Archive for November, 2007

How is Billick NOT on the Hot Seat?

By: Matt, November 9th, 2007

Last year at this time, I wrote a few posts about how Brian Billick could be a nominee for NFL coach of the year. He had fired one of his best friends from the offensive coordinator position in the name of saving his team, the Baltimore Ravens, and taken over the play calling for the […]

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Personal Branding Summit

By: Matt, November 7th, 2007

For those in the hunt for a new job, and even for those looking to advance in their current career, personal branding has become one the best ways to secure a favorable impression from hiring managers or current bosses. The concept of personal branding has become popular enough that there is even a “Personal Branding […]

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Working from Home is Sometimes Just Hard Work

By: Matt, November 2nd, 2007

In case anyone missed it, I work from home - I work on this blog, on the Insourced site and job search application in general, and on various other projects and investments. For the most part, I revel in this fact and, to be quite honest, I have it better than a lot of folks […]

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Thumbs Blazing is the Quintessential Gen Y Image

By: Matt, November 1st, 2007

C.M. Russell over at Secrets of the Job Hunt notes that a CareerBuilder study shows some major differences between Generation Y, Generation X and Baby Boom employees. One of those major differences, of course, is the way each generation prefers to communicate. The youngest generation of the three, Generation Y, prefers communicating via text message, […]

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