Job Seekers vs. Skills Holders, Champions and More

The professionalism and attention to detail that Angela Loeb and Jay Markunas of the Job Search Boot Camp made our job search podcast particularly good. I think you’ll enjoy it.
As always, thanks to JobCannon.com (formerly CardboardResume) for their support of The Market for Me. JobCannon is the software [...]

Skills Holders know that it’s all about quality, but have things changed in this job market?
Skills Holders believe that the majority of their job search time should be spent on the most important parts of the effort:

finding a champion
locating unposted jobs
applying for those positions where they have a champion
interviewing
following up [...]

Things have changed.
Things have changed in the job market, and if you’ve been retired for any period of time, you need to catch up. The good news is that you don’t have to become a social networking expert, like your kids probably are. The bad news is that you’re going to have to pick up [...]

Are you “addicted” to finding your next job?
Bruce Solberg was one of the first people to read The Market for Me. And he gets it.
A key factor in your long term career success is your shift from seeing yourself as a job seeker to becoming a skills holder. A job seeker needs a job. A [...]

A group of Austin Skills Holders (that’s "Job Seekers" to the uninitiated) has made the statement that desperation is not an option. The group has dedicated itself to donating 505 man-hours of volunteer time that the Capital Area Food Bank in Austin, Texas.
Your actions determine what kind of person you are. What kind of people [...]

I’m going to ask you to change the way you look at the job search.
I’m going to ask you to let go of what you think you know about the job search.
I’m going to ask you to stop believing in certain superstitions.
And I’m going to spend time on job search activities the benefit of which [...]