Extended Family: LinkedIn Job Search Support for H1B Visa

We have requests from time to time for how to help solve various business problems around the job search. Several friends have recently been faced with situations where family members are looking to identify H1B work visa jobs in the U.S. for family members of U.S. citizens who need the help of their relatives abroad.

As we write this the intention is to connect people who have solved similar problems for their loved ones, with communities, service providers, etc.. that can help keep families together.

Getting a complete professional profile on LinkedIn helps. Review the Career Creative Social Networking Tips for other ideas as a good profile with visiblity establishes you not just as a resume requesting H1B sponsorship, but as a professional with value, looking to get to work.

On FACEBOOK: Jobs N Career Success Group http://groups.to/jobsncareersuccess/

much interest exsts to help identify H1B and job Immigration resources to keep family together & care for aging parents.. Know anyone whos been there, done that? Or what about Immigration or H1B Recruiters? Please share the wealth and help some great people out , by simply sharing your experience. http://bit.ly/13Pn5C

HERE ARE SOME SOCIAL NETWORK RESOURCES FOR H1B Visa Issues:

TIP: After you have a complete LinkedIn Profile network in LinkedIn GROUPS and ask or answer questions in ANSWERS:

• Immigration Groups (185 Groups Exist) - Check out: EXPATWeb, Working On H1B, H1B Visa Holders Network, Immigration 411, H1B Visa Filing, H1B Transfer and Fresh H1B processing.
  


• IMMIGRATION ANSWERS (107 Questions have been answered): Resumes, Small Business Sourcing, H1B for HR Jobs , Market Conditions.

Twitter CareerKit 2.O : Getting Started!!

TWITTER FOR CAREER SUCCESS:
JOB-SEARCH USING CAREERKIT 2.0

CareerKit 2.0 because MOST jobs are landed by networking not searching. BUT WE GOTTA LOOK RIGHT?

Super Charge your JobSeeker Profile with these tips. Network with us on Facebook Jobs N Career Success for others input..

HFCN will help you optimize your PERSONALIZED CareerKit 2.0 strategy.

CareerKit 2.o Recipe:

1- LinkedIn Profile

2- Strategy Job Search Plan

3. Twitter Share Interest/Info

4. Resume Ready

* 2 TIPS for CareerKit2.0 starters.
* Contest could help you more!
* Best practices for do it yourselfers.
* Resume Writers lets work together!

I. ASSEMBLE INGREDIENTS

a. LinkedIn establish identity, endorse skills, and valuable job research! ALL of the United States Fortune 500 Corporations are LinkedIn, and your profile and skills should make it easy to connect.

b. Search Strategy job search and establish your unique expertise. This keeps you IN the active interest of industry. Study best practices and news. Participate in LinkedIn Answers - hare and ask questions in groups on Facebook or LinkedIn to build brand recognition.

c. Twitter extends your identity, profiles and ideas while connecting you to like minds, recruiters, or companies of interest who can help you in your search. Be found, be known for the professional you are.. Tweet on.

d. Resume traditional resume can be marketed how you wish individually. Monster or other sites can be helpful but there is MORE you can do with your recruiter or resume writer to create opportunity and influence your profile. This is hot and we ask you and those in our industry to consider some of the best practices that create winning visibility beyond that of copying and pasting resumes around and around and around.

II. MIX INGREDIENTS FOR SHARING.

a. Assemble ingredients, to prepare a single profile easy to share.

• Blogger URL: Do you share industry information on how to get a marketing job, best practices, whats in the news for your industry, job search solutions you like, etc? Consider sharing that on Twitter AND in your profile. This is a free and easy utility http://hfcn.blogspot.com/
  
• Resume: Use Tweet a File to create a shareable resume. Login using twitter login, select resume through BROWSE function, type tweet, and document posts. Here the resume is a Blind (Confidential) Candidate being represented by recruiter, so name is removed, other key data for confidential search can be omitted. http://tweetafile.com/files/DMular
  
• LinkedIn (Home>Profile tab PUBLIC PROFILE ) http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmular
• Twitter http://twitter.com/dmular

b. Use LinkBunch to combine them step 1 into single line, 4 line mini-shareable profile.

• Go to LinkBunch EASY interface at http://linkbun.ch/
  
• Put one of all the reference URLS from step a on its own line: (hit return after each url)
  
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/dmular
  
• http://twitter.com/dmular
  
• http://tweetafile.com/files/DMular

c. Click BUNCH at the bottom of the page. Your list of links will be simplified into one shareable simple URL http://linkbun.ch/fvs4

d. Share this URL http://linkbun.ch/fvs4 where useful.. On Twitter, In your Facebook Profile, etc.

MORE TIPS and INSIDER SECRETS FOR PROFILING FOR CAREER SUCCESS WILL BE SHARED ON FACEBOOK GROUP: JOBS N CAREER SUCCESS!

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Jobs N Career Success and Approaching Abundant Opportunity.

Jobs N Career Success , a Law of Attraction Approach to Abundant Opportunity.

Its been so exciting to watch opportunity unfold as we have created Jobs N Career Success as a forum to inspire, celebrate, and innovate in becoming our best professional success. When working on a meaningful goal or objective, it can be easy to be so focused on the absence of opportunity we work.. harder and harder.. Search more and more. When fear, confusion or distraction gets in the way, it can stop us from becoming the person we really desire to be.. Let us innovate, celebrate and collaborate on strategy for unlimited positive career opportunity.

Please be a friend and good channel of opportunity.. feel free to share with HR Professionls, coaches and jobseekers alike. Click "suggest to friends", select your friends, then click "send invitations"! MANY like the idea of a breath of inspiration and will likely thank you for it Jobs n Career Success (Law of Attraction): http://groups.to/jobsncareersuccess/

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theHFCN: Job Search Secrets and Tarek Ibrahim!

INTRODUCING: TAREK IBRAHIM please take a moment to welcome Tarek.
We at HFCN appreciate the talent and energy he brings to his work.

Jobseeking is an art all its own.. Thoughts become things.. If your thoughts are "stuck" you get more stuck and more and more stuck. Sometimes we try alot of different things for a little result.
theHFCN mission is to create productive alternatives.

Please join me in enjoying Tarek's take on the problem.. then we will share some ideas for the solution. Pictured above and on this video is Tarek Ibrahim, from Egypt, Tarek is a new media radio, modeling and business talent who helps his friends and family also in their jobseeking. Our pleasure to introduce you to Tarek and many other talents who have ideas waiting to be expressed... Lets celebrate success unfolding!!

THE PROBLEM: Anger and frustration, possibly even overwork from job search.

STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS AND IDEAS TO GET UNSTUCK: Spend more time on productive action if searching is not getting you results, what could? Identify THAT and invest THERE.

• theHFCN.com offers EXTRA CARE for Career Job Seekers wanting results
  
• START NOW: Career & Social Networking
  
• ATTRACT OPPORTUNITY: Ask, Believe, PREPARE to Receive

FREE WIDGET OF CAREER OPTIMISM FOR YOUR PAGES: GIVE INSPIRATION AND WE SHALL RECEIVE HAPPINESS AND SATISFACTION:

TWITTER STRATEGY: Powerful Job Search Support

extends social networking to establish and build personal brand, so why not have that action of "keeping in touch" with the market, your network, and job search.

Twitter Strategy: Today we share powerful Twitter job search suggestions that will differentiate and establish yourself with competitive advantage.

Here are a few suggestions to leverage a Twitter Job Search Strategy:

• Establish yourself as an expert - use twitter to share news, reads, or expertise- advise others on your expertise.
  
• Refine and provide links to your resume, ask for feedback, using hashtags, for Twitter search optimization.
  
• To create visibility for your blog on industry topics, business notes, etc.
  
• Communicate what types of opportunities you are working to create
• Find companies, employers, or recruiters that can help you on the path.
  
• Use Twitter in your communications..

HOW DOES SOCIAL NETWORKING HELP? Follow Friday and Twitter Search can expand your visibility to a common network..

Some popular business community links, networks and publications:

Business: A-Z Career Guide | Blog | LI2BusinessFriends |
Jobs: Applicant Tracking System | Blog | ExtraCare 4 Careers | LI2ExtraCare4Careers |
Recruiting: eCandidates Blog | LI2RecruitingFriends | Ning |
Women in Leadership: LI2ExecFriends |

Why "Helping Friends"

HFCN is for profit and win win business networking. Your "friends" are connected to ours in a find social network of possibility, inspiration and ideas. HFCN is here to help professionals of like mind, dedicated to discovering their personal and professional career best.

The key attributes of social friendly professionals are resourceful in problem solving, and strategic networking. Partnership creates more opportunity than Proprietary "Closed Systems". We are not Open Networkers because of our association with a particular set of Social Networking utilities-- we are open networkers because of our interest in positive business networking-- you may find HFCN group profiles in Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.

HFCN as – a web 2.0 employment service which provides highly regarded, direct, contingency, recruiting and placement, executive search is often asked, "Why are you the Helping Friends Career Network and not Helping People Career Network? This is an interesting question to us, while "friends" are a subset of "people", there is an important distinction.

HFCN Business, Recruiters and Jobseekers share a common interest of people serious about business and networking resources for our recruiters, business partners, and jobseekers. HFCN tends to attract not ALL jobseekers but people with a similar passion of practice for their expertise! We are a for profit enterprise with the practical realization that to whom much is given, much is also expected.

Whats that got to do with Friends? Our business networking for community good began in October 2001. Today we are a multinational limited liability corporation delivering employment services, networking and business services that appeal to recruiters, small to enterprise business owners, and talented jobseekers. We have unique marketing services for both our jobs, and our jobseekers. As a contingency, success driven partner, we realize we are not successful until we connect people in a meaningful, profitable way. We have an abundance of resource and want to help more people find the right talent mix for their competitive business.


RESOURCES:
Facebook: HFCN Fan Page | Jobs and Career Success w/Law of Attraction
LinkedIn: Business | Recruiting Professionals | ExtraCare4Careers | Executive Women
Blogs: Business | Careers
Twitter: jobs4friends

Opportunity is Abundant..

In the thick of day to day living, there are 2 elements at work in every desire... the delicious-ness of the desire, and the difficulty of it's absence. Opportunity is abundant, when we are very deliberate in our intent to find the jobs that helps me recognize that we are never given a dream, without the equal capacity to make it so!

Let us be generous in our response to business opportunity. Let us choose 'upstream' thoughts that support the direction we want to go, greater than 'downstream thoughts that rationalize our feelings of distress.

There are good paying jobs that I AM qualified and capable of getting.
MANY opportunities exist to solve a problem, which ones can and should I explore today?

WHAT are you doing, reading, being, or trying, to create the type of abundant opportunity you desire, deserve, and welcome?

READ MORE ABOUT IT:

• Conscious Career Creation
  
• Opening Doors of Opportunity
• Energize Career Abundance Mojo
• Job Search Utilities
• LinkedIn Networking
• Surviving, even Thriving from Layoff: http://helpingfriendscareernetwork.com/SurviveLayoff.html
  
  HFCN Social Network Groups: LinkedIn | Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle |
  HFCN Yahoo Groups: Jobs | HR/Recruiters | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | LI2TheSecret | Careers |

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Law of Attraction: Conscious Career Creation

Law of Attraction offers some common sense for Conscious Careering. Take the 3 steps towards deliberate creation involve "Ask", "Believe", and "Receive" the conditions necessary for you to recognize your career aspirations.

Try the following, enlist help on attracting the results you desire and manifest your best professional self.

• ASKING: Clearly talk about the success, not as a wish, a desire, or the absence of a desire.. Talk about the objective as it IS being created, and you are creating the conditions necessary to celebrate your success.
• BELIEVING: Words matter. Choose words that create the conditions for success. You may recognize limitations or old habits while creating the conditions. Believing is about focussing intention sufficiently to remember what the asking was all about, and believing you are never given a dream without the equal capacity to make it happen.. You may need to clarify (ask) and refine your belief systems on the path, but act as if it is a matter of time and gratitude before you receive.
• RECEIVING: Cultivate your vision and savor the deliciousness of success. Tell us about a time when you had similar business challenges that you overcame with experience, perseverance, and difficulty, something much more refined emerged. The biggest part of RECEIVING, is to maintain a fertile and ready foundation for the career objective to unfold.

QUESTIONS, TIPS AND TRAPS:

• All my friends are finding jobs and happy? Whats wrong with me? Nothing is wrong with you. You are not broken, you are complete, you are loved and all is well. Begin with this, and re-Focus is in Asking, Believing, and receiving the desired outcome. Don't criticize, complain, worry, or cross the paths of others.. Choose for this moment, to be the best you, you can be...
• How will you know when you have reason to celebrate? In life too many brain cells are wasted. Define what success works on and several milestones on the path. Your focus is on managing your own disappointment, news, setbacks or re-prioritization.
  
• But the news is so negative. I don't want to pretend. Nothing is wrong with you. You are not broken, unless you have started to believe that the resources of obstruction are far greater than your desire for a better professional work environment. What you feed your body in asking, supports or erodes your belief system, so make sure to keep the possibilities, the vision and the forward momentum in place while making the change.
  

OTHER RESOURCES:

• 11 Forgotten Laws (Bob Proctor)
• Affirmations for the soon to be Downsized
  
• Deeper Thoughts on the Law of Attraction

Surviving, Thriving Layoff: http://helpingfriendscareernetwork.com/SurviveLayoff.html

HFCN Social Network Groups: LinkedIn | Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle |

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This is gonna sound crazy.. but ....

You ever want to jump out of your traditional mode of operating to try something totally different. .. This is how the calls begin. A few of my "office politics" moments follow a few fairly predictable rules of engagement. In summary it works like this.

1. You must follow up by voicemail after the first few email communications indicating urgency, because if it REALLY was urgent, you would be calling me.

2. When you first reach me live, I must start the conversation with, "Oh I know this is gonna sound crazy, but I am on an urgent call and thought you were someone I needed to talk to.. so I need to call you back."

3. Go back to the last email, do a reply to all urgent stakeholders awaiting your response that you and I traded messages and that YOU will call me back when YOU get a moment.

4. Yep it really still is important here YOU come on the phone. I will politely let you tell me everything again as if it is the first time we discussed it. We will then talk in vague details about responsibilities, and why this one is not something YOU should be calling ME about.

5. I will then point you to what I know are YOUR responsibilities. YOU will then re-emphasize why you need my help, and will reinforce a belief that if we really talk through this, we can resolve this pretty easily.

6. I will then ask who YOUR management is, rather than agreeing to participate. I will reluctantly agree to check disposition on my responsibility without committing to solve your request. I will agree to follow up. I will not agree to participate.

7. I will then do a second reply to all, this time copying in the people who I am tagging to help explain my position and why it's not "OUR" problem.

Affirmations 4 the Soon to Be Downsized..

