Reinke Faces Life

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/
2006/12/01/8394967/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

http://tinyurl.com/w5hhh

A MySpace for grown-ups
Social networking has been great for the kids, but not of much use to business – until now. With Reid Hoffman’s MySpace-for-grown-ups at a tipping point, these days you’re either LinkedIn or left out.
Business 2.0 Magazine
By Michael V. Copeland, Business 2.0 Magazine senior writer
December 3 2006: 2:38 PM EST

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LinkedIn is a three-year-old service that takes your personal business network online. People don’t use it to discover new bands or track down a date – there’s nothing social about this network.

LinkedIn is all about business: recruiting, sales, investment. It’s not exactly a marketplace or a job site but rather a community of more than 8 million people who rely on one another to get things done.

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IMHO it’s a better resource than Monster, Yahoo Jobs, or any “job” site.

http://infoworlditexecconnect.leveragesoftware.com/mypage.aspx

Infoworld has its own version of LinkedIn

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InfoWorld is expanding the ways we help you connect and communicate with industry peers, product and systems experts, and InfoWorld staff through an exciting new service, InfoWorld IT Exec-Connect! This free service includes unique online matching tools that will help you:

* Expand Your Network – Search, match and connect with other members.
* Schedule Times to Connect – Plan online or offline meetings.
* Build Business Relationships – Grow your network of industry contacts.

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Let’s see what it accomplishes. Or, rather, what value I can extract from it!

http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/networking/
20030211-osemarin.html?cjpartner=mktw

http://tinyurl.com/y5uszm

Networking Strategies For Shy Professionals
By Judy Rosemarin

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Unlike extroverts, you aren’t energized by contact with others. Frankly, you prefer being alone.

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I’m not sure that is how I’d describe it. But from childhood, we were trained “to be rarely seen and not heard”.

As an ITSJ, techies are used to working on tough technical problems. Heads down. Fingers to keyboard. And, you get used to it.

Vista Print will, from time to time, actually print some for free if you let them advertise on the back. I’d suggest that you need different “cards” for the different types of positions you are trying to target. You do have different resumes for each genre; why not cards? If you’re hard pressed for bucks, you can print your own from that card stock they sell at the OfficeWhatever store, even though in the long run that costs more, and looks worse. So what if you throw them away. Ready, Fire, Aim!

http://www.billbelknap.com/tips.php

TIPS & FUN

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If you are interested in receiving our free Survival Kit, complete the form below and you will automatically receive an email with a link to the kit:

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He offers a survival kit.

http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/192#respond

Carnival Entry from Peter Clayton – TotalPictures.com
November 7th, 2006

Peter is the man with the microphone. Peter Clayton doesn’t have a “blog” – he has a podcast site.

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Sixth. File for unemployment benefits immediately!

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With all due respect, I list this as a waste of time. For other than the factory hands, it’s just not a good use of time.

For example, in one of my transitions, filing for the unemployment benefits in NY by a NJ resident required FOUR in-person visits and repeated under oath certifications that no activity was engaged in that MIGHT be considered “consulting, contracting, or collecting other economic benefit EVEN IF NO TAXABLE INCOME is earned or money is exchanged”. Sheesh! Who writes this stuff?

On another transition (I’ve been “out” seven times in XXXX years! Let’s call it several decades. I’m planning to be “earning” until I FINALLY land … in my grave. That’s the only time you can stop preparing, worrying, and networking!), I took thirteen hours to collect two checks for a total of $800! (I followed the outplacement counselor’s advice and did it. By the time, I collected my second check, I had a new and better job. I TOLD the counselor what I thought of his advice. He said I was “lucky”. I’d call it “focused”. Your Mileage May Vary!)

I think you just have to write this money off as “government theft”. To chase it, takes your eyes off the prize to begin again generating value, and retaining some of that value for yourself.

imho

/RANT ON/

I personally think that, like extended warranties, if someone came to you with the Government’s Unemployment Insurance, you’d laugh them out of town. First of all, ask any insurance underwriter, they will tell you that it is not an “insurable risk”. It’s unavoidable (i.e., happens to everyone) and avoidable (i.e., your personal conduct can influence the outcome). It’s not beyond your control. It’s not random. And, insurance spreads out risk across a pool and levels the cost, so why would someone be in that pool with you.

This is a government scam. It creates a tax that can masquerade as “insurance”. They get a pot of money to employ and reward themselves, their relatives, their friends, and most importantly their campaign contributors. All at the expense of the people who can afford it least. We don’t get a chance to look under the covers at income and out go, but if we use gut feeling then 75% of the “premiums” extracted are wasted. Also, it makes everyone a “welfare queen”.

It is especially despicable to force the working poor to pay such a tax. They’d be better off getting ALL their money. They can make their own decisions as to what is best for them.

