The job interview is misnamed. Too many candidates think about the job interview in those terms—ie., the person with the job is going to ask me a bunch of questions and if I answer the questions correctly I may get the job. What is really happening in the interview is actually quite simple. There are only two [...]
Peter Drucker Says It Well
Posted in April 14th, 2010
by admin in Work-related
One of Peter Drucker’s best quotes is: “The greatest resource of potential demand lies in the area of non-customers.” Each one of us can apply this simple truth in our job search or in our current jobs. Said another way, this quote could easily be: “The fastest way to a remarkable career lies in becoming bigger [...]
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Who’s Not Your Daddy
Posted in January 20th, 2010
by admin in Work-related
Ed. Note: This is a post that ran on USNEWS yesterday, except my editor changed the title to “How To Love the Job You’re With.” That’s ok, she does a great job of editing. But I got absolute no credit for me, a baby boomer, who likes country music, Elvis, the Beatles and even F. [...]
Ahead of the Bell: LinkUp Called the Jobs Number (and will continue to do so)
Posted in January 8th, 2010
Yesterday in his blog, @TobyDayton, using data provided by LINKUP, our job search engine that grabs only jobs off company website, ‘called’ the unemployment numbers issued today by the Department of Labor. Even though everyone else was predicting sunshine and roses, Toby said…wait, not so fast, the numbers from LinkUp tell a different story. The [...]
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Have Job Boards Jumped the Shark and See How Nick Corcodilos Helps Gen X/Y By Exposing One of Their Advisors
Posted in December 16th, 2009
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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The First Job Search Engine With SEO Built Right In
Posted in October 29th, 2009
by admin in Job Seeker Advice
From Wikipedia: Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results as opposed to search engine marketing (SEM) which deals with paid inclusion. Typically, the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the [...]
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Indeed CEO on His Business Model: What He Said Is Not What You Think You Heard
Posted in August 5th, 2009
Ed. Note: There’s nothing quite like CEO-speak, as Indeed CEO Paul Forster proved recently in a podcast. So leave it to Toby Dayton, President and CEO of LinkUp.com, the fastest growing job search engine on the web, to clarify and examine exactly how Indeed makes money. Today and yesterday, he wrote two relevant and insightful [...]
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Aww Shucks. Top 150 List of Career Experts in Twitter.
Posted in June 5th, 2009
Ed. Note: Thanks to Chris Perry for including YoursTruly on the top 150 career twitter people that you should follow. Having done a few lists like this, my hat is off to Chris…and the added work he went to so that it is VERY EASY for you to cut and paste the list into NinjaFollow.com [...]
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What Are Mentions Worth?
Posted in May 27th, 2009
by admin in Work-related
Nearly every day, LINKUP is mentioned in some article like this one in the Chicago Tribune today, where LinkUp is mentioned in the same sentence as Simply Hired and Indeed (we’re first). All mentions are critical to a new product because one never knows just how high the hill is where you are pushing the [...]
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CNET’s Molly Wood Talks About LINKUP.
Posted in March 10th, 2009
by admin in Work-related
I don’t know Molly but it sure appears to me that she is one smart woman. Brilliant even. I am so humbled by this that I am kicking the dirt under my desk. Loading Movie… var flashvars = { station: “kgo”, config: “http://a.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/mediaplayer/xml/config_kgo.xml”, playlistid: “6696138″, open: “false”, isVDI:”true” }; swfobject.embedSWF(“http://a.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/mediaPlayer/swf/otvLoader.swf”, “flashcontent”, “600″, “410″, “9.0.0″,”expressInstall.swf”, flashvars);
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