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Diplomas and Dilemmas: How 2023 Graduates Can Navigate Job Market Chaos

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This month, the graduating class of 2023 will bid farewell to a rather extraordinary college experience — having endured an unforeseen worldwide pandemic, an unexpected switch to remote learning, skyrocketing inflation and housing costs, not to mention cascades of tech sector layoffs. It may also lead to a full-time job offer.

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4 Social Resume Strategies to Help You Get Seen and Get Hired

Eat Your Career

If you’ve heard the term “social resume” floating around recently and wondered what it’s all about, you’re in the right place. A social resume is not so much an actual thing; rather it’s a variety of things. While these tools aren’t a replacement for the traditional resume, they can be a helpful addition to the job search process.

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5 Steps to Creating Your Digital Portfolio

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It’s an easy way to share your resume, work samples, credentials, and anything else that you want to showcase about your professional life. Plus, you can include a link to your professional portfolio website at the top of your resume, which is an instant attention-grabber! These five simple steps can help. Work Samples or Portfolio.

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3 Things to Remember When Turning Down a Job Offer

On The Job

This is a good time to make a list of the pros and cons and speak with trusted mentors or family. You can probably never begin to appreciate the time and energy is takes to post a job, go through resumes, interview candidates, check references and get approval to make a job offer. Not to mention the money it costs.

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On the Outside Looking In

Laughing all the Way to Work

A Job is Waiting to Happen to You Long gone are the days of scouring the newspaper want ads and pounding the pavement going from office to office submitting your resume. There are sites that are specifically for job hunters where you can submit your resume and a profile about yourself for any employer to see. First impressions count.

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Tim Leberecht of The House of Beautiful Business | Making Business More Human

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My my friend and mentor Priya Parker, who wrote this wonderful book, The Art of Gathering, always says if everybody is. We’re not necessarily programed to optimize at all costs as human beings. It starts with a very strong mission and a clear sense of purpose. Like what is what does the organization stand for? Tim Leberecht.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Your termination is more “in the past” than being the focal point of your resume because your first job description will be the temping stuff. All this time I wanted to be recognized for my great resume and hard work and when I got offered a job on the spot, I retreated instead of saying yes right away.

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