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The History of Opportunity

The Importance Of Your Job Seeker Profile ( Infographic)

Keys to Creating Business Success and Local Jobs In Our Own Backyard ( applies to any city)

30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech

Spoton Analyzes Your Google Calendar To Improve Your Social Life

The Evolution of An Entrepreneur applies to all business, as well as your career path.

Solving The OpenStack Talent Gap

“We also need to make technology and OpenStack careers more inviting to women. Peggy Johnson, executive vice president of global market development at Qualcomm, wrote in the article “Women In Technology: Let’s Close The Gap,” that in the past decade, just 12 percent of the professionals in engineering are women. That needs to change – and soon.”

Examining The Cracks In The Ceiling: A Survey of Corporate Diversity Practices of the S&P 100, March 2013 (pdf)

Did Sheryl Sandberg “Lean in” On Facebook Hard Enough?

She’s a great role model, with great advice, but did she deliver on it at her own company, Facebook?

Women in the Workplace Issues In Current Pop Culture Debate

You’ll enjoy these guideposts on your journey by a brainy, adventurous career woman managing multiple careers and family.

An Eye-Catching New Way To Broadcast Your Digital Identity
One start-up created a way for you to wrap up the best of your resume and social media activity into a personalized site that’s easy to provide to recruiters.”

Vizify- Graphical SocialBios

“Vizify creates a paginated profile that visualizes data from social media accounts including Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter.  Read more...

To Keep Advancing, Focus On Your Transferable Skills

When we discuss transferable skills, we are talking about those that can be applied to almost any career position. Developing transferable skills will keep you moving up the career ladder.

In 5 Transferable Skills Employers Want and You Should Have, the author says “after analyzing more than 1.8 million online job postings from the past three months we discovered the top five transferable skills that employers are looking for in job candidates overall…..Developing these skills will enable you to be more flexible, capable and prepared to find success within a variety of different positions that may positively change their business career outlook.”

Most Desireable Transfereable Skills
Graph courtesy of CareerBright  – More on specific transferable skills and capabilities

The Six C’s of Effective Communication

Why Women and Diversity Candidates Improve Your Bottom Line – Where To Find Them & How To Hire them.

Getting a job:  How to Get Your Resume To the Top of the Heap

Featured Posts: Why Should We Hire You – Because You Are The Solution and Can You Tell Me Something About Yourself? Don’t Let That Question Stop You Cold. Take Action if you haven’t heard back from a job interview: Send these follow up emails.


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