You've been notified of intent to layoff staff. You know from experience that within minutes of receiving this notice, people are reacting. You know that you too, will be one of them. You care about your job, you care about your colleagues, and yet here comes a whole new adventure in managing self talk and activity.

1. Simplify to live life in deliberate choices of engaging in the most importaant activity for this moment in time.
2. Living to be our best and most authentic self, requires sometimes challenging why we are doing things, and choosing some more supportive self talk. You have talents that will never diminish due to layoff. Focus on the strengths you will cultivate and the weaknesses you can change. Those fears and uncertain doubts that do not serve you... do not try to battle them, merely move to what you can and should do that is more productive.
   
3. Mindfulness during layoff notification involves waking to the present conditions for what they are.. to really see where you can and should be involved and useful. To really see that our colleagues, our management, like are selves, are all managing the news of a layoff as personally. Choose to embrace a mindfulness for supportive, gentle and honest self and community talk.
4. Feelings of guilt, of failure, of remorse that cause us to stop talking, working or acting towards our more noble purpose are a waste of our time and our colleagues time. Do not deny the feelings exist, but try not to romance them either.
   

AFFIRMATIONS TO SUPPORT THE SOON TO BE DOWNSIZED:

1. I am a fully capable professional, recognizing my next great opportunity.
   
2. I am readily accepting all advantage and opportunities presented me.
3. Each problem has at least a solution, experience is gained in identifying opportunities.
4. I accept myself as a powerful, responsible being, in touch with my greater good.

Surviving, even Thriving from Layoff:
http://helpingfriendscareernetwork.com/SurviveLayoff.html

HFCN Social Network Groups: LinkedIn | Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle |
HFCN Yahoo Groups: Jobs | HR/Recruiters | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | LI2TheSecret | Careers |

Inspired for the Present, releasing Past Limits..

My 9 year old son and I started a nice night time dialogue of deliberate choice. This is where we talk about the things that challenge us, and then the strategy for what we will do and how cool it will be when the goals are met.

Intent is to create a positive expectation to practice becoming the person that feels happy and connected more than afraid and negative. Sometimes we feel an attachment to the limitation that keeps us romanticizing how difficult it is..


If what we think about, we tend to bring about, good or bad, it makes sense to focus on good more than bad. The purpose of meditation is to calm the mind to focus on feeling better. We talked about the difference between positive and negative thinking. Positive is connected to the logic that somewhere there is at least 3 solutions to any issue. Negative is shutting down, hiding, acting out or believing that this is the best we can do and that no solutions exist but to accept failure. Situations are not really so much positive or negative so much as how we choose to experience them.

CAN I CALM MY MIND FOR TO APPRECIATE COURAGE, FRIENDS, TRUST, and BLESSINGS?

So we came up with ideas to become more aware of our role in choosing amazing experiences. This does not mean denying a feeling that is negative, but it does mean being in touch with our feelings and visualizing more what we want to accomplish then what we might dread if the worst case scenario came to be.
USE CASE: WHAT IS HAPPENING THAT CAUSES YOU TO FEEL SAD, DEPRESSED OR FEARFUL: My son shared a fear that the neighbor boy who is now bullying him, who was once his friend, would make all his friends turn against him and he would be left alone and friendless.

Why do you feel your friends would turn against you if they stood to be bullied too? Lets explore and affirm what values you want to see in your friends and then make choices accordingly.

• What values do real friends embody?
  
• What do they do that is different to make them friends?
  
• What are some things you CAN do to stop feeling stuck?
  
• What can you do to choose a happier foundation for you and your friends to enjoy?

THINGS IN THE MICROSCOPE OR REAR VIEW MIRROR MAY APPEAR LARGER THAN THEY ARE. Focus on a thought can make it bigger than it it. Perspective on a microscope lets you view a strand of hair that looks thicker than a rope. So it is with our thoughts... Focus on thoughts-- any type, may make them appear larger then they are.

• Think you are having a good day?
• Think you are having a bad day?
• You are probably either right or about to make it so.

LEARNING TO RELEASE THOSE THINGS YOU DON'T WANT, MAKES ROOM FOR WHAT YOU DO WANT. Clear clutter as if they represent a bunch of things gathered around because they have always been there and once had value. Choose to clean up your mind, your workspace, and your environment to step bravely into the person you want to see, and the people you want to associate with.

HFCN Extra Care FREE 2.0 Job Advantage: Career Extra Care Services
HF LinkedIn Groups: | Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
HFCN on Yahoo w/ Links Libraries: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

Seeking Patterns to Prepare for Business

When falling out of balance we often seek to rebalance and refocus by seeking patterns to assimilate our next steps from. Announcement of a layoff is unsettling at a corporate and personal level.

This is a time where human nature being what it is, seeks to discover patterns in communication style, that helps us plan for business refocus. We all know we share an equal stake of risk to being laid off. Looking for a pattern as to who is laid off and how that will relate to you is impractical, although often irresistable self indulgence.

It is a time when we can focus ourselves best with a flexibility of not reading and acting too much on unchecked assumptions. If we have a equal probability of staying in our jobs, or going, is often nothing we can control. So what then is a good way to use our desire for patterns to trace a path forward?

Choose the logic that best supports forward momentum.
Weed out the logic that speculates, but to undermine the most likely options.

LOGIC OF NOW: Who should I be, how should I be working to represent my brand, and that of my employer? You could ask us not to read more into an activity, but you can not expect us to not try to find where we fit into the picture of an organization under change. What should I be in either likely scenario? What is required for us to be successful regardless of news. AND not to take the press to literally?

WEEDING UNPRODUCTIVE THOUGHT: "What can and must I do to stop this insanity?" Its difficult and getting bad. Should I give up? Did I stay too long?

http://helpingfriendscareernetwork.com/SurviveLayoff.html

Is there a good way to "Lay Off" ?

There are a myriad of ways employers can elect to notify their workforce that because they did not make their numbers, or as a result of the changing business climate, must reduce forces. Is there a good way to lay off talent? If good news comes in the forms of excited headlines celebrating specific success, and bad news comes in the form of "Today's Announcement" of "tomorrow's meeting" with specific outcome but generic impact...

The loss of team members, of leaders, and work, the very issue of preparing to be affected by a layoff stinks. It stinks for businesses that care, and the people that cared to make that business. Hard to focus when you don't know exactly WHAT to focus on, to be of the greatest use to the success of the business.

As individual contributors, as managers, and leaders, how do we react to such news? Is there a good way for employees to respond to news of layoff? Human nature being what it is, here are some things we can do to react as professionals in a way that does more damage to ourselves, and our business than help:

1. Survival of the Fittest Mode: Show yourself as a raving success, with evidence of others failures to ensure you are not the "cut" percentage.
   
2. Fearful "what if" mode: Look around and try to speculate with the little information you have.
   
3. "Its so bad, our best resource is to panic mode": If you must collect news to assemble how you will survive the scariest of situations, make sure you don't romance in limitation.
   
4. "Put your head down, lock your doors and hide mode:" When fearful thoughts connect, remember it is networking that creates most opportunity, now is not the time to get introspectively alone. Give the love you want to be receiving in this time, it will return to you and those that are likely feeling the need for appreciation in a time of speculation.

What is the kindest thing you have seen done in to help others during a difficult layoff time? How do you support your colleagues, your team, your business in times of business challenge to keep the focus and adjust to the human needs?

Let us keep in mind that there is more productive actions and choices we can make than worry. Let us find the grace to stay connected, keep caring, and keep making a difference.. That is our competitive value whether or not we stay employed together or not. It also is the vehicle that will help us connect to our next opportunity more readily if it is our time to be laid off.

http://helpingfriendscareernetwork.com/ExtraCare4Careers.html

Energize Career Abundance Mojo

Embrace an active role in our career potentials-- celebrating success and navigating our limitations. It's Better than We Think It Is! Your mind keeps you asking the right questions. Your emotional balance and intellect keeps challenging you to recognize your better self through the natural laws of attraction. Our work is to really define what it is we want, and hold our emotional guidance, in making choices for what we want, more than the absence of what we have..

What if I feel stuck? "Stuck" is a choice too, could it be we are perpetuating our own feelings of "stuck". What is it that you do want to improve? "Stuck" can be a gift in increasing discomfort until the pain is so great you would rather choose action. Regardless of the situation, there are always a few possible solutions. Surround yourself with people that remind you of the good. Stay in the flow of bringing your best self. As bad as you might feel you have it, someone else is probably doing much worse than yourself, and others doing much better.. so let us not get so stuck in the romance of our present reality, that we fail to recognize opportunities that could energize our career abundance mojo.


Starting with a Solid Foundation: What you "think about" you "bring about".

1. Are your stories bolstering your forward momentum or rationalizing why we are stuck?
2. Don't deny concerns.. Translate worry into on proactive action.
3. Invest more in brand builders, than "impossibility" roadblocks.
4. Look for models of how this 'can' manifest. Spend a bit of time creating the probable picture of your success.

Change Is Great! Career Resource Tips:

1. Job Security is Gone. Let me Introduce Income Security. -- JibberJobber.com always inspires career management. Jason Alba liberates some great ideas to embrace the "capability" to "create opportunity.
   
2. Focus more on Good News than How Bad It Is.. You don't need thousands of jobs, you just need one that compliments your skills... And it exists. Find it more quickly with focus on what you offer that employers need.
   
3. You Know Enough You Have Enough.. Create Unique opportunities to leverage your career credibility capital.
   
4. Happy Secrets to Getting a Job You Love --- John Hadley.
   

SOCIAL NETWORKING LEVERAGES YOUR BRAND:

1. Disaster Recovery Proof your LinkedIn Profile-- Jason Alba and Susan Ireland.
   
2. WebWorker Daily Shared - 12 Ways To Use FaceBook Professionally
3. Blog the Best Practices of the Industry you represent.. And use your badge or Social Networking URL with it.
   
4. Best Professional Profile with a Personality: Facebook| Professional Profile is a Facebook Application that will let you Upload a Resume in .doc format OR Retrieve and Link your Linked In Professional Profile and Endorsements. All your LinkedIn Resume and Endorsements are presented... AND your Facebook contacts can endorse you with a link and a photo to their facebook page. http://apps.facebook.com/my-resume/resume
   

Badge or Social Networking Sources:

Facebook Badge: http://www.facebook.com/badges.php
LinkedInABox: Profile your LinkedIn Summary, Specialties, Experience, Recommendations. Sample URL:

Professional Profile and Your Best Face Forward

Join me in a Happy Birthday to Paul!

Paul Steven Finkelstein is a social media expert with a passion for helping his clients make a memorable impression.

Today is a great day to talk about putting your best social networking face forward, because it is the birthday of my friend, Paul Steven Finkelstein, who is a runner for great humanitarian causes, and inspired, life artist, and the owner of Mobile Portrait Studio, a company who specializes in helping folks make a favorable photographic impression.

Paul's done work for the local chambers of commerce, business card photos, and social networking in addition to special events traditionally thought of for photography. And what a great way to make a personal impression. If you are located in the Florida area, check Paul out for networking tips or to have his mobile studio come put your face in a favorable light. :D


Paul Steven Finkelstein is well networked on:
Facebook | MerchantCircle | Ryze | Plaxo | LinkedIn | Twitter | MySpace |


Check out Paul's recent CBS TV Interview.

Career News You Can Use!

Good news of random Career Development Interest Topics for our readers. Heard or read any other good news or tips for helping our readers recognize their best selves?? Do share!

TELECOMMUTING: Good for the employer who wants to build a business where-ever their secret weapon (human resource talent) lives! Good for the environment, thrifty on gas, using technology most homes already have (ISP).

• FlexJobs "Work at Home and Telecommuting Jobs Offer Silver Lining During Difficult Economic Times article seems to suggest that there are an increasing number of folks choosing to adept a flexible job option to explore the opportunities they want, while working from home.
• A recent Computing Technology Industry Association report found some positive savings (69%) greater productivity (67%) for companies and employee health benefits from telecommuting. 39% of respondents noted an improved retention. Reducing stress, respondents reported seemed to also make a 25% increase in overall employee health.
• Telecommuting Professionals Yahoo Group is a great resource to give and share legit job leads, links on Telecommuting best practices. It is a free social network, but spam moderated group where job leads, news and telecommuting ideas are exchanged. We also feature a Member driven Links Library with sections on Articles, Blogs, LinkedIn Social Interest Groups, Telecommuting Resources, Time, Time Management, Tools, and Technology.
  

LINKEDIN2 HELPING FRIENDS BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS: These are Helping Friends individuals that now are enjoying the entrepreneurial pace of business ownership!

• Kevin Donlin, of SimpleJob Search System genius and career vision muse inspirer.
• Jason Alba of JibberJobber.com - read recent blog: "You'll Never Get Laid Off..."
  
• Guy Mellott is the owner of Stuttgart a passion for luxury Mercedes Benz Service in CO.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT GOOD NEWS/ TIPS/Views:

• Career Coach with Ramon Greenwood for inspiration for professional development "Are You Trapped in a Mid Life Crisis?
• Dennis Smith a nice social media interview with Bill Vick on XtremeRecruiting.tv on being a great recruiter for the Wireless Jobs Industry. His first choice to connect with others in a meaningful way was the blogging mechanism. His blog is CrunchWireless.com and he used blogging as a means to become "the" wireless recruiting connector.
• Seven Tips for Salary Negotiation in Tough Times by JISTS Job Search and Career Blog.
• Some of our Readers Favorite Resume Writers are here. If you know of blogging career marketing and development professionals, let us know. We are always happy to talk about service agents who make our jobseekers look great!
• Think you have got it tough on your job search? With the Presidential Election upon us, the run for President or the run for Executive Jobs could follow an interesting course. Thanks Yvonne LaRose for inspiring and writing such great tips, similarities of life and interviews imitating art, in a "Candidate Face Off".
  

HELPING FRIENDS COMMUNITIES:

LinkedIn: Business, Recruiting Professionals, ExtraCare for Careers, NEW: Executive Women
Yahoo: Business, Recruiting, Jobs, Fearless Executive Women in Leadership, Telecommute

Recruiting Open Source Discussion for Web 2.0 Services

WHO INNOVATES IN 2.0 EMPLOYMENT SERVICES?

We have blogged community wishes for 2.0 Recruiting Services before, now we are kicking it up a notch with a community produced 2.0 Employment and Recruiting services summary. Let's talk about what recruiters and developers value.

How do we recognize the benefits, and best of 2.0 capabilities, mashups, people, process, profiles, and HR Technology to the next level?

Social Networking extends capabilities and cultivates uncommon partnership that flies under the radar of traditional businesses. Explore the common functionality, the benefits and the perspective that only business networking with fresh ideas and possibilities offer to enhance our quality of services, and bolster our business capabilities to serve one another.

An open community of professionals in the Recruiting vendors/suppliers and customers space are preparing an open forum discussion/review with Recruiting Professionals and HR Application Vendors to investigate creating a leading Web 2.0 user friendly network with recruiting/ split service.

We hope to showcase the best functionality of our LinkedIn Recruiting Professionals community of vendors and practioners.

HR business technical developers, recruiter services, employment and staffing business development and web 2.0 service marketing professionals are welcome to participate in our “open sourcing” discussion of the best attributes for Contingent Recruiting process with Web 2.0 function '

NETWORK WITH US at http://recruitingpros.ning.com/group/splitsmadesaavy.

Lets introduce those great idea people and expand our present examples of leading key recruiting suppliers, and business/technical attributes that create excellent business possibilities for our stakeholders.

Career Credibility

"There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts. However, choosing different thoughts requires focus and practice. If you continue to focus as you have been, to think as you have been, and to believe as you have been, then nothing, in your experience will change." - Abraham Hicks "cards" click for Abraham Hicks Daily Quote

1. I don't know enough to have credibility. Read "Unstuck" by Keith Yamashita and Sandra Spataro for many excellent strategies many professionals use for inspiring creativity and forward progress. "Credibilility" works on a formula of Experience + Connections + Preparedness to use them. Social networking EXTENDS the business possibilities by multiplying the connections and preparedness to use them, you still need to bring the experience.

2. I don't have enough time or energy for extra effort to produce or document experiences. Check out Helping Friends Life Balance for Highly Effective People or WebGrlls by Jaime Chambron for ideas to build credibility in the virtual age.

3. I just don't know anyone. Here are Tips for bringing your best professional self, then choose to expand your Twitter in some interesting circles to meet and learn of alot of brainstorming resources. Be prepared to ask questions- who might know how to solve this? Who is best in thinking through this? Recent produtivity hints:

• @BillVick shared a great help guide @CoachDeb wrote for getting productive with Twitter http://TwitterHandbook.com
• @applemacbookpro shared ideas for brainstorming solutions and alternatives with a dictionary http://tinyurl.com/3vytan
• @jobs4friends shared Brazen Careerist for professional insight. Lots of professional development and coaching tips.
  
• Twitter search for others thinking of similar ideas for people you don't know. At the time of my search for "how" + "credibility" these were interesting
  

Skype Chat: HFCN ExtraCare4Careers

Have you read any good career development blogs lately?
Got a great resource you want to share with jobseekers?
OR just feeling a need to connect with others on how to make your career vision a reality?


Come chat about it.. Tweet, or just get in touch/stay in touch! You are among friends! A new HFCN Chat Room is offered using Skype Chat for fun and periodic networking, career development best practices, and of course to provide a human face to "career seekers" who just wanna chat to a person from time to time! We can arrange this ChatRoom for special events, but for the time being, we are just going to create an open Skype Chat Room on Thursday evenings beginning at 8:00 pm. EST, 6:00 MTN, 5:00 PST.

ExtraCare4Careers is a Jobs 2.0 Community Service.
LinkedIn Extra Care 4 Careers Community http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/117106 .
Tweet us on Twitter anytime http://twitter.com/jobs4friends SKYPE us on HFCN ExtraCare4Careers ROOM THURSDAYS: http://arunaurl.com/2iec
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2.0 Job Search, Network, Productivity Tools

What are your favorite Web 2.0 Job Search and Career Development Tools?

Job Search Utilities:

• Mashable provides 70+ Tools for Job Seekers.
• Helping Friends Career Network of Open Jobs Widget for your Website or Blog.
  
• ExtraCare 4 Careers Tips for your competitive Web 2.0 Job Search.
  

How to: Networking for Jobs:

• JibberJobber.com
  
• Jason Alba and his Book "I'm On LinkedIn, Now What?"
  
• Institute for Community Inclusion "Making Networking Easier Job Seekers: A guide".
• LinkedIn Tools for Jobseekers.
• Helping Friends Community Networking Tips Widget for your Website or Blog- Tips, Profiles.
  

Web 2.0 Productivity Tools

• 30boxes
• CalendarHub
  
• ePointment
• Google Calendar
• RememberTheMilk
• Backpack.com
• Entrepreneurs 2.0 Applications
• The OpenDoc
  

Career Branding: Will Tweet for Work

Nice tweet by Rodney @Rumford " 25 startups using twitter" http://tinyurl.com/6pwbza
inspired the notion of Career Branding or being a Focused Professional using Twitter.

What should professionals be doing to produce opportunity or partnership that transcends the tweets from "what are you doing now?" Twitter's microblogging utility offers many use cases for a start up as highlighted in this excellent article about how start ups are using twitter to create brand and businesses awareness inspired a desire to highlight how top business professionals are using twitter in their job search.

Do you tweet for work? Here are some possibilities for Career Branding Professionals to create or extend relationships.

• Resume Social Networking
  
• What are YOU learning? Notes and Observations from Professional Association Involvement
  
• Highlighting/Introducing corporate or colleague thinkers you respect.
• Responding to marketplace news with Intelligent Business Logic
• Creating Conversations and Logic that supports your expertise, as brand that produces opportunity!

Who do you follow that represents that special "Career Branding" example using Twitter?

RESOURCES :
200 Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter
Jason Alba, Founder of JibberJobber and Social Media Career Possibility Thinker
ExtraCare4Careers, help on your 2.0 Career Strategy
Dale Carnegie - Expert on Personal Development
Twitter Treats for Business Networking

3 Professional Tips on Personal Development

Cool Career and Professional Wisdom Shared with the Friends Recently:

1. Financial Success and Managing Real Life Debt is a really cool blog on how to really get mileage with your $.
2. Because words become things.. Positive Affirmations-- some feel affirmations is so much baloney. Garbage in/Garbage out is more than a programming term in computer science.. We can affirm positive or negative thoughts, and do so either deliberately or automatically. Subscribe to Daily Quotes for inspiration on picking good thoughts from Abraham Hicks.
   
3. The Engaging Brand Blog offers much great wisdom on becoming your best self. I was introduced to this via Twitter when I saw a url link to "5 Leadership Thoughts for a Bad Day". Another good resource for this is the Personal Branding Blog article "When a Company Hires you They Endorse your Brand".
   

Affirming your Best Career Aptitudes

Supercharge your capacity to demonstrate your "Best" career aptitude.


Are you excited about the opportunities and person you are working to be? Let that excitement show through in your social networking profile and career portfolio.

Patient, persistent, persuasive, potential over doubtful, fearful, uncertain and skeptical limitations.

EDIT> FIND > REPLACE: Let your experience be what it is, working harder for you than against you. Remove references to "minimally sufficient", "insufficient, "not enough" from your descriptive vocabulary. Remove all references to negative experiences, brutal career stories, and career regrets. Replace that with statements of experience and skills that compliment your skills to your employer's needs. If you undersell yourself on your own limitations, enlist the help of writers to craft your experiences makeover. This is not about exaggerating your words and experience, it's about representing your best self.

Cool Links on Topic:

• Daily Career Connection--..Secrets of How to Do Effective Company Research
• Extra Care for Careers-- FREE where your shared career profile gets jobs 2.0 visibility!
• Copy Writing Tips and Tricks -- The Persuasive Power of Simplicity

Refresh your Profile and Resume

Our fortune is not in our future, it is in we choose to embrace this moment of greatness happening.  Part of social networkings great benefit is a fun and casual way to create and exchange competitive infomation that improves your career.  Great does happen!  Will you allow yourself to benefit such greatness?  Will you celebrate with others?  Did you know that focus on what is working (for yourself and others) has a tendency to create more positive momentum. 

Now is the perfect time to update your references, your profile, your picture.  Who is the business colleague that you really appreciate?  Go endorse them on your favorite social networking profile-- giving out that which you hope to receive helps as well.  Update and back up your address books. 

Search Engine Optimization is hot because it helps companies with an online presence to be found...  Try the same for your resume.  What skills are companies most working for, that you possess?  Highlight the areas where your specific skills makes a difference-- this differentiator helps, and it is a delight to see greater response to your resume or social networking portfolio, simply because you created the fortunate momentum to be noticed.  

Opening Doors of Opportunity through Conscious Careering

What is it that you Want to Achieve?
Why is it that you Want to Achieve It?
I choose this direction because when I accomplish this ___?

Much of our professional life is invested in a life balancing act of contrasting values. Some of the simplest and most elegant career alternatives that might be calling to us, unheard, because they were talking in a whisper, and overpowered by that louder more familiar noise.

Your answers do not need to be eloquent, or elegant... They simply are your desired outcomes. Consider this an exercise in visioning, and exploring what the ideal end state looks like. Over the years, we have seen many a brilliant professional attach so much focus, activity, and fear to "What they DON'T want to happen, that they neglect to define the case for what they will do when the DO want this to happen. It feels better to think of a successful outcome, and throughout history, it is those able to vision a situation uncommonly satisfying to their objective that improved their options tremendously.

"Extreme" Conscious Careering is a study in opposites, and a deliberate awareness of challenging our thoughts and actions to finding the myriad of positive options that exist for us. Some starter tips are here, we will be sharing more:

1. "Feeling" good,is allowing good." If good and bad despite circumstances are both options, we can create, learn and appreciate, by identifying from this moment, the choices, and the milestones we will pass while achieving the end state objective.
   
2. Absorb the experience and appreciate progress in yourself and others. We evolve by accepting progress more than feeling stuck. Try an exercise of "over-response" Trade some of your deadlines, fears and judgements of failure for being trapped in overly responsible demands to explore the gentler process of recognizing what is the more attractive, fulfilling, and rewarding outcome."
3. "Progress" with a "Principle" is enjoying the positive action, rather than pushing out an unpleasant one. There are at least 5 alternatives we could explore that might be better than the approach, or results we would like to change. Challenge the thoughts, beliefs and limitations that start an automatic dance of "stuck". As a brilliantly conscious career agent, we have choices, and some of them involve choosing a more inspiring dance. We do not have to be unsensitive we simply have to be aware of our role, our choice, and our options. Not every song requires we dance, and we can challenge the rules, when we are conscious of them.
   
4. Nourish yourself and others with the tools of optimism, options, and creativity. Let us be a better reminder of seeing the good intent and capabilities and reminding one another than keeping score of metrics that keep us feeling "stuck" in the illusion of not good enough. Optimistic thinking does not involve ignoring your feelings, but it does involve managing the choices we take as a result of feeling stuck. "Feeling" and "being" are not the same thing, but we forget conscious choice, when we get too busy with our dance.
   
5. You have been productive far more than unproductive, so stop doing what you know is bad for you, and start being radical about meeting your conscious careering, "BEST" self! Stop chasing, comparing, judging, and assessing, and start appreciating, recognizing, and feeling progress.
   

TIPS:

• Connect to others who have accomplished what you aspire to do, and are willing to share and inspire. If your choice is "limitation" or possibility, choose the extra care option.
  
• Choose marketing, thoughts, objectives, and words that inspire and represent you, even by letting go of the lack, and attaching marketing agents that help you brand yourself.
  
• Do something each day that stretches you. Take the one super charge step that you typically like to avoid.
  

Extra Care 4 Careers (defining Job Search 2,0)

Extra Care 4 Your Career is a job search 2.0 program available July 15, 2008.

09/30/05 Tim O'Reilly offers the best clarification for Web Business 2.0 as to what a web 2.0 is and is not. If it's got a glossy graphic, maybe a starburst or style distinction, is that enough to satisfy the buzz? Nope. Using Tim's definition as a jumping off point the jobs and employment market itself must come to reach the Web Business 2.0 model as well.

Web Business 2.0 is not a proprietary site, broadcasting out, a traditional medium with manual response and minimal relationships. It's become an interesting mash of intellectual content plus open sourcing and collaboration. The spinning of Web Business 2.0 produces a speed, and a richness of business interaction.

So how does the Traditional Job Search and Job Search 2.0 Compare?

Traditional Job Search
Resume In Microsoft Word
Register on Monster > wait for a call.
Fax your Resume > wait for a call.
Read the Want Ads> where next?
Resume Blasters> wait to be found
Recruiters as "resume collectors"
Job Board Ad > wait for resumes
Yahoo and LinkedIn Requests

Job Search 2.0
Social Networked: Naymz, LinkedIn, Lijit, FaceBook
Sound Strategy: JobHunt.org, JibberJobber, HFCN
Leverage the network of win win business networkers.
Microblogging Matters- Great blog by Cheezhead
Responsible quality, relationships, and service delivery.
Resumes, must be connected to credible talent.
RSS Feed Model and Recruiter community networking
Go direct to a community where supply meets demand.
Recruiters Partner and leverage Recruiter Networks for shared results.




Read More About It:
"Happy About" Books on Social Networking for Linked In and Facebook.
Helping Friends Career News Blog

CareerInk Enhances Resumes

JUNE 29, 2008: What a perfect day to introduce the "CareerInk" wisdom of founder, Roberta Gamza.

One of our Helping Friends advised that working with the professional expertise of someone who knew IT, and Marketing, really helped to express their best self, even better. The result of working with a resume writer helped them to overcome their own "cultural limitations", producing a resume that concisely represented their skills. this gift of words that create results is rare but deligthful to witness in action.

Roberta is a smart professional that knows how to make people shine. Using her 15 years of experience in High Tech Marketing, she helped professionals to produce that perfect career portfolio package that offered them distinguished career advantage that helps open doors to desirable interviews.

CareerInk is the "marketing and communications" support to help find the right words to motivate, to pursuade, to inform-- techniques and services exist for marketing communications, resume creation or strategies for strengthening your career portfolio position.

Or, take advantage of our free résumé review.

CareerInk
http://www.careerink.com/
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JobSeekers & Recruiting Professionals This is a reminder that it is time to Refresh!

Helping Friends Career Network features a FEW candidate resumes every month in our "extra care" program. We network these great candidates with our peer recruiters in the industry.. This is a new service offering that costs nothing to our job seekers, but is part of the value added service to professionals with a polished career package, looking for a network boost.

Tips to Refresh Career Profiles

1. WHY Social Networking on LinkedIn (Presentation).
   
2. Lifehack Sticky Ideas Workshop Credible Endorsements. (Nice article by Dustin Wax )
   
3. Top Ten Reasons You Shouldn't Write your Own Resume (blog by Kim Isaacs)
   
4. Career Reference Guide (excellent suggestions from Virginia Tech)
5. Tips for Nurturing Relationships (excellent suggestions from JibberJobber's Blog)

Call To Action: Have resources? Want resources? Offer ideas?

1. Jobseekers- Try a refresh of Resume. Send updates to your recruiter. OR ask a Friend for Extra Care.
   
2. Service Providers- Request an invitation to join the LI2Jobs/ExtraCare Career Community. Introduce and network with other HFCN Business Networkers to share resources. Imagine if Recruiters, Resume Writers, and Career Coaches could create a referral stream that helps us deliver more for all our clients.. Be part of a career development community movement.
   
