For certain, some of the impact is lost in releasing a jobs report after the Department of Labor has released their monthly data, but such is the case when the first Friday of the month is also the 1st of the month. (I’m not sure why the Conference
Press Release LINKUP WINS ABOUT.COM’S 2011 READERS’ CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST JOB SEARCH ENGINE NEW YORK, March 15, 2011 – LinkUp today announced that it has been selected as the About.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Award for best job search
The polls have closed on About.com’s Reader’s Choice Awards, and the winners will not be announced until next week, but in advance of final certification and the official announcement, LinkUp received the most votes as the best job search engi
The February jobs report comes out tomorrow, and hopes are high that the numbers will finally show that the U.S. economy is truly and firmly in recovery mode. As Ben Bernanke said recently in his semiannual testimony on Capitol Hill, the recovery that see
It’s funny how things work sometimes. During a recent conversation, I made the comment that the newspaper most at risk from the launch of Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily (Newscorp’s very well-executed daily newspaper released specifically for
The talk all week about the Superbowl commercials leads me to wonder what percentage of the record audience actually tuned in to watch the game itself. It was, in case people might have overlooked it, a great football game and I hate to admit, as a Minnes
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It's graduation time, a time when millions are thinking about what they will do with their freshly minted degree in hand. I've compiled here a "list of lists" that you can peruse if you're still in the brainstorming phase of...
A dear friend of mine took her newborn baby home from the hospital a few days ago. Most of us parents get seven or eight months to plan and prepare for a new arrival, but my friend had three days....
Looking for a new job? There's an app for that. In fact there are many free apps for your smartphone or iPad that can help you be as efficient as possible with your job search when you're away from your...
What kind of balance do you want to strike between your professional and your personal life? Harvard business blogger Ron Ashkenas wrote an article in December in the Harvard Business Review that a key to minimizing regret regarding your work-life...
This is a guest post by Jane Sanders from DebtManagement.net. Check out her site for more information on personal finance topics, like how to improve your credit score. Managing your finances effectively can be a challenge in today's tough economy....
A new year may have you thinking about a new career, or it may just have you wondering how "hot" your current career is. The folks at JobDescriptions.net have done a whole lot of homework to present you with their...
Note: In the last post, I introduced the idea of Going Pro without Quitting Your Day Job. In this second part, I cover the benefits. Part 3 will show how you can Go Pro. -- My palms were sweaty and my voice was about two octaves higher than normal as I di
Seth Godin had a great post today - I quote it below: What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, you're wasting away. No matter what your job is, no matter where you work, there's a way t
Admit it. You’ve got a secret love. You sketch shoe designs during meetings. You build toy trains in your basement. You sing arias in the shower. You probably don’t tell too many people about your secret love. Why not? “I’m not good enough yet.” “No one w
Photos: (c) Allan Bacon (left) and by fazen (right) For most of my career, I was busy with work and the little remaining time was dedicated to my family. While this arrangement made me feel like I was taking care of everything, over time it left me feelin
Photo by Roby Ferrari Have you completed employee reviews in the last month? Did it feel like a good use of your time? Did you feel like you were really building value in your company or did you feel like you were checking off a box on someone else’s cove
Photo by TheGiantVermin 7:06 pm at the Hilton. Running late from work. Pay my $15. Put on nametag. Gulp. Walk into a ballroom of strangers standing around chatting. Everyone knows someone but me. Crap. Maybe I’ll just stand in the corner… Have you ever ex
I love salmon (especially fly fishing for them). I also love Cornell Hockey. And I can get pretty excited about clothing if it matches my style. That’s why I was extremely interested when I heard about a clothing line called Salmon Cove that was lau
If you watch the news, it’s easy to believe that we’re all constantly at great risk of dying in some sort of disaster. Yes, there are a lot of threats out there, but most of us shouldn’t waste a lot of time worrying about them. There are
There’s a good chance that you’re going to spend some time traveling after you graduate. It’s a pretty common thing to do, especially when the job market isn’t completely rocking. (Just remember not to brag about it in your intervi
I guess today’s post is going to be a case study on how social media can influence the decisions people make. Yesterday I was browsing Facebook and saw an ad for “The Ultimate Social Media Internship.” I’m not sure how that ad got
The last century or so has been all about mass produced goods. Everybody wants what everyone else has. If all your friends had a Chinpokomon, then you’d want one too. That’s starting to change. More and more people are interested in handcrafte
It always helps to have someone hold you accountable, whether it’s to keep you from cheating on a paper or cheating on a diet (those are links to this week’s relevant posts on iParadigms and Weight Watchers, respectively). But it’s not o
I love salmon (especially fly fishing for them). I also love Cornell Hockey. And I can get pretty excited about clothing if it matches my style. That’s why I was extremely interested when I heard about a clothing line called Salmon Cove that was lau
If you watch the news, it’s easy to believe that we’re all constantly at great risk of dying in some sort of disaster. Yes, there are a lot of threats out there, but most of us shouldn’t waste a lot of time worrying about them. There are
