Submit your resume directly to the target companies where you’d like to work (via their website, public email address, snail mail and/or drop it off in person). Send your resume directly to the recruiters or hiring managers at your target companies (via LinkedIn), referencing any specific positions which interest you.  Pay it forward! MORE >>

A new wave of job market improvements is shaping a fresh set of career opportunities for technology professionals – every major metropolitan market has more opportunities this year than last, as measured by the number of jobs posted on Dice. The task for tech talent is to take advantage of the new opportunities. MORE >>

An ordinary person today still has the potential to catapult a start-up company into an industry leader. Dissect them, slice and dice them, contemplate different “what if” scenarios in your mind. Never stop reinventing your company. Few things can rattle your world more than the loss of a job. Of course. Act quickly. Just start! MORE >>

The latest opening you are working for an IT technician to hold down the fort on the second shift might not require a nationwide search, the engagement of a third party search firm, or heck, even a posting on Careerbuilder or Dice. Not every job is ‘critical’. This is the whole ‘fish where the fish are’ maxim rearing its smelly head again. MORE >>

And, to go one step further, you can talk all you’d like about your fifteen years of project management skills in a small company, but it doesn’t mean you can project manage a multi-million dollar project using project methodologies in a large company. Not job skills. Not fitting in with the team. Experience. MORE >>