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Why Talented People Don’t Get Hired
By Liz Ryan
 
Employers call me and wail, “So many job candidates, and no one to fill my job.” They say that the recent economic woes haven’t made it much easier for them to hire talent. “We get flooded with applications,” they tell me, “and most of them are dreck.”
 
Your applications are dreck? That’s a shock. Gee, all you’re doing is asking every single person who would throw his hat in the ring for a job in your company to:

Even though the economy is on the upturn and companies are begining to feel less tension, knowing which companies are doing the hiring is good place to start if you're looking for a job.

This link where to find work gives a good idea as to who is hiring.

Interested in cities with the highest and lowest competiion for jobs? Click on this link America's most and least competitive job market for a report from Businessweek.

Career change doesn't have to feel

like a leap of faith

Most career advice and programs for professionals in transition fall short when it comes to actually guiding you from where you are to where you want to be. Over the Gap is different, because it not only shows you exactly what's needed for successful transition to a new career, it provides the tools and hands-on support necessary to reduce your employment-gap leap to a confident walkover.

"Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents." - Carl Gustav Jung

With the heat of summer in full swing and temperatures hitting high nineties to over a hundred. My mind drifted taking me away to a southern island and a Jimmy Buffet's song: 

"I took off for a weekend last month just to try and recall the whole year... It’s these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same..."

Trends indicate according to a poll of 277 CEOs that the economy is on the upswing and hiriing at the executive and middle management level is increaseing. 

The Bridge is scheduled for publication mid August and will be available at all major book stores in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.

If you ever want to find out about writing a book feel free to contact me for help on how to reduce your expense and time to market.

For months my book The Bridge has been going through multiple edits and editors.  It has been a long road to get the manuscript though all of the various phases required for publication and allocating time to make it happen.