http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog advocacy for the job seeker Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:53:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got some information from my good (virtual) buddy Jessica Lee yesterday that really blew me away. I've blogged about health care here a few times - starting from when I cut my hand open to my thoughts about Obama saving the healthcare system... but this one is really heartening.  ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/07/03/medical-prescriptions-for-the-unemployed-pfizer-does-it-right/ A couple of weeks ago I had a chance to chat with Mark Hovind, of Job Bait, about this recession.  Mark is a numbers nut... he is very analytical and loves trends and crunching numbers and stuff like that. We talked about a particular graph he developed showing the trends of ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/07/02/free-webinar-where-is-the-recession-headed/ One of my favorite HR blogs is Punk Rock HR, written by Laurie Ruettimann.  Laurie just ... tells it like it is.  Lots of surprises, and tons of honesty. A few weeks ago she wrote a blog post about career options for HR professionals, based on a question she got from ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/07/01/just-how-messed-up-is-hr/ There are lots of ways of finding target companies... here's one that might make sense for you. Google your town/state and "Venture Capital" or "Venture Fund."  You are looking for local venture capital websites.  Venture capitalists are the people who help fund companies, whether they are startups, or larger companies who ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/06/30/job-search-how-to-find-target-companies/ Every other week we do a one hour tutorial on JibberJobber - you can see the schedule and register here (the next webinar is this Wednesday). I finally got around to recording a new version of this webinar, so you don't have to wait to jump on the live webinar (where ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/06/29/how-to-get-started-on-jibberjobber-jibberjobber-tutorial/ As a followup to my post Uncomfortable Networking (which got tweeted and shared a lot more than I would have guessed), let me throw out another job search networking post. In my job search, after I read Never Eat Alone and had some personal paradigm shifts, I grew to LOVE networking.  ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/06/26/fun-networking/ It's not every day your product gets mentioned in a poem, that is in a published book!  Check out what very-clever John Steensen wrote (the part about JibberJobber is in bold green).  You can get his book of 32 poems, all based on technology, from this page. Google the Elephant I posted ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/06/25/jibberjobber-the-personal-crm-in-a-poem/ When I started doing research on JibberJobber I had a notion that this would become a personal relationship manager. Most CRM tools, including Salesforce, Goldmine, ACT!, etc. focus on a sales process.  They have sales jargon, sales reports, etc.  I wanted to develop something that did not have that jargon or ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/06/24/personal-relationship-manager/ When I started my job search I knew I wouldn't have to waste time networking. I was too busy looking for a job to spend time networking.  I didn't want to take hours each week in the car, spending money to going to events, and schmoozing with people who really had ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/06/23/uncomfortable-networking/ Seems like nowadays everyone says they are a LinkedIn expert... there are a bunch of people talking about LinkedIn... how to use LinkedIn in a job search, how to use LinkedIn to make a sale, how to use LinkedIn for  _________. I realize I'm totally biased about my LinkedIn DVD (I'm ... http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/06/22/want-to-become-a-linkedin-expert-check-out-my-linkedin-dvd/