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)

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Interview with Michelle Lederman, author of The 11 Laws of Likability

I imagine if I wrote a book called, “How to be Huggable, Lovable, and Squeezable” people will have a pretty high expectation for me to [...]

Book Review: The 11 Laws of Likability by Michelle Tillis Lederman

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Michelle Tillis Lederman’s book, The 11 Laws of Likability, is not just for people to grow and establish entrepreneur relationship, but also for the jobseeker [...]