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I've Been Laid Off!
Has this happened to you - recently? You wake up, you commute to work, you enter the building but there is something that is just not right today. Maybe your boss cannot look you in the eye or the HR department has relocated to your section/department or there are security guards stationed on your floor instead of the front desk and to top it off you cannot log onto your computer.
Smart Doesn't Equal Promotion
Are you the smart one or subject matter expert? Were you up for a promotion that went to someone you are smarter or have more technical expertise than? Why doesn't the smart one get the promotion?
Team Player
Being a team player is essential to competing and excelling in the job market. In many areas of business, teamwork and working with teams has become the norm not the exception. What makes a good team? A good team starts with its players, and a good team player improves the team’s overall performance. Are you a good team player?
Resume Gotchas
The purpose of a resume is to give the reader a summary of one’s personal history, educational background, and employment experience. The average hiring manager or recruiter reviews hundreds of resumes to fill open positions. Thanks to keyword searches your resume has landed in the must review pile...
Resume Powerhouse
In the world of online job boards, social networks, and electronic job applications- how can you make yourself standout? The answer is keywords keywords keywords. This is how it works...
Emotionally Ready for Change?
As much as you are yearning for career-change, and as much as the trends actually favor it, just contemplating a shift is a glittering invitation to four emotional stalkers who love nothing better than to play a nasty game of team-tag at your personal expense...
Is An Online University Degree For You?
Online education has revolutionized distance learning, providing greater convenience and opening new doors for a lot of people who want to increase their career potential...
Find Jobs Quickly and Easily
In these current tough economic times, it has become increasingly difficult to find jobs. Skilled and unskilled workers alike are discovering the problems in the job market associated with the recent recession. With a record number of individuals collecting unemployment, while actively seeking employment, it is easy to see the flood of people to every available position being offered. Having an edge has always been important in work, and as such is just as important in finding work. Diversifying is the key to finding jobs that might have been overlooked by other job hungry competitors.
How to Handle Two...
Being confronted with more than one job offer at the same time would be a nice problem to have...
Does it Make Sense...
Sometimes the desire to change careers is overshadowed by that comfort zone we tend to get trapped in. That comfort zone oftentimes leads to a reluctance to venture forth and seek out greener pastures. It's the fear of not knowing what to expect when you change jobs that makes us continually go back and forth between staying in that rut or just going for broke and finding a new employer. The bottom line is that you're either bored, unhappy, or not being compensated well enough...
Prepare Your Resume to Post Online
One of the benefits that many of us have gained from the internet is the ability to search for a job online. The numerous employment search engines and job posting sites are now plentiful and the ability to gain meaningful employment presents itself more and more as an opportunity every day. The process has been made quick and easy as well. It's a simple matter of registering at the various sites and posting a cover letter and personal resume, specifying the target job market or industry, and submitting some other personal information.
There are plenty...
Believe it or not, many companies are still looking for sales professionals to promote their products and services...
Winners in This...
By now you have probably heard that DHL is virtually pulling out of US package delivery market altogether. DHL's decision is a painful one, to the tune of about 9,500 US jobs, with a large percentage of those jobs in Ohio. While this is a terrible blow to the customers and employees of DHL there have always been economic winners-even in not so great economic times.
Where are the jobs?
If you have been following the economic conditions these days it seems like day in and day out just more of the same…bad news. Just recently, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that job losses exceed expectations. While the job loss increase was slightly higher than expected, it signifies that the turbulence is not over yet. So it may seem anyway. Well fret not for there are jobs that remain in demand even while other companies continue to reduce head count.
To Degree or...
For many of us, when High School was finally over, the last thing that went through our minds was the thought of signing up for another four years of school. Going to college and earning a four-year degree somehow wasn’t part of the plan. It was summertime, we had out diplomas, and we were ready to go out into the working world and make the big bucks. How many of you came to the sad realization that doing things that way was a mistake? Did you do anything since that time to correct that mistake?
Internet Ready Resume
One of the benefits that many of us have gained from the internet is the ability to search for a job online. The numerous employment search engines and job posting sites are now plentiful and the ability to gain meaningful employment presents itself more and more as an opportunity every day. The process has been made quick and easy as well. It's a simple matter of registering at the various sites and posting a cover letter and personal resume, specifying the target job market or industry, and submitting some other personal information. That's the easy part, unless you haven't really developed your cover letter and resume yet.
Get That Raise!
One of the easiest things to identify is when you are not getting paid what you are worth or what you feel you deserve. You start noticing that you're beginning to live from one paycheck to the next, when only 6 or 8 months ago, it always seemed like you had the money for the little extras or an additional creature comfort here and there. You're cutting it closer and closer when it comes to getting your bill payments in on time.
Job Interview Skills...
Job seekers should know that the biggest challenge, nowadays, is just getting noticed and asked to come in for an interview. In order to receive that kind of attention you have to impress somebody in the very beginning. A professional cover letter and a powerful resume that jumps up and says, "You need me working for your company," is a large part of the battle, but the real challenge is ahead of you.
Job Search Myths
Knowing the do's and don's of job searching enables, you, the job seeker to have some advantages over uniformed job seekers in the job marketplace. Furthermore, when you are well-informed it is less stressful for you while searching. The following is a list of the eight most common job search myths to be aware of.
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