Tag: For Job Seekers – Finding a Job

  • The 10 Commandments of Job Search

    The 10 Commandments of Job Search

    We gave you The Ten Commandments of Networking. We even gave you The Seven Deadly Sins of Networking. After using those as the foundation for our speaking engagements over the last few years, we noticed that it was time to change things up a bit. Oh sure, networking is still a very core and crucial…

  • Squared Circle Career Counseling

    Squared Circle Career Counseling

    I might complain from time to time about being too busy for my own good with eight kajillion things going on, but the good part is that I get a lot of random insight and topics to write about here. I also completely love the random collision of worlds effect that takes place on a…

  • Everyone Is In Sales. Yes, Even You.

    Everyone Is In Sales. Yes, Even You.

    Anyone who’s known Bob and I for more than two weeks has heard me give him a hard time about being “overhead” because he’s “a useless Sales guy that wouldn’t have anything to sell if if weren’t for the geeks that actually DO things”, and him giving it right back to me with “if Sales…

  • The Ten Commandments of Networking

    The Ten Commandments of Networking

    [editorial note: This is the original version, as published back in July of 2009.  As with all good things, it’s been updated over time.  You can find the most recent version here: http://www.ITinTheD.com/2697/the-new-and-improved-10-commandments-of-networking/ ] As I sit here watching History of the World, Part 1 for, oh, it must be the 8,173rd time…it dawned on me.…

  • Dave on 96.3 WDVD This Morning Discussing Wednesday’s Pink Slip Party

    Dave was on the air this morning with Blaine and Allyson in the morning on 96.3 WDVD. They chatted a bit about our networking events, how Pink Slip Party events got started, what they are (and aren’t), and what you should expect from this Wednesday’s event at St Andrews Hall starting at 5pm. The audio…

  • Don’t Be That Guy – The Bad Candidate

    Don’t Be That Guy – The Bad Candidate

    I didn’t write this one.  I mean, I’m copying and pasting the content in here…but this comes in from…oh, let’s just say it’s “An IT recruiter in the Detroit market” and leave it at that.  I desperately wanted to call it “The Recruiter Strikes Back 2: Electric Boogaloo”…but I’ll stick with the one that it…