Overcoming Being Overqualified and Other Browseworthy Links

This week’s browseworthy links:

I literally stumbled upon Colin Wright’s site and free e-book last year. Be Remarkable is full of advice, inspiring thoughts and thought provoking quotes that spark reflection. Favorite tips: #17 – Give Rewards, #66 -  Do You Love It?, and #98 – Expand Horizons. Quote to Note:

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have. Louis E. Boone

Lookilulu.com is the perfect site if your career makeover strategy is to go from employee to entrepreneur or find a new career. This site, founded by two sisters, Julie Simmons and Jill Hubbard Bowman offers visitors interviews with women in a variety of fields and phases in their careers. Podcast include interviews with lawyers, film makers, child advocates and portfolio managers to name a few. Recommended listens: Management Consultant Rashida MacMurray and Political Writer Jami Taylor.

If the major hurdle in your job search is that you have too much experience, check out this post: Five Ways to Overcoming Being Overqualified. This short but insightful post will give you some ideas on how to handle objections to an employer putting you in the overqualified category. Good advice: Downplay the resume and focus on how the opportunity will add to your career growth.

Building your brand on-line through social networking requires that you have a good bio. You’ll need a short one for your Twitter account, on Facebook, LinkedIn and even for your blog. On Brand-Yourself.com, Walter Feigenson offers advice on how to write a bio (and why you should). Be sure to check out the related articles at the end of the post.

Do you have a hidden talent? In her blog post, How to Find Your Hidden Talent, Skellie writes: “Your hidden talents are the things you could do that would make you happy. But you don’t know it yet.” She discovered her hidden talent is playing soccer…Why is this relevant here? Discovering interest and skills that make you happy can help reduce stress at work and can also be a clue to where your passions may lie. Encouragement: Be willing to explore something you’ve always wanted to try or have been curious about.

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