Jun 2, 2012 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Change, Finding a Job, Fired, Graduates, Hank Blank, HR, Job Hunting, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Linkedin, Networking, New Normal, Purpose Driven Networking, Social Networking, Training, Transition, Well Networked Companies, Working |
Hot and Cold Networking Doesn’t Work. The new Jobs Report came out yesterday and the report wasn’t too cheerful. Very tepid job growth. That’s life in the New Normal. We live in a world with an unemployment rate of 8.2% in the U.S. My friend Lynn Marie Hammond...
May 28, 2012 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Change, Finding a Job, Hank Blank, HR, Job Hunting, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Linkedin, Networking, New Normal, Social Networking, Successful Companies, Training, Well Networked Companies, Working |
While travelling recently I read a new survey in USA Today Snapshots on Loyalty Gap perceptions between Employers and Employees. It shared that 59% of employers in 2011 felt that they were very loyal to their employees and that percentage had increased from 52% in...
Apr 22, 2012 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Finding a Job, Graduates, Guidance Offices, Hank Blank, Job Hunting, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Linkedin, Networking, New Normal, Personal Branding |
I have spoken on many campuses on networking for over a decade now and I have written many posts hopefully helping today’s young people become better networkers. One of my most popular blogs remains Networking Tips for Young People and College Students Who Hate to...
Apr 13, 2012 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Finding a Job, Fired, Graduates, Hank Blank, HR, Job Hunting, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Networking, Personal Branding, Transition |
Although the employment outlook is getting better, many great people remain on the sideline. Some are getting increasingly frustrated as they see others get hired. As a Co Founder of Laguna Niguel Connectors and a person that has spoken to numerous transition groups...
Mar 28, 2012 | Best Way to Get a Job, Finding a Job, Fired, Graduates, Hank Blank, HR, Job Hunting, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Networking, New Normal, Recruiters, Working |
As a Co Founder of Laguna Niguel Connectors and a person that has spoken to numerous transition groups throughout Southern California I am ecstatic that the employment outlook is getting better. As a native in the New Normal I know that you have to be prepared for all...
Mar 18, 2012 | Advertising Agencies, Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Finding a Job, Graduates, Guidance Offices, Hank Blank, Job Hunting, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Working |
I live in Laguna Niguel about two miles from the Pacific Ocean. I grew up in Toronto and went to UWO in London. I had never been to London before I arrived the first day at residence. London was 12o miles from where I grew up. When I went to Western I was reading a...
Mar 11, 2012 | Career, Change, Finding a Job, Graduates, Guidance Offices, Job Hunting, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Networking, New Normal |
We all know about the term Glass Ceiling which refers to the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements. I think that today’s glass ceiling...
Feb 2, 2012 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Consulting, Finding a Job, Fired, Graduates, Hank Blank, HR, Job Hunting, Job Hunting Tips, Job Search, Jobs, Networking, New Business Development, Transition, Working |
I am a consultant. I have to create a job for myself each and every day. In many ways I am perpetually unemployed. Like a Shark who never sleeps. I often speak to transition groups and am one of the Cofounders of Laguna Niguel Connectors. I meet lots and lots of...
Jan 28, 2012 | Account Executive, Account Management, Advertising Agencies, Agency Relationships, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Agency Training, Branding, Career, CEO's, CMO, Consulting, Digital Agencies, Finding a Job, Hank Blank, Interactive Agencies, Job Hunting, Job Search, Jobs, Linkedin, Marketing, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, Public Relations, Social Networking |
I have spoken to many job hunting groups on Networking including CafeNet, ExecuNet, Challenger Networking , and Costa Mesa Connectors among others. Been doing it for years. I am also one of the Cofounders of Laguna Niguel Connectors. Often I get an e mail...
Jan 26, 2012 | Account Executive, Account Management, Advertising Agencies, Agency Relationships, Agency Searches, Career, Consulting, Finding a Job, Fired, Hank Blank, Job Hunting, Job Search, Jobs, Networking, New Business, New Business Development, New Business process., New Normal, Purpose Driven Networking, Social Networking, Transition, Working |
I have spoken on networking and personal branding to numerous companies and organizations across the country and in Canada where I started my career. I have been networking for decades even before it was the current social and business rage and rave. So when is the...