I am pleased to announce that I have posted a series of videos/webinars on YouTube explaining how to utilize LinkedIn to get a job. The six segments are:
I strongly recommend that you watch the entire series before paying someone to manage a LinkedIn campaign on your behalf.
I recently overheard a man in a heated exchange. When he realized he was not going to convince any of his listeners of the justice of his case, he took the low road. Cheap insults are a reflection on upbringing, as well as formal and informal education. Here’s how intelligent people do it!
(I received this from a friend many years ago. Titled, “When Insults Had Class,” neither he, nor I, know to whom goes the credit.)
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” – Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
“Poor Faulkner, does he really think big emotions come from big words?” – Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” – Mark Twain
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” – Oscar Wilde
“I’ve just learned of his illness. Lets hope it’s nothing trivial.” – Irvin S. Cobb
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play. Bring a friend, if you have one.” – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second. If there is one.” – Winston Churchill in response
“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.” – Jack E. Leonard
“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” – Forrest Tucker
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” – Billy Wilder
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time
reading it.” – Moses Hadas
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know.” – Abraham Lincoln
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx
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Bruce Hurwitz is an executive recruiter and career counselor. He is the author of Success! As Employee or Entrepreneur and A Hooker’s Guide to Getting a Job: Parables from the Real World of Career Counseling and Executive Recruiting.
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