Sometimes a strange twist is a sign of things to come.
Continue reading >> Offbeat Yet Normal Israeli Marketing Writer Job Interview Story--Jacob Share
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If you can recognize the potential causes and signs of job search depression, you may be able to limit the consequences or even prevent job search depression from happening to you altogether.
Quick story
In the summer of 2001, I resigned from a good hitech job in France and moved back to Israel. At one point later, I thought it may have been one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
The next few months were supposed to be for relaxation. However, while I was lounging in the sun, the Internet Bubble burst and with it disappeared the demand for my Web and managerial skills. My only consolation, if you can call it that, was that if I hadn’t quit I would have been laid off anyway. A very annoying consolation when you realize that by staying on a few more months, I would have received a compensation package instead of leaving empty-handed. Grrr.
10 months, 2 empty job offers, a handful of interviews and countless resume emails later, I moved on to my next job.
Continue reading >> 15 Causes of Job Search Depression and How To Prevent It--Jacob Share
Sometimes even the odd moments at work can teach you something useful.
Continue reading >> Lessons Learned from Odd Moments on the Job--Jacob Share
While compiling the 150 Funniest Resume Mistakes Ever, I came upon the following anecdote and it was too funny not to pass on:
I once was playing around with my friends while writing my resume. I added things like:
10/02 – 08/05 God
Oversaw and maintained creation, chaos and stability of the entire universe.
Forced to resign due to conflict of opinion with human race with respect to the flavor of car wax.
This alone is childish, and fun to giggle at, but when I forwarded my resume off to a very nice job, after speaking to them for months trying to get my foot in the door I realized I sent the wrong one.
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You probably remember some terrible moments in your career that you’d love to delete from your memory. How did you cope? Difficult to Leave Behind Here are some of the things that I’ve dealt with, in no specific order: Sitting in a tense meeting listening to one executive berate another one only to discover minutes [...]
Continue reading >> On Recovering From Bad Work Experiences--Jacob Share
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Jacob Share is the founder and SVP of Share Select Media, a company focused on empowering quality bloggers and blogs such as Group Writing Projects, The Original Home of Group Writing Projects.
From Jacob:
I grew up between Canada, France and Israel where I had my first Internet experience in 1994 and was hooked. Since then I've enjoyed playing a part in growing the Web as a manager-developer and project manager at Amazon.com and other e-commerce companies before starting up my own venture.
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