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Tag: Career Advice

  • HR careers: How to get a job in HR

    If you’re trying to find out how to get a job in HR, you’ve come to the right place. It might surprise you, but I’ve only been in HR for about a year and a half at this point. I kicked off my HR career back in April 2009, and I’m amazed to see how…

  • CAREEREALISM Club and Getting a Job

    I’m running a series on some of  the companies I’ve interacted with that I think are worth mentioning. It’s not exhaustive, but I’ve been meaning to share these things for a while now. With that, let’s roll… CAREEREALISM Who they are CAREEREALISM is a company that was founded by the career coach J.T. O’Donnell. J.T.…

  • Hiring manager secrets to getting a job…

    It seems like just yesterday that I reached out to Alison Green, author of the amazing Ask a Manager career advice blog, to see if she would be interested in writing an eBook to help job seekers. Today, that dream is a reality! What it touches on how to stop sabotaging your job search how…

  • If I knew then what I know now… (free eBook!)

    If you’re anything like me, I bet you’ve said the following statement dozens of times in your life. If I knew then what I know now… I’d be a killer chess player in Canada. Okay, so maybe the last half of your sentence might be a little different, but you get the point. The idea…

  • What do new HR professionals want?

    I’ve been putting together a series over on my other blog about SHRM’s new Human Resources Young Professional project, and the series has covered some of the major issues identified by new HR pros. Those issues include lack of credibility, lack of challenging work, and lack of a definite career path. It’s a great read…

  • How to Get Into HR (HRYP Series)

    How can I get into HR? That question has been asked untold numbers of times, and the answer isn’t always an easy one. And then there’s the sticky issue of trying to figure out what’s next when you finally do get into one of those highly coveted and treasured positions in the the human resources…

  • How to job interview (well)

    I have been working alongside Alison Green on her new project for job seekers, and today she is giving away a free guide on how job seekers can do a job interview well. The guide has some great tips in there that I’ve never even considered, and I’ve already told her it will be going…