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Careers Now--Joyce Lain Kennedy
First to report on workplace technologies and trends, Kennedy has amassed reader praise for three decades. Her Q&A covers high-interest topics, from state-of-the-art job searches and recruiter secrets, to career change pitfalls and the networking lifestyle. For business, features and classified sections.
Careers Now--Joyce Lain Kennedy Samples
Social Networking Know-how for Job Seekers
DEAR JOYCE: Apparently I'm doing something wrong, because I've been using Facebook and LinkedIn to scout a new job, but so far the result has been a big fat zero.
Three Key Factors in Search Success
DEAR JOYCE: I am without a job, angry and growing desperate. Consider the three main variables that account for your plight: 1. Job-market conditions. 2. Individual experiences and fixed personal characteristics.
When a Firm Job Offer Turns Squishy
DEAR JOYCE: After interviewing with several managers, my wife thought she had a job offer and accepted it. This company has shown a disgusting disregard for a person's time, effort and feelings.
Breaking Free of a Pigeonhole
DEAR JOYCE: I am an engineer, 32, who would like to move into management. As you recognize in trying to make a career veer to management, boundaries have been put up around you -- you've been pigeonholed.
Try This Strategy When Interview Is Phony
DEAR JOYCE: Although I was the top scorer in a civil service test for a city job, a less qualified person got the job. Many jobs are "wired" for preselected individuals in both the private and public sectors.
Worker's Blowup Is a Management Matter
DEAR JOYCE: After a rock-hard job search, I finally got a job as manager of a chain auto shop. I told him to get back to work, although I felt like firing him on the spot.
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