Career Opportunities

Danielle Gruen of Living Careers.net presents “Creating the “Champion” Mind” at CareerCampLA 2010. Download “Creating the ‘Champion’ Mind with Danielle Gruen – iPod Ready Video

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As many of you know already, when looking for your first job, your next job or the next step in your career, a direct, frontal attack is only one approach. Sure answering job postings, submitting resumes and taking interviews will always be with us, but I believe they can only take us so far. In [...]

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A panel from CareerCampLA 2010 including Danielle Gruen of LivingCareers.net, Cindy Cruz, of Pasadena City College, Markell Steele of Futures-in-motion.com and JoAnn Braheny of Goosing Your Muse.com. Download “Career transitions: Should I return to school?” in iPod Ready Format

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Last Saturday marked our second CareerCamp event here in the Southern California area. By many accounts, it was extremely successful, both in terms of attendance and the amount of information that was shared. That said, there were a couple of people who arrived that day looking for a more traditional “career fair” where they could [...]

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Fellow Friends in Tech member, Chuck Tomasi, sat down to talk while he was on a business trip to San Diego, California. The reason for his trip was his recent layoff from his long time company and a quick hire at a new one. In this interview, Chuck talks about being surprised by the layoff, [...]

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Over the course of my career I have had the blessed opportunity to receive some pretty high praise. Sure, I have made my mistakes and had my failures, but when I succeed my clients can be quite effusive in their compliments. One thing I have noticed, though, is that the highest praise often doesn’t come [...]

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Here is a fill promo for CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) happening July 10, 2010. You can sign up for your free tickets at http://careercampascv.wordpress.com. Please share this promo with your friends and coworkers.

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Watch “The Art of Networking” – iPod Ready Video Jennifer “Jungle Jenny” Michaels (JungleJenny.org), Susan M. Baker from Escapehatcher.com and Danielle Gruen of LivingCareers.Net present a panel on “The Art of Networking” at CareerCampLA 2010.

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When pressed, we can come up with a hundred and one reasons why we stay in a lousy job. “The economy is bad. There aren’t any jobs available. I’m not cut out for anything else.” For me, though, the worst excuse, by far is “Well, someone has to do the job.” To this I reply, [...]

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Listen to this Podcast News arrived recently that a friend had been laid off, downsized, right-sized, fired from the company where he had worked for 22 years. Another friend was laid off after 18 years with the same company. These weren’t static drones doing the same job in the same cubicle year after year. They [...]

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