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A friend who had just found a nice IT contract has learned the funds are running out prematurely, so he is job hunting. He has most often worked as a Senior Software Engineer, Architect, Supervisor, and Tester, but is willing to consider other possibilities. You can catch his current and active profiles on LinkedIn, Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder, or FreeLancers. If you have leads, contacts, a job >Toni Bowers at Tech Republic reports on a couple of 2010 IT forecasts. One makes a few commenters throw their pen protectors across the room. The other is slightly more optimistic. IT career: What’s hot (cloud computing) and what’s not (tech certs) >Here is futurist Joyce Gioia’s take on the transatlantic view of the next decade. Expectations are often self-fulfilling. That is why when a recently released Financial Times/Harris Poll compared next decade expectations for the five largest European countries and the United States, we decided to share the results. (Two weeks ago, we actually devoted an entire Herman Trend Alert to US expectations. http://www.hermangroup.com/alert/archive_1-06-2009.html) Not surprisingly, the French > ne place to find like-minded people is www.meetup.com. It’s like Facebook for groups. You wander through a world-sized party and overhear conversations. Some are about business; some are about families, some are about food or bird watching or food and bird watching. You stay longer when they sound interesting and move on when they don’t. What makes the difference is that these people intend usiness futurists Roger Herman and Joyce Gioia of The Herman Trend Alert reported last week that most people in the United States are looking up, according to recently released surveys from The Conference Board and the Pew Research Center. As Herman and Gioia have reported in the past, consumer confidence plays an important role in forecasting the future. Consumers’ optimistic expectations have a positive effect on > ho’s Hiring Techs is drawn from a weekly survey by Phil Rosenberg of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 1/4/10. Total Job OpeningsThe business services and telecommunications verticals are among the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ top job boards. Overall advertised openings were down a bit this week due to the > was just talking with a client whose friend helped him update his resume recently. A couple of things happened that sent him to me. Unfortunately, his friend suggested omitting his achievements in his current position because the document was getting too long. Even that resume got him an interview, which was great! However, when he talked with the hiring manager, he learned that the resume > appy New Year! It will take a good amount of faith for job seekers to feel much elation, especially in the early part of 2010. Even optimistic forecasts of the job market have more later than sooner in them. So, in between blog posts and applications, networking meetings and pep talks, what is the most valuable thing you can be doing? Learning. The instructor in my Investment |   I’m Jeri Hird Dutcher, and I inspire executives and professionals to envision, attract, and achieve the career of their dreams. CERTIFICATIONS Certified Professional Resume Writer  Certified Professional Career Coach  Certified Employment Interview Professional ORGANIZATIONS Member of Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches  Member of Career Directors International   Member of Northeastern Dakota Area Human Resources Association  Member of Chamber of Commerce PUBLISHED IN  Examiner.com Fargo Resumes Examiner  SelfGrowth.com is the most complete guide to information about self improvement on the Internet. Follow Jeri, the Career Expert on SelfGrowth.com  Resumes for the Rest of Us  Appreciate Your Work History Dream up your perfect job Know - and get paid - what you're worth Networking Focuses on Giving Resumes for people who aren't looking for a job They're All in School - What's Next? ASSESSMENTS Authorized DISC Administrator | ||||
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