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June 6, 2005

How to bounce back

Filed under: My Side of the Desk - Robert Merrill @ 6:55 am

Link: The Occupational Adventure (sm): Learn how to bounce back.

Face it. There will inevitably be times in your journey when things feel like they’ve imploded. You’ve fallen on your face. Things have gone completely wrong. What do you do? Here’s an article that suggests that the ability to bounce back can be learned. A nutshell version of the tips:

Six Degrees On The Web

Filed under: Hire POWER, My Side of the Desk - Robert Merrill @ 3:18 am

Some of you know that I am a big-fan of LinkedIn (do you know me? Request to be linked to me!).

It helps with many things, the least of which being a way to keep in touch with people. In fact, this week I reconnected with several colleagues who worked at the Incredible Genuity Experiment back in Boston during Heyday-dot-com. (Good to know you’re all doing excellent—wild ride, wasn’t it??)

Now, as highlighted recently in the Boston Job Blog, Social Networking is helping reduce barriers between the employer and the employable:

The web, as we all know, has had a huge impact on job searching. But now it’s going beyond job boards. A new class of sites is attempting to change the professional networking process by putting it online:

Re: Why Should I Be LinkedIn?

Filed under: Hire POWER, My Side of the Desk - Robert Merrill @ 3:16 am

Dave Taylor answers a great question: "Why would I bother with networking sites like LinkedIn?"

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