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I’ve been reading. Books. Yes, those paper things that in the 1990s various pundits were predicting would be completely extinct by now and replaced entirely with digital publishing. Of course this didn’t happen. But over the last few years we’ve actually seen a serious up-tick in this progress as ebook readers, such as Amazon.com’s Kindle [...]

Thanksgiving is a great day to announce our 2012 Crossroads Career Workbook “Maximize Your Career.” Thanks be to God for the thousands of volunteers who have served tens of thousands of career explorers – from whom we have learned much about the latest and greatest tips and tools to find jobs, careers and calling. Much [...]

For many of us, job search is about the scariest thing in the world. The fear of failure hangs in the air, whether it is writing a resume, networking with people you don’t know or interviewing with someone who is judge and jury. May I suggest we approach job search like you are going trick [...]

I received an e-mail a month ago from a friend that said his company had just announced layoffs and that he was going to lose his job at the end of the week. Luckily, they offered a small severance package, which included some professional help in putting together a job search strategy. However, that wouldn’t [...]

The job market continues to change and so must your approach to finding a job. Personal Branding is the latest key to success for your job search. The market is very competitive and a personal brand will help you stand out from your competition. You may be wondering though “what is personal branding and how [...]

This is a very tough job market. Many highly skilled, extremely professional job seekers are taking an unprecedented amount of time to find a job. There are, though, 4 killer mistakes that job seekers are making that turn a long job search into an even longer one. This multiple part series will cover these mistakes and [...]

This is a very tough job market. Many highly skilled, extremely professional job seekers are taking an unprecedented amount of time to find a job. There are, though, four killer mistakes that job seekers are making that turn a long job search into an even longer one. This four-part series covers these mistakes and gives [...]

This is a very tough job market. Many highly skilled, extremely professional job seekers are taking an unprecedented amount of time to find a job. There are, though, 4 killer mistakes that job seekers are making that turn a long job search into an even longer one. This multiple part series will cover these mistakes [...]

This is a very tough job market. Many highly skilled, extremely professional job seekers are taking an unprecedented amount of time to find a job. There are, though, 4 killer job search mistakes that job seekers are making that turn a long job search into an even longer one. This multiple-part series will cover these [...]

Christmas dinner is over … a flurry of activity occurred throughout the day – grandkids, children and my dad with plenty of food and the Christmas paper too enjoy in the morning.  Our son-in-law, Michael, presented us with 2011 calendars with grandkid pictures, which he made at his new job.  It was a job created [...]