This Week’s CareerCompile – Careerminds’ Favorite Career-Minded Articles of the Week!

Brittany Richter
Careerminds Consultant

Each week we read articles we find on twitter, blogs and other social media platforms in order to stay ahead of the curve. We want to be able to present our clients, job seekers, HR professionals and recruiters with the most accurate and up-to-date information we possibly can. At the end of the week we always know which articles were the most valuable, so why not share that with all of you? This is the next weekly post compiling what we feel are the top career-minded articles.

3 Twitter Tools To Accelerate Your Job Search
Kristen Jacoway for The Personal Branding Blog

Twitter can be a great tool for job seekers in general – we’ve told you that before. This post more specifically delves in to 3 major aspects of twitter that can serve particularly well if you are in career transition. A great, quick read.

The Google + project

Keep seeing or hearing about this and wondering what it is? Have you started playing around with it, but just not sure how it works, yet? This information comes straight from Google and is very informative. At the very least it is important to stay ahead of the curve and familiarize yourself with the concept. A definite must read.. and soon. Unless you’re okay feeling left out at the water cooler.

Time to Put Your Job Search Up On The Rack For Inspection
Dawn Rasmussen for Pathfinder

Dawn illustrates a metaphor comparing the job search process to a household automobile. She makes a great point, that similar to car maintenance, your job search needs to be inspected and maintained time to time in order to ensure that it runs properly. Take a look at her article for how to go about doing so effectively.

A Guide to the Most Evil Job Interview Questions
Gail Kenny for Earthling Jobs Blog

A great look at a few specific, and particularly challenging interview questions. After checking out this post, you may also wish to see what they have to say about other types of interview questions, including some of the most common ones.

12 Strategies To Start You Job Search
CJ Trayser for Crossroads Career Network

Just getting started? This post will set you up with the top 12 strategies to jumpstart your search. Then come back here and look around for the rest of the information you need.

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Rafael Spuldar

Rafael is a content writer, editor, and strategist with over 20 years of experience working with digital media, marketing agencies, and Tech companies. He started his career as a journalist: his past jobs included some of the world's most renowned media organizations, such as the BBC and Thomson Reuters. After shifting into content marketing, he specialized in B2B content, mainly in the Tech and SaaS industries. In this field, Rafael could leverage his previously acquired skills (as an interviewer, fact-checker, and copy editor) to create compelling, valuable, and performing content pieces for various companies. Rafael is into cinema, music, literature, food, wine, and sports (mainly soccer, tennis, and NBA).