by Peter Lloyd for Creative Experts, IT Experts, Job Hunting
I’ve been reading about “design thinking” for a while now. The earliest citations I’ve found go back to about 2006. But like quality, intellectual capital, ideation, teamwork, empowerment, thinking outside the box, benchmarking, multitasking, solutioning—see Overused Words & Phrases—this new wave brings a lot of water from older waves back to the beach.
Of course, those of us looking for jobs in creative, marketing, and information technology fields need to be conversant in the latest lingo. Especially if it’s overused! We don’t want to be caught with our jaws slack if asked in an interview, “How do you feel about design thinking?” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: design thinking, interviewing, interviews, job search
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video at 30 pictures per second should be worth 30 times its length in seconds. But it’s not, at least in the world of video resumés. Just as you will see good and bad pictures, you can send employers a “Hire Me” video that will help or hurt your chances of landing the job.
And when a video hurts, it hurts a whole lot harder. But how can you not consider the medium? Today “video ads are booming. News sites are adding more video inventory to keep pace with the demands of advertisers,” writes Brian Stelter in the New York Times. So why not put the power of video behind your self promotion? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: employment, Job Hunting, job search, resume, video
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
The online job description is explicit. They want skills you know you have. But you have no evidence of applying those skills on the job.
How frustrating! when you know you can do the job, but you have no idea of how to convince your potential employer. It’s a cinch that other candidates will submit resumés that honestly claim they’ve done what the job description calls for. But what about the rest of us? We need jobs, too. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: interviewing, job search, resume
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
We’ve talked about nothing but books so far in this three-part series on how The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County can help you in your job search. This post lists some of the online resources of the library’s Career Resource Center. Some you can access from the library website, some from your computer, others are subscription services you will have to access from the Main Library or branch workstations.
Of course, to use the library and its job search resources, you have to have library card. A simple matter if you live in Hamilton County. You can even apply for a library card online. If you live in surrounding counties, including in Norther Kentucky, you may have to pay a fee or use your local library membership to get a Cincinnati library card. Read the rest of this entry »
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
If you’re not an avid public library patron, you may think libraries just lend books. But they do that and a whole lot more. For example, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County houses a Career Resource Center to help you in your job search efforts.
In this post, I’ll let you in on what the Cincinnati Library offers in the way of expensive and short-lived reference books. While you may be able to obtain some of these books faster online, the library holds many job search volumes that you probably don’t want to buy. Some because they cost thousands of dollars and others because they’re not only expensive, they go out of date quickly. The Public Library holds these books and will let you use them, but it does not lend them out.
In subsequent posts, I’ll write about the Library’s job search book and online resource recommendations. If you’d rather not wait, call they Cincinnati Main Library or you local branch. See Locations. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: book, job search, Library
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting, On the Job
Here in the Talent Centric Blog, I’ve avoided compiling job search questions and offering answers, especially the kinds of answers a lot of employment blogs and websites so confidently provide. On the other hand, there’s value in the Q&A format. Reading Q&As can help a job hunter keep up with trends in employment. At the very least, they reflect what employers expect from resumés, cover letters, interviews, and all the rest.
So instead of adding to the glut of Q&As, let me direct you to two sources on each end of the good of what’s already out there. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Cover Letters, interviewing, Job Hunting, job search, Q&A, resume writing job tip
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
The number-one crappy job, as determined by the whiners on askmen.com, is hiring and firing call-center staff. Give me a break! Number two goes to the people who manually stimulate pigs in order obtain their tissue for research and breeding purposes.
Come on! No matter how long the current job dearth continues, no matter what we have to do in order to hold body and soul together until it does, nothing will approach the kind of job Bruneseau offered. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Bruneseau, Ed Norton, Jackie Gleason, job description, job search, lousey job, Naploeon, odd jobs, staffing, The Honeymooners
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