Monday, December 26th, 2011
What's the Caffeinated Careers Club?
Caffeinated Careers Club in Arvada is one of the Denver metro area'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. Facilitated by job s…
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
The following is a recent exchange with a pretty savvy job seeker - I hope it's useful information for you as well.
Q. Do recruiters have an extensive list of opportunities, or do they really only get a small portion of what is out there?
A. Interesting question. I think when many people think of …
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 …
Monday, October 26th, 2009
My clients often ask me for referrals to a good "headhunter." After a little Q&A on the subject, I often find that my clients often think of recruiters as "jobs dispensers" or in other words, a magical shortcut around the plain old hard, boring, and frightening work of a job search.
Connectin…
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…