• Lets consider and get involved in what our community can do:
  
• Blog Streams to help our clients and community.
• Link Exchanges, Referrals and Resources to connect supply and demand.
  
• Practical referrals to experienced professionals with solid business values.
  

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EXAMPLES: Will expand as others join us, perhaps creating a group RSS Feed!


HFCN Job Leads and Career Tips Blog and RSS Feed of jobs and career tips now. If you produce a similar career development, resume tips, or jobs list feed, lets work together to combine that which we can do well to share.

HFCN Excellent Candidate or Job Exchange Feed: Blog & RSS Feed of top candidates and or job order splits available now. IF you produce a similar candidate or job feed, lets work together to combine that which you can automatically share. Requirements to participate in a shared feed, is that you must be able to define the basic terms and summary/contact information in each entry, must be able to share that feed free and clear.

Recruiting Professionals Community News: Blog and RSS Feed of Career Service Professionals Networking taking place now.

Career Resilience Inspiration

Extra Care for Career Resilience:

Helping Friends Career Network celebrates the thinkers in our industry that are helping to inspire others towards becoming their best professional selves. There have been some notable contributions to career resilience and we like to celebrate them here. Please let us know what you are reading that is inspiring and helping others as well!.

Orienting the notion of your social networking plan to building your credible and hireable brand, is more than "trendy", it's practical. In response to career information requests from our community, we are blogging on Empowered Career Resilience.

John Hadley, is dedicated to inspiring people to their best selves. He has announced a "Career Accelerator Blog" with tips on the type of questions your resume must answer, and strategies to help you become successful and efficient in achieving your career goals.

Jason Alba, one of my favorite experts in career agility has shared on FoxBusiness.com and JibberJobber Blog, some ideas that have been picked up and applied to create success for other professionals as well.. The notion of blogging to bigger job opportunities is a great one.. Helps you define your brand and career expertise.

If "Perfect" employment is the goal, clear objectivity is necessary. Employment Digest has a great blog "7 Ways to find your Perfect Job". Great stuff about what you can do to determine or validate an opportunity. Most important to that process is of course, 'trusting your instincts" after applying those steps.

HFCN Resources

HFCN Jobs Database - http://arunaurl.com/2e0g

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Rosie the Riveter or 5 Counterproductive Career Ideas

Many of us do not think about why the image's we connect to, happen... it just kind of clicks. In life, in our careers, and in our experience, we have choices...

Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of career optimism, produced by J. Howard Miller, during World War II, a representation of about 6 million women women who assumed the role of the real life, Rosie's. Sometimes in life, we are so busy trying to survive, we miss the beauty found in optimism and action. We need to celebrate more stories of possibility, like that of Rose Will Monroe.

Our original "Rosie", Rose Will Monroe was born in Coppell, Texas in 1920. During World War II she moved to Michigan and worked in manufacturing, as a riveter at the Willow Run Aircraft Factory. She did not choose to be an riveter because it was glamourous.. Her work was uncommon, but her choice to do this work was not so uncommon.

A job needs to be done. Let us not get bogged down in the story, let us just do that job to the best of our ability, we can do it!

The widower, Mrs. Monroe, joined the workforce to manage a difficult time. She was left with 2 young children after her husband was killed in a car accident. What made her special? She did. She chose to do what needed to be done. The sadness of the circumstances would not be near so compelling as the decision that regardless of what happens in life, we will find the abundant resources to make the right decisions. We can learn to employ tools that are familiar or unfamiliar to produce results that are uncommon.

Rose Monroe had lifelong dreams of becoming a pilot, and a working optimism to allow dreams to happen. She worked hard on many careers, providing for her family, while training towards her big vision... At some 50 years of age, Rose became a pilot, and the only female member of a local aeronautics club.

Do what you love. Do a little bit of it everyday, while you are doing what matters for your family, your community, your country, and your world.. This has expansive possibility in helping us to recognize our best selves.

Let us not get too bogged down in the doom and gloom news about how bad it is.. It would indeed be a sad story, if "Rosie the "Widower" was where the story ended. We have a celebration at hand, it's called living... let us do so with zeal.

5 Counter Productive Career Ideas We Shouldn't Try if Really We Intend to Fly.

1. Maximize the fearful threat, minimize the potential good.
   
2. Flaming anger at a seemingly repetitive situation feels great for a minute, then flames the fire of a gentler path that might be waiting you.
   
3. Those who try hailing a cab, dressed like the Grim Reaper, might have difficulty getting where they want to go.
   
4. Mis-spelling quality when emphasizing your 'attention to detail', in a resume, doesn't work.
   
5. Assuming the job won't pay as much, if the range isn't posted, or it might be looking only for top performers.
   

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Telecommuting Trends and Greener Business

Helping Friends Career Network has traditional office and telecommuting or flexible working opportunities nationwide. Some of our hot telecommuting opportunities are in IT, Sales, Marketing, and Sarbanes Oxley/Financial Auditing.

If your company would like to explore listing jobs with flexibility, let us know and we can recruit for the experience professional with proven skills in any industry, working from home. Telecommuting need not be an all or nothing sort of strategy.

There ARE companies leading industry in their telecommuting practice-- because they can hire and solve problems from anywhere, expand their reach, and imagine saving thousands annually by being able to hire either for an office or the best talent from where they live!

Nice article "Some Companies Rethink the Telecommuting Trend" written by Sue Shellenbarger for the Wall Street Journal underscores an important notion as to companies who have embraced, but modified it's telecommuting strategies.

Work at home professionals are wise to plan and deliver requirements for keeping a productive telecommuting opportunity, the power of this article is in the practical tips for an individual to accomplish their telecommuting career.

This article's corporate perspective suggests a myriad of reasons for changing the telecommuting policy- some included worker abuse, bracing for a recession, aggressive new business requirements, lack of proven productivity, and relative greater ease with releasing a telecommuting employee than an office employee.

Tips for Corporate Telecommuting:

1. One size strategy does not fit all. While telecommuting is not for everyone, it can be significant where the policy, expectation, and agreements are clear. rmLibrary has identified some excellent tools for calculating costs, creating agreements, managing risk, and implementing strategy.
   
2. Telecommuting requirements should be clear in terms of schedule and performance expectations. It must establish the terms for allowing telecommuting. Some companies might explore telecommuting as an option with other work options - flex time, condensed work week (4, 10 hour days instead of 5, 8 hour days). WomenforHire.com has some advice for exploring options.
   
3. ERE explored Inside Recruiting Telecommuting issues, some of the biggest issues are recognition, career pathing
   
4. How and why develop skills to manage a distributed workforce? A LITTLE strategy can go a long way. Ask your recruiting team to help you create a strategy for attracting and retaining qualified work from home staff. The trick is in balancing the needs of a work from home employee and a traditional office employee. At the end of the day, it is about being effective in getting work done, whether in an office or in a Virtual Private Network from Home.
   
5. What real savings exist? Recruiting suddenly opens a nationwide possibility, that can create local presence. Check out the WHAT YOU CAN DO to Take Action on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth page. It's environmentally sound, Sun saves $63M in telecommuting benefits and has reduced the environmental CO2 emisions by 29K tons.
   
6. Create a plan for bringing together the IT needs of a good telecommuting strategy-- connecting, visibility, security, information protection, etc. CIO.com featured tips a CIO must know about telecommuting.
   

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Recession Proof Career Resilience

I want to explore if a newer better job fit exists for me. The situation too often starts like this:

Where am I and what steps can I take to feel better about my work? Queue background noise about current events, fears, limitations, and hopes.

Oh but it's pretty bad out there, what evidence do I have that this time, I could make the right decision to move my career to a happier place? Queue supporting feedback that justifies how stuck you are from former critics, historic evidence of your past failures in business..

I should feel bad, guilty or insane for trying to aspire a better me in this economy, project, environment, or responsibility. Rationalize that we have choices, and choose to either be happier in our ability to make choices, and appreciate the journey. OR Stop trying to take actions on the better vision, because evidence has shown the time is not right, you are not right, the mood is not right, or you just don't deserve it.

Recession Proof Career Resilience Creates Opportunity!

1. Releasing a romantic attachment to how hard it is, creates the conditions for alternatives.
   
2. There is always supply and demand, unless we attach too much to the lack of resource.
   
3. Balance is found in healthy dreaming, and consciously realistic choice.
   
4. There IS a way to choose a positive direction, despite the limitations at hand.
   
5. Appreciating a possibility thinker on your life design board can go a long way.
   
6. Value friends who offer realistic input when you need it.
   
7. Embrace the positive choice in a negative message to be an advocate of possibility.
   
8. Find the courage to articulate the positive values and opportunity, despite popular opinion.
   
9. Do a little bit each day to stretch your comfort zone for what success looks like.
10. What are you avoiding? Select actions out of procrastination and locked thinking.
    

Counterpoints to environmental buzz noise:

• Where thousands are unemployed on the news, remember you don't need thousands of jobs, you just need one.
  
• If your phone is not ringing, growth is still happening. Keep your mind on the prize, and the process will take care of itself. Focus on the lack, and the lack will multiply.
  
• The biggest resistence to your success is not external news.
  
• Happiness is created in a string of actions put together to create a sense of greatness.
  
• Where there is dis-ease, there is both limitation and possibility.
  

Empowerment:

1. What is it that I want to create?
   
2. What does success look like?
   
3. What alternatives exist for the "same old" approach?
   
4. What will I need to be willing to release to accept this better place?
   
5. What actions can I take to move away from my attachment to lack-- lack of support, response to my resume, my professional capabilities, my market demand, a bad management string?
   

April: Celebrating Administrative Professionals

April 23 - 26, 2008 Administrative and Secretarial Support Professionals Week.

Highlights:

• LinkedIn Professionals Share ideas on Questions and Answers
• Discussion: Ryze Winning Career Success and Transformation
  

Resources:

• Expert Advice at The Effective Admin ezine.
  
• International Association of Administration Professionals Salaries
• Certified Professional Secretary Training
  
• Seven Traits of Successful People
• Why Professional Certification?
  
• CEOExpress a business portal for business executive reading
  

Recognition Ideas:

• Gifting Resources - Ideas for Admin Professional's Day
  

Networks and Career Resources:

• Australia Executive Assistants Network
• Facebook London Legal and Personal Assistant's Network
• Link In 2 Fearless Executive Women on Yahoo
  
• Ning Virtual Assistant Network
• Ryze Real Estate and VA Network
  
• Virtual Assistant Networking CommunityToolbar

Admin's Favorite Tools:

• Dictionary.com
• LinkedIn2 Helping Friends: Business Reference Favorites.
  
• United States Postal Service
• World Time and Date Conversion Tools

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Telecommuting News, Tips, Strategies

Telecommuting News:

Air Quality Improves If More Telecommute! ~ San Jose Mercury News
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Telecommuting ~ CIO
Strategies For Surviving A Slump~ Businessweek
3 Ways To Cut Technology Energy Costs Now ~ MIS Asia
AT&T Case Study ~ Geofax Conway Data


Career Tips:

20 Essential Tips for Telecommuting Success ~ Leo Babauta
Stress Management for Telecommuters ~ PC.IBM.com
Telecommuting Resume and Cover Letter Tips, FAQs Samples
Telecommuting Jobs Bulletin ~ Helping Friends Career Network
Telecommuters Job Interview ~ Workaholics 4 Hire

Policy Strategies:

Greener Business Innovation
How to Write a Telecommuting Strategy ~ Forrester
Telecommuting could Help Staff Balance, Work, Life ~ UC Santa Cruz
Ten Tips for Hiring the Best Employees for your Home Based Business ~ All Business
10 Considerations in Developing Telecommuting Policies ~ HR.com
8 Recruitment Trends for '08 ~ ThomasNet IndustrialNewsRoom

Telecommuting Resources:
HFCN Jobs | Telecommuting Yahoo Group | Telework Coalition | Telework Advisory Group |

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Celebrating Friends: Looks Whos In U.S. News and World Report

Hey check out this Friend!! Celebrating Friends Today.. Lookie who is featured in the U.S. News and World Report!

Nice article in U.S. News and World Report interviewing Jason Alba, Founder and CEO of JibberJobber.com. Jason' shares with others the open sources for business social success in "I'm on LinkedIn Now What?", and in this new book "I'm on FaceBook, Now What?".

Follow your future with an optimism that there IS a plan, then keep doing the next logical thing and before you know it, the plan is known. Out of work internet designer, turned entrpreneur and social networking guru. People relate to those that chose to be relateable and refuse to be discouraged for too long.. Jason is amazing and Jibber Jobber Tools are favored by many jobseekers because they were designed to offer practical value while doing the next logical thing!

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Part of Embracing the Best Case Scenarios..

Being able to anticipate, and prepare to mitigate for the worst case scenario has served me well in my work in Information Technology Support. The organizational hero in IT seems to be the one person that scoops in at the last minute and saves the day. For a long time then, many of us lost ourselves in thinking that preparing for the worst case scenario and disaster recovery would be sufficient.

I extended this notion to the rest of my life planning, hence, I was prepared for what I would do if I lost my job like so many thousands of others. I could prepare for if the symptoms I had progressed into cancer...

All this hoping for the best and planning for the worst was what needed to be released however. Too many people are willing to tell you why you are a failure and are never going to make it in an effort. By way of returning the old beliefs that no longer serve, we will include some real live career limiting beliefs and inspirations.

Helping Friends Career Network was founded by people who believed in possibility regardless of headlines, and are grateful that others felt enough to represent their Business Beliefs. For those who presented their beliefs with such strong fear and limitations, we are Returning with appreciation for your desire to make an impression, and a sincere desire to pursue more productive options to what you would offer to dissuade others..

1. Honestly, I think you have too great an opinion of yourself and your skills.
   
2. Are you even sure you can solve this problem? You can't even speak normal English?
   
3. Why are you even in this business, I am of the belief you are incompetent?
   
4. What the heck are you going to do with another degree at your age?
   
5. Why do you think anyone else will pay you what we overpay you? You should be happy you still have a job in this layoff environment.
   

These beliefs are too often the kinds of things we take as proof that things are as bad as we let them be. Let us challenge the limitations with a few real life inspirations of individuals that would not back down to "Career Limiting Opinions" of others.

Summarized the heroes are those who challenge traditional limitations with uncommon success. Not because they are "warring" against negativity, but because they take so much genuine joy in what they do, that the critical words of another does not affect their stronger desire to be part of something more meaningful.

• You are good enough to define your career path, and work for productive, deserving career stability.
  
• You are smart enough to manage your own resilience, and your success was surely an indication of your potential, your setbacks, an opportunity to make a clearer decision.
  

