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2011 Job Seeker Supplements
  • Desperate Times Call for Hopeful Measures
    A recent Time magazine article featured a new phenomenon in today’s job market. Apparently, at least some job seekers are now offering a financial reward to anyone who can hook them up with an appropriate employment opportunity. While desperate times may call for desperate measures, however, this do-it-yourself referral program is a hopeless investment. The money would be better spent on a do-it-yourself self-improvement program. More
  • Taking the Me Out of Mediocrity
    The evidence would suggest that it’s not. We’ve seen entire industries collapse and countless jobs move offshore. Cheap labor is partially responsible, to be sure, but so too is the caliber of our work. The good job we’re doing is now less competitive than it once was. Others are matching what we do on-the-job and they’re delivering that output at a lower wage. More
  • Two Halves Are Better Than One
    What does that mean? Competing successfully for a job today begins with a change in our mindset. Now, no one likes change, but we have no choice. The job market has undergone a fundamental reset, and we have to adapt or throw in the towel and give up. More
  • The Metatarsal of Career Success
    Our oldest known relative is Lucy, whose skeleton is believed to be 3.2 million years old. The fourth metatarsal was discovered in another skeleton believed to be contemporaneous with Lucy. It is a key bone in the human foot because it permits us to walk erect, and paleoanthropologists believe it was that upright posture which enabled our species to rise to the top of the evolutionary heap. More
  • The iPhone Proposition
    Steve Jobs and company recognize that standing still is the single best way to fail in today’s economy. Their competitors are always raising the bar in terms of design and performance, so they must too. Similarly, consumers are forever raising their expectations about what they want and need from a cell phone so Apple must oblige. In effect, those two inexorable forces mean that the only way Apple can survive and prosper is by working continuously at getting better. More
  • Tiger Job Seekers
    There’s been a lot of debate recently about the phenomenon of “tiger moms.” While the call for tougher parenting may be controversial, however, it does raise an interesting idea. In this job market, in this economy, maybe what we need is tougher job seeking. Maybe, the key to success is to refashion ourselves as tiger job seekers. More
  • Starting Right
    It’s human nature. The new year has arrived, the economy appears to be strengthening, so action seems both right and fitting. Besides, after the slower pace of the Holidays, most of us are rested and ready to go. So, what do we do? We pick up right where we left off. We go back to what we have always been doing in order to go forward. And, that’s not starting right; it’s starting wrong. More
  • The Dilemma of a Wimpy Job Seeker
    While the wimpy kid faces cafeteria bullies and hallway brickbats, the wimpy job seeker is confronted with indifferent employers and recruiters and unanswered applications. The net result, however, is exactly the same. Both the adolescent and the adult feel as if they’re being shoved around by forces they cannot control and humbled if not humiliated by their inability to defend themselves. More

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