OK, I admit it…I’ve had my head in the sand for months now, brazenly ignoring this space to work on other projects and hibernate through a not-so-brutal Maryland winter. But it’s April now (it’s still too cold), so I decided to pop my head out the door both literally - by doing some yard work […]

It’s not what you know, but who you know: While true in some instances, any company looking to increase profits can only carry so much deadwood among employees. That means the best and brightest have to be hired or the company will sink.
My resume is the most important aspect of the job search: Erroneous. I’ve […]

I have recently launched a personal campaign against clutter in all areas of my life. I’m off to a slow start (I can’t find my desk), but I’m confident that I am headed in the right direction. I recently found Unclutterer, which is one of the best sites around for helping to organize your world. […]

…for never bothering to take that extra step to figure shit out. - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone.
That is the majority of a quote from an unflattering article about Rudy Giuliani and why he’s not the answer for president. But I liked it much more outside of that context and I think there is great truth […]

That title is not a metaphor or anything fancy like that. It’s a simple question from a simple man. Having lived in Maryland my entire life, I have grown accustomed to distinct weather changes between each season of the year. The last few days have been pretty nice around here, with highs in the mid-70s […]

Well, Insourced has undergone some changes recently. Yesterday marked the launch of the new job search portion of the site and, for those who read the blog, you’ll have noticed (I hope) that it’s undergone a re-design. Still some things to work out with IE, because every time I try to use a background image […]

There is a solid and in-depth article at Ask the Recruiter entitled The Secret Handshake: Why Networking is Vital. The article provides a detailed explanation of why networking is important for job seekers and how to build networks of both quantity and quality. The author, Dakotta J.K. Alex, hits on several of the common reasons […]

Over at Career Hub, there is a post about How to Make Your Resume Turn Up in an Employer’s Search Results. There is no new ground broken here, just some reminders about using targeted keyword phrasing and then variations of the same keyword phrases so that you can account for slight differences in search styles. […]

Ever since my Honors “Philosophy of Science” class back in 1994, I’ve been a huge fan of the “paradigm shift”, if for no other reason than I love that word…paradigm. In that class we were studying the outdated theory of “phologiston” and the scientist - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier - who debunked it after fighting a long […]

According to an article by Hanah Cho in the Baltimore Sun, job hopping is fine, for awhile. Even before reading Hanah’s article, I would have guessed that this is the case. It seems that young workers are more willing than ever to move from job to job in the hopes that they are going to […]