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Blog Post: How To Tap The Hidden Job Market: Did you know there is a hidden job vacancy market out there? These are the great jobs that hardly ever get advertised (or the advertising is a formality as there is…; Added by Stephanie Bressan at 11:06pm on February 24, 2011

Blog Post: Impact sourcing can help tackle unemployment while providing a competitive advantage for businesses: DURBAN – With South Africa reeling from the news of it’s official unemployment rate soaring to 34,9%, and 46,6% if those who have given up looking for a job…; Added by Vanessa at 9:14am on January 26, 2022

Blog Post: Your Social Media Moment is Coming Soon!: Are you ready?

It is coming soon. Maybe tomorrow, maybe sometime in 2010, but it is definitely coming to your office.

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Blog Post: Branded V.S. Unbranded - That Is The Question!

“Branded VS Unbranded, the great debate…

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Comment on: Blog Post '8 Simple Steps to Improve the Return on your Passive Candidate Approaches': e way you would if you were meeting someone at a networking mixer or in any social setting. Tell them why you thought it would be interesting to have a chat. It might be a shared discussion group on LinkedIn, a colleague's high praise (only use this if it's true, obviously), the school they attended, or any of a number of other openings. For some of us it is easy and instinctive to see and leverage these openings in a very natural almost subconscious way. If you're the type who has a hard time making small talk...MEANINGFUL small talk, then approaching someone in email gives you every advantage you could ask for: the ability to practice your overture and the chance to study the person in advance to identify the hooks that might work without insulting them. For the record, another of my pet peeves is when I get a LI invitation that uses the stock wording and not a personalized note. This is a cardinal sin in my opinion. The only time I'll forgive it is when it is from someone I know well. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and figure that they felt no need to win me over and may have been in a hurry. But when it is from someone new to the business world, I have been known to accept, but then respond with a gentle but firm tutorial on the finer points of networking. I did this to the daughter of a tennis buddy a few months ago. She is a college freshman and her marketing professor assigned them to create a profile on LI and build a little network of a few dozen people (this triggered the predictable rush to parents' connections which is fine). When I got Shannen's stock invitation I gave her "the talk". It must have registered because she told her dad that I really must be a pro at LI because I knew what I was doing! haha, as if it's rocket science, but she's a kid. Shannen must've told a few of her classmates about me also because I now have at least 3-4 Univ of Miami freshman business students in my network! Bless their little hearts. +1 for the post, Johnny. Chris.…; Added by Christopher Perez at 1:04pm on February 8, 2012

Blog Post: Seeking Skills? 4 Career Moves That Will Build Your Resume: As a younger adult trying to make your way into the world of business, you need to have a quality resumé. This is not just a rundown of your previous job experience, but also a list of all your…; Added by Kara Masterson at 7:17pm on January 5, 2018

Blog Post: 5 Tips To Zero Down The Best HR Software For Your Business: Complete productivity cannot be acquired if employers fail to understand the difference between crucial and menial operations. Smart…; Added by Amit kumar at 7:59am on October 13, 2020

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Topic: Wednesday Wisdom: The Quest: retty poor when I was growing up; my parents struggled to feed us kids, and lots of times we went without. As the oldest, I worked three jobs through high school and college to help out; it was difficult, but I graduated with honors, and eventually started working in a recruiting agency. I have been there for 5 years, a top producer with an income to match. So what’s my problem? About a year ago I started really wondering what it means to succeed, and how a person can ever know if they are truly successful. My question is, what do you think is the definition of success? Is it the result of hard work and overcoming frustration and suffering? Or some thing that comes from more abstract concepts like happiness, love and joy? How do you know if you have achieved it? Struggling Dear Struggling, You have certainly asked the 7-figure question, and many go through life without ever finding a good answer to it. I think you’re ahead of the crowd though, because you already know what you don’t know; imagine if you were oblivious to your quest for success and spent your life randomly, with only a vague sense of unease that there might be something more out there for you. My take is that the definition of success is highly personal, and it is based in how well you know and understand yourself. Your values, the guiding principles of your life, influence your choices and priorities in the quest. So when you define success for yourself, you must also decide if it relates to the achievement of short-term goals and objectives, or more broadly to the quality of life and relationships you experience along the way. For some, success is measured in the collection of money or things; for others, it is measured in the richness of family and friends, of knowing others and being truly known and loved for who you are. Still others define it in the thirst for knowledge, or the simplicity of having "just enough." Only you can decide how to measure success for yourself, but with that great freedom comes the even greater responsibility of living with your choices. So it’s easy to see why it is so important to start by knowing yourself well. A rocket launched to the moon that is off by only a fraction of a degree will miss its landing point by thousands of miles. By answering the question for yourself, you consciously begin a journey with your eyes wide open; remember that for as long as you live "success" will be on the horizon in front of you: attainable, but calling you ever closer. Remember too that every new piece of information, every new experience in your life, influences and changes who you are becoming; I urge you to reconsider your definition of success from time to time, and allow yourself the joy of redefining it as the old definition no longer meets your needs. I wish you well, my friend. This part of your journey is really important, and I have no doubt that you’ll be successful here, too. Write back and tell us what you find out. ** In my day job, I’m the Head of Products for Improved Experience, where we help employers use feedback to measure and manage competitive advantage in hiring and retention. Learn more about us here. Do you have a question you'd like answered in this weekly forum? Drop me a line!…; Added by Claudia Faust at 12:40am on March 11, 2009