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Economic Downturn Is Prime Time For Startups Doom and gloom. Layoffs, bankruptcy, insolvency, bailouts. Blah blah blah Wall Street, blah blah blah Main Street. It's a terrible time to start a company, right? Wrong! Here are six reasons why you should start your new company right now. Date: 2008-12-30 Choosing SEO As Your Career Path When we asked for questions from our readers on topics they'd like to see covered, we received a few requests on how to set up an SEO agency and position the service. Here's my take on it: Don't do it! OK, I'm being facetious :) But before you run out and sell your SEO skills, let's take a look at the issues, ways to get around them, and how to position your service so you get the greatest reward for your efforts. Date: 2008-12-09 Coping With Layoff Survivors Guilt If you are one of the fortunate that survives a company's downsizing or mass layoff, you might wonder why you have a huge mistrust of management right now. It is called survivors guilt, and there are some things you can do to help yourself through it. Date: 2008-11-25 Tips To Consider When Searching For Your Career Job There are times when the need to switch a job is high on the agenda and it gets essential to breathe a new air into one's professional life. It's pretty humane to make mistakes, but there are a few concerns which are a strict no-no when one thinks of switching from one organization to another. Date: 2008-11-10 In The Internet Marketing Industry? Listen Up! In my day job, I consult with companies classified as SMBs (small and medium businesses) regarding their Internet marketing efforts. Many of these companies are a bit skittish these days regarding the adoption and implementation of Internet marketing. There are any number of reasons including the economy and lack of understanding of the Internet and its benefits. Date: 2008-10-28 Making Your Resume Stand Out Since the economy is slowing down, I'm hearing of lots of you who are getting laid off and looking for jobs. Here's my experience on the other side of that - being someone who is trying to hire someone. Fast Company TV is hiring an administrative assistant. Date: 2008-10-13 Job Hunting? Check Your Social Networking First. Have you checked your social networking profile lately? If you're planning on applying for a job anytime soon, you should know that a CareerBuilder.com study suggests one in five recruiters use social networks in their hiring process-33% of them have rejected candidates based on what they found! Date: 2008-09-29 Enhancing Your Career In the Sunday Times article today, one of the suggestions I made to enhance your presentation skills is to work with a mentor. But what can you do if there is no formal mentoring programme in your company? Where might you start in finding a mentor to support your career progress? Date: 2008-09-16 Interested In A Linux Career? So you've been playing around with your tux box for quite some time now. Experimenting with tar balls, the terminal, packages, distros, etc. may now be a part for your daily routine. If you remember, we talked about the existing career opportunities with Linux in a two-post article, few days back. Date: 2008-09-02 Social Media Dream Jobs Could it be commonplace someday to create a resume that shows how much time you spend using social media? Is that really a job skill? US News and World Report thinks "the Facebook future is now" and released "The Seven Best Jobs for Facebook Addicts" (though I only counted six). Date: 2008-08-19 Starting A Career In SEOst In October of 2006, when I was first interviewing for in-house SEO positions, I wrote a series of articles on SEO job searches (listed below) and incorporated my own research on Salary ranges for SEO. Date: 2008-08-05 Becoming A Better Web Analytics Analyst If you are looking for a career in web analytics and want to establish a solid foundation of skills as a part of your overall analytics training, then I recommend adding the skills below to your tool-set to help you become a very well rounded analyst before you enter the field. Date: 2008-07-24 Career Development Checklist Individuals need to understand that they must take responsibility for their own career progression. The purpose of this checklist is to help an individual assess the extent to which he or she is contributing towards his or her own career development. Date: 2008-07-11 Does Your Resume Pass The Prescreening Test? Generally when someone is looking at your resume they are after two things, one finding the highest quality candidate that they can find for the money they have (not necessarily the cheapest, just the best one in budget range for the position), the second one is someone that will work well within the organization. Date: 2008-06-10 Career Guide Meets Manga Style Daniel Pinks new book "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need" has hit the streets, and to appeal to me, it is all in manga style presentation. Below follows the video trailer for the book in case you want to go out and get it. Date: 2008-05-20 Are You A Top 10 Percent Employee? A-Talent, we all want it, we know we want it, because we know that when you hire an A-talent person that they do a lot of output, some of it bad, most of it phenomenally good and worth your time. But what does that mean to the other 90% of the organizations members, and how does this influence moral amongst them? Date: 2008-05-01 Would You Work For Your Ex Employer? Interesting question coming up as we loose a key participant in a project, while they are moving on, the company asked if the person would be a 1099 contractor to them to finish up remaining projects. Date: 2008-04-01 Do Not Be Dishonest On Your Resume The most annoying thing for a hiring manager is to go through a resume, cull it down and start on the phone interviews, only to find out that the person lied on their resume, and could not do the job that has been advertised. I don't know the real statistics, but Forbes describes them as "substantial". Date: 2008-03-18 Careers In Web Analytics Web Analytics is one of the hottest fields these days. A lot of people are planning to switch careers and many students are looking to start their career in Web Analytics. Date: 2008-02-26 Search Over Seven Thousand Colleges College Kingdom recently launched new search tools for students, or anyone for that matter, to search over seven thousand colleges', universities', career schools', and adult education programs' websites all at once. This is a great new search tool. However, the search results show the desperate need for those educational institutions-or Google, to clean up their websites. Date: 2008-02-05 Tips For If You Get Laid Off It's sad to hear about layoffs at companies like Yahoo. Right now it seems like a bad time to be laid off. I'm here to offer some hope. I laid myself off in February 2002. Remember that time? It was far worse than what we've seen so far in the economic turmoil of 2008. Date: 2008-01-23 Social Networking - Your'e Known by the Company You Keep This thought provoking article by Jennifer Laycock (Are Your Social Networking Connections Hurting YOUR Reputation?) brings to mind the saying of my grandmother’s: " You are known by the company you keep." While some may dispense with this as old-fashioned advice in the new socially-networked world. Date: 2008-01-08
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