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13 Personal Habits for Career Success
Here are the 13 personal career habits of our most successful candidates and successful CareerNet Nation Members.
Skills, Skills, Skills
Skills for your career. The current definitive list for CareerNet Nation.
How to make your soft skills shine.
Pretend you are a recruiter or a hiring manager. You are busy shuffling through papers all day long. You spend at most 30 seconds looking at each resume. You wonder why your hires are lackluster and do not improve the business. Maybe you look at a LinkedIn...
New Job, New City Part 8
Seattle Quick recount, today. I reminisced in my last experience about managing your first holiday after moving away from home—getting back for a visit-- the planning, the logistics, potential stress. It’s great to see your family and friends again, in the old...
New Job, New City – Holidays
Holidays come fast that first year Time moves swiftly during the first year in your new job, your new city. You feel acclimated in your new neighborhood and comfortable in your role at work. And then you realize that the Holidays are closing in. You hadn’t even...
Dress Code for CareerNet Nation
Dress Code We recently read an article in the New York Times by Vanessa Friedman titled “Hey Silicon Valley, Maybe It’s Time to Dress Up, Not Down”. It’s a good article that considers the costume of high profile CEOs in the tech world, and makes parallels to the...
New Job, New City – Part 6 – Your Inner Jim
Wake Up Call There are certain times, certain things that wake you up. You didn’t even realize you were half asleep. Going through life in your new home. Seattle. Your buddies back in New Jersey, or where ever your old neighborhood might be. The friends of your...
New Job, New City- Part 5- Learning Deeper
Learning Deeper Six months into my journey, my new home. It’s October and life is beginning to stabilize. Spring was a whirlwind—getting to know colleagues, clients, how the office operates as well as a better understanding of the boss’ expectations. During the...
Upgrade your Interviews, Part 1
Intro Interviewing. Just the word can send ripples of anxiety through the most confident professionals. Yet in most instances, the Interview is the most important part of the new job process. We conducted a search and reached out to a number of long standing HR...
New Career, New City Part 4 – Learn Stuff!
New Job, New City Part 4 – Learn Stuff. A series by Mark Stevens written about his early career experiences for CareerNet Nation.
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