Six Reasons Your Job Networking Efforts Fail

Editor’s note:  This is a way for me to announce that twice a month ( at least) I will be blogging at BET.com by way [...]

Job Networking Lessons from My ‘Hood

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Editor’s note: The beautiful photography is owned by Tieshka K. Smith whose bio is at the end of this article.  I cannot express how vigilant [...]

Keep Employment Contacts Close (And The Competition Closer)

Keep Networking Contacts Close

Job seekers should be networking enough in their professional niche and circles to know what and how their competition is searching. As hard as it [...]

Is Your Social Network Working?

Editor’s note: Sandra Tedford is a regular contributor and founder of  WE Talk Today (@WETalkToday). She offers this article as a conviction of hers.  When [...]

Book Review: I Got My Dream Job and So Can You by Pete Leibman

I Got My Dream Job and So Can You

      From the good people at AMACOM books, I am privileged to review a new book release again this month. Pete Leibman’s book, I Got My [...]

Your Spouse Can Help With The Holiday Job Search

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Do you and your spouse attend holiday gatherings held by one another’s friends and families? Please, reconsider. This year, see it as an  job networking [...]

How Not Be An Authentic Job Candidate

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I wonder about the department that hired Rahiem. He didn’t possess the right skills for the position. But they hired him any way. When you [...]

5 Remedies to Fix Bad Career Advice

If it looks like sour advice, and tastes like leather, then its bad advice. If advice received from friends family sounds like a trick or [...]

This 43 Year Old Jobseeker Fired Her Friends First

Diane is a client that I see every now and then. She is in no rush to find another job, even after leaving her nursing [...]

Annette Goodman Talks About Networking

We have talked a lot about networking lately, and the benefits of connecting with key people who can help you find a job. Annette Goodman [...]