Resources and stories of inspiration:

• Jackie Streeter is a delight to know. She has inspired many in business at Apple where she worked in Cupertino CA as a senior Engineering Director, proving the belief that it is not the size of an organization, but results that matter.. Today she inspires the heart warming tradition of thoughtful business networking over a great cup of coffee! All who know Jackie can not help but feel she is THAT inspirational! Two years ago she and her sons became owners of the popular California Bay Area Coffee Society Coffee Shops.
  
• Bob Love - overcame the limiting disbelief from others, and was a peak performer despite a serious stuttering problem. Humble beginnings to top in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls, to overcoming serious health setbacks, this champion was a winner at all times.
  
• Career Success for Newbies
  
• You might be a redneck if... you think Jeff Foxworthy was always just a funny hillbilly! He traded his career as an IBM Mainframe Support Person for a career in comedy... Hey, that's funny!
  
• We knew his technical talent! IT Development Program Manager Tu Trinh helped many of us with the web stuff that we could not resolve on our own. He was a talent, but we never knew the depth or capacity of his dreams until he LEFT Sun.. Last year he won Vietnam Idol!
  
• Too old for WHAT!!! Anna Mary Robertson was the wife of a Virginia based farmer.. She was perhaps better known as Grandma Moses, an American Folk Artist, sold her first painting when she was nearly 80 years old, she was shortly thereafter features on TIME and LIFE magazines!
• Be Special, Be Anything, But Mediocre. Was the title of one of Carol Eacret - Simmons Art shows. She grew up in central IL, raised 3 kids, and went back to college when her last child left home, got her AA, BA, and MFA. At the time most of her friends were looking forward to retirement she accepted her first professional opportunity ever for Dickinson State in North Dakota. She is an example of loving her work, and living her inspiration.
  

Telecommuting Buzz: National Green Jobs Conference

Dr. Peter Beadle, the President of Greenjobs: "We created Greenjobs to ease the path of talent into the renewable energy industries, to ensure that their growth stifled through lack of people. "

A nationwide dialogue is being held today and tomorrow in Pittsburgh PA, to tout the importance and benefits of a new green economy approach to jobs creation. The event is being coordinated by the bluegreen alliance with partnership between The United Steelworkers and The Sierra Club.

Pennsylvania has added 3,100 non-farming related jobs to their community. In New Jersey losses were in the business of trade transportation, utilities, and professional services sector.

A good Green Jobs Program SHOULD Be about creating a sound change advocate team that serves to develop a few necessary outcomes:

• Reduce the carbon footprint
• Change buying and commerce incentives for alternative energy production, creation, consumption.
  
• Create needed jobs that creates competitive local advantage to employers who embrace telecommuting.
  
• Train the workforce on workforce and team skills necessary to participate in a Green Jobs Program.
  

Enough Already...

In my life experience, I have had great experiences to learn from, many gifts have been given and to whom much is given, much is also expected. So what is it that IS expected of me, and what will I be willing to give my time, my value, and my resources to.

If our outer world mirrors the reflection of our inner creation, then doesn't it stand to reason that our thoughts do create our reality. Do you think smaller, limited, or "worst case scenario"? I don't know if you relate, but I recognize suddenly that I have given too much of my own life to creative and empowered living, who 'manages' her experiences to the "what is the worst thing that can happen".

Exploring the beliefs and the harmonic mirror of our life.. What are we doing to add to or subtract from our core values. I had to be willing to give up the time spent on what I would do if the worst case scenario happened... Now in program management and in business this has served me well... however for career resilience, I have got to be willing to also explore what is the best thing that can happen if I dare to articulate it?

If people mirror what is going on within us, the answers are resonating without having to fix them, we can just accept them, and manage our choices more creatively. What must we do to face our greater fears, and embrace our bigger self.

What if I try and fail?
What if I am alone and abandoned?
What if I am not really needed or necessary?

The real question is what if we are not so attached to the limitations? What would we do instead?

Claiming your universal vision by confronting those limitations, by calling them to higher ground, and becoming our best selves.. What does this look like for you? For me it looks a bit like this for me:

What would I be doing in life, in health and business success?
What does being complete and connected do for me?
What if I no longer held my important relationships hostage to my fears, my loss, and my need to control? What if we just loved one another?

Experience: from collaborative energy and ideas?

Professionals realize the importance of networking.. Networking for business benefit is practical for business professionals and jobseekers. If success were accomplished by putting a page out on LinkedIn, we surely are missing the point of possibility! College Internships are a proven way for entry level applicants to gain experience to "get a foot in the door".

The Opportunity: Lifestyle design takes on a zen like efficiency when business professionals embrace detachment from the "challenges" to allow a better solution to arise.. Timothy Ferris explores matters of business in "The Four Hour Work Week". Readers might feel particularly inspired to take on the business challenge such that it is transformed into a community creative business possibility. Timothy Ferris's "6 Formulas for More Output and Less Overwhelm" can be modified for defining how business partnership successes.

We could do so much more through creative collaboration and managing whats in front of us. Let us encourage educators and business professionals to get to know one another and discover the synergies to networking for business value.

• What can we discover from networking for business value?
  
• What are we spinning our tires on that we could be doing differently?
  
• What opportunities could we create by being more open to possibilities?
  
• What if experience could be created from energy and ideas?
  

Articles in the in the Akron Beacon Journal by Paula Schelis, "IT Grads Finding Openings Closed to Them" and in Crain's Cleveland Business by Chuck Soder "IT Internships insufficient in region" illustrates a huge underutilized opportunity in business today. Lack of jobs, lack of talent, lack of resources stems from a lack of ideas. This is an exciting undertaking that has long fascinated myself and many on the Helping Friends Career Network. We started this network to support people who's jobs were outsourced, but the benefit of focussing on the opportunity to be of value to a community, to business, and the professionals extended our reach!

Being too focused on a problem (business, jobseeker limitations, university) continues an inequity in ideas. If "experience" is gained by solving business problems, and IT Grads, local businesses, and universities have a common interest in creating a solid future, shouldn't the solution rest in exploring the possibilities? The solution is in realizing the opportunities that exist to create synergies for all stakeholders willing to partner to replace the limitations of today's economy, headlines, opportunities, or possibilities.

Statistics from the Northeast Ohio Information Technology Workforce Report: 96K IT Professionals with most challenging positions being Technical Writers, Quality Assurance, and Software Engineers, most are in the specialists arena, while 5% are in the Information Systems Analysis arena. Options for staffing challenging positions are many, but the overwhelming need and competitive market news might limit us needlessly.

The Business Challenge: Many professionals believe they gain career development by leaving their jobs and trading up to another corporation is easier then they can by staying in a company too small to give them what they need. Universities can educate, but statistic drive the future of who is going to be volunteering to gain experience on the speculation of opportunity. If the strategy is in managing business successfully for any conditions, then the right time to start is... anytime.

Many companies would benefit by looking at what they could academically do with the local community to extend their competitive reach, and mentor professionals in the field. Hiring and partnering with college creates a low cost, high value training program good for employers, students, and university relations. The right balance of ideas, development, and employee loyalty does more than just helping to reduce turnover!

If we "teach best what we most need to learn", doesn't that suggest a higher level of partnership is needed between business and academia?

Companies that view themselves as part of a larger community realize the win win synergies of academia and business partnership. Business Leaders who are experts in creating opportunity from business challenges have a gifted desire in taking care of their great people and in the process, creating extraordinary competitive advantage.

• Why is turnover proportionately higher in one organization than another?
  
• How are others being successful in attracting and retaining talent?
  
• What is the most difficult opportunity facing your business today?
  
• How does business and acedemia contribute to the local economy to create opportunity and loyalty within a community?
  

The Gap: Some business owners are balancing the specific skill set needed, but knowing that employment gaps exist might be solved by an excellent career development, community outreach, and college recruiting program.

• Could career development" strategy benefit small businesses who might otherwise pay a premium to recruit and manage retention due to a competitive attrition?
  
• Consider the value/cost/benefit of creating internships for projects bring brilliant ideas being trained in your local college, to create breakthrough business ideas, that can be applied locally!
  
• Could it be an efficiency to have a business plan that is so clear that it's benefits are sold, and referenced within the community? A balance of attracting the best talent from across the United States for your difficult to fill jobs, and creating a local presence could be good for business, community, and academic advantage?
  
• Consider the retention opportunities of allowing your best talent to prepare a development program that creates possibilities for them to do more professionally, while contributing to the local career development.

Resources:

• StartupNation "Outsourcing- Even Small Business Outsourcing is in."
• Microsoft Small Business Center "Tips for outsourcing your small-business needs"
• Recruiters Lounge "Steven Rothberg, President/Founder CollegeRecruiter.com".
• InternWeb.com "Designing an Effective Internship Program".
  
• Small Business Times "Small Business Winners of IQ Awards for Innovation"
• LI2Helping Friends Business Blog
  
• Helping Friends Career Network (Employment services for college recruiting to traditional employment in IT, Health, Sales, Marketing, Administration, Finance with specialty services for telecommuting talent screening options).
  

Telecommuting Buzz

With gas peaking nationwide at a whopping $4.00/gallon, it is interesting to observe Telecommuting Buzz. What have you read recently on the topic?

Gas Prices HAVE altered our work environments, and jobseeker environments, but the peak demand for business to really embrace green work is happening at a faster rate in Europe than it is in the U.S., where national telecommuting strategies feels like it is in early maturity.

Workforce Management released an interesting article "Flexible Work Gains attention of law makers". The U.S. is certainly lagging according to the study in May by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of Law.

News:

• S1657 introduces a Small Business Energy Efficiency Act on June 19, 2007. An NSBA Survey discovered that some 3 quarters of small businesses believe energy efficiency can make a significant environmental difference, however only 33% had invested in such programs for their business. Telecommuting does represent proven method for reducing fuel consumption for small businesses, which comprise some 50% of U.S. non-agriculture GDP.
  
• Freedom to Telecommute Act HR3924 became bill passed by simple majority on March 20, 2002 that would allow more telecommuting for those working for the government. An improvement from the previous position where federal agencies could elect to refuse bid proposals from a contractor that allows telecommuting.
  

In the Blogosphere:

• Survey: Telecommuting Tech Pros Would Work for Less Money IT Business Edge blogger, Ann All
  
• Telecommuting Journal has great content on telecommuting news, scams, and buzz.
  
• Telecommute! Use this Memo to Make your Case to Your Company By Brad Schepp.

Positive Support for Mental Illness

You can live productively, and work well with bipolar disorder.

Definition: Summary and Presentation.

• Symptoms
• What is Bipolar Disorder
• Types of Healthcare Providers who treat Bipolar Disorder
• Recognizing Triggers
• Going to Work with Bipolar Disorder
• Convincing others to seek treatment
• Collaborative Model
• Mayo Clinic for Manic Depressive Information
• Self Quiz
• Mental Health Resources
• Depression at a Glance
• Bipolar Disorder Ideas About Work
  

For Employers: Managing Employees With Bipolar Disorder

• Bipolar Disorders at Work
• Discussing Bipolar conditions with employer
• Coping with Work issues and Bipolar Disorder
• Bipolar Employees and the ADA
  
• Employment Tribunal
• Scott Reaves "Bipolar Disorder in the Workforce".
• Many Celebrities managing Depression
• Managing an Employee Suffering a possible Bipolar Disorder
• Psych Education
  

Career Inspirations...

Career Inspirations is a collection of uncommon successes in their industry who have a particular inspiration in their passion for focus and refusing to accept limitation. What you hold as an opportunity, others hold as a limitation... Let us not judge ourselves so harshly that we lose creative possibility!

SOME THAT I KNOW:

1. NEVER TOO OLD for first professional job or that big life dream. Carol Eacret Simmons, assistant Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Dickinson State in North Dakota. Her series "Full Circle" is on display now in North Carolina.
   
2. JibberJobber is a rich collection of career tools, resources, and documented professional 'learnings'. Imagine being able to take the worst news of your professional life and allowing it to produce your next possibilities? THEN using that learning to inspire others on the road.. that IS Jason Alba. His latest has been a few social networking books on how to apply what he has learned -- "I'm on LinkedIn, Now What" was the first...
   
3. An Idol from a Web Designer? Trinh Lam was a brilliant web designer at Sun Microsystems... but he had a different song in his heart... and the audience picked a winner!

SOME THAT I RECENTLY FOUND INTERESTING AND HOPE YOU DO TOO!

1. My dear friend Judith introduced me to the refreshing and inspirational story of Kathy Buckley an amazing five time American Comedy Award nominee, empowered actress, humanitarian, motivational speaker, and comedienne. "Every time we go for what we want, we miss the opportunity for what we need."
   
2. "Transformed personal hobbies into a self-sustaining business- doing what I love, and loving what I do." Keng Lee hosts an interesting blog on success defined "Optimum Performance Technologies"
   
3. Linda Formichelli is a talented writer, speaker, and life artist. Linda’s website is www.lindaformichelli.com.
   
4. Mark McClure inspires a sort of career agility. A fun read on the values of flexibility, adventure and the pursuit of professional best. His blog is http://markmccluretoday.com

LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |
Socials: Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle | Plaxo |
Yahoo Groups: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

Who Inspired You? What's the Story?

Send Your Resume now, before our Super Saturdays!

The "hidden jobs market" is not a situation of companies choosing to be difficult. They have a need for talent and a clear benefit for leveraging a network. Who can serve them better than the friends, family and colleagues that know them, know their business, and care about their success?

Startups and Fortune 500 companies looking to deploy exciting projects will engage executive recruiters and contingency recruiters to prescreen for any number of great business reasons-- massive projects, efficiencies of viewing only the best to their needs, etc.. Networking makes a difference, and your recruiting service should be able to extend that network for your benefit as well!

ExtraCare Super Saturdays are running through from now to June. Our network is your ticket into the insider's job market to the number of job opportunities that are listed through confidential sources. Every week, we will pick our best of the best top 1000 Extra Care resume requests for extra care marketing.. If your business case is that you have either to find a job quickly, have limited time, but maximum desire to find that right next job, etc. ExtraCare is a competitive advantage that far exceeds waiting for the phone to ring..

Refreshing Opportunities come to those who ask! Not about beverages and snacks, this is about refreshing your career options and maintaining resume, social networking profiles to help opportunity to find you. (Click for more information).

Who qualifies for extra care? You can send this announcement to anyone who needs help. We created the program as an "express lane" to jobseekers who are willing and ready, and would like the extra help. It costs nothing to get a job through this program, but it's benefit is that of thousands of resumes we receive a month, we know your request is coming from a place of specific need..

How to qualify.

• Email your resume with a summary of your career situation and why you would like extra care to extra@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com IF you were referred by someone, let us know who we can thank. This will flag us that you are requesting active opportunity.
  
• Complete or update your Candidate "My Profile" so we know from the database what geographic areas, salary requirements, and work environment features appeal to you. You will also be able to bid on jobs that appeal to you from our network of posted opportunities.
  
