by Barbara Safani | Feb 8, 2010 | career management
Recently I interviewed Lisa Johnson Mandell author of Career Comeback. Lisa is an award-winning author, entertainment reporter, and film critic who has appeared on dozens of major news outlets and even Dr. Phil. Here’s what she had to say about the new rules of...
by Barbara Safani | Feb 5, 2010 | career management
There is a great conversation going on over on the Punk Rock HR blog about passion and whether or not passion can be or should be measured as part of employee performance . Some say passion is generally not a term that is synonymous with work and others say that...
by Barbara Safani | Feb 4, 2010 | networking, on-line identity
Last night I had one of those moments that every mother dreads. It was three hours past the time my teenage daughter was expected home and she wasn’t answering her cell phone which appeared to be off. She’s a pretty responsible girl, so I was concerned to...
by Barbara Safani | Feb 2, 2010 | career management
The co-op board of the building I live in is recommending a new policy that prohibits new renters and owners from smoking in their apartments and requires that current smokers stop smoking in their apartments after a period of three years. While it may seem odd to...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 25, 2010 | career management
Last week I attended the first of many college planning meetings at my daughter’s school. Jammed into the school auditorium with 200+ other neurotic parents of high school juniors, I listened to details about student entrance exam test dates, transcripts, and...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 21, 2010 | career research
This month’s Career Collective topic revolves around advice to job seekers to make the most out of 2010. I believe that an important strategy for a successful job search in 2010 involves looking at trending industries and going where the growth is. With a little...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 20, 2010 | career research
CareerBuilder internal data suggests that 34% of candidates that try to apply for a job don’t because the application process is too much of a hassle. 24% report the “apply now” link is broken and 21% report that the long application process...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 19, 2010 | career management
There’s a hot debate going on over at Jerry Albright’s blog over a tweet by Dan Schawbel stating that you have to be as committed to your social media profile as you are to your husband or wife. Some disagreed with the analogy. Frankly, I think...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 18, 2010 | career management
I got a lot of calls and emails today from people who work for companies that I assumed would have been closed because it’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But Martin Luther King Jr. Day has always seemed like one of those holidays open to enormous interpretation...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 12, 2010 | career management, resume
Occasionally I have to turn a prospect for a resume project away because I have determined that they really aren’t ready to work with me. There are five signs that a person is just not in the right place to begin a resume project and doing so would lead to...
