Loading ...Ehren Seim | April 20, 2010
With the unemployment rate hovering at or near 10% over the last year or so, I’ve been getting a lot of calls from people desperately looking to get back in the game. If there’s one thing in my career that I love to do, it’s to help people try and get back on their [...]
Ehren Seim | February 26, 2010
Kevin Donlin is co-author of Guerrilla Resumes. Since 1996, he has provided job-search help to more than 20,000 people. Author of 3 books, Kevin has been interviewed by The New York Times, USA Today, Fox News, CBS Radio and others.
In his 1973 article, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” sociologist Mark Granovetter, after interviewing dozens [...]
Ehren Seim | January 7, 2010
Tis’ the season for predictions into 2010. After researching data from various sources, and talking with many colleagues over the past year and into 2010, I’ve put my finger on a handful of things that popped out at me. None of these predictions are groundbreaking, they’re fairly common sense. But, I think [...]
Ehren Seim | September 15, 2009
Ahh, my poor bro-in-law, on the streets looking for a job again. I feel for him. He’s a college grad, but came out of college at a terrible time, and has bounced around from temp job to temp job for a while. He has a little experience in the mortgage biz now, [...]
Ehren Seim | June 23, 2009
I was just on “vacation” a few months ago, and started thinking about how much I really don’t use vacation when I’m on vacation. If you’re like me, you’re constantly sucked in by work, no matter if you’re on vacation or at home eating dinner with the family. If duty calls (literally), so [...]
Ehren Seim | April 8, 2009
I’ve been following Paul DeBettignies and a few others on Twitter recently, and have seen a few of their blog posts about running into people giving bad advice. There’s one person in particular that’s creating some buzz in the blogosphere recently. I don’t want to drive traffic to her site, but I think [...]
Ehren Seim | April 7, 2009
I love this topic, I think it’s extremely important, especially in a down economy. If you’re not familiar with personal branding, I suggest you get familiar. What is personal branding you ask? Simply put, you (and your career) are a product, and you need to learn how to define, market/sell, and ultimately [...]
Ehren Seim | January 22, 2009
Who knows, that’s my answer….although I’ll keep writing something just because I need to fill up a little more of the page.
I keep in tune with the economy and job market (although I hate the media right now), and I always laugh when people try and make an accurate evaluation of when we’re [...]
