November 6th, 2009

A great deal of emphasis has been put on finding your dream job lately. And by lately I mean over the past 12 years or so. I believe strongly that really enjoying what you do is very important to a balanced and happy life and think everyone should strive to find that elusive dream job. ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Dream Job, Hank Stringer
Recent Posts

Dreaming your job into existence is much more than simply knowing what you want.
There are three legs on the career management stool: understanding, promotion and attraction. Any effective job search, network conversation, cover letter, interview or development plan involves using all three. Understanding means all of the things you do to learn about what you ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Do's & Don'ts, Dream Job, Interview/Employment Style, John Sumser, Workplace Culture
The gloves are off: the media has reported that AT&T is suing Verizon over the company’s “There’s a Map for That” ads with the claim that the spots mislead customers as to AT&Ts overall coverage area, representing only 3G and not wireless coverage overall. While this news is not unexpected, it does come on the ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- In the News, Reviews, Watercooler
- Tags:
- AT&T, Ivan G. Seidenberg, Lawsuit, Mobile, Randall L. Stephenson, Verizon, Wireless
A job search is full of obstacles, from unresponsive HR departments to those annoying blind ads that don’t even tell you who the employer is. On top of the roadblocks that a job search imposes on us, here is one more that we create for ourselves: a dry-as-dust, boilerplate resume that sounds exactly like everyone ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Interviews
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Do's & Don'ts, Interview/Employment Style, Liz Ryan, Resumes

Liz Ryan brought up a good point last week – corporate recruiting doesn’t often work the way it should. Reactions to corporate recruiting tend to range from “amazingly bad” to a “soul-sucking, dehumanizing experience from hell.” Everyone agrees that things could be done a lot better. But you can make it better.
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Interviews
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, glassdoor.com, Jeff Hunter, Job Search, Recruiters

The work we have or seek has a value, and though it appears logical for companies to know the specific value each job adds to the company, not all jobs are easy to align with business revenue. Traditionally we consider sales because the position is directly tied to revenue and is easy to measure – ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Salaries
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Hank Stringer

Broken lines, broken strings, broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads, People sleeping in broken beds.
Ain’t no use jiving. Ain’t no use joking. Everything is broken.
- Categories:
- Career Advice
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, John Sumser, Workplace Organization

About a year ago, Oprah Winfrey did a show with a panel of psychologists who discussed the power of a vision board. A vision board is a large presentation board that included cut outs of pictures, words or key phrases from magazines, newspapers or anything form of paper to capture something you hope to achieve. ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice
- Tags:
- Dream Job, Oprah Winfrey
So, you have gotten the interview that you desired and you know that you are going to be asked once, twice, maybe five or six times, some question that is like, “so, tell me about you”. You then have five to seven minutes to tell your story. When I interview people I usually give them ... - Read full post
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Interviews
- Tags:
- glassdoor.com, Interview Questions, Interview/Employment Style, job interviews, Job Search, Rusty Rueff

One of the worst things that can happen to a talented job seeker is to get caught in the Vortex — that swirling, chaotic place where the hiring-process movement gets to be so fast and furious that it’s hard to keep up with it.
- Categories:
- Career Advice, Interviews
- Tags:
- Clearview Collection, Interview/Employment Style, Liz Ryan