Career Management Alliance Blog

This week, the WSJ is doing a series of articles and coverage on the green economy. On Monday, the newspaper published its first survey of venture-backed clean technology companies. The Top Ten list includes three solar-power firms, two eco-friendly car makers and several Continue Reading »

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“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” – Rich Cook The vast majority of companies have some form of technology, but [editorial clarification: "only a few"] not may companies are drive Continue Reading »

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The public is invited to a panel discussion sponsored by the Alumni Relations office of LaSalle University.   Panel members will address topics of interest to job seekers, career changers, and entrepreneurs:

• Developing your personal social network presence
• Developing corporate strategies and policies on social networking sites
• Protecting the organization and the employee

Web 2.0 strategies have started a shift in thinking : what are the predictions for growth using Internet building blocks?  How do we plan for changes?  How can we maintain the personal or organizational image we choose? Continue Reading »

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Man, just typing the title of this post makes me cringe with boredom. However, I have used this technique many times over my career, and just recently the issue came up from a JibberJobber user who imported his Contacts. His problem was that the first name and last name were in the same column, but we want that broken out when you do the import. Fixing this is actually really simple. In my user webinars I talk about opening a csv file in Excel, so you can see the pretty columns and rows… but for this little exercise I recommend you open it up in Notepad. Continue Reading »

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Some people just don’t get JibberJobber. I know we need to do a better job communicating what it is and how to use it, and then we’d have more testimonials like this:

I wanted to let you know that I’m only backing away from the premium subscription for a little while.  I start a new job tomorrow, one that I was able to land in no small part because of your JibberJobber career management software.  I was able to track several submissions I’d made to this particular employer, giving me a valuable history of my interactions with them.  That history allowed me to connect a few dots and that gave me an advantage I needed during the interview process. Continue Reading »

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Earlier this month, I attended an unveiling event sponsored by our local Chamber of Commerce where members were introduced to a new technology for networking and connecting. Thanks to our Executive Director's forward-thinking style, our local Chamber became the second Chamber in the nation to introduce this concept. And further, thanks to the folks at Mingle360 for contributing the following information to this post to help job seekers learn more about this new way of connecting: Continue Reading »

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We recently got feedback from our survey of user requests, and then met as a team to discuss, prioritize and assign work orders.  We were all jazzed to plan out the first part of 2010 and make JibberJobber more intuitive and more powerful.  There is a lot of great stuff coming down the pipeline, and no suggestions were ignored. Continue Reading »

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I find myself regularly pointing people to three of my most favorite features in JibberJobber.  In this post I want to share how JibberJobber interfaces with five outside tools:

1. LinkedIn – in various places in the JibberJobber experience you can tap into your LinkedIn network.  You can do a quick search on LinkedIn for companies or names, or you can see who is in your LinkedIn network by company.  I want to do LOTS MORE with LinkedIn, but their terms of service is too restrictive (sorry, talk to them about it). Need LinkedIn help?  Check out my LinkedIn DVD. Continue Reading »

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These days, the Internet impacts almost every facet of modern life. Technology innovation will not be slowing down anytime soon and you need to keep up. If you are targeting a senior-level position, the people you meet want to know that you are keeping current with developments in technology. It is likely that you will need to show how you can exploit appropriate technological advances to improve the company’s market position and take advantage of emerging business opportunities. When speaking with potential employers, use examples of your achievements to demonstrate that you are comfortable with technological change. Show how you can harness technology to meet the organization’s needs and deal effectively with the bombardment of technical information. Continue Reading »

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In this post I’m asking you to take a few minutes to recommend JibberJobber to the U.S. Department of Labor. This is like “voting” for JibberJobber, but it’s not for a web award, or to be listed on a blog… I’m guessing the implecations of this recommendation will be that JibberJobber will be recognized by the government and broadcast as a job seeker resource to many workforce service departments. Continue Reading »

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