Crossroads Career Network

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you have been following the steps outlined in this series, then you have completed steps one through three: every day you have chosen to have a good attitude, you have inventoried your unique skills and accomplishments, you have identified your target companies, and you developed and polished your marketing materials. You are now ready [...]

In my first posting on using LinkedIn.com as part of your job search toolset, I focused on helping you get your profile started. Since writing LinkedIn 101, I have received several comments from friends and strangers on how to improve your professional presence on the web. Most of the responses were about enhanced uses of [...]

Hooray! You find a great-for-you job online. Now, how do you hook and reel it in? Here’s what you don’t do. Immediately click ‘Apply.’ Fill out form. Attach or paste your resume. Then you wait, and wait, and wait, and… well, you get the idea. Instead, try these 3 job-landing tips: Job-Landing Tip #1: Do your [...]

Social networking sites have created a novel avenue for recruiters that are looking for new employees or contractors. In fact, this is the fastest growing arena for recruiting over the last couple of years. Five (5) or 6 years ago companies were cautioned about even looking at sites like LinkedIn, Facebook or MySpace to identify candidates, [...]

The current wisdom is that networking is the best way to find a job. Not only do you stand out from the competition that way because you are now a known entity, you also find the hidden job market, the 85% of open jobs that are not posted on job boards. If you are like [...]

Welcome to the new, improved, turbo-charged Crossroads Career website. I am really excited about it. It features not only this blog, but also a prayer wall, the web’s biggest job search engine, our 6-step, 80-page career workbook and more – all fast and free. Why did we do this? To make it simpler, easier and faster [...]