If it was an insurable risk, needed, and demanded, why don’t we see insurance companies, banks, brokerages, and credit unions offer such insurance?

/RANT OFF/

http://digg.com/business_finance/
Grab_You_s_some_Popped_Corn/who

http://tinyurl.com/trwss

If you liked it, you should “pile on”.

I saw an ad on Dice the piqued my interest.

So I went to my Job Seeker’s PIM and said hmmm, let me plug in my ad.

But I really couldn’t do it.

So I said to self, “Self, perhaps the metaphor is wrong?” I was aghast. Such disloyalty. Oh wait, I’m just an unpaid volunteer, trying to help. I can’t be disloyal or wrong. I’m the USER!

Perhaps, the seeker’s model is that there is a think called “ADs”. It has a key of date first seen. And, the seeker may want to capture it for awhile. Maybe forever. And, can’t link it to anything. But yet when the call comes out of the blue from a hunter or HRer, then the seeker would really like to know what set of lies … errr, legends that were told to get some interest.

So, associated with an ad, might be a resume, a cover letter, a recruiter, a company. Or none.

My favorite Jobseeker’s PIM doesn’t accommodate that.

A lot of room for improvement here.

http://www.JibberJobber.com

Jason Alba

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So what are the main things that you learned/took away from this carnival?

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Remember I said that I read the entries “carefully”.

What I did was create that OPML of the participant’s blogs, pushed into a Google Reader, and read, not only their entry, but everything that the reader would show me from their blog.

So, what I learned from the carnival that there were 13 people that I never knew before that I could learn from. (I was already reading Slim’s Escape from Cubicle Nation!)

The long term benefit of the carnival is the new sources of DIKW that I have now “gathered”.

Here’s some detailed observations that I “collected” as well!

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Alba

So many great blog posts from a lot of folks I had not known of in the past.

FJR> Hmmm, people will give you their best thinking if you ask!

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Blomgren

Someone once said that “nothing focuses one’s mind more than the sound of bullets whizzing past.” Anyone who has been laid off can tap into this energy, if they try to. The key is doing it methodically.

FJR> Methodically! I need more and better meth!

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Chapman

Exploring the Candidate Bill of Rights

FJR> Unthinkable! Candidate’s rights?

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Crane

Thinking back over the experience, I asked myself how Nate had created such a perfect buying experience for us. His questions were the key. Through his questions, he found our exact need, then provided a great solution for the need.

FJR> Steal this concept!

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Driscoll

Entrepreneurship and generating passive income through blogs, products, speaking, consulting.

FJR> Either next, or the one after that. (Before WalMart greeter!)

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Duncan

I can see now that he was right – because I never regained my interest or focus, and that potential is no longer a part of my life.

FJR> Decisions cut off other avenues. “Choose wisely”

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Fluscher

Pick a strategy, tweak it here and there, and you’ll have better success than aimlessly bouncing the ball around.

FJR> Don’t have one? I need my next two strategies, Now!

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Handlin

Before writing your essays draft a few thoughts on paper for each question.

FJR> If I’d have done that, maybe I’d have won Jason’s car. Or produced a better essay.

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Herrick

Your best shot at fast employment is still your current employer.

FJR> Disagree. You’re damaged goods! But, suck everything dry before it happens!

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Ingram

There’s almost always a reason why they haven’t been as visible. This is a great opportunity to find out why.

FJR> I try an age my contacts, but I could should, must do, better.

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Johnson

My skills are not as current as I’d like them to be.

FJR> Me2; so what do I do!?!

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LaRose

Play up how your skill sets and abilities are exactly what the company needs in order to maximize, optimize, advantagize (is that a word?).

FJR> Need 2 advantagize!

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Neitham

Always insist on obtaining either verbally and/or in writing his/her response and commitment to the job offer.

FJR> Make them pay for it!

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Reinke

The First Sunday of every month, I have a meeting with my mythical team of me, myself, and I. We discuss the implications of “the only paycheck you’re assured of is the one that is in the bank”.

FJR> My best idea!

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Safani

Attend Events

FJR> But I’m a lazy ITSJ!

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Singer

ALWAYS be thankful (very thankful!) to anyone

FJR> Even BEFORE they help!

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Slim

Always know the 2 things you want to learn each quarter.

FJR> Great Idea!

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Windley

Contextual Authority Tagging is the use of folksonomy to discover and define cognitive authority through reputation within communities of users.

FJR> Wow, how can I exploit that insight?

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Yoest

Morgan Fairchild Marketing is composed of Reach, Frequency and Awareness.

FJR> And knock out beauty. How as a FOWG can I overcome that?

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http://showfile.file.sc/23632/K4cR0vX7/20061106_carnival.htm

I put all the feeds in an OPML.

You can just vacuum that file into your reader and read all the wisdom.

Now maybe I’ll win Alba’s car?