• Each request will be queued and evaluated by our recruiters, who each have capacity for several thousand candidates in their areas of specialty. You will be contacted by your recruiter when they have accepted you into the program. The Helping Friends Recruiter Team will deliver our personal best to market your talents to employers looking for your skills. We work with you towards your success until your goal is accomplished, because we are only successful when we help you, and our clients to be successful, and for us, it is as much a passion, as the right opportunity is for you!
  

LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |
Socials: Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle | Plaxo |
Yahoo Networking Links Libraries: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

Business - Law of Attraction Networking

Shake up Law of Attraction with Business Networking and you get ...

Perspective * Possibilities * Optimism * Realism * Success * Creativity * Results * Focus * Hope * Probability *

Great Happens when you expect it, and take the steps to make a fortunate welcome of your desired outcome.

1. Treasure opportunity and watch coincidences flow. The idea that (customers, recruiters, contractors, hiring managers) are annoying KEEPS you stuck.
   
2. Integrity of Output/Integrity of Input: GIGO applies to good and bad with thoughts and Twitters. (Corporate Recruiter call you? Chances are good they use social networking too-- likely very well.)
   
3. Putting more time into what you "want" to accomplish rather than what annoys you, helps. Going negative entertains, it sells ad space, but it's negative affect has a ripple quality to it.
   
4. Building a list of well connected experts who can support your interests and goals is priceless!
   
5. Regularly expressive emotions (embarrassed, angry, frustrated or fearful ) sometimes obscures the goal.
6. Tell people about your intentions, your joy, and your goals. Communicating what you offer, and what you would like people to do, helps them to meet your needs, and them to identify you as an attractive choice to their business needs.
   

LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |
Socials: Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle | Plaxo |
Yahoo Networking Links Libraries: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

Time 2 Refresh!

A career service question:

Shouldn't your Career Toolkit work as hard as you do?

• Update your Resume,
  
• Check in with Your References,
  
• Refresh Business Networking Profile.

Big hopes and profound dreams are given clarity and then reality through fine tuning. The clearer you can communicate your strengths and values, the more easily your professional skills will create opportunity for you.


What has your career portfolio done for YOU lately?

• Include key words that specify areas of expertise or experience.
  
• Quantify your value by adding results statements that underscore your value.
  
• Are your Contacts on Social Networking able to reach you?
  
• Are your references still current or reachable?
  
• Refining your cover letter to introduce, highlight, and demonstrate your brand.
  
• Send thank you notes to express appreciation for those who make a difference.
  

Been a while? Helping Friends offers a community of opportunity not just jobs. Let us know whats new and how we can help. We can provide resources that help you to bring your best self to the job search-- because resumes are not any fun, if they don't get results. Because social networking is fun, but resources to benefit everyone is even more inspired.

http://hfcareernetwork.com/findajob.htm

Buzz: Career Inspiration

We'll be exploring through this Career Networking, a blog series of community based career support resources. This is where our friends can ask questions to get help on their particular career path, or share their inspiring experience, strength, hope, and favorite resources to benefit others.

Career Inspiration Strategies Offered Here! There are a few requests from our friendly network of late.

Got advice or input? Here is the segment where your experience or your career challenges, turned over, can help many others. What's helpful to you? What questions are you asking of the universe? What career results can we celebrate?

Best of the Best Career Resources:

• 100 Companies with the Best Benefits (healthcare, childcare, work life balance, telecommuting, paid sabbaticals, unusual perks).
  
• AARP Best Employers for Job Seekers over 50.
  
• Art of Job Search Networking, by Liz Ryan- expert in opportunity and networking!
  
• Assisted Mentoring of People with Felony Convictions, and a desire to return to productive living.
  
• Best Companies to Work for (nice Jobstar.org reference)
• CareerExposure.com
  
• Challenging Interviews-- Techniques.
  
• Financial Strategies for Today's Widow
• Find A Job with the Helping Friends Career Network
  
• JobSearch 101 Tutorial (Quintessential Careers)
  
• MSNBC Smart Financial Strategies for Suddenly Single Parents
• Showing Compassion to a JobSeeker (JibberJobber Career Toolset)
  
• Stories of Breast Cancer Survival
• Telecommuting
  
• Work Life After Cancer
  

Requests: Got experience, ideas or resources?

1. What strategies can a cancer survivor take to secure gainfully employment, despite the obvious recovery path, and projected fear of prospective employers?
   
2. What are some ideas for spouses who recently lost their life partners, and must return to the workforce to care for their family and home?
   
3. What coaching strategies can help to mentor a positive youth who made some negative decisions, to put her past behind her, despite a felony conviction?

Well Connected, LinkedIn: Business | Jobs | Recruiting Professionals |

Don't Lose that Number Plaxo: Business | Recruiting Professionals |

Yahoo- Groups! Job Leads Group Message Board | Job Links Library |

Telecommuting Buzz: Cut Wasted Space before Talent!!

Cheers for companies who are claiming the social and environmental responsibilities and advantages of adopting telecommuting programs:


You heard right.. We're Tweeting about Jobs n Careers!


RECENT HEADLINES:

• Metlife closes Indy Office as a cost saving measure. No layoffs, 89 offered telecommuting.
  
• Wachovia-- telecommuting over travel is a competitive advantage.
  
• Arizona -- cost of gas doubled the carpoolers in the last year. Telecommuting's up 13%.
  
• GSA Proposes 50% Telecommuting staff in next 2 years.
  
• United Healthcare planned 2k telecommuting jobs last year.
  
• LaunchPad is creating office space concepts for independent telecommuting workers.
  

TELECOMMUTING SUPPORT:

• TechRepublic Article: "Are your staff members ready for telecommuting?
• TelecommutingJobs nice Telecommuter Hire Savings Calculator.
  
• Employee Perspective: CNN Money.com "5 Tips to sell the value of your telecommuting".
  
• Inc.com Telecommuting Policy.
  
• IT Business Edge: Telecommuting Perspective.
  
• Telecommuting in the Federal Workforce.
  
• Telecommuting can reduce greenhouse gases and oil dependence by 24-48%.
  
• SustainableIT: Tracking Trends towards Green IT.
  
• Employee Perspective: How NOT to become a telecommuting workaholic.
  
• Telecommuting Techniques from the Helping Friends.
• Work@Home Job Resource Community on Ning
  

RESOURCES: American Telecommuting Association | HFCN Jobs | Telecommuting Yahoo Group | Telework Coalition | Telework Advisory Group |

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Tweeting Opportunities: Supply and Demand..

Wouldn't it be great if we could be better citizens of our business through social networking?

The universe of possibilities are out there, vast, and limited only by our ability to employ them.
This is true in business and in life, that sometimes it is the circles we communicate in that can invigorate us or limit our belief systems. What are you doing to embrace your best personal self? If you want to embrace or energize an interest, start communicating to yourself and others about that which you are wishing to create.

SUPPLYING OPPORTUNITIES:

I have really grown to appreciate his industry and business savvy through twitter.. In fact there are a few people I have worked with for decades, but never came to appreciate until social networking. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Plaxo have unique ways of bringing business people together to relate MORE to one another.

I have been giving much thought to the notion of Twitter's Evolving Business Potential, that I realize my friend Micheal had done some great thinking in that area too as inspired by his question of the LinkedIn, I just happened to miss it. Michael VanDervort has an interesting knack for asking questions that get me thinking-- he's fun, friendly, and I would have missed a treat, were it not for the tweets..


DEMANDING OPPORTUNITIES:

Coming soon are some Human Resources and Professional Development social networking tips for remembering the better we are able to articulate a need, the better the resources can be engaged to provide resolution.

In business we have metrics to measure the customer experience, time to resolve, time to close, time to deliver, time lost, time gained, etc... What I am talking about is way bigger than that and sometimes we get so hypnotized by the routine, we forget what other potentials exist by perfecting our relationship to that routine.

I hear it from all sides-- lets create some ideas and best practices for social networking for business results! From the recruiting house, how people lie on resumes, are unclear on their objectives, and they have to go through alot of bad to get to the good. From the jobseeking house, how recruiters are clueless to their needs, don't understand the work they do, and they have to go through alot of volume and spam to get to compete for the few good opportunities.

Now CLEARLY if you are looking for talent, your ability to ask from a pool of people who are interested and benefit their friends by helping you is a win. Clearly if you are looking for a job, you are going to benefit from being able to work with a person who wants to understand you more than just a resume.

So why if GOOD and BAD opportunities exist, would we romance and energize our relationship to that which keeps us feeling stuck? Inspiration happens when you think and behave, and challenge your traditional rut, and find that it becomes a summit for your next journey!

The universe is full of plenty, and tweeting opportunities are on the air every day.. Let us explore the supply and how we go about enjoying the journey that is our life, and the demands we meet along the way. We will blog from your feedback and experiences how to improve the "asking" for help, to "get" the results you desire. That is one of those fascinating life arts that never ceases to amaze!

RESOURCES:
Job Seekers: Claim Advantage | Personal Branding | Jibber Jobber | Twitter:Jobs4friends

Recruiters Buzz | Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |

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Reputation Aggregators: Projecting a Professional Image: Web 2.0

We KNOW that our resumes don't get jobs, that people get jobs. We KNOW that most business opportunity is created through networking... and we KNOW that networking is the art of balancing what is represented about us, to compliment who we actually are.

The gift and delight of becoming open to opportunity is discovering that the business professionals that you would like to connect with, can, and would, also like to connect with you. In a "Web 2.0" world, how can we compose our best online profile to represent our inline image?

Your objective, should you choose to accept it, is to Bring the Best of You to the Top of the Search Stack. It starts with "keeping" up, make sure to be managing your established connections and your new identity. In business, with people and possibilities in the dynamic, keeping current is time well spent, and time to tune your image. Keep your Profile, Contacts, and Connections Current.

Technology creates an extension of your character when managed, or a bunch of noise, unmanaged.

I. Keep Friends that Influence People and Inspire You:
Establishes you with those that value the tool, then introduce your badge or link to your signature.. Use creates Influence!

• Plaxo
  
• LinkedIn-- Guy Kawasaki's How to Change the World - 10 ways to used LinkedIn.
  

II. Reputation Aggregators:

• Naymz - U.S. News and World Report "8 Ways to Buff your Professional Image Online".
• ProfileOMat
  
• Lijit

Green Collar and Helping Friends Jobs..

Hi Everyone, Thanks for your messages of support. Dawn is home from the hospital and recovering through February. A few of us are available to help with job listings, and placements in her absence. Thanks also to those who have agreed to moderate our social networks, much appreciated.. She cares much about your support, and it appears you value this community as well!

Feel free to share the following email address for response by the Helping Friends Recruiter Team for most efficient response for listing a job or emailing our recruiter team 'opportunities@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com'.

What's the BUZZ on Green Collar Jobs: http://linkedinhfcngroup.blogspot.com/2008/01/green-collar-jobs-whats-buzz-whats.html

Helping Friends Career Network has nationwide jobs and a new EXTRA CARE jobs networking program! http://hfcareernetwork.com/findajob.htm
The most efficient way to apply to jobs is to complete a Candidate Profile Online

AZ- Phoenix. Enterprise Content Management Systems Integration Architect
CA- Silicon Valley. Corporate Paralegal. Senior Assurance Manager. Mobile
Application Engineer. Senior Release Engineer.
Professional Services Project Manager. Java
Developers. Java Engineers.
CA- San Francisco. Senior Finance Manager Special
Projects. Senior Java Development. Technical Product
Manager. Java Developers.
CA- San Jose. Assurance Senior Manager.
CO- Denver. Senior Applications DBA. Project Director. SAP FICA Senior Consultant.
CT- Hartford. Business Insurance Management Software Configuration Lead. Project Director.
FL- Fort Lauderdale. Lead Architect Business Process.
IL- Chicago. SAP SD Functional Consultants. Project Director.
MA- Boston. CFO. Lead Statistical Analyst with SAS. Patent
Attorney.
NJ. Director of New Business. Project Director.
NY- New York. Business Objects Administration. Project Director.
TX- Houston. Program Manager.
VA- Richmond. Senior Project Manager.
WA- Seattle. Procurement Manager. General Manager.

Canada: Ottawa Area: Marketing Director.

Kevin Mular http://www.linkedin.com/in/kmular

HF LinkedIn Jobs http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22008/04119640B1C7
HF Plaxo http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/events/filter/group/90195926258/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jobs4friends

New Career Advantage: ExtraCare Networking!

http://hfcareernetwork.com/findajob.htm

We gotta work together for that magic to happen!

FOR JOBSEEKERS: The challenge is in finding the hidden job market amongst all those jobs.. That perfect opportunity sometimes seems like a fairy tale.. but YOU have an advantage!

FOR RECRUITERS: The challenge is in finding the right match between employer and jobseekers-- so how to find the right jobs where you have talent, and the right talent where you have jobs. Behind every great job and jobseeker is a possibility, but timing and priorities must match for the synergy to happen.

FOR EMPLOYERS: The challenge is in finding the right candidate for their needs, without having to wade through a bunch of resumes that do not meet their needs. Behind every job ad listed is the probability that you will have to wade through alot of folks that do not meet your needs. Working through a network of professionals can identify talent that not only is a perfect match for their needs, but is looking for the type of work YOU offer. .

ExtraCare Networking: Today's professionals know the importance of 2.0 social networking. They are aware that most jobs are found through networking, but also realize that effective networks are established networks. Isn't it time job seekers start asking their recruiters to be well connected as well? Networking is a win win business advantage.

The trick is how to discover the candidates that are ready to work now, versus those who are passively looking to see if something better might exist. We are here for all jobseekers, but active job seekers are those that have a need for speed, or specific outcomes.. whenever we can reasonably help, well, that's what friends are for!

Helping Friends Career Network (HFCN) features a EXTRA CARE program for professionals that need to find the RIGHT opportunity! HFCN recruiters take interest in establishing synergies and results. Our success is shared, so we endeavor to help as many active job seekers as we can. If we don't have the jobs you need, we are happy to network to get them from an open source of recruiting professionals, who realize that working together, everyone achieves more.

Folks that need to get maximum visibility into their career options, can now receive
visibility -- we can network your resume among hiring managers and recruiters-- in any industry. Access career and dream job opportunities that appeal to your objectives, across multiple job networks. Your one HFCN registry, and request for our ExtraCare network keeps you in control of the types of jobs you are contacted for.

ExtraCare Networking Program Features:

• Confidential Resume Exchange keeps name and contact information confidential until interest is established.
  
• Using a Helping Friends Recruiter allows us to provide job seeker best practices.. we are successful when we help you be successful!
  
• More features than a traditional jobs board, with the support of a recruiting team.
  
• Access to confidential hiring opportunities where the employer wishes confidential search and employment screening services without public job listing.
• Efficient use of your time, you register a complete profile and give us a sense of objectives, and we network you across a base of recruiters within the Helping Friends Network and to an active base of employment partners looking for talent now.
  

