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Are you trying to figure out your next career step? Many folks with higher level clearances just move into another job that requires the clearance because it’s easy. Those with lower-level clearances face more difficulties when they discover it does not automatically get them many opportunities. But they often still reflexively look within their current path.

Last month, the National Career Development Association released their “Survey on Working America”. Only 37% of respondents reported making a conscious choice when choosing a career! And 56% said they did not look at many options – but instead took the only job available, which looked interesting at the time, or chose based on the…

If you read the hedline of this post and thought it was an intresting article to read. And then you started to read it and it sudenly became clear the auther doesnt appear to understand how to spell or use correct grammer, wood you read it threw till the end? They’re are many conclusions one could jump to about my expertise and personel brand just base on this 1 paragraph, isn’t their?

Okay, that might be a bit exaggerated for the average bad speller, but I have seen worse!

In today’s online world, your ability to spell and use proper grammar and punctuation plays a huge role in building your…

The best thing about a job fair: an entire room full of companies who are hiring. The worst thing? An entire room full of companies to impress.

Patra Frame, owner of Strategies for Human Resources, told job-seekers exactly how to survive with the best results at the September 2011 ClearedJobs.Net Cleared Job Fair by sharing her six steps for making the best impression, leaving with the right information and starting meaningful connections you can use now and in the future.

1. Create an Elevator Pitch

Job fairs are inherently a marketing event, and you’re the “goods” up for grabs. You need to summarize why you’re the best hire…

Social media is now a common means of communicating, doing business and supporting career search and development. But as with everything there is a huge divide between those who adopted technology early and most of the rest of us.

I was reminded on a recent family visit that there is still healthy skepticism, suspicion and confusion about social media and technology. Just like explaining how to use a Droid phone to my mother — Droid is an operating system, not a style! — we need to lay a foundation and explain how the most prevalent social media tools are being used to support a career search. And while numerous articles…

Previously, we shared in Marketing Yourself for Your Next Career Opportunity, that your job search is very similar to marketing a product. At the recent Online Marketing Summit, Michael Stelzner of “Social Media Examiner” shared how he has grown his business by giving everything away for free. The dynamic growth of “Social Media Examiner” has proven Michael’s tactics to be successful in not only building traffic, but also revenue.

We asked Michael to share his thoughts on how these same tactics could be used by security cleared job seekers to find their next job.

Michael relates that job seekers can position themselves as Subject Matter Experts (SME) and…