Careerbuilder.com was kind enough to send me an unsolicited booklet in the mail called “Sales careers”. I was fairly surprised that any companies would think it was a good investment to partner with careerbuilder to send out a glossy magazine type ad booklet. After all, monster.com and careerbuilder.com have widely become recognized in job seeking circles as examples of technology ruining a process instead of helping.

Sure, when they were launched they increased efficie...

I saw on the news yesterday that although last month’s job loss number declined to lower than any month since last October, the total unemployed count in the US is higher than any time since 1983. That inspired me to share a little secret.

Job searching is Sales: Finding a job and selling use the same process.

What do I mean? If you haven’t read my post on Sales success in a down economy, go check it out. The steps listed there are highly transferable to the job search ...