3 Steps To Get Started:

1. Register online with the Helping Friends, including resume and full candidate profile -- make sure to specify your ideal salary, geographic range, etc.
   
2. Email 'extra@helpingfriendscareernetwork.com' after you have registered to request "ExtraCare" to request extra Helping Friends Recruiter support.
   
3. Include in the email a single paragraph summary of your career objectives, how we can help, and any important details to your career search NOT included in the Candidate profile. We use your completed profile details to help you in the search, we do not request information that will not help us to help you in your career objectives!
   

There is no charge for jobseekers ExtraCare, except to be the positive professional you are-- bringing your best self to the work environment and defining your success. Helping Friends are always managing a large quantity of jobs and candidates. Interest in this new program has been incredible, it's too great a secret to keep, especially if sharing creates employment opportunities!

ExtraCare lets us prioritize those who need and want help finding that next job. This is not the program from passive job seekers, but for busy folks who need to get to that next opportunity, and are actively seeking their next opportunity.

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Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |
Yahoo Groups: HFCN Jobs | HF Career Talk | LI HF Business |Telecommuting Professionals | Women's Business Execs |

In Memory of A Friend: Holly Richardson

Today people see the HFCN logo and the employment.. I like to share some of the heart and the friendly caring network that makes this business a joy. I get to meet and work with some of the most inspirational and talented people for a very short time.. some times, too short. The Helping Friends Career Network-- before it was a business, was a group of real living people who decided that through the hard times and the good, people matter! Colleagues that leave footprints in our hearts that never go away.

If life is what happens while you are making other plans, my friends, I am glad you are part of that plan! Let us remember the successes, and celebrate the joy. This is in Memory of our Friend: Holly Richardson, who resided in Colorado, and worked in Information Technology, succumbed to cancer this week.. She was known by many on the Helping Friends Network, as both a friend and behind the scenes friend to our network. Many of you help out of the goodness of your hearts, and it has created a tree with a solid foundation that will provide fruit for thousands following.

Holly was diagnosed several months back, and after 4.5 months of surgery and radiation for the last 4.5 months. I knew Holly for some 7 years we worked together on many IT Projects. She was a Project Management Developer working in Information Technology, with immense patience, technical skills and a fantastic sense of humor! For the challenging applications she supported, this was a requirement-- and her "neighborhood" was one of my favorite places to visit for coffee breaks and philosophical problem solving whether the problems of the home, the IT Process, or the community.

The folks who shared this little community, understand why people matter... We saw one another through 091101, through career uncertainty, community service, investment interests, politics, birth, death, sickness, health, wealth, humbling failure, and trying again.. All this while we carried out our day jobs in IT for Sun Microsystems.

Holly's wishes were to have a party instead of any services. She wanted
everyone to be joyful not sorrowful. And in the spirit of her wishes, I wanted to give us
a virtual celebration of our dear colleague. Feel free to add links to your memorial blog, or send me your memorial wishes or comments and I will pass them along.

A Productive start to 2008 already!

Helping Friends Career Network has expanded our recruiting capabilities and service offering, thanks to new business 3.0 Recruiting Technology that allows our recruiters to serve you better and more efficiently. Watch for announcements shortly on our Business 3.0 Recruiter Community Resource Networks. If you have jobs feel free to share them on our free jobs board, but for those needing and wanting a particular expertise, use our networks to partner with colleagues, because together, everyone achieves more.. If we remain focused on articulating what we have, what we need, and how we can work together.

We are here to help and the widgets we offer can be installed and shared easily. We are doing this to support our jobseekers in areas where the talent is incredible, but the opportunities are challenging. We are doing this to support our partners and our applicant tracking system by refreshing and responding to job orders more quickly.

2.0 Social Networking/ 3.0 Business NEWS:

• Jobs4Friends on Twitter is ready for action at http://twitter.com/jobs4friends.
  
• Jobs Widget is live on Widgetbox at http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/jobs great for community jobs, layoff support groups, church websites, etc.
  
• JobsRSS feed is updated to provide snapshots of active CONTRACT and REGULAR jobs and how to apply.
  
• Jobs Toolbar is at: http://helpingfriendscareernetwork.com.communitytoolbars.com/
  
• New business service partner and technology allows us to offer better proactive and/or passive career opportunity. If your needs are immediate or you are looking for the perfect job, we can help, and you can help us to help you. We offer temporary contract work AND permanent opportunity, make sure your JOB SEEKER CANDIDATE PROFILE is current with salary, type of job and geographic expectations.
  
• Employers we can provide discounted placement rates for the candidates we have on our excellent candidate list of available proactive candidates-- they are blinded resumes, of qualified candidates-- currently in IT, Marketing, Administration, Healthcare, and Finance. We have candidates who are experienced with Startups, Fortune 500 companies, and working from home-- with this flexibility you can save alot of money in relocation and get preferred candidates not every company can hire.
  
• We also can offer free sourcing on internship opportunities as well. Intern candidates, please make sure to indicate in your profile, or to your recruiter the types of opportunities and geographic areas you are interested in.
  

HFCN Hottest Jobs Highlights of the Moment:

• CA, NY. Project Director(s) with Product, Consulting Experience or Ops Improvement Experience.
  
• CA, NJ, & SD. Business Development Managers.
  
• MA. Tech Writer.
  
• CA, IL. Senior Release Analysts.
  

Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |

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CAREER PORTFOLIO: Key Words: Working to your Advantage..

Many decisions are made about one's future based upon the content of your career portfolio, so what have YOU done for you lately?
Empires have been built around "Search Engine Optimization" whether it applies to gaining hits from a search engine it is the website content that creates opportunities, or eliminates opportunity.

Rejected resumes do not always tell the full story, so your recruiter might employ a variety of tools to assess your complimentary skills to their needs.

Here are some ideas for being a good opportunity agent with your career portfolio. More matches for your job search or candidate search... Key Words are necessary to paint a picture, and the subject matter expertise makes a difference in the opportunities you might appear to shine for.

KEYWORDS APPLICATION :

• Cover Letter - highlight skills, value, why me?
  
• Career Summary - introduces your skills/ideal job
  
• Social Network Profile - highlights where and what of your experience.
  
• Social Networking Endorsements - others words describing your excellent qualities
  

STEPS TO OPTIMIZE:

1. Identify the job opportunities you are most interested in. Observe across two or more high level categories, the terminology they use to describe what success looks like for you and where you have experience, model those keywords that apply for the market you most want to apply for.
   
2. Consider the extra opportunities you might be interested in entertaining. Summarize those skills that best position you for crossover opportunities in other areas that might be using a common set of skills in a more interesting way.
   
3. Bring your best. The secret is not in verbosity but clarity. Review your resume for generic skills that can be made more specific to your advantage. Where have YOU brought needed solutions?
   

MORE RESOURCES: Career Portfolio Optimization:

• We have blindspots in our skills. Have your friends involved in offering feedback.
  
• Cover Letter Tips for Selling You to Employers by Business Marketer, Bill Thompson's
  
• Key words for Resume Tips by JobHunt.org
• Social Networking Traps by CareerBuilder.com
• Job Searching through Social Networking by About.com
• Letter of Recommendation Center by About.com
• Social Networking Job Search Tips by Helping Friends Career Network
  
• Feng Shui your Career Search by Helping Friends Career Network
• Career Success, Yes You Can

Bringing your Best Interview. "Don't Dream it's Over".. Just Get outta the 80's!

We worked hard for the money... Did it satisfy our souls?

WARNING: Failure to apply these could be
dangerous to your career resilience and cost a
fortune in working an uninspired 9 to 5 to
keep in stock of contrasting lycra, funky
legwarmers and socks.

Options exist for living, creating, and being your best professional self!

Here are 4 simple strategies to project a professional image, that creates opportunities, and extracts you from the 80's.. That was yesterday, but life today goes on. What form would you like your career to take today?

1. I Emanate Enthusiasm. Claim your Career Advantage now. Forget about those romantic "Wasted on the Way" notions of "Manic Monday". Register and choose to be "Alive and Kicking", reflecting on the positive attributes that inspire. "Sweet dreams are made of this... Keep your head up- movin' on".. Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved!
2. I Value And Deliver Business Benefit. What have you done for me lately? But enough about me, what are you going to do for me? "I'll be more together, stretched by fewer thoughts thast leave me..:" if I Relax and remember what it is I do that delivers value that interests you. "Vacation" and Whats in it for me benefits can't happen until they see themselves hiring you. Your mission is to sell yourself. Be sure to set the stage as someone they want to hire, before you can begin to think or jump to negotiating benefits.
3. Be Prepared For The Interview Everybody wants to rule the world.. but few are prepared to take the steps. You'll be wrapped around their finger, if you come prepared to present your best self and give the impression of being prepared and interested. While you see a chance, take it! You do this by being a student of your trade, an interviewer that wants to learn more about this company.
4. Don't You, Forget About Me... Don't you forget that interviews are not to get jobs, they are to determine possibilities. Your role is to know your value, to sell yourself, and to know your product.. Your objective at the end of the interview is to answer your questions, know your fit, and uncover the mutual benefits to working together. Being unforgettable takes focus.
   

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Well Connected, Time to Get LinkedIn: Business | Jobs | Recruiting Professionals |
Don't Lose that Number, Use Plaxo: Business | Recruiting Professionals |

Claim your Career Why wait, the advantage is NOW?

Helping Friends Career Network accepted invitation to participate in a new recruiting networking-- that introduces thrilling new Human Resources, Recruiting 2.0 Technology, expand partnerships, creates more matching opportunity, with standard client and candidate confidentiality.



Exciting buzz is highly motivated recruiters, flexible technology, and professionals bringing collaboration to your career benefit! The technology invitation allows us to advance and match more opportunities with appeal to a wider market.

We feel recruiting works best as a partnership, not a 'proprietary trade secret'. The technology and industry requires us to work together. Developers in applicant tracking and job boards are starting to really get, and implement for that exchange. It will take a few months to get training for all our recruiters on this network functionality now, however it is available and some of our candidates and clients started receiving the benefits on December 6!

Developers are working on a new technology that will extend functionality to include our newly established, and radically growing community of Recruiting Professionals!



Job Seeker Questions:

1. How do I register for jobs, not yet posted?Register or update your profile to include your desired career preferences, current resume, keywords, and linkedin endorsements or letters of reference.. This helps us to help you.. so we know and can get a running start to reach you for opportunities of interest! Right now is the best time to do that, because we have a bank of job opportunities that now are not visible from our database, but offers us the ability to offer YOU more! Jobseekers interested in wider visibility into jobs, should complete their candidate profile with specifics of salary expectations, geographic preferences, references, etc. then contact your recruiter or myself to be considered for some of our exciting resume marketing programs being implemented now-- our mutual expertise, this technology and your career objectives is winning recipe!
2. I'm in a RUSH for the next job: We do our best to help all our candidates to find work, as much as possible. If you need to find your next career quickly, help us to help you. Complete your profile, and have ready references or a linkedin profile, then reach out to your recruiter and request as "HOT" evaluation to be prioritized for "extra jobs marketing care" when the next recruiting agent is available. When accepted as an eCandidate, we are able to network your resume to our hiring managers, recruiters and headhunters with open jobs in your area.
3. I've got a good 'gig' but interested in what might be better: Let us know what "interesting" is to you. If your profile is complete, your recruiter can market you for opportunities that peak your interest.
   
4. What are the Jobs Networking Resources for the LinkedIn Recruiters? Helping Friends offers a free LinkedIn Jobs Network for recruiters, hiring managers, and jobseekers to share information. There is a LI2 HFCN_jobs Yahoo Group Links Library full of member tips and resources.
   

LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |

Dawn: | ERE | Frappr | Friendster | Hi5 | Jaxster | Jobster | Joso | Konnects| Lijit | Linked In | Marzar | MyBlogLog | MySpace | Naymz | Ning | Plaxo | Ryze | Spock | Stumble | Tagged | Tribe | Twitter | Viadeo | Xing | Yahoo | Zaadz

Claim your Career Why wait, the advantage is NOW?

Helping Friends Career Network accepted invitation to participate in a new recruiting networking-- that introduces thrilling new Human Resources, Recruiting 2.0 Technology, expand partnerships, creates more matching opportunity, with standard client and candidate confidentiality.



Exciting buzz is highly motivated recruiters, flexible technology, and professionals bringing collaboration to your career benefit! The technology invitation allows us to advance and match more opportunities with appeal to a wider market. Recruiting works best as a partnership, not a 'proprietary trade secret'. The technology and industry requires us to work together. Developers in applicant tracking and job boards are starting to really get, and implement for that exchange. It will take a few months to get training for all our recruiters on this network functionality now, however it is available and some of our candidates and clients started receiving the benefits on December 6!

Developers are working on a new technology that will extend functionality to include our newly established, and radically growing community of Recruiting Professionals!



Job Seeker Questions:

1. How do I register for jobs, not yet posted?Register or update your profile to include your desired career preferences, current resume, keywords, and linkedin endorsements or letters of reference.. This helps us to help you.. so we know and can get a running start to reach you for opportunities of interest! Right now is the best time to do that, because we have a bank of job opportunities that now are not visible from our database, but offers us the ability to offer YOU more! Jobseekers interested in wider visibility into jobs, should complete their candidate profile with specifics of salary expectations, geographic preferences, references, etc. then contact your recruiter or myself to be considered for some of our exciting resume marketing programs being implemented now-- our mutual expertise, this technology and your career objectives is winning recipe!
2. I'm in a RUSH for the next job: We do our best to help all our candidates to find work, as much as possible. If you need to find your next career quickly, help us to help you. Complete your profile, and have ready references or a linkedin profile, then reach out to your recruiter and request as "HOT" evaluation to be prioritized for "extra jobs marketing care" when the next recruiting agent is available. When accepted as an eCandidate, we are able to network your resume to our hiring managers, recruiters and headhunters with open jobs in your area.
3. I've got a good 'gig' but interested in what might be better: Let us know what "interesting" is to you. If your profile is complete, your recruiter can market you for opportunities that peak your interest.
   
4. What are the Jobs Networking Resources for the LinkedIn Recruiters? Helping Friends offers a free LinkedIn Jobs Network for recruiters, hiring managers, and jobseekers to share information. There is a LI2 HFCN_jobs Yahoo Group Links Library full of member tips and resources.
   

LinkedIn Groups: Business Network | Jobs Network | Recruiting Professionals |
Plaxo Groups: Business Network | LI2 Recruiting Professionals |

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See Opportunity.. Be SEEN for Opportunity!

It's winter in Ohio.. and coooold. I am amazed that on the verge of winter, there are still cardinals, blue jays, and woodpeckers snacking on the seed I hung in the trees... How do they know that there is still food at my house, and that it's there for them.. I keep it out there because I very much enjoy a day with long conference calls that is filled with a bit more beauty because of the visits from these beautiful scarlet and azure colored birds gracing my office backdrop.

