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• Our XLVI best tips to make your search easier

  Now that the Vince Lombardi trophy has been awarded, the commercials have been laughed at, applauded, or panned, and you think you finally got all of the chip dip out of the carpet, it’s time for you to get on to your super week of job searching. To help, I’ve drafted our 46 best tips from the archives. Among the thousands of suggestions, thoughts, and practical bits of advice we’ve given out over the past eight years, these 46 have risen to the top. They’re the most useful — and the most used — job search tips we have.

  Feb 6

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• So… tell me about yourself.

  Oh how many interviews have you gone to that start off with the wearying question: “So, tell me about yourself.” It seems like a lost opportunity for an interviewer to waste your time — and theirs — with this open-ended chestnut that could’ve been handled beforehand.

  Jan 30

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• These recruiters are hiring!

  Last week, I let you know which companies were hiring on TheLadders. Today, I’m sharing the top HR professionals and the recruiters that can hire you.

  Jan 23

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• These companies are hiring!

  We had an extraordinary year in 2011 in attracting great new employers to TheLadders because of the consistently remarkable nature of our community of 5 millions professionals. Thousands of new employers and recruiters signed up with us over the past twelve months.

  Jan 16

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• My single best career tip

  I’ve been writing this newsletter for nine years now and I’m asked for career advice all the time. So I thought I’d help you get off to a great start here in 2012 with my single best career tip, which is: When it gets to that part of the interview with your future boss where they ask, “well, do you have any questions for me?”, say yes, and ask: “How do I help you get a gold star on your review next year?” This bit of advice has helped more people in more interviews than any other bit of advice I’ve shared over the years. Why? Well, the interview process lends itself to our becoming self-absorbed and talking only about ourselves. Or conversely, we become “job analysis engineers” and ask all sorts of questions about the job and reporting structure and how it fits in with the company’s five year [...]

  Jan 9

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• Would you like a new boss?

  Perhaps one of your New Year’s resolutions was to get a new boss, Readers. Well, if it’s time for you to get ready for a new job in the new year, here’s how TheLadders, your job matching service, can help: We’ll learn more about you and match you up with over 100,000 jobs — delivering you only the ones that we think make the most sense for you. Over 15,000 employers and recruiters use TheLadders to find employees, and you can sign up to hear from them directly when they have new jobs or new information. How you present yourself to your new boss is important. We’ll have a CPRW (Certified Professional Resume Writer) re-write your resume for you. We’ve written hundreds of articles on the job search on topics such as: working with recruiters, networking, interviewing, anxiety & depression in the job search, and personal branding. They’re all free [...]

  Jan 2

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• You should follow me on Twitter here

  You should follow me and my colleagues on Twitter here. We’ve been developing our Twitter presence for a couple years now, and what we’ve discovered is that you love to be kept up-to-date, intrigued, and informed on the latest in careers and job search. So a few times a day, every day, we’ll tweet the most interesting or compelling items we’ve found that day. During the month of December, that’s included: Our Thank-You Note Quiz For Better or for Worse — How to Help Your Partner Through the Job Hunt Did a co-worker friend you on Facebook? Read this before accepting Meet our staff & find out why we say: Your career is our job™ [vid] An Introvert’s Guide to Resume Self-Promotion For these, and a lot, lot more, you should follow me and my colleagues on Twitter here. So during this week of returning gifts, preparing for the future, [...]

  Dec 26

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• All I want for Christmas is… a new job

  If what you’re looking for under your tree next week — or anytime during this holiday season — is a new job, then here’s the program for you, or your loved one: Signature from TheLadders. Signature is TheLadders’ most effective job matching program because we guarantee you’ll get an offer when you work with your Career Advisor during our six-month program… When you enroll you will be assigned a dedicated Career Advisor who is a Certified Professional Career Coach. This 1-on-1 approach allows your Advisor to get to know your background, preferences, needs and goals so they can prepare and coach you expressly for your situation. We have a 10-step roadmap to guide you through the job search. It includes everything from defining your job goals and understanding your challenges, to crafting your elevator pitch, to having a CPRW (Certified Professional Resume Writer) re-write your resume, to preparing for interviews, [...]

  Dec 19

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• If you want to be global…

  Good Monday morning. Or should I say guten Morgen? Buenos días? Or nín hǎo? I had a great interview with Elcio Barcelos, VP, Global Staffing at HP, this past week about hiring, what they’re looking for in new employees, and the global possibilities that Hewlett-Packard offers to professionals. If you’re looking to be a global professional in technology, then HP is the place for you. What does that mean? I’ll let Elcio spell it out: Marc Cenedella: Why HP? Elcio Barcelos: We do business in over 100 countries across the globe and recruited in 90 of them last year. We made thousands of hires across the globe and this is truly a global organization. That creates a breadth — a broad base of career opportunities across the globe in consumer, enterprise, government, etc. Multiple businesses, multiple units, multiple geographies. You can spend decades of your career here and rotate through [...]

  Dec 12

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• What not to do with your resume

  Guess what happens four weeks from now? The new year begins, and so too does the new year job hunt. If you’re looking for success in 2012, it’s important that you get your resume in order, and I’d like for TheLadders to help you with your success. Sign up now to get your free resume critique, or your full resume re-written for $395. You see, shortly after I started writing this newsletter eight years ago, readers like you started writing in and asking for help with their resumes. So we’ve been re-writing resumes for almost a decade. Nowadays, we re-write over 10,000 resumes each year. That expertise helps us understand what’s important and what’s not. It’s helped us learn over time what’s more effective with employers and recruiters. And it’s helped us figure out what not to do. Because, actually, the art of writing a resume is figuring out what [...]

  Dec 5

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