Toby Dayton brought it to my attention that Dept of Labor says the average un employed person spends 18 minutes a day searching for a job. I wrote about it yesterday here and on the Career Section of US NEWS. Evidently, this stimulated a lot of folks to make a comment on my blog or [...]

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Ed Note: After reading @TobyDayton’s WTF piece on his blog, DIGGINGS, I wrote the following piece for US News and World Report today.  When I was younger, truth be told,  I would always came down on one side of an issue like this one.  Now, with age, and a bit of experience, I can see [...]

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Ed Note:  This list was sent to me today by a reader, no kidding.  The “results of their 2009 contest” the email said.  Um, well, not exactly.  This is one of those net memes that go around the net several times before finally landing on my ‘puter much, much later.  (Did you hear that Michael [...]

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Laurie Ruettimann of PunkRockHR tells us today about her experience as a grade school kid, and as a non-tattler. It is a well told story that you will like. I did. Her last line stimulated some thinking on my part, and I bet on yours too. “Someone has to stop the cycle of stupidity in [...]

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by CAL, Curmudgeon at Large I would like to comment, but being Christmastime and all, there’s a risk it might make me appear to be all curmudgeonly. But, still. Way to go, Congress. Can you imagine any other American business or institution other than the airlines so tone deaf as to ignore thousands of irate, [...]

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Ed. Note. My colleague Toby Dayton, CEO of LinkUp, wrote a groundbreaking and analytical piece on the current state of recruitment advertising. I am running the article in its entirety here but you should really jump over to Toby’s blog at Diggings, and sign up for his RSS feed and updates. There’s no better place. [...]

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Ed. Note: I am part of the Career Collective, a looseknit group of experts in the career space organized by my friends Miriam Salpeter and Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, who get together once a month (thankfully) to tackle one subject of broad interest to job seekers. This month’s topic: Specific tips to help job seekers really ramp [...]

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1. When me and my buddies play at our public course, Tiger, we are really good at trash talking. Best semi-repeatable line from last summer was, “Stop with the GOOD SHOT every time I hack at it, makes me think you’re telling the exceptional kid how good he is doing at feeding himself when we [...]

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If (the) Seth Godin can use TW in a blog title, so can I. Big leap. The subject of networking comes up most often as it relates to searching for a job.  Unfortunately, most of us begin to network when we are out of work, not before.  Take a one stroke penalty if you’ve made [...]

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To a large measure, your likeability will lead to success or failure. It often trumps skill levels in surveys of HR people who are asked to name the most important characteristic of job candidates and employees. Other than “don’t be an asshole” what can you do to increase your own likeability? Is it really possible [...]

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