I see Opportunity! It's everywhere, so much great stuff to choose, where to start? If you build it clearly, whether it's bird food or clear expectations for your next job, the opportunity will be there knocking, will you let it in?

The biggest secret to being an opportunity magnet for perfect opportunity, is to develop the mindset that makes it easy for you to be seen, by people you want to be seeing you! I recently re-read a great book "Attracting Perfect Customers- The Power of Strategic Synchronicity" by Stacey Hall & Jan Brogniez.

Today we will feature some tips for seeing opportunity, and more importantly being seen for the type of career opportunity that compliments your professional expertise.

1. Be Reachable and Visible. Imagine the Grim Reaper trying to hail a cab for a hospitality job interview in the city. What can we do to be reachable and useful today? Here are some hints for job seekers.
   
• Use your time wisely... Whats Next for Momentum should be the thought. Follow up, but don't stop all activity when you get something interesting, just trust that more interesting things could be chosen with a decision to embrace momentum. Show up for the appointments and use every interview until you get the perfect job, to define that perfect fit.
  
• Update your social networking profiles. Where you are able to add a LINK in Social Networking, did you know that business professionals are looking for SOMEONE, but they might not know your name? Key words matter. Instead of using the default options for adding a LINK, Name your Link by it's function: (RESUME), this way people doing a search for example for an 'eCommerce Attorney' do not need to wade through a bunch of irrelevant data OR worse, MISS your data!
2. Clarify your mission and values - for your clarity and others. But refreshing your message for "others" focus to help your muse, and their needs to find you, to need your skills, and to hire you to do what you do best.
   
3. Socially Network NOW and a little bit each day. Good investments in time for job seekers and social networking are shared by the Career Doctor on Quintessential Careers. Donate the time you would be spending watching commercials to investing in others. We overestimate the importance of our day to day work, and forget the "inspiration" of friendly checkpoints, of manifesting our more perfect destiny. People make things happen, if we let them... But get too busy with the day to day, and watch people get in the way of your progress.. Fact is, it's not them, it's you.
   
4. You've Got the Power.. will you accept that responsibility? Looking for tools and Inspiration to tap that personal power?
   
• Check out ManifestYour Potential.com. You control the door, the location, and how people find you by being open and circulating with the knowledge that attraction requires intention and a little consistent action to "germinate". This is an important notion when it feels like nothing is happening, because feelings can distract you, if you let them.
  
• Network with other possibility manifestation experts who can celebrate and share with you on the road. LinkedIn2TheSecret and LinkingAndTheSecret are two great Yahoo Groups with community, a links library and more topics.
  

Insider Secrets for Rejecting Rejection..

Here are some fun Job Seeking Strategies for Rejecting the feelings of Rejection. I grew up in an industry that required a certain level of resilience to survive. It always annoyed me in multi-level marketing, where people were reduced to "numbers" and those "numbers" did not mean real relationships. "Successful" people had a certain vocabulary that soothed them in the face of rejection.

Inspirational Quote to facing rejection: "Some Will, Some Won't, So What.. What's NEXT?

Questions to ask yourself to maintain your best self:

• What stories are you telling yourself about the significance of rejection?
  
• What secret fears are holding you back?
  
• If successful recognition of the goal is key, what has this rejection strengthened in your resolve?
  
• What would a successful person choose to do with this information to manage their experience?
  
• If the world is full of choices, what alternatives might exist?
  

Strategies:

1. Reject the Letter of Rejection. This was amusing and funny! Wonder if a formal letter expressing denial of rejection works?
   
2. Overcoming the Fear of No Nice blog by Jeremy Steele
3. Strategies for SW3 to the NEXT power! great article by Terry M. Sullivan.
   
4. Tools for Dealing with Criticism and Rejection from ArticleGeek.com
5. Keep your Intentions Pure and Simple nice example by Antonio Thornton success in "Controlling your Thoughts, that Control your Future".
   

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Linking In 2 a Community of Helping Friends in Business:

• LinkedIn2 Helping Friends Business Networking: http://arunaurl.com/19aj
• LinkedIn2 Helping Friends Jobs Networking: http://arunaurl.com/19ak
• Recruiting Professionals Network: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/40757/1C84D65718D7
• LI2Helping Friends Plaxo Business Net: http://arunaurl.com/19al

Socials: LinkedIn | Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle | Plaxo |
Yahoos: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

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Social Networking your Job Search.. Fun Ideas that Work!

I was surprised to learn where the bulk of my blog readers came from.. This was a fun thing to learn from Lijit.com , a website where curiosity brings leads, and links, and interest. Today let's share stories and tools for social networking for jobs! The 3 keys to creating a generous rainshower of opportunity exists from:

* Articulating Intent to Accept the Desired Goal.


* Becoming a willing student and teacher.


* Remember PEOPLE are key to meaningful opportunity!

1. LinkedIn for the hottest opportunities! Linking in creates options by creating an open format for bringing people who want to hire in touch with people who's profile makes them hire-able. What have you done for your resume to make you hireable? HINTS: Your profile should be complete, searchable, with some friends connected--oh and connected to your regular email, not a null email account. For better results, GIVE what you would like to receive. Endorse those you appreciate, and believe it or not THAT brings people to view you as a good supporting team member or leader who values and recognizes their partnerships.
   
2. Will Blog For Work! How do you keep your skills sharp, keep connected to your industry, and create interest in your profile? Blog about the interesting news in your industry, ask questions, refine your talents.. Read about the Web Designer who Blogged and got the job... Now this should not be viewed as if job seekers blog-it, hiring managers will come a-knockin', but it becomes part of that package that creates options, particularly if your resume has great readership-- because then you are an industry leader, who shares, and brings the value to the trade you represent. THAT is what gets jobs! HINTS: Your blog should be interesting to those in the industry. For better results GIVE links to leaders you admire and value. When you participate in a community of sharing good ideas, and caring to appreciate and recommend other like minds, you open the door to opportunity. Read Seth Godin's genius hints and How To's! Create and cultivate community! Join MyBlogLog communities of bloggers with common interest. Twitter about your job search, ask about companies of interest, share helpful links that inspire you.
   
3. "Ricki Don't Loose that Number". Sometimes we are just looking for a few good people who can vouch for our credibility, our experience and our suitability. Relationships matter, when you need them and when you don't. The time you invest in relationships now, can make sure you stay in touch with those you choose to. Social Networking is a means to reconnect and stay connected.. Use the search engines of your social networking to determine which are most supported by your friends-- I recommend LinkedIn and Plaxo first and foremost leaders in social networking BEST equipped to helping you manage YOUR existing network and keeping in touch naturally. Open Platform Networking is very important and not to be underestimated- Facebook is a popular option right now, and growing like crazy, but if open networking appeals to you, support those open networks that realize they are facilitating YOUR network and not the other way around. HINT: Use Plaxo to Sync your contacts-- bringing it all together- Outlook, Plaxo Address Book, LinkedIn and other contacts-- and making it useable is worth more than casual fun, it is YOUR competitive advantage! USE your LinkedIn Functionality to ask questions, create introductions, and showcase your hard earned endorsements-- others can speak volumes in your favor.
   

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Linking In 2 Helping Friends in Business:

• LinkedIn2 Helping Friends Business Networking: http://arunaurl.com/19aj
• LinkedIn2 Helping Friends Jobs Networking: http://arunaurl.com/19ak
• Recruiting Professionals Network: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/40757/1C84D65718D7
• LI2Helping Friends Plaxo Business Net: http://arunaurl.com/19al

Socials: LinkedIn | Ryze | MySpace | Ning | Hi5 | MerchantCircle | Plaxo |
Yahoos: Jobs | HR | Telecommuters | LI HFCN | TheSecret | Careers |

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Create Powerful Summary Resume "Objectives"

Where and How do You Orient your Resume Objective to represent you well. Doing it's function, and serving you well, your resume is meant to qualify you to get interviews that give you opportunity to sell your experience.

TheSimpleDollar.com shared a great article "How to Construct a Killer Resume from Start to Finish." Nice and easy to apply, this approach fits perfectly with my suggestions for refining the objective portion of your resume, which is the aim of this Resume Hint. I think some look to filling each section of a resume with content. Focus on the right content for each section, rather than just filling the space.. this activity makes opportunities, set your aim there!

You can represent yourself well in the objective summary section of your resume!

• YOU know your skills.
• YOU know your abilities, desires, and motivations.
• Readers of your resume don't know your skills, abilities, desires or motivations.
  

Objective Section Do's and Don'ts.

• Don't build a strong objective with an apparent glaring weakness.
  
• Don't string together a grouping of adjectives and buzz words to represent your goals.
  
• Do view this as your 'virtual' introduction to a person who might want to hire you.
  
• Do present your objective as a win win proposal with the prospective employer.
  

Makeover Objective Resume Fashion Faux Pas: Lots of Flash, Colors, Contrasting Adjectives, no Aim:

• BEFORE: "To establish my exemplary experience as an outstanding professional by making successful, effective and efficient use of my core abilities to secure an interesting and challenging position and thereby be valued member of your organization that's striving to reach meaningful goals."
  
• AFTER: "A result-oriented professional with significant experience in human resources management and administrative support. Major strengths in retention program research, resource staffing, and personnel administration. Looking for a company that demands a well organized planner with a successful record in increasing retention, personnel morale, and well versed in Human Resources operations."
  

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Career Delights..

From time to time I share some of our favorite professional development reads. What have you read lately that you found inspiring? Feel free to add comments to share..

In the meantime, here are some practical answers and wisdom for resume creation, executive writing, professional development, and career tips.

1. HRWorld.coms "100 Resources for Interviewers and Candidates."
   
2. AskMen.com "Reignite Professional Enthusiasm"
   
3. WiseBread.com "How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions."
   
4. Guy Kawasaki "How to Write an Executive Summary"
   
5. JT O'Donnel Career Insights offers 10 Career Tips for Grads
   
6. Career Ramblings.com professional development Ways to Capture Attention like a CEO.
7. Madeline Kowall's "Want to Get Multiple Job Interviews- Then follow these proven tactics."
   
8. Laura Morsch, CareerBuilder.com "25 Words that can hurt your resume".
   
9. Innovative ways to use new social media in your job search.
   
10. Relax, then Do it... Find a Job without Desperation.
    
11. Kim Isaacs wrote "Handle Your Work Hiatus on Your Resume" on Monster.com

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Supercharged Celebration: Personal Branding'sTelesummit

Anyone in the world with a telephone can participate in this Brand You World Live event! GENEROUSLY PACKED with competitive personal branding value! Register at http://www.personalbrandingsummit.com/ to get the event phone numbers.


Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of personal branding, November 8th check out the incredible line up of speakers for this event! Very well supported, the company sponsors and organizers have assembled and impressive contribution towards inspired professional development in the form of 24 hours of free teleseminars with expert leaders in personal branding.

Jason Alba of Jibber Jobber, and masterful career transformations, is one of the speakers in tomorrow's Personal Branding Telesummit.

Dan Schawbel of Personal Branding Brilliance!


Other Favorites: Krishna De Walter Akana Susan Guarneri Bernadette Martin Nancy Branton, M.A.

• Guy Kawasaki is one of my favorite personalities and author of "Art of the Start" and "Rules for Revolutionaries".
  

• Richard Bolles, author of the best selling career guide in the world, "What Color is Your Parachute"

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MORE: Cover Letter Showcasing or Pet Peeves

Get the ATTENTION you Deserve!
Put your cover letter to work for you, it should be the vehicle that introduces the reader to your resume..

GREAT ARTICLES, SERVICES, and TIPS FOR GREAT COVER LETTERS:

• Robin Ryan Article "Cover Letter Mistakes to Avoid."
  
• ResumeApple Article "Purpose of a Cover letter? Key Components..."
• TheLadders Article "Composing a Persuasive Cover Letter".
  

So to creating greater possibilities with cover letters, here are some more cover letter pet peeves:

• Don't mis-spell as you sell yourself on being a quick learner with attention to detail.
• "I'm enterested in a ground floor position. I have a good work ethic and know how to learn. I made it through college so surely I can make it through a trainging program with your company."
  
• "My current position does not meet my employment criteria, therefore, I am seeking a high level executive adminsitrative assitant position who takes measures to prove success. "
  

• Watch your use of double negatives:
  
• "Reversed conditions of unproductive offices back to profitability" (Turnaround agent could be good, but it really depends.. How unproductive, How profitable?)
  
• Please do not restate the obvious in annoying terms:
  
• "As you can see... "
  
• "My resume is enclosed as evidence that I meet all of your advertised criteria, an interview will give me the further chance I need to prove my unique suitability to your position. "

Some Winning Approaches to Sell YOUR uniqueness:

• my sales and management experience is from established "Mom and Pop" companies to Fortune 500 Leaders. I pride myself in strong leadership and am searching for that "right" company that always does the right thingfor their customers, one that I can put heart and soul into continuing this tradition of sales excellence, through uncommon caring."
  
• "Formulated process improvement that resulted in $120K and eliminated overhead totalling $xxx for the previous __ years."
  
• "I am approaching a new direction with enthusiasm and commitment, excited to transition my ___ experience to deliver __ benefits in this next chapter"
• "Delivered programs through all distribution channels internationally with programs in Asia, Mexico, South America, Canada and Europe. Programs resulted in ___, growing annual sales x.x% in __ years."

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Identifying the Web 2.0 Recruiter Expertise...

What have you read about your industry that created an 'aha' moment of profound inspiration? Always watching the trends of our industry. I like to believe we are all in learning mode and one of the learning topics that interests me most is how to refine my talents as a Recruiter. The fundamental art of recruiting is about finding the right jobs for the right people, and the right people for the jobs.

Whether in the Bay Area or the heart of Nevada, my old days of recruiting "desk work" consisted of 'dialing for dollars' to see who was hiring, screening talent, and "digging through stacks of resumes" and rushing to place those most placeable candidates. Whether Real Estate or Human Resources industry at it's heart does not change all that much.. How we choose to engage, market, deliver our service, and how we are compensated for utilizing technology most certainly does. Our capacity for success is unlimited if we are open to the potential!

Fundamental change in the Web 2.0 Recruiter Experience is one of creativity and collaboration. Gone is the practicality of a 'trade' secret. Replacing this is the logic of wide open networks of profitability and possibility, from collaboration and win win networking.

Ray Van Den Bel produced an interesting article on How to Test Your Online Recruiter's Skills to deliver Open Recruiting-- nice notion, particularly if you are looking to deliver the best tools of today, to identify the jobs and people talent your client's require.

Bill Vick has a fantastic column called Xtreme Recruiting, One Minute Interviews of Recruiting Superstars, that I have much enjoyed as well.

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