Archive for the 'Networking' Category

Refine Your Small Talk Job Search Skills

By: Mick, March 30th, 2009

We’ve all found ourselves in that situation where someone we don’t know asks us what we do for a living. Depending on your mental energy level at the time, you may offer a job title-only response or you might go into a little more detail about what it is that you actually do for a […]

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Twitter Job Search: It Was Only a Matter of Time

By: Mick, March 19th, 2009

Now that TwitterJobSearch.com is up and running, it’s worth talking about the value of the service and how it might impact job search, in realistic terms. The site/service is described as The Social Media Job Search Engine - and I’d say that sounds fairly accurate. Based on the information on the site, they will be […]

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The Problem with E-mail and Texting as Business Communication Tools

By: Mick, March 12th, 2009

For the sake of a broader argument, I’m going to lump Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter into this quick little e-mail/text rant about the inherent inefficiencies with using anything other than voice or face-to-face communication to get things done. And while there is no argument that e-mail, text and the aforementioned social networks have changed the […]

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