Careers
The economy is rebounding but is employment as well?
Mar 14, 2010 | | Posted in Careers JobsThe experts tell us that, in retrospect, we had two recessions in the last 10 or 11 years. I may have said this before, I did not know there was a recession let alone two, one in 1999 and the second one in 2001. And the reason for my “no-feeling” about the two is … Continue Reading »
6 Tips to help you choose the right career
Feb 15, 2010 | | Posted in Careers JobsThe unemployment rate is still quite high, around 10%. Some experts say it will take some time that the economy rebounds. That means jobless rate will be up in the 8% to 10% range in the foreseeable future. You have been out of work for a year or maybe longer now. How about if you … Continue Reading »
7 boring tips to get the job of your dreams
Jan 11, 2010 | | Posted in Careers JobsIn this lousy job market, a job of your dreams? Are you kidding me? Don’t get annoyed. There are some folks out there who can still find a job of their dreams. You are no exception. You just need to be reminded continuously from time to time. This is the second attempt in that direction. … Continue Reading »
Experts say: “Identify your ideal career”. I say: “Say what?”
Jan 5, 2010 | | Posted in Careers JobsThis topic – Identify your ideal career – has been beaten to death. For most folks, there is no ideal career and no job of their dreams. They just wanna get a job and put food on the table for their family. You would think why you need another boring article about getting a job … Continue Reading »
5 simple changes to your approach for finding your next job
Dec 25, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsI sincerely hope you have a job – like 90% of the folks do – and are gainfully employed. But if you are still looking for a job and these days it seems getting harder and harder to get your next job, then you might want to follow some or all the 5 simple changes … Continue Reading »
When preparing your resume, stop digging graves
Nov 29, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsLet’s face it. Everyone knows that employers are interested in what projects you have worked on and what you have achieved during the last ten years or so – definitely no more than 15 years. There is a definite sense of old-age bias in the air when it comes down to getting a job as … Continue Reading »
Building relationship with headhunters can help you get a job
Nov 21, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsDavid McCann over at CFO.com has an article with the heading “What You Don’t Know about Headhunters: 10 Tips”. It’s almost two years old but still as applicable as back then when he wrote it on January 18, 2008. He has summed up the essence of the article in two sentences
Understanding what makes recruiters tick … Continue Reading »
AIG’s Benmosche threatens to jump ship – crazy Bobby baby?
Nov 11, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsAIG’s Benmosche threatens to jump ship. Relax, will you? He is not committing suicide. He is not jumping OFF the ship into the deep water, although for me it would have meant off the ship. Leaving a job with close to $10 million in pay, I would have jumped in the water. Are you crazy, … Continue Reading »
Hiring managers struggle to find employees but…
Nov 4, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsFor some hiring managers, there is no recession, never has been. They are looking to hire employees, but they can’t find skilled candidates to fill up their open positions. That’s ironic, ain’t it? But why is that? With so many unemployed, the number is in millions including yours truly, and looking for jobs, how come … Continue Reading »
Laid off? No job in sight? Joshua Piven to the rescue
Oct 31, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsTimes are extremely tough. Every month, folks are laid off in the hundreds of thousands. Losing job is extremely difficult, especially when it’s increasingly getting harder and harder to get another job. I just finished a book by Joshua Piven. The name of the book is “The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Paperback)“. Joshua Piven has … Continue Reading »
Do you really have to follow your career passion?
Oct 3, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsIn these economic times, fewer of us are worried about being fulfilled and more of us are concerned about simply putting food on the table. But as switching jobs and careers becomes increasingly common, as a matter of fact, whole professions are disappearing, we are more frequently forced to ask ourselves if it’s our passion … Continue Reading »
In job searches, exhaust free options before paying for a pro
Sep 29, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsWith job searches now averaging 25 weeks, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who doesn’t want help marketing themselves? You can do that yourself. You would know it, one way or another, in a few weeks whether the free path to get a job is working or not.
I personally don’t like the big … Continue Reading »
Have flexibility and make good money in these jobs
Sep 24, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsI know it doesn’t sound good. The unemployed can’t get a job whether the job environment is flexible or not. They just want a job. However, juggling kids, caring for aging parents, making visits to the dentist, enjoying a week of sanity at a beach resort, and rounding up the troops for a holiday meal … Continue Reading »
If you can write well, you can be successful Web freelancing
Aug 28, 2009 | | Posted in Careers JobsMany folks have been laid off in a variety of industries including media and advertising companies. It’s a bad time to get a job in any discipline. However, there is one source of writing projects that is actually growing. Hundreds of online sites, especially bogs, are popping up every week. Many of them are created … Continue Reading »
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