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4 Easy Steps to Positive Job Finding Thoughts

How to get a positive outlook on your job search. This is a guest post by Kate Baggott. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Any job search can be a long-term project. It can induce a loop of depressive or obsessive thoughts and provoke the fear that life will never improve from its current state. I wrote this little essay to remind myself that life's difficulties always end. Sometimes they morph into happy times, sometimes they evolve into stranger and more interesting difficulties. Still, the only way to recognize improvements and changes is to change that cycle of obsessive thoughts.

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August 8, 2011

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10 Sure-fire Ways to Boost Your Job Search

Where to look beyond your resume for job search results. This a guest post by Hannah Morgan. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. It is my assumption, the reason so many people are still unemployed has very little to do with their resumes. Yet, more than any thing else, this document is being re-worked and critiqued. STOP IT ALREADY! Job search is about knowing the right people and having them know you. The resume is secondary. It is back-up documentation.

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August 1, 2011

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How To Use Someone Else’s Blog To Find Your Next Job

Showing off your expertise in a guest post can lead to new career options, and you don't even need to be a blogger. Why do this? Darren Rowse's ProBlogger.net is one of the most popular blogs in the world with well over 150K subscribers. Darren blogs regularly but many of the posts on ProBlogger are guest posts written for Darren by people like you and me who are simply trying to get exposure to such a large audience. And it works; I can think of a number of bloggers that I began following after discovering them there. But guest posting isn't only for bloggers. Anyone can use it to get attention from potential employers and clients, or to simply add a publication achievement to their resume. Here's how you do it.

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July 14, 2011

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Thanking: The Simplest Personal Branding Tactic

As powerful for beginners as for veterans who have been branding themselves for years. This is so easy to do, it always amazes me that more people don't do it, or at least, don't do it enough. Thank people who deserve to be thanked, and even some who don't. Thank people who did something you appreciate, where it was done for you or someone else, regardless of whether they expected to be thanked for it or not. Thank people as soon as it occurs to you to do so, whether it was for something done 5 minutes ago or 5 years ago. They'll appreciate it either way.

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May 26, 2011

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How Successful Freelancers REALLY Get Started

Ready to freelance? Learn how successful freelancers identify and market their skills. This is a guest post by Adam Green. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. From recent college graduates to professionals with decades of experience, the allure of freelancing attracts all kinds. With the freedom to set your own hours and exert total control over your daily routine, it's easy to see why many are exploring the freelance life. But how do you start? That was the first question I had before embarking on a freelance writing career. Thankfully, a healthy combination of mishaps and triumphs during the first year taught me a great deal about how to achieve freelance success.

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May 25, 2011