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Friday Favorites! - March 6, 2009 - This Week's Best Career Articles

This Week's Best Career-Related Articles Chosen From Other Blog Sites

Ok blog readers and friends....it's time for Friday Favorites!...I've collected some of my favorite blog posts for the week from a variety of other blog sites.  We've searched and scanned through 100's of sites and I'd like to highlight the following, all of which I believe offer unique insights and perspectives and highly relevant content.  Some of these may also challenge the way you think about your career development, career management and career planning.  I hope you enjoy....

This week's "Friday Favorites" Include:

Quality Time: How To Find More And Some Ideas On How To Use It
An excellent article on creative ways to find quality time to spend with your family members. HOW we spend our time is ALWAYS our choice. Make a commitment to make the best choices you can on a day-to-day basis.

32 Powerful Ways to Cut Costs In Business
Excellent list of ideas highly relevant to emerging businesses, solo practitioners and start-ups.  Particularly relevant in today's tough economic times when many business professionals are choosing to launch their own firm or small business or "go solo."

50+ Tips to Brand Yourself Online
Today, more than ever, distinguishing yourself through personal branding strategies will facilitate and enable the acceleration of your career growth and development. Personal branding, once considered a fad, is here to stay. How do you define your personal brand?  Check out these excellent online branding tips.

How to Rock an Interview
Excellent article providing a nice a checklist of the key things that most successful candidates are able to do in a job interview that result in positive action -- continuing the interview process and, ultimately, landing the job.

Effective Job-Seeking in a "Web 2.0" World
When it comes to looking for a new job, the rules are different from what they once were. Of course we all realize the power of technology to bring us job listings from sites like Monster or CareerBuilder, but when it comes to finding your new role - if you're still relying on a resume to get you in the door then you're stuck in the old way of doing things. To help progress, here are some tips on job seeking in the social media era.

Using Social Media to KEEP Your Job
In an economy like this one, your best career survival tip may be to hold on to the job you've got. If you're working at a company that isn't necessarily shutting its doors, but may need to let some people go ... your challenge is to prove yourself too valuable to let go. Social media (blogs, social networks, forums, online video, etc.) can help with this. This article offers some ideas for how you can use social media to keep the job you have right now.

Seven Characteristics of Successful Networkers
Consider these characteristics and do a self-assessment as to how well you display them in your day-to-day networking and communication activities.

10 Applications You Can't Do Without
Optimum productivity is something we all strive for.  This article reviews some excellent web-based applications that will help you improve your productivity and enable greater focus on your value-added activities.

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