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How to Conquer Office Politics: Watch Your Back

How to Conquer Office Politics: Watch Your Back: Nine common political scenarios and how to deal with them. [...continue reading]

Top 20 Things Recruiters Hate About Resumes

Top 20 Things Recruiters Hate About Resumes. [...continue reading]

Using Online Communities Effectively

Steve Pavlina, who blogs on "personal development for smart people" (sounds like a tag line I could use) writes on Using Online Communities Effectively. This article reads like a micro-summary of "The Virtual Handshake". For anyone who is an active user of online communities, it's worth reviewing [...continue reading]

FastCompany book excerpt: 10 Steps to Leverage Online Networks

FastCompany has just published an excerpt of our book on the ten basic steps necessary to take full advantage of online networks. The excerpt is called Leveraging Your Links. Years ago, when I interned for Procter & Gamble, we were told to never write a memo longer than one page. This excerpt [...continue reading]

Internet Radio Interview: Career Acceleration with Online Networks

Peter Clayton, Senior Producer of Landed.fm, just posted a 27-minute podcast interview with me on the show, focused on how to use online networks for career acceleration, and particularly the job search. You can download the interview here. Landed.fm is the first internet radio career show. To [...continue reading]