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Why I Stayed at the Same Company for 7 Years (and Counting)

One way of avoiding a job search is to stay and evolve with your current employer. This a guest post by Karen Cayamanda. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. It’s been more than seven years since I started working at an outsourcing company. In this time and age when everybody seems to be on a constant lookout for diversity in almost anything, the fact that I managed to stay at the same company for several years never fails to surprise other people. I don’t mind. In fact, I sometimes wonder how I did it, and why. I’ve always wanted to be a writer. A month after college graduation, I got a nice job offer - a start-up company was in need of a content writer for its network of websites. I got the job, and started writing about a wide range of topics. That was 2004.

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August 2, 2011
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How Texting Shorthand Differentiates Top Candidates From Mediocre Ones

The time and place for your texting shorthand is not always what you think. This a guest post by Kristen Fife. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Back story A friend of mine in her 40's is just finishing up her PhD. Her focus is very much on the Digital Native generation (GenY, the Millenials) both in her research and her teaching. She posted a Facebook update that she has noticed that her written communications have become short and abbreviated, due to her heavy use of Twitter, texting her teenage son and her students, and using more shorthand in our connected world. My comment to her was that her communication skills are degrading, from a business perspective. I've noticed this more and more in the last few years as texting shorthand has become more prevalent and as IM is becoming more of preferred communication tool in the workplace. And I have to say, there is no excuse for poor language skills in any professional setting. It is one of the red flags that will differentiate a top candidate from a mediocre one.

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September 14, 2010
Numbers & Statistics

14% of Resumes Not Written By The Job Seeker [POLL RESULTS AND ANALYSIS]

The most accurate poll I've conducted so far this year (probably). Read on to find out why that is, but first... The poll results and what they mean Here are the official results of the poll: [poll id="7"] 86% You did it alone Not much surprise here, you probably wrote your own resume too. 8% Someone else (mostly) This poll answer could have been clearer, but I think voters did understand that it was for the case where the main writer of your resume wasn't you or a professional resume writer. Perhaps it was a family member, a friend, a school counselor, a job search coach, a career center staffer, etc. When I found my job at Amazon, a friend helped translate translated my resume into French. He did a great job, and the result was memorable in a completely unintentional but positive way- there were some Quebecois expressions that got a chuckle from French recruiters.

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July 22, 2010

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