1) Don’t Stalk the Hiring Manager

When you’re searching for a job, enthusiasm is a good thing. But some job applicants cross the line — and kill their chances at a job offer.

Answer “Yes” to any of the four questions in this article, and you may be a job search stalker.

2) Laid off? Here Are 8 Tips

The financial crisis’s impact on the job market might resemble what happened in the early 90’s, when the Bank of New England, among others, also failed, she says. During that time, many in financial services lost their jobs, forcing workers to reinvent themselves and their careers.

Here are eight tips on how to get through the loss of a job because of the downturn, based on working with those who came out of a similar situation and are thriving today.

3) How to Look for a Job, if You’re Currently Employed

You’re ready for a new job. But how can you find the time to look for one while working your current gig?

When searching under the radar for a new job, it’s important to remain professional. Read the full article to learn how.

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… right between your ears.

It’s your mindset.

A success-oriented mindset is how all successful businesses survive and thrive in tough times: Their leaders think better thoughts than the competition’s, which produce better actions, which produce better, more profitable results.

Why should you care what business leaders think, if you’re looking for a job and not running a business?

Because you are a small business.

Did you know that? It’s true.

If you’re in the market for a job, you are a “personal services sole proprietorship.” And you need to find just one key customer — an employer willing to hire you.

The more you think and act like a successful small business, the faster you will find that one customer you need.

To that end, you ought to read this eye-opening blog posting on the power of self-belief. Its audience is marketers and advertising copywriters, but that includes you. Because you are marketing yourself with every networking conversation you have, and writing ad copy every time you create a new cover letter and resume.

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In my latest newspaper column, I wrote about how you can get farther, faster in your networking efforts just by asking one or two of the most-connected people you know for advice.

Now, I’d like to take it a step further.

Below are the coordinates for one of the friends I wrote about, Jennifer Weismann.

Since she helped me with my story, I want to help her get more clients.

What’s in it for you?

First, you should copy the layout and format of the bio below, post it to your blog as a way to drive search engine traffic to your Linkedin profile.

Second, ask any of your friends, relatives or colleagues who blog to post a bio like this about you on their blogs, too. OF COURSE, you will do something nice for them in exchange, right?

Jennifer Weismann Public Relations is looking to work with a few good clients industries like these: Tourism, Food/restaurant, Animal health/pet food, Agencies (freelance support), Credit unions, banks

Keywords: news releases, freelance writing, newsletter writing, marketing collateral, public relations, media relations, publicity, guerrilla marketing, podcast writing, podcast production

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Here’s a really cool, very detailed story of one man’s journey 2,500 miles away, where he got hired for a new job. It’s chock full o’ ideas you can use if you want to try your luck in a new city.

Read the whole story, but here’s the intro:

• 30 days ago, I was driving from South Carolina to Los Angeles without a full time job.
• 20 days ago, I was on my first interview at a social networking company in Westwood.
• 10 days ago, I was on my third callback interview with a tech company in El Segundo.
• 5 days ago, I had three different job offers in my lap.

Today, I finished my first week at a job I absolutely adore.  My co-workers are fantastic, my boss is extremely savvy, the company culture is awesome and the work is refreshingly challenging.  It’s the type of job that I’ve always wanted, but never been able to find on the East Coast.  So how does one manage to pull this off in an economy supposedly headed for a recession?
 

Talk about a leap of faith: He moved with no job waiting for him. But he first read and applied the ideas in Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters. So I guess not so much faith was needed after all?

Bonus: Two nights ago, I did a one-hour phone call with David Perry, author of the aforementioned GM4JH.

We talked about a whole slew of new ideas you can use in your job search — even in these increasingly tough times.

Here’s a sample: 

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A lot of job interview tips focus on what to say in response to tricky interview questions.

But one of the most over-looked interview techniques is a variant on the old saw, “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.”

And some cutting-edge research at MIT is backing this up, as I read in The Wall Street Journal.

Here are the relevant parts:

As a professor at the MIT Media Lab, Alex “Sandy” Pentland naturally knows how to take a quantitative and technological approach to research questions.

But when Dr. Pentland and his colleagues began applying technological tools to a question of human behavior — how people use nonverbal communication cues — the results were startling. And powerfully instructive for managers.

Many of Dr. Pentland’s findings — based on data from a device he calls a “sociometer,” a wearable, badgelike contraption that can continuously measure various nonverbal aspects of people’s interactions — have implications for both how executives communicate and how they understand what is being communicated to them.

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