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Job-Hunting Resources

By Gene Burnard  June 12th, 2008

What a pleasant surprise to open the NY Times Sunday paper and see three familiar names of leaders in the job search industry. All I consider friends. Richard Nelson Bolles spoke at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan recently. If you haven’t heard of Richard Bolles, he is the author of the classic job hunting reference book “What Color Is Your Parachute“. The 39th annual edition will be published in October 2008.

As part of his presentation at the Manhattan Y, two of the resources he recommended for online job search were RileyGuide.com and Job-Hunt.org. Both I know well. Margaret Riley Dikel and Susan Joyce, respectively, operate the two sites. Both are no-nonsense editors/authors that take tremendous pride in the quality and depth of information offered. The material is well researched and the tell-it-like-it-is is refreshing. I recommend that all job seekers visit both sites as the material from each is complimentary.

Richard Bolles, still going strong at 81, conducts periodic workshops at his home in the San Francisco Bay area. Nancy Peterson, of Workforce50.com, recently attended his workshop and will write more in a future blog post. To learn more about Richard, his books and workshops go to JobHuntersBible.com .

Pah-leaze… don’t be “A Decider” in your later years

By Nancy J. Peterson  May 13th, 2008

I have to confess, the line that really caught my attention in this article was the reference to our president, “the Decider”, and the statement that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one.”  It turns out that we, as complex human beings, really can improve, not just maintain, the health of our brains as we age. 

In The New York Times on May 4th (Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?), Janet Rae-Dupree challenges us to consciously develop new habits in our lives.  Apparently this process of developing new habits, creates parallel synaptic paths in the brain AND brand new brain cells.  Yay! The result?  Increased creativity and innovation that we can all use to improve both our personal and work lives. 

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