Tip of the Week

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2/5/12 - Don’t Fade Away: 5 Ways to Stay Connected to Former Coworkers

To read past career tips, click below. Be sure to read the ones highlighted...they are the best!

2012

1/29/12 - The Other Kind Of Job Interview You Have To Know About

1/22/12 - Do you "FIT"?

1/15/12 - How to Use Short Substantive Soundbites on LinkedIn

1/8/12 - Job seekers choose Facebook as "friendly" networking tool

1/1/12 - 11 Things You Should Never Put on Your Resume

2011

12/18/11 - Three LinkedIn Profile Settings You Probably Don't Know About But Should

12/11/11 - Is Job Seeking Pointless During the Holidays?

12/4/11 - How to Job Search on the New Facebook

11/27/11 - Keys to networking success

11/13/11 - 15 Toughest Interview Questions (and Answers!)

11/6/11 - Job Search: Which Linkedin Connections Are Most Valuable

10/30/11 - Why Interview Preparation and Practice Do Make Perfect

10/23/11 - Interview Tip: You Gotta Ask!

10/16/11 - Develop Your Personal Brand

8/28/11 - Nine Memorable Questions to Ask at Your Interview

8/21/11 - Interview Tips for the 40+ Crowd 

8/14/11 - Job Interview Etiquette 

8/7/11 - What don't job seekers know about how recruiters use job boards that could help them? 

7/31/11 - Three Ways to Handle a Hostile Interviewer 7/24/11 - Are You Too Shy to Network? 

7/17/11 - 7 Stupidest Interview Questions and What They Really Mean

7/10/11 - Could Your Listening Skills Be Your Job Search Problem?

7/3/11 - 4 Biggest Resume Killers (and How to Avoid Them)

6/26/11 - How to Manage Your Job Search So It Works

6/19/11 - Some Fatherly (Career) Advice 

6/12/11 - The Are of Persuasion in Your Job Search

6/5/11 - 10 Overused Phrases Interviewers Hate 

5/29/11 - 5 Wins You Get from Job Hunting with a SmartPhone 

5/22/11 - 10 Things Employers & Recruiters Want From Candidates

5/15/11 - Bad Career Advice and Salary Negotiation 

5/8/11 - How To Ace A Job Interview On Skype

5/1/11 - Why You Shouldn’t Talk About Your Kids In A Job Interview

4/25/11 - Don’t Create Two LinkedIn Profiles!

4/10/11 - Want Stronger Results? Try a Networking Resume

4/3/11 - The Ten Worst Things to Put on Your Resume

3/27/11 - Being Late – Not an Option

3/20/11 - How to Network: 12 Tips for Shy People

3/13/11 - The Wisdom of Dale Carnegie in Five Bullet Points

3/6/11 - Should You Hire an Overqualified Candidate?

2/27/11 - Twenty Questions that you can ask in an interview

2/20/11 - How to Create a Job for Yourself 

2/13/11 - Exaggerating on a Résumé 

2/6/11 - The New Rules of Online Job Hunting 

1/30/11 - Background Checks

1/23/11 - Five Questions to Always Ask on an Interview

1/16/11 - Job advice that was true 20 years ago -- but not today

1/9/11 - 10 Things the HR Department Won’t Tell You.

1/2/11 - Be More Childlike In Your Career

2010

12/19/10 - A Happy Holiday Message

12/11/10 - 4 Inside Secrets to Writing a Great Cover Letter

12/5/10 - Resume Profiling

11/28/10 - What to Expect on a Second and Third Interview

11/14/10 - How to Not Take the Job Rejection Personally

11/7/10 - 7 Ways Your Resume Dates You

10/31/10 - Ace the Interview - No Matter What

10/24/10 - SPAM Emails from people you know - Protect YOUR computer

10/17/10 - Thank You Note Do's and Don'ts

10/10/10 - Social Networking Ever More Critical to Job Search Success

10/3/10 - What Are the Key Words in Your Resume?

9/26/10 - Memo to Job Seekers from HR: Help Us!

9/19/10 - 5 Reasons You Didn't Get the Job

9/12/10 - How to Get the Salary You Want

9/5/10 - 7 Ways to Ensure You Don't Get the Job

8/29/10 - The Weak Link Syndrome (LinkedIn)

8/ 22/10 - Five Mistakes Online Job Hunters Make

8/1/10 - De-Stress Your Job Search

7/25/10 - Top 10 Secrets to Turn Networking Pain to Career Gain

7/18/10 - Big Blunders Job Hunters Make

7/11/10 - Are you conducting a smart job search?

7/4/10 - 5 Job Skills That Can Hurt Your Career

6/27/10 - Resumes for the Digital Age

6/20/10 - Summer Interviews: Your Appearance Matters

6/13/10 - 10 Things Human Resources Won't Say

6/6/10 - Your Email Address

5/23/10 - Follow Up, Follow Up, Follow Up!!!

5/16/10 - Seven Deadly Sins of Ineffective Nametags

5/9/10 - Practice Interviewing

5/2/10 - Check Your Spam Folder

4/25/10 - Stay connected to the hiring managers you interview with.

4/18/10 - Importance of Networking - Bypass HR

4/11/10 - Why wasn't I hired?

4/4/10 - 7 Tips for Working for a Younger Boss

3/28/10 - 7 Tips For Shy Job Hunters

3/21/10 - 50 Worst Job Interview Mistakes

3/14/10 - Insider Secrets to Get Your Resume Read

3/7/10 - 10 Resume Red Flags

2/28/10 - When You Should, Shouldn't Give Out Your Social Security Number

2/21/10 - Own the Interview: 10 Questions to Ask

2/14/10 - How the Texas Workforce Commission Works

2/7/10 - 7 Phone Interview Tips

1/31/10 - LinkedIn Invitations

1/24/10 - Top 3 Ways to Find a Job in 2010

1/17/10 - Three Things that Turn Employers Off

1/10/10 - Ten Steps to a Successful Job Search

1/3/10 - Learning Improv Can Help in any Field

2009 

12/20/09 - Happy Holidays

12/13/09 - Letters or Emails to a Business

12/6/09 - Subject Lines

11/29/09 - What Not to Say During an Interview

11/22/09 - Ten Tips regarding How Networking is easier during the Holidays

11/15/09 - Your Computer - a presentation made to the North Dallas Career Focus Group on 11/13/09

11/8/09 - 7 Ways to Boost Your Job Search Confidence

11/1/09 - 10 Things Recruiters Won’t Tell You (But I Will)

10/25/09 - Golden Rules for Improving Writing Well

10/18/09 - 10 Things to Consider if You're an Older Job-Seeker

10/11/09 - Networking is...

10/4/09 - How to move your profile up in Linkedin Searches

9/27/09 - Hiring Tricks That Job Seekers Must Know

9/20/09 - Back up your job search stuff

9/13/09 - Follow these tips when applying

9/6/09 - 5 Sure-fire Ways to NOT get the job

8/30/09 - Your 30 second intro - a great powerpoint presentation with count down clock for practice

8/23/09 - How To Sell A Pencil

8/16/09 - Ten Hints About Your Resume

8/9/09 - Make it easy to be contacted