Welcome to July! It is a new day, a new start for those of you in the midst of a job search. Last month Gina and I focused on Social Networking. I posed a challenge to many of you to do a Google Search to determine if you are findable. Almost 70 people took on the challenge and learned some very interesting things about their name. Here are a few samples:
David Hollingsworth found, “I looked up my name on Google, and there were approximately 1,290,000 hits. There are very many men with the same name as me, but they’re more …read more

If you are unemployed, and you are not easy to find through a Google Search, then you may find it extremely difficult to find a job through Social Networking. Given the number of people I speak to weekly about their job search, I would highly recommend that you jump on the Social Networking bandwagon. Why?

Gone are the days when you can grab a newspaper and circle jobs you are interested in, call on the phone and hope someone will talk to you about the job.
Gone are the days when you can walk into an organization and hope to get an …read more

If you were to do a Google Search on your name, what would you discover? Would your name come up as the first option? Here is an assignment for you – go to Google and type in your name. What did you discover? Scroll down and leave a comment. Here is an opportunity to win 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions, by Ron Fry. In order to win the book, you have to leave your name, and what you discover from your Google Search. Make sure you leave a comment about the exercise.
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