Tools & Tips to Help You Survive Without a Job

Here are some great resources to help you deal with being unemployed including the “I Just Got Laid-Off Survival Kit”.

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Great Source of Sales Training

Are you in sales are looking to get into sales? If so you need some sales training. There are countless souces of sales training but one of the best can be found here!! Check it out that is an amazing eductional product that has an awesome sales training component. It also covers many other success related areas.

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How Many Careers Should You Have on Your Resume?

One problem that I see with job candidates is having multiple careers on their resume. Sometimes you even see resumes that have work history going back 30 years.

Here is a a great article tha covers this topic.
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Want to Get Hired in this Job Market – You go the Extra Mile

Another great article. This one is about the need to go the extra in your job search. This does not mean using colored resume paper by the way.

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Ten Minutes with Mark Stelzner – HR Industry Expert

Here is an interesting interview with Mark Stelzner a successful HR Executive. Check it out here!

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Should You Take a Lower Salary?

Taking a lower salary is a question I get asked often. The answer is yes. In a difficult economic times it is better to take a lower salary so that you are working again. The longer you are out of work the longer poeple are going to wonder if something is wrong with you. Here is an article that covers this idea.

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What Job Search Mistakes are you Making?

Read this article and ask yourself if you are making these mistakes. If you see yourself in this list I recommend that you take alternative actions.

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The Other Side of the Job Search Fence

Have you ever wondered what goes through the minds of hiring managers? Check out this article for some of the answers.

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Here is a Job Search Secret Get Organized!

Here is a great article on keeping your job search organized.  Check it out here.

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How to Advance Your Programming Career

Here is a tip for all you computer programmers out there (get rid of that pocket protector, yes I’m talking to you).  If you want to develop your programmer career,or even break into the profession, what can you do?

One thing you could do is get involved in a programming community. There are thousands out there but the one I recommend is called Stackoverflow. This is a programming question and answer site with some cool twists. For example answers are voted on by the community. Because of this the correct answers to the questions are almost always positioned at the top.

The feature that make this site useful for a programming job search is reputation. Stackoverflow’s reputation is a rough approximation of how much the Stackoverflow community trusts you. You gain reputation points by having your answers voted up by the community.  As you gain reputation you gain more the ability to do things on the site like edit questions, leave comments, or even delete duplicate questions.

Success in building reputation is evidence of a talented developer. This is something that you could even put on your resume. I even know of tech recruiters that use the site to locate tech talent based (at least partially) on reputation scores.

In closing if you want to develop your programming career you should consider getting invovled with Stackoverflow.

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