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Creating a workplace people want to join

Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:23 Julie Desmond

NASA Administrator and Astronaut Charles Bolden Jr is living an industrious and adventurous life as the first African American to travel into space. He spoke recently about the future of the evolutionary and evolving NASA. What caught my interest was that people apply for work with NASA by the thousands every week. And yet, NASA is a space-focused organization which very recently sent its last ship into space. One reporter asked him the obvious, “Why would anyone want to work there?”

Face time: Stay visible to stay employed

Thursday, 30 July 2009 13:52 Julie Desmond

Terry and his future brother-in-law, Paul, were golfing one afternoon when a close family friend waved to them from the next fairway. Terry waved back. Who’s that, Paul wanted to know. Terry explaine...

(Planning Your Career) Three R’s of job searching: Reorganize, retool, reconnect

Thursday, 10 September 2009 15:57 Julie Desmond

There are 2.3 million people who are unwittingly wearing the government’s ironic label, Discouraged Worker. These are the people who have stopped looking for work because “they believe there are no j...

This year, resolve to restyle

Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:17 Julie Desmond • Plan Your Career

If you can look back to January, 2008, and tell me nothing has changed, everything for you is exactly as it was this week last year, I will eye you with admiration, wondering who you are and how you e...

What's Your (Online) Name? Consistency helps streamline profile online

Thursday, 07 January 2010 17:30 Julie Desmond • Plan Your Career

I like to help job seekers by doing a quick internet search on their names and showing them what employers are learning about them online. Here is what one person called, “a completely weird question...

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