by Barbara Safani | Apr 18, 2011 | career management
This month’s Career Collective post offers advice for career changers. You can find additional suggestions from my esteemed colleagues at the end of this post. I frequently talk to people who want to change careers. They often tell me one of these four things: I...
by Barbara Safani | Apr 13, 2011 | career management, career research
According to a recent job search trends report published by the Career Thought Leaders Consortium, a think tank for career industry leaders, job search is changing fast. Resumes and hiring managers’ attention spans are getting shorter. Google is the new resume...
by Barbara Safani | Feb 14, 2011 | career management
CareerBuilder recently surveyed close to 4,000 workers for their annual Valentine’s Day Survey and The Vault conducted an office romance survey recently as well. The bottom line is that there’s a lot of office romance going on from hook ups to steady...
by Barbara Safani | Feb 10, 2011 | career management, on-line identity, personal branding
This week my mom will celebrate her 80th birthday. We have two things planned for the big day. Head over to the Verizon store to compare Droids and iPhones and then pop by the Mac store to price out a new laptop. Ever since I can remember, my mom has wanted to stay on...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 31, 2011 | career management
Last week I wrote a post about smoking at work and looked at the productivity of smokers versus non-smokers over the course of a work day. The results are inconclusive as to whether smokers actually take more breaks at work or if they are any less productive even if...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 10, 2011 | career management, personal branding
The job offers are pouring in for Ted Williams, the homeless man whose YouTube video featuring his “golden voice” went viral last Monday. The video was recorded by an employee of The Columbus Dispatch who spotted Williams with his sign claiming he had the...
