Most advice about getting a job is so generic and useless. These resources are a mix of how-to’s and actual tactics from successful people.
BOOKS and EBOOKS
What Color Is Your Parachute – A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
Recession-Proof Graduate – Charlie Hoehn’s Guide to Getting Any Job Withing A Year of Finishing College
How To Make Money and Change the World
Using The Social Web To Find Work
What I Know About Getting a Job – Advice from Top Blogger In Human Resources
BLOG POSTS
Your Network is Your Only Insurance Policy
Job boards are becoming ineffective and will be obsolete in the future, while networking becomes the only way to secure a job.
Seven Networking Tips for Gen Y
You’re an accountant, but you really want to be a musician. So, when people ask what you do, say that you’re a musician. The world conspires in your favor when you put yourself out there. I promise.
Three Steps to Getting a Kick-Ass Mentor
In the end, it’s all about surrounding yourself with great people. If you want to make it in this biz (PR, marketing, digital, social, emerging, LIFE, whatever) you have to continually surround yourself with the best and the brightest. I’m fortunate to have a handful of these people in my life. I thank my lucky stars every. single. day.
How to get an interview for a position you’re under qualified for
I see way too many cry babies out there. Sure the job market is tough, but you’re not putting in the hard work you need to in order to bounce back and be considered for a job.
Oh, what’s that you say? You’re not qualified for the position?
Bullshit!
Technology Makes It Easier To Apply To Jobs But Harder To Land One
If a friend of mine talks about how they can’t find a job I always ask, “Where and how are you looking?” If I hear Monster.com, I groan out loud. Sign up and create a profile on Brazen Careerist instead.
How to Innovate Your Career
It’s time to stop looking at your career as a set of skills applicable to a single position. You probably won’t use the major listed on your college degree. You’ll change jobs six to eight times before you’re thirty. And you’ll eventually get the urge to change the world, which doesn’t happen from a single pressure point.
The First 7 Days of Personal Branding
Thousands of people are trying to brand themselves every day, but the majority seem to be making critical mistakes within the first week of their own personal branding campaign.
An Example of a Personal Job Search Website
Your innovative tactics may also push you ahead of a candidate that has more experience than you. It’s your ideas that the company wants to hire. If your ideas already blow the company away before an interview, think about what that does for you.
Hi, I’m Jason
Example of a personal job search website
Twitter Should Hire Me
Example of a personal job search website
Social Jenny
Example of a personal job search website
