The New York Times has a business article on networking in your job hunt. It’s a pretty decent article. I’m no networking maven but I regularly get things from folks in my network. There’s nothing stunning in the article’s advice, but it is worth looking at because you can forget this in your discouragement.
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Reuters, the global english news service, reports on this months Ig Nobel Prize awards: the award for Medicine goes to a team “who showed that high-priced placebos work better than cheap fake medicine.” This has implications for pricing your services during the Crisis.

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FastCompany.com has posted an article on how the current crisis might affect you career (seen on Yahoo! Finance). It’s a mostly useless article except for the Mitchell Feldman’s comment in the third paragraph: “the real answer is that all employees are vulnerable right now.”
Which is about like saying that they have no idea.

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I have sat on my remarks about the current financial crisis for several weeks now. I’m taking this week to address it as it pertains to your career.
I’m not an expert in some of the topics I will discuss. You need to correct me where I have facts wrong. Also, I will be speculating [...]

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To succeed, you not only need to do what is natural for you, you also must work inside of naturally fitting relationships. The relationships that you have with others have to be natural. Remember: what is natural will flow, feel right.

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What’s natural can often look strange
With the latest financial disaster still going on and the Canadians predicting another six months before we even get close to what will pass for the bottom, it’s a good time to rehash something that will help you be as successful as possible. Nothing can guarantee success, but the [...]

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Kinston’s 1988 article is up.

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All transitions from one level of mental capability to the next can be hard. For high-potentials, who go through more transitions than normal people, they can be down right terrifying because they feel like a complete emotional breakdown.

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You can make money by taking advantage of people’s arrogance that the small stuff is idiot’s work. Sweating the details means raising the level of work up, not dumbing it down.

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For Friday, here’s “Seven Distinct Paths of Decision and Action” by Warren Kinston and Jimmy Algie from 1989. This paper describes the seven different approaches to decision-making, but note that it’s really about action.

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