Most of us in the careers field preach diversification: don’t put all your eggs in one basket… pursue a multi-channel job search… you never know where your next lead or next job will come from. And that’s all true, in general. But last week I learned a startling statistic from a reliable source – an …
Month: February 2008
Who’s hiring? Who cares!
A post over at Indeed.com examines whether Fortune’s 2008 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For are hiring. But really, does it matter? Only if you want to be one of the herd… stampeding toward “where the jobs are” (or supposedly are) rather than pursuing a targeted search. By that I mean identifying companies …
Learnings from Landings
The weekly Member Bulletin from Allan Hoving at ExecuNet arrives in my email box every Friday morning, and of the first things I do is check the “Learnings from Landings” – my favorite part of the bulletin! It’s a nice up note to hear about someone who has landed, but even more importantly, learning what …