Job Search News

As 2010 comes to an end, we are very happy to announce that Debra Feldman, the JobWhiz, is the newest member of the  Job-Hunt Experts.  Debra has been helping job seekers with their job searches for over 10 years.  As the JobWhiz, Debra is an executive talent agent who helps senior executives find their next opportunities.

Debra is Job-Hunt’s Job Search Strategies Expert.

A prolific author, Debra’s advice appears in traditional and new media. She writes feature articles, guest blogs, and posts tweets (@Debra_Feldman) and has contributed to more than a dozen resume and career books. She has been quoted in and interviewed for countless blogs as well as print (Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, Fox News, Reader’s Digest, Greenwich Time, Hartford Courant, Yahoo careers, The Boston Globe, etc.).

As Debra describes 21st century job search -

“Job search is not about you or what you want but about exceeding the employer’s expectations, removing their doubts, increasing your credibility, and making them recognize your potential for them and that you are trustworthy – their first choice, the go-to expert.”

On Job-Hunt, Debra will help job seekers of every organizational level understand how to job hunt more effectively online.  Topics Debra plans to cover include: (more…)

This week, we are very pleased to welcome author, official “searchologist,” and award-winning blogger Jim Stroud to the roster of accomplished job search and career professionals contributing their expert advice to help Job-Hunt’s visitors.

Jim Stroud is Job-Hunt’s Job Search Technology Expert, with the accent on “search”!

Based on his experience with the recruiting world and his in-depth understanding of search technology, particularly Google, Jim will help job seekers learn how to leverage search – and other – technologies to find new ways to use Internet technologies for their job search.

In his career, Jim served as a Technical Sourcing Consultant and was a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Technical Careers Blog while employed at Microsoft.

So far, Jim Stroud has created and sold three online properties including the award-winning blog The Recruiters Lounge, to which he still contributes.

Jim produces TheSearchologist website  where he helps recruiters learn the latest resume sourcing techniques and lead generation strategies via articles, a video series, and a print publication.  He also co-hosts the technology podcast, Friday Traffic Report, is co-founder of The Hidden Job Report, and Tweets as, naturally, @JimStroud. 

Read Jim’s Job Search Technology articles and on his other platforms to learn, to laugh, and to be better informed.

This week, we are very pleased to welcome author, syndicated columnist, and former HR executive Nan S. Russell, to the roster of accomplished job search and career professionals contributing their expert advice to help Job-Hunt’s visitors. 

As Job-Hunt’s Job Loss Recovery Expert, Nan will  help Job-Hunt’s visitors bounce back after job loss through her articles in Job-Hunt’s new Job Loss Recovery section.  To get started, read Nan’s first article, 3 Tracks to Accelerate Your Job Loss Recovery.

Nan has a B.A. from Stanford University in Psychology and a M.A. from the University of Michigan in Educational Psychology.  Leader of the popular Rebooting After Job Loss seminars, Nan will help those Job-Hunt visitors who have lost their jobs, or who have friends or family members who have lost jobs, to recover from this often-traumatic experience. 

Nan has experienced the trauma of being fired - from her first professional job after college, no less.  So, although she moved on to a very successful career as both an HR executive and line manager, even heading a subsidiary, she has personal knowledge of how painful and difficult recovering from a job loss can be. 

Since 2006, Nan has been President of MountainWorks Communications LLC, a company she founded to support her passion for helping organizations build winning work cultures, and helping people bring the best of who they are to the world, realize their dreams, and live their life’s potential. 

Nan’s first book, Nibble Your Way to Success: 56 Winning Tips for Taking Charge of Your Career, debuted in March, 2007.  Her second book, Hitting Your Stride: Your Work, Your Way, released in January, 2008 by Capital Books, won a 2009 Axiom Business Book Award.  Currently, Nan is working on book three: NEXT! Rebooting After Job Loss.  Her work insights column, Winning at Working appears in over ninety publications.

Nan’s education, experience as an HR executive, plus her personal experience with job loss, will provide Job-Hunt’s visitors with helpful and very well-informed articles on this often-difficult transition from job loss to re-employment.  Yes, it does happen!  Even in this economy!

For more from Nan, follow her on Twitter at @Nan_Russell, visit her NanRussell.com Website, and read her Winning at Working column.

Meet all of Job-Hunt’s  Job Search Experts.

This week, we are very pleased to welcome Robyn Greenspan who is joining the roster of job search and career professionals who are our Job-Hunt Job Search Experts.  These knowledgeable and helpful people contribute monthly articles to Job-Hunt in their areas of expertise.

Robyn will help job seekers with their job search networking issues as Job-Hunt’s  Job Search Networking Expert.  Editor-in-chief at ExecuNet, the private membership network, founded in 1988, Robyn is well-versed both in job search networking and in helping job seekers succeed at networking.

Robyn’s background includes earning an undergraduate degree in psychology and a dual Master of Science degree in counseling and human resources development.

Author of ExecuNet’s very well-regarded and widely cited research project, the annual Executive Job Market Intelligence Report, Robyn also brings daily insight to executives at the public blog, Executive Insider, which enables readers to make better career, business and leadership decisions.

Robyn’s first article, “Lead with Your Abs,” describes how people can make themselves well-known in their network (without showing off any body parts).

Robyn’s education, background in technology, and her experience at ExecuNet will provide Job-Hunt’s visitors with excellent, grounded-in-reality, tested advice on their job search networking strategies.

For more of Robyn, check out the Executive Insider blog, and follow @RobynGreenspan on Twitter.  You’ll find Robyn provides a unique blend of everything you wanted to know about executive career issues – and more that you didn’t – through her Twitter account.

Meet all of Job-Hunt’s  Job Search Experts.

This week we are very pleased to welcome Chandlee Bryan to the roster of career and job search professionals who are our  Job-Hunt Experts.  These knowledgeable and helpful people contribute monthly articles to Job-Hunt in their areas of expertise.  Chandlee will be helping job seekers address the issues of finding that first job after college as the New Grads’ Job Search Expert.

Chandlee’s first article was posted this week, New Jobs, Rocket Science, and Lessons Learned, and in it Chandlee shared her background, including her first jobs and the take-away’s from those experiences.

Chandlee has a passion for helping new grads getting off to great starts in their careers, appropriate for someone with such a strong background in working with new grads, including several years working as a career counselor or Director of Career Services at the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College.

Currently, Chandlee is the President and Founder of Best Fit Forward, a Manhattan based boutique consulting firm providing career management services to individuals and organizations. She is also one of the co-authors of the Twitter Job Search Guide (JIST 2010) and has over a dozen years of experience in connecting job seekers and entry-level employees.

Meet all of Job-Hunt’s  Job Search Experts.