Archives for Career Advice

Here are five blog posts related to finding a job that I found especially worthwhile in 2007. Of course, I will throw in one of ours, and we hope these four other favorites knock your socks off.

Why Advanced Search Doesn’t Advance Your Search - My Global Career

My colleague Jennifer Hamm, a former expat journalist, penned this post on the weakness of using advanced search to find a job.

How to Get a Job on Craigslist - Guy Kawasaki, How to Change the World

Guy is known for his brilliant advice to startup founders and VCs but much of what he writes also works well as career advice, too.  Looking a bit deeper into his archives, Guy’s blog post from 2006 about finding a job in Silicon Valley remains classic advice.

Five Ways to Flub a Job Interview - Penelope Trunk, Brazen Careerist

In her Yahoo! Finance and Boston Globe columns, Penelope Trunk offers sage advice that’s both persuasive and on target.  Her book Brazen Careerist is a good read.

Can This Job Be Saved? How to Know When It’s Time to Go - Michelle Goodman, The Anti 9-to-5 Guide

A fellow journalist, Michelle Goodman is a freelancer, author and guru to working women (and men) among others. This blog post is cribbed from a corporate assignment she penned in 2007.

Career Advice - Scott Adams, Dilbert.Blog

You may know Dilbert as a wonderfully funny cartoon strip, but I think of Scott Adam’s oeuvre as a career survival guide.  The New York Times recently profiled how Adams is navigating a moonlighting career as a restaurant owner in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Want to join me for lunch at one of “Dilbert’s” restaurants? I look forward to hearing from you about your career and how My Global Career can become even more useful to you in 2008.