All Entries Tagged With: "Job Search"
‘Sunny’ disposition can directly brighten career outlook
Rather than focus on the negatives of lay-offs and job search failures, why not divert your attention to developing new, positive strategies to find your next successful career?… (Image by Budi Akbarsjah)
Fast track the employment search with ‘before the job training’
Well-known career author proposes a unique strategy to “start working before your hired” – recommending research as the key to gaining a leg up on competition in the job market and using an interview as a tool to prove you can effectively complete the necessary work if hired.
Job search is often tax deductible
According a series of unique tax codes available on the IRS website, many expenses associated with your job search efforts may be tax deductable, including such costs as travel and resume distribution.
Accelerated programs may lead to extended job search
Students of accelerated one-year business programs report having a far more challenging experience finding their first job than their two-year counterparts, likely due to less access to career services offered by most business schools.
Houston cable TV series introduces new kind of three ‘Rs’
A five-part cable series focused on innovative job search strategy features a new kind of three ‘Rs’–”Retrain, Reinvent, Re-enter” to assist its viewers during this challenging period.
Your new job is ‘just a click away’
The growing prominence of social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook has transformed the job search process in today’s internet-based society.
Does Your Job Search Needs Some New Ideas?
The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah E. Needleman, thinks todays’ job seekers should “become more proactive and take time to meet with contacts face-to-face.
Career Tips – Who’s in Your Career Network?
You’re looking for a new career and want to make sure you’re covering all the bases. Who should you be talking to?
Career Top 10 – Tips for Nailing a Job Interview
Good advice found by Careers.Org
By Vicky Oliver in SavvyMiss
After weeks, maybe months, of submitting resumes, following up and hearing, “We’re just not hiring right now,” landing an interview can make you feel as good as, well, landing the job. But the road doesn’t end there and that’s precisely when the nerves start to set in. [...]
5 Job Hunting Tips
Network! – Think of the people you know – relatives, friends, professors, classmates, co-workers at summer jobs, and others. Make more of an effort to meet with people, and use these conversations to ask their advice, to make them aware of your job sear
Counseling Compulsive Resume Addiction
By Marshall J. Karp, Marshall J.
Compulsive Resume Addiction (CRA) is a condition where applicants become dependent on their written credentials to get new employment. It is similar to other addictions in that the person manifests short-term, gratification-seeking behavior with the long term cost in self-esteem and self-confidence. Applicants get stuck in [...]
Resume Details More Crirical Than Ever
March 10, 2009
Paying close attention to every detail on your resume is more important than ever at a time when over four million jobs have been lost in recent months.
A recent report on Sacramento’s News10.net advises job seekers that they even need up to six different versions of their resume, depending on the various [...]
Months After a Layoff, Giving Advice to Other Job Hunters
From : Laid Off And Looking – WSJ.com
Laid Off and Looking follows eight out-of-work professionals as they look for new jobs in a post-meltdown world. Each writes about his or her own personal experiences with all of the ups and downs that go into a job search in a difficult market. Each week, we’ll also [...]
Job Search 2009 – Old methods now a waste of time?
By Sandra Kerka
Job Searching in the 21st Century. Myths and Realities
The Internet is changing the way people look for jobs, but these questions still remain:
How effective is online job searching?
Are traditional methods now a waste of time?
Surveys indicate only 5.5 percent of 99 million American households had done any online job hunting; a majority of [...]
Job search site traffic grows in January
If we needed further evidence that jobs are increasingly hard to find, we need look no further than this story on CNet .
Jobs, taxes, and travel captured the interest of U.S. Internet surfers in January, marking double-digit to triple-digit gains over the previous month, according to a ComScore report released Thursday.
With unemployment running at 7.6 [...]
Technical schools a hands-on, low-cost choice
By Michele Chamberlin
Technical and career schools offer programs that run from two months to two years and focus on using "real world" equipment to simulate the work environment …
For some students, attending a traditional four-year university or community college after high school may not be a fruitful choice.
But for this generation, continuing education [...]
Jobs Could Be a Click Away
What is someone to do when your employer gives you the pink slip? The folks over at Career Link can help. [ NBCPhiladelphia.com ]
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Online sources may cure job-search blues
The Virginian-Pilot – Norfolk,VA,USA By Joyce Lain Kennedy
I followed up on your recent mention that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is flush with jobs. .
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Managing Job Offers
You’ve just been made an offer by a company, and you’re interested in the position and the organization…but you’re still waiting to hear from your first-choice organization about another job. What do you do?
Three Keys to Successful Interviewing
Fall recruiting season means job interview time. And you can’t get a job offer without an interview. Your success comes down to answering this question: Do you have the right tools, resources, and attitude?
