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Top 2 areas banks are growing for IT

Here is a hint about your future job: Banks are not spending on core systems.

Banks spend money on IT where they expect to get the biggest return. This article plows thrugh the 6 main areas where banks will spend their IT dollars in 2012.

If you want a job or promotion in a bank, make yourself irresistible because [...]

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Useful career plans (unlike yours)

Most career plans don’t include the most important element in job advancement.  Let me show it to you.

An usher at the movie theater I worked at wanted to become the lead usher.  After the movie started he would always be the first to grab a broom and start sweeping the lobby.  Once he even told me [...]

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Is your career like rollerskating in a buffalo herd?



Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.  (Carnegie)

I talk to many job seekers who want to change careers.  Some of them are accountants who [...]

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8 Signs That You Will Be Laid Off Or Fired

The two main reasons for firing or laying off people are that they are not good enough, or they are too expensive. For either problem, some of the signs are the same, such as:
1. Pay raises…..

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The Bamboo example will not get you a job

Don’t listen to the folks who tell you about growing bamboo.  It is a TERRIBLE way to look for a job.  Here is what you should do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YovuWdXTAxM

 

 

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One Hour Interview Prep

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.  (Seneca)

 Daryl comes out of another tense project meeting at work.  He’s late leaving for his job interview.  He guiltily leaves his jacket hanging in his cubicle so no one will suspect he is gone and sneaks out to his car.  He turns on talk radio where politicians [...]

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$250,000 too proud

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.  (Harris)

Mike’s expertise selling into FEMA was critical.  Their product was more than an idea, but not a proven solution.  Mike was already calling on FEMA contacts even though he wasn’t officially [...]

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What to leave out of your resume

If you can’t beguile them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t. (unknown)

For years the joke has been:  “Yesterday I was a truck driver.  I passed a test today, so now I am an MCSE network technician.  What’s a network?”

If you started out as truck driver and worked your way up to become the COO of [...]

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How to survive long unemployment

Do you give up too quickly?  Can you get a job at a comparable wage to the one you had?

Sometimes you just have to accept a lower wage to get a job.  Too often people fail to demand enough of themselves. A WSJ article stated.

A key part of earnings losses, Mr. von Wachter and his [...]

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Poison and disease – your job and search

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.  (de Montaigne)

Do you know why Al Qaeda has not used small pox, nerve gas, or sarin in an attack on the USA yet?  Because they are not as fast, painless, or sure as a car bomb….in killing the attacker. 

Terrorists are smarter than [...]

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