Good Things Come in Small Packages

I love poetry. Always have. It amazes me how just by putting some structure and form around our prose, our creativity is stretched into new, uncharted, areas. My daughter often asks me to make up a funny limerick during dinner. And after playing with meter and rhyme in my head, I often come up with some funny jokes. Likewise, Twitter, originally meant as a joke between cell-phone-carrying nerds, has put a new kind of form around the human language. We are now challenged with saying something utterly meaningful in 140 characters or less. Heather Huhman, in her new book, “#Entry Level Tweet” has taken on Twitter’s often restrictive prose form, and delivered a powerful text geared toward educating job seekers. ... Read more

How many times has your mother told you, “Make sure you understand your privacy settings, dear!” Oh, wait, that was me telling my audiences to wise up. Sometimes, I sound like a broken record. I know. But this really is a very important issue. Case in point, without notifying their user base, LinkedIn has decided that they can use your profile picture and name in any online advertisement they want.

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Everyone is on LinkedIn these days. Let’s face it. Almost every CEO from every Fortune 500. Last count was over 50 million users. In contrast, job boards have only about 3.5 percent of available jobs. This is common knowledge in the career industry, but then why do so many people spend so much time on job boards? The answer is because it ... Read more

LinkedIn is a very powerful SUV. I get in it for a road trip. I turn it on, take it to the car wash. Then I realize that I have no idea where I want to go. The maps in the back seat pile up and spill over, leaving me in limbo. Where do I go now? Relying on technology to make career decisions is probably the biggest mistake any job seeker could make. In the 1970s, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote that the downfall of our economic system will, in part, be rooted in our misconstrued belief that technology will solve our problems. 1970s! This year, we still hold this harmful belief... ... Read more

Learning new things is just great for your self-esteem and confidence, let alone your employability. That’s why I’m a huge proponent of life-long learning. I recently interviewed Stephanie Carter, from G5 Leadership, to discuss how G5 is democratizing, otherwise expensive, leadership training. I’ve been watching and following this training since late 2011 and I love it. The video quality is excellent and the speakers are top rate authors and experts. Check out our interview here… ... Read more

The age of the private exhibitionist blog is over. Today, blogging has become the single most powerful platform on the internet for the individual, the professional, and the thought-leader. When I graduated from college in 2000, there were no blogs. I’d had email for only about two years by then. But even then, the principles that make blogging so powerful still applied.                 ... Read more

Watch This Video to Find Out What Steps Kathy Took to Get her Job

Kathy has been a subscriber to Career Enlightenment for a few months. Recently, she leveraged what she learned about social media job seeking to get a very nice offer. She starts next week. So I thought I would interview Kathy and find out exactly how it went down. Watch our interview here:

Kathy’s Method for Finding a Job

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Dallas is probably one of the hottest places to find work right now, but you might not find evidence for that on the job boards. Even though it’s the fourth most populated metropolitan area in the country, the unemployment rate is only about 7 percent, two points below the national average. According to Simply-Hired’s Nov 2011 Job Outlook, Dallas has experienced 17 percent year-over-year job growth. ... Read more

Originally published on eConsultancy Social media is now central to every savvy job seeker’s armour, and recruiters are also switched on to using it to source great candidates. For the former, it’s a source of information. It allows you to get the word out about your search, collate recommendations and connections into an online CV - and build a good reputation in the process. As a recuiter, the same applies, but in the reverse. To many marketers, this is fairly standard – but how do consumers feel about this? Are they using social media in their job search? To answer that question, Jobvite commissioned a study ... Read more

Video is the new Black. Right? I mean when you see that “play button” triangle, aren’t you just compelled to click it? Video is the highest online activity, according to Pew International’s recent report. No wonder we are seeing so many video résumés these days. In fact, I did a search for “video résumé” on Youtube and got 14,600 results! Most of them SUCK! ... Read more