— Archive for September, 2010 —

• You’re better than that

  ** From my weekly newsletter to TheLadders.com subscribers ** My new book, “You’re Better Than Your Job Search”, is out, and I’d like to thank you, for making it possible. You see, in the seven years since I started TheLadders and this Monday newsletter, I’ve read over 400,000 e-mails from subscribers like you and the 4 million other professionals on TheLadders. And it is your stories, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, and your careers that have inspired me to write this book. In fact, we took those stories of struggle and success and used them to illustrate the job hunt with actual, live examples from your fellow subscribers — dozens of them — in order to make this a practical, easy guide to giving you a better job search. You can buy our new book at Amazon (with a “newly published” discount price this week of $11.55), Borders, Barnes [...]

  Sep 27

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• Will you be forgiven?

  ** From my weekly newsletter to TheLadders.com subscribers ** Lehman Brothers failed and the government bailed out AIG two years ago, Readers, and things haven’t been the same since. It’s been a calamity for the country and for the job market. If you’re one of the unlucky ones — just doing your job well when the ax came along and hacked away over 8 million jobs out of our economy — it’s been a period of frustration bordering on despair. Some of you were skeptical three years ago when the declining price of black town cars in midtown Manhattan had me calling a recession. But come it did. And it’s been hard to find a job these past few years. You know it, we know it, and, most importantly, the companies looking to hire you know it. That’s why we’ve been hearing increasingly about “candidate forgiveness,” the idea that a [...]

  Sep 27

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• Coming to your town soon on my book tour

  ** From my weekly newsletter to TheLadders.com subscribers ** I’ve written a book, “You’re Better Than Your Job Search,” along with my Editor-in-Chief here at TheLadders, Matthew Rothenberg, and we’ll be coming to your city soon on our book tour. To follow us on our way across the country, you should follow me on Twitter here. I’ve been writing this newsletter for seven years, and we’ve collected the best advice, insider tips, and savvy secrets from that time into this book. I’m looking forward to sharing all of this with you in person, taking your questions, shaking your hand, and signing your book! Here’s our schedule so far… City Store Date New York, NY Borders, Columbus Circle 9/24 Washington, D.C. Borders, Rockville, MD 9/28 Philadelphia, PA Barnes & Noble, Rittenhouse Sq. 9/29 Atlanta, GA Borders, Buckhead 9/30 Dallas, TX Borders, Uptown 10/1 Houston, TX Barnes & Noble, West University 10/2 [...]

  Sep 13

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• I know what you did last summer

  ** From my weekly newsletter to TheLadders.com subscribers ** Well, summer’s over today. Time to put the whites back in the closet, get the grill ready for tailgate season, and, importantly, it’s time to Google yourself. You see, with the Web being the first place that people go to search for things to buy, places to fly, or new things to try, it’s also where recruiters and hiring mangers go to learn about you “on the sly.” And it’s important to Google more than just your full name. When companies are trying to poke around in your history, they’ll search out all of your past experiences. Check it out, each of these searches yield different results: Marc Marc Cenedella Marc Cenedella TheLadders Marc Cenedella New York Marc Cenedella Harvard Business School Marc Cenedella 10013 It’s the first page of results that’s most important. Go through these searches and check each [...]

  Sep 6

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