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To all the women who visit AdvancingWomen.com: you’re smart, you’re committed, you’re passionate and you’re ambitious. You are the reason we exist…….because we are here to support you in all the multi-dimensional challenges of your lives. AdvancingWomen.com provides career and business strategy , tools and resources to support your career, business and leadership goals, featuring our targeted,diversity job board at Careers.Advancing women.com. New: Visit our new Blogs/Gurus, daily dish on your favorite topics. Featured Articles: Fish Where The Fish Are – Use LinkedIn To Job Search I’ve already talked to you about LinkedIn being the number one resource where employers go to identify a great job candidate. In the spirit of “fish where the fish are”, if you find yourself searching for a job, the first thing you need to do is to update your LinkedIn profile. Bait for the big fish. Your LinkedIn Profile should be as fresh and up to date as fresh squeezed organge juice And packed with Vitamin C. Give it that oomph, that sparkle. Take a cue from Guy Kawasaki’s LinkedIn profile and make it personal, engaging, conversational.. (see rest of post) See also, 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 If you are looking for a job and still don’t have one, if all else fails, hire yourself. As marketing guru Seth Godin notes: “Everyone now knows that the best time to start a project is when the economy is lousy.” Read What It Means To Take Charge Of Your Worklife and How to Start an Online Business for $100 – Ramp Up As Needed Or Just For Surges But, what I would like you to take away from this is that you have the power to create your own work situation, one that no one can take away from you. You can do this in a way that you have several streams of income. See rest of Take Charge of Your Worklife post. Recent Job Posts