Job Searching Tips

The question is one that we might not care to answer because it involves limiting our imagination — or altering it, to say the least.

In America, we believe that if you have a dream, that dream can be yours through tremendous effort. We often view education as a necessary stepping stone to achieve our dreams. Of course, there are countless examples where this isn’t the case, but for the most part, we continue to see education as being as good as an open door to fulfilling our career goals.

I have three children of my own and I plan on continuing to teach them this principle: dream big, work hard, and in the end what you want most in life will be yours.

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Your online presence. In our online world, how you portray yourself on the Internet can be an important deciding factor for employers. Why? Many employers want to paint a full picture of an applicant. Your Facebook profile, Twitter stream, blogs, or even what other people are saying to you can give an employer a better idea of your character. After all, you will be representing them should you get hired. So, if your online presence is full of controversy, an employer will likely dismiss you as a candidate because they don’t want to take a risk on a candidate that has a lot of excess baggage.

Your online presence doesn’t have to be a huge project you take on, either. You

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Last night I read an article from The New York Times about how two New York City taxi cab medallions recently sold for $1 million each. These aren’t some weird collectors’ items–they are actual pieces of metal that are attached to the hood of a taxi cab and are required for the cab to be able to operate in a given city. It’s a relatively common system (you can read about it here), and it limits the number and ensures the quality of cabs in the city. In some cities, the medallions can be bought and sold, and the secondary market for them is getting extremely expensive. Because

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One of the world’s biggest education publishers has joined with one of the most dominant and iconic software companies on the planet to bring colleges a new — and free — learning-management system with the hopes of upending services that affect just about every instructor, student, and college in the country.

Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has joined the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS that combines standard course-management tools with advanced social networking and community-building, and an open architecture that allows instructors to import whatever material they want, from e-books to YouTube videos.

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And today, youre going to learn a strategy that will boost those chances even more. It is, simply, the single most effective way to follow up after an interview.

Its simple really, add value to the conversation.

But what exactly does that mean? It means that you want to think of something that you talked about in the interview and expand on it in a way that will meaningfully enhance the conversation.

Before we go any further, lets take a look at some examples:

One interviewee heard that one of the first problems that a small business wanted him to solve was to set up an email list and start a newsletter, but the owner was overwhelmed and didn’t know where to start. S

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