills to Potential ...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Going for the Green Job at the Executive Level

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Everyone knows that "going green" is all the rage nowadays – and it should be. Sparing our environment of all of the pollution and toxic chemicals we've thrown its way over the past years should be a definite goal. This is why green jobs are now becoming popular. Typically, however, we hear about "green collar" jobs, not necessarily those at the executive level. They do exist, though. So let's ...

The First Practice of FIERCE LEADERSHIP

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It's my opinion that today's "best" practices of leaders not only fail to resolve the problems they're meant to resolve or achieve the results they're meant to achieve, they actually escalate problems. I'd like to recommend alternative practices to take their place. After all, reality has shifted and those who cling to old practices that no longer serve them and perhaps never did, will fail to ...

CROSSING THE LINE?

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Today's headlines. Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff orchestrates $50 billion fraud. Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio charged with lying to shareholders. SEC charges former Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo, COO David Sambol, and CFO Eric Sieracki with securities fraud for misleading investors about the company's credit risks. U.S. auto companies receive billions in government bail-out money. ...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Articles


Brand It, Sell It, Win It - What Makes You Different

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Brand It, Sell It, and Win It - What Makes You Different? I have heard this statement over and over again "Find a need and fill it." Mostly people use it to describe opening their own business, creating a product or service, or selling something. Today I'm applying it to your job search and your resume. Find what the employer needs and sell them on how you can fill it. Specifically how you can ...

The 5 Best Ways to Land Your Resume in the Trash

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After reading a few resume articles online and feeling completely frustrated by their bad advice I decided to clarify a few important points. Given the multitude of misinformation out there regarding resume tips, strategies, and techniques I want to help set the record straight. Here are the five best ways to get your resume thrown in the trash by a potential hiring manager. 1. Forget to ...

Answers to Common Resume Questions Asked by Recent Grads

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Let's start with the most common Resume question: Should the resume fit on 1 page or go to 2? Ah yes…the eternal question....For recent grads to mid-level professionals, I suggest 1 page. Also, career changers often benefit from a 1-pager; it helps them to avoid seeming overqualified with all the wrong qualifications. If you must go for 2 pages (and some recent grads certainly have the ...

HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

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Motorola, the company that launched the cell phone industry and stood among the world's most admired companies for decades, is now struggling to survive. How did that happen? Apparently the company missed, underestimated, or ignored a fundamental shift in the industry away from feature-rich cell phones like the Razr, Motorola's last new product hit in 2004, toward more sophisticated smart phones ...
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Friday, September 4, 2009

What is Your Primary Color? And How Will This Knowledge Impact Your Career? By Rick Smith

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Are you in a job that leverages your strengths and passions every day? As your career continues on its current direction, are you getting closer to your ideal role, or farther away from it? Are you willing to invest 15 minutes of your life to find out? I am excited to debut the Primary Color Assessment online at www.PrimaryColorAssessment.com. This tool was conceived from ...

Common Executive Resume Mistakes

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So what can you do to make sure yours is not filled with mistakes? Let's take a look at some common executive resume errors that you want to avoid as you're creating or updating yours. Forgetting a Clear Job Target It's never acceptable to submit a resume that looks like a generic template that you downloaded from a free website. At the executive level, there is absolutely no excuse for ...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Identifying and Making the Most of Your Transferable Skills

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How then do you still apply for a position that you have little or no prior experience doing? You can identify your transferable skills, or those skills that would be valuable to an employer even if those skills are not directly related to the job you're seeking. Here are some ways to identify and make the most of them those skills. Think of Your Favorite Accomplishments Most likely, when ...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

5 Job Tips - How to Find a GREAT New Job Part 1

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Laying the groundwork Job hunting can be tough. Whether you just started looking for a job or you've been searching for jobs for months No matter where you are in your job search chances are you've felt like you ran smack dab into a brick wall at least once. These tips are designed not only to help you break through that brick wall but to help you land a job you'll really like. Ready? ...
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