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February 2010

Leading with Team Buildling

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Being a leader is more than just managing your team effectively.  It’s about developing, growing, leading, and challenging your team.  Earlier I talked about the 8 key concepts to drive your start up.  Team building is more than just games and activities.  It’s about understanding your audience and developing a strategy in which to learn and [...]

February 23, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Team Building with Totems

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

These basic interpretations of totems were taken from written and verbal native teachings and from the animals themselves. They include animals in the waking world and those animals who travel the dream world. Totems speak to our inner voice – so we benefit when we listen to them. When animals choose to contact us directly, [...]

February 23, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

8 Key Concepts for What’s Driving Your Startup

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Ask any startup company or grass roots business venturing out on their own about what they want and need to be successful in business, and you’ll get an pretty consistent mix of answers.  I conducted my own unscientific poll amongst friends and colleagues who are knee deep like me in the midst of a startup enterprise.  [...]

February 23, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Fashion Forward Interview Tips for YOU, The Brand

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Using wardrobe & image to get the job in a hyper-visual, hyper-competitive world. How’s your job search going? You’ve networked. You’ve updated your LinkedIn profile and used social networks to learn about leads. You’ve revamped your resume to tailor your background and experiences to each job posting. And then finally, an opportunity presents itself. You’ve got an interview lined [...]

February 22, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Employability with Job Search Secrets

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

As promised, I’m proud to announce the new logo for the “Job Search Secrets” webshow on Mingle Media TV.  The number 1 rated hour long internet show will air on Sundays at 9:00 PM EST on Mingle Media TV.  Each Sunday night we will continue to discuss the “unwritten rules of the job search” just as [...]

February 19, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Brits–TRU London Lingo

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

I certainly enjoyed my visit to London to attend the TRU London conference.  As someone who has a background and a love of culture and anthropology (my undergrad is in Anthro.), I love to soak up the people, the places, the culture, and nuisances of wherever I am traveling at the moment. What I have [...]

February 19, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

TRU London Day 1 Recap

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Hats off to @billboorman and @radicalrecruit for an amazing first day of TRU London.  The conference proved to be especially “unconferencey” in the fact that the scheduled tracts changed multiple times deviating from the unofficial official schedule.  There are over 100 Recruiters from all across the world that have graced their presence in London.  Some of the highlights: @jimstroud provided [...]

February 18, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Other Glass Ceiling: Parenthood

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Glass Ceilings:  One size does not fit all This subject comes up several times throughout any given year.  It always refers to women in the work place and how they either sabotage their own rise up the corporate ladder  or they choose not to climb on the ladder in the first place. A glass ceiling [...]

February 17, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Undercover Boss–What’s Your Management Type?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Poor Jimbo. Jimbo, last name unknown is a manager with Hooters and after the airing of the second episode of “Undercover Boss” can now officially be thought of as the poster child for poor management everywhere.  And after Jimbo’s performance on the show, I can honestly say the bar of acceptable forms of management has [...]

February 15, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Job Search Secrets–New Name, New Network

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

It’s been almost six months since my first show aired on MomTV and it’s been an incredible journey.  We’ve had guests from all over the world provide job seekers with tips, tricks, and advice on how to navigate the job search.  I’ve loved helping job seekers learn about social media, networking, and the unwritten rules of the [...]

February 14, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

6 Timesaving Business Social Media Tools

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Time management is something that most of us struggled with long before social media.  As we become more involved in the world of social media and the see the importance of building personal business relationships, managing your time both inside the social media space and outside as a business professional and human being becomes ever [...]

February 9, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Rock the Vote: Okie Blog Awards

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

So earlier today, I logged on to my blog and realized that March 1 isn’t so far away mainly because of my travel next week to London for the TRU London conference which I plan on discussing later this week.   I was stressing that I wouldn’t reach my arbitrary goal of 8 blog posts [...]

February 8, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Dry Powder Job Market (Part 3)

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

This is the third of a three part series about the Dry Powder Job Market. (Part 1 & Part 2).  In Part 2, we began to discuss some ways that job seekers can differentiate themselves in this new market. Picture the stock market as a high stakes football game.  Just like the stock market, a football game [...]

February 8, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →