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Nibbles and Yum-Yums: August 13, 2010

Eat Your Career

FREE Job Interview Success Kit. The mastermind behind Ask a Manager has just created a brand new downloadable guide called “ How to Prepare for an Interview: Boost Your Confidence, Impress Your Interviewer and Get a Job.&# Photo Credit: Picture of a monster cat eating ice cream via Niklas (Flickr).

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10 Tips for Setting Up Your Social Media & Internet Presence Safely to Improve Your Job Search & to Protect Yourself

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AKA – Kiyomi’s 10 Tips for Setting Up Your Social Media & Internet Presence Safely to Improve Your Job Search & to Protect Yourself They say that the interview starts even before you’ve walked through the door and it’s true. The reason why I believe in doing this is because I once got found by Facebook through one of those sites.

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What The Panda Google Algorithm Change Means To Small Business Owners

Small Business CEO

I’m going to ignore Facebook as the omnipotent monster that many businesses don’t know how to leverage yet. Our Executive Video Interviews help small businesses do this, recording the owner and key officers on Skype. LinkedIn, a different animal. The world is changing for small business.

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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Call your old contacts, do informational interviews, network twice removed. I can see that you are already doing the informational interviews, even if only online. If you don't know how to use LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, a blog, about.me, TweetMyResume, or Klout, experiment.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: 5 Ways to Avoid Freaking Out About.

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5 Ways to Avoid Freaking Out About Networking Hear that? Nothing will help you find another job or protect your career more than having a monster business network.

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Answering Reader Mail: Before I Move to LA

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

The goal of this project isn't so much to network, but to gather information via informational interviews. It isn't a joke when one is asked in a job interview if you know how to roll calls. Here are a few things I suggest. 1) Meet a lot of people who are/were in the industry and pick their brains.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

2) Ask to meet for fun and to conduct informational interviews When you send out an email as mentioned above, those who are happy to hear from you and want to help you will respond. You can hang out with your friend and informally conduct an informational interview. Those who are too busy will probably just read it and delete.