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Career Blog: 5 New Ideas to get you Unstuck in your Job Search

Do you feel stuck in your job search and think you’ve already tried everything?  Here are 5 job search activities you might not have tried yet.  Just adopting one or two of these can help get you out of the job search slump, get you noticed, get you interviews and ultimately help you get job offers.  Let’s get started!



1. While searching around the job board simplyhired.com, you can sign into your linkedin and facebook accounts and as you…

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Added by Holly Klose, Job Club Moderator on April 27, 2011 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Career Blog: Writing a Compelling Resume

It always amazes me how some of the smartest people who have lots of impressive experience often have mediocre sounding resumes.  The two reasons for this, from my perspective as a career counselor in Boston, is first that there are so many conventions on how to write a resume many have lost sight of what it's supposed to be.  And second, the person writing his own resume is often too close to the situation.  He/she knows how significant the… Continue

Added by Holly Klose, Job Club Moderator on April 20, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

Career Blog: Everyone says I should be networking, but what does that actually mean?

One of the most common questions I hear as a career counselor is about networking. I’m sure you too have heard that networking is the key to finding a job, but what exactly does that mean? How is this networking thing supposed to work?

The first thing you have to realize is that showing up at an official “networking event,” introducing yourself to two people and then leaving isn’t likely to get you a job. Networking is not a passive…

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Added by Holly Klose, Job Club Moderator on April 13, 2011 at 4:27pm — No Comments

Celtics Playing the Victim

     There is officially a problem in Boston.  No longer can the Celtics reach into their ever-growing bag of excuses to try and explain away the events of recent weeks.  No longer can the Green blame the Kendrick Perkins trade, or the Shaq injury.  This is no longer about “working in the new guys”; this is a blatant lack of heart.  The days of “unbutu” are officially over.  Look, teams lose games, that’s expected and accepted, even veteran teams like the Celtics slip up once…

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Added by Patrick Gilroy on April 11, 2011 at 7:42am — 1 Comment

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