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The Skills Portability Factor

A Kick in the Career: Are the days long gone when employees stayed with one job for 25 years and landed a nice silver watch? In this week's column, humorist and career expert Tom Stern takes a discerning look at job hopping and skills portability.

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Can Facebook Really Replace Employment Firms?

A Kick In the Career: What happened to face-to-face networking? In this week's column, humorist and career expert Tom Stern wonders whether social networking is really conducive to launching one's career.

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Question: What’s the quickest way to get back in the job circuit after being laid off?

Answer: Know what you are worth. Make a list of all your good qualities and your accomplishments. Reflect and push ahead. Now get out there an... | posted by KRo Waddy

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Question: Is there a good way for companies to lay off employees?

Answer: Don't belabor the bad news with too much of a preface. Say it upfront, and then have someone meet with those people to discuss their career... | posted by Mark Goulston

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100% Present

The easy stuff is hard. Today marks my first week back at work after two weeks paternity leave.  Day one, not so bad.  My boss...

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Mapping Your Journey to Success

So I am sitting here at my desk writing my September map. Yea… “writing” my map… I have to, without it I am like a headless chicken...

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How Did I Manage My Vacation Quandary? I Give Myself a "B"

If you read my posting about the “...

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Careers: Personal Branding Warrior

When most of us lose our job, we don’t uncork the champagne. But when Lewis Green was laid off from his VP of marketing job six years ago, he...

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Music to My Ears

William Barrell wrote about how a song inspired him and his business in his blog, ...

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Teleconferencing: The New Air Travel

Not all business travel is essential. That’s why some companies are eschewing air travel for...

Member Comments

Blog Post: Live networking

Comment: As much as I am into internet social networking, I do miss the live contact which comes with networking in a meeting or other event. Well written... | posted by member Paula Yee Sing-Edwards

Article: Can Facebook Really Replace Employment Firms?

Comment: Tom, I read the article because of the title, but the two are not even remotely related. You do seem to claim, albeit in a very round-about way,... | posted by member Darin Phillips