photo credit: o5com With the current climate of unemployment (8.6% inNovember 2011, although it’s expected to rise closer to 9% once holiday retail workers are no longer needed), many workers are taking jobs for which they are overqualified. Whether it’s the young college graduate with a master’s degree taking a part-time retail job to an… Continue Reading
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Can You Get Around a Firing When Interviewing for Work?
photo credit: muffytyrone When you used to look around the cubicles at work, did you ever stop and wonder if this co-worker or that co-worker had ever been fired? For many workers, the pink slip has come in an unceremonious way all too often, leading them down a trip to the unemployment line. Whether it… Continue Reading
Book Review — Cracking the New Job Market
Cracking the New Job Market: The 7 Rules for Getting Hired in Any Economy, by R. William Holland, is a needed book in today’s dysfunctional job market. I wouldn’t say it is needed because of the hundreds of job search tips you get from the book; rather, it is because the book comes from a… Continue Reading
How to get a job at a startup
photo credit: modelxing This is a guest post from Evan Thomas. =========================== If your hoodie is your best friend, you survive on ramen and coffee, and The Social Network is top watched on your Netflix account, you’re getting there. But the hallmarks of a would-be Silicon Valley star alone don’t necessarily mean you’ll have a… Continue Reading
The Top 3 Reasons Having a Blog Can Help Your Job Search
This is a guest post from Gerrit Hall, the CEO of RezScore. —————————————— Today, it seems like just about everyone has a blog. Darth Vader has a blog, Spiderman has a blog, even I have a blog! With this blog-craze going around, you might be wondering if a blog is the right thing for you…. Continue Reading
The ultimate job offer rule
photo credit: sashafatcat You can taste the job offer right after the job interview — sweet! Your company research, practicing interview questions, and designing interview questions for the hiring manager worked beautifully. And the best part? The perfect job! Just the one you were looking for and one where you think the manager’s working style… Continue Reading
5 reasons to update a resume while still employed
photo credit: SOCIALisBETTER photo credit: SOCIALisBETTER This is a guest post by Gerrit Hall from RezScore…Scot ============================ You’re one of the lucky ones (or a Cubicle Warrior…Scot): You have a job and are not actively looking for a new one. You’ve filed away your resume, and your cover letter, in the hopes that you won’t… Continue Reading
Careers are over
photo credit: Alex E. Proimos Most of us realize that just having a job does not make it a career. But there are a lot of us out there that think the goal in our adult working life is to have a career, not just a job. Unfortunately, careers are over. Think about it. In… Continue Reading
The dirty little secret about job search advice
photo credit: malloreigh Looking for advice on how to land your next job? Want to know how to break out of long-term unemployment? Do a little searching with your favorite search engine and you’ll get hundreds of thousands of articles on the ten best ways to get your next job. Or how to answer the… Continue Reading
3 career lessons from 2011
photo credit: TC Morgan Photography Pundits will have their best and worst of 2011 articles out there. The best and worst needs noting, of course, but, to me, neither of them are actionable. Instead, I like to look at the experiences we’ve had over the year and then determine what lessons we can learn from… Continue Reading