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Smarter Job Search Workshop Series

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Not getting the results you want in your job search? Don't give up! Learn what you can do to take your search to the next level. The Smarter Job Search Workshops are interactive, information-packed one-hour workshops designed to make you more successful in a number of ways: Create winning re…

Caffeinated Careers Club Arvada – Fridays

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

What's the Caffeinated Careers Club? Why it's Denver's longest-running job search club. Often imitated, but never matched! At the Caffeinated Careers Club, we network, share advice, job leads, resources, and encouragement. The Arvada CCC, facilitated by job search expert Tracy Laswell Valdez, …

Sources of Hire – An Important Study for Job Seekers

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

If you're wondering about the best way to get noticed by a larger organization, you may want to read the 9th Annual Source of Hire Study published by CareerXRoads.com. This study is well-researched and I would guess that last year's trends are continuing. I would further assume that what holds true …

Great article on Job Search Time Wasters

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Andrew Hudson has a great list of job search time wasters - I wholeheartedly concur! http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1956-Denver-Jobs-Examiner~y2009m11d30-Job-Seeking-Skills-Top-Time-Wasters If you find you have been wasting time in one, two, or all five of these approaches, call me so that…

10 Reality Checks of Job-Hunting: Overcoming Common Job-Search Mistakes

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. If you've been searching unsuccessfully for a new job for some time now -- or if you're about to start a job-search -- you'll want to review the 10 job-hunting concepts we discuss in this article. We refer to these job-search concepts as re…

Relaxed or Desperate: Which Describes You?

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

By Katie Smith When people generally think of job search we tend to think about things we should be doing. I would like to direct your attention inside and begin to observe how you are BEING in your life. Granted there are always things we need to DO to create our next position, but the way we ar…

The Smallest Companies are the Biggest Employers

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

It has long been my observation that those job seekers who are unemployed the longest and have the highest levels of frustration frequently focus almost exclusively on very large  companies. Very large employers are harder to get into because they attract so much candidate attention, they are fo…

Helping Friends & Family Through a Job Search

Monday, June 1st, 2009

No doubt about it, job searching is a trying time, not just for job seekers, but for family and friends as well. And of course we want to help, we really do. Sometimes we're successful, and sometimes we need to be more understanding. So friends and family, listen up! Here are a few do's and don'ts, …

Staying Up in a Long-Drawn-Out Job Search

Monday, June 1st, 2009

No doubt about it, job searching can be a draining, emotionally gut-wrenching, and depressing experience. The world as you know it hangs in the balance throughout a long, anxiety-ridden jaunt through the unknown. As a job search expert, a big part of what I do is help clients stay "up" emotionally t…

An Upside to the Recession? My thoughts exactly…

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

An esteemed colleague of mine, Carol Ross, writes a brilliant blog, often putting lucid words around the topics that I find myself pondering (though with less clarity). Her most recent, The Upside to a Recession, is about "realistic optimism" --an oxymoron better known as the silver lining…