You may not be planning on traveling this summer since you’re going to get an internship (you will if you haven’t already), but there’s a good chance that you’re going to spend some time traveling after you graduate. It’s a p
I guess today’s post is going to be a case study on how social media can influence the decisions people make. Yesterday I was browsing Facebook and saw an ad for “The Ultimate Social Media Internship.” I’m not sure how that ad got
The last century or so has been all about mass produced goods. Everybody wants what everyone else has. If all your friends had a Chinpokomon, then you’d want one too. That’s starting to change. More and more people are interested in handcrafte
It always helps to have someone hold you accountable, whether it’s to keep you from cheating on a paper or cheating on a diet (those are links to this week’s relevant posts on iParadigms and Weight Watchers, respectively). But it’s not o
No, it isn’t some trick and no it isn’t some life changing product. Its something that we all are capable of doing but often choose not to do or choose to hold on to until it begins to consume us. What is it? Forgiveness. It sounds so plain. So plain
A few months ago, I gave a speech on personal change based on the research in my latest best-seller Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success. At the end of my presentation, a fellow approached me and said, “You could use this on yourself, coul
What do you really want from life? I mean really, really want. If you sit down and think about why you want anything, you can almost always discover that the main reason is because you want to feel a certain way. It could be to feel peace of mind, fulfi
I do a lot of writing about home improvement and environmental issues and one of the most important topics I find everyone can relate to is clutter. Clutter can be a heavy burden that confines and suffocates. Like the interesting phenomenon of a pet taki
Do little things make you unnecessarily stressed? Do you feel a nagging sense of dissatisfaction with your life? Do you struggle to see other people’s point of view? It’s often hard to keep a sense of perspective in our lives. We’re constantly bombarde
Here’s the paradox: over the age of 50, change gets harder, and yet it can also seem more urgent. For most of us, life is settled and patterns of behaviour firmly engrained. We may have lived in the same house or town for many years, been together with s
The following post is courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap: A 30-60-90-day plan is an outline of what you intend to do in your first 3 months on the job. It’s a goal-setting document that shows you understand the job and...
The following post is courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap: When sifting through executive resumes, many hiring managers decide that they will choose six candidates to interview for a position. Of course, this number fluctuates depending on the circumstanc
What follows below are the results from our 4th Minnesota Recruiters hiring and jobs survey. Let me get the disclaimers and details out of the way out of the way: - This is not a scientific survey but it does...
There are a bunch of tools you need for your job search (Job Search Marketing Toolkit), one of which is the Cover Letter. If you don't know what this is take a look at the link listed below. Your cover...
I was asked to do a presentation for the Minnesota Recruiting & Staffing Association and talk to my colleagues about the use of Social Media in recruiting and if it helps or hurt us: Here is the description of the...
The following new Minnesota Recruiter Jobs have been added to the Minnesota Headhunter Recruiter Jobs Page: Contract Sourcers - Full Time Contract Jobs – Cargill Sr. Director, Talent Management - Full Time Job - Xcel Energy Field Recruiter - Full...
Sure, it looked like a glamorous position when you attended your friend's wedding last month. Watching the banquet manager, or maitre d’, escorting the bride & groom into the room, then directing his waiters in serving the food, then later even t
Digging deep and really feeling the discomfort of transformational change is the fastest and surest way to business success.
Can you really find business startup success while being authentic? Yes, it's really the only way to be happy and make money.
They call me intense. I think that's because I go deep and speak boldly whether that's comfortable for you or not.
Get To The Heart of the Matter All madness stems from too much head and too little heart.
Change just one thing about the way you think and every area of your life will get better, especially in the area of business and career. In business we care way too much about what others think of us.
Have you ever been left with a feeling of frustration and empty promises after watching a video from a big name guru? Here's the tipoff. If they say it will be packed with lots of content – it usually isn't.
Tweet I know a thing or two about narcissism. I’ve been blogging for over ten years in one form or another. I obviously think I have important things to say. Enough where I’ve spent a lot of time crafting messages that get read by a relatively
Tweet Editors note: I wanted to write a post about a good friend of Rehaul, Steve Boese but Trish McFarlane did such an exemplary post, I asked if I could repost it here for my readers. She obliged so if you can help at all with any leads, please feel fre
Tweet Too many companies hire the best candidate from their shortlist. No, I didn’t make a typo in that sentence. Hiring the best candidate—the most qualified, the one with the highest levels of each sought-for skill, the smartest, best track-record, sta
Tweet Today marks the release of The 8 Man Rotation, an ebook focused on the intersection of talent management and sports. Put together by Matthew Stollak with contributions from Steve Boese, Kris Dunn, Tim Sackett and myself along with forwards from Bill
Tweet HRevolution I’m not going to HRevolution this year. I enthusiastically went to the first two and I was happy to be part of the original crew who bought into it. And this year’s event is already sold out so it isn’t like I’m g
Tweet When I was a little kid, I was crazy about the military. Every day after school, a few friends and I would storm imaginary fortresses, take turns pretending to be drill instructors, or perform black-ops junk food reconnaissance. I had a long family