If you're job-hunting today, you know that employers are looking for sharp, self-motivated people. Paradoxically, just about the worst way to convey your talent and motivation is to say in your resume or cover letter, "I'm self-motivated." Anyone can say that! The phrase falls flat. You can't afford to let done-to-death boilerplate language sink your [...]
by Kevin Donlin, Minneapolis Star Tribune Here's the transcript from a phone interview that Kevin Donlin, from Guerrilla Job Search International, recently did with one happy Guerrilla Job Hunter, Scott Melrose, from Mokena, Illinois. He was hired for an executive position by an employer who found him on Linkedin, after he re-did his online profile [...]
No, this is not a post about how to land a job, market yourself, or do anything techie. It's about Tivo. I got a Tivo for Christmas many years ago. I promptly paid for the Lifetime Service and enjoyed the best television had to offer for a long time. Then the hard drive died. It [...]
Last week I attended a "Getting America Back to Work" meeting, where job seekers met with the organizer of the Tri-Valley Community Foundation coordinator, Elissa Wolf. The purpose of the program is to get unemployed residents of the Tri-Valley area (Livermore, Pleasanton, and Dublin, California) to match up with employers in the area. There are [...]
Mary Berman, from Farmington Hills, Michigan, had been looking for work since February 2009 before starting her Guerrilla Job Search, in mid-September. Up to that point, 20 weeks of job hunting had produced zero job interviews. Just 7 weeks later, she accepted a job on Thursday, November 12, as a marketing executive assistant. [...]