Understanding the secret language of job postings can supercharge your resume, your cover letters and will help you turn job interviews into job offers.
Read MoreIf you're looking for a job, you've probably gone on Craigslist. After all, everyone else has, since the site has so many job openings at any given time. But is it a good place to find a job? Do people actually find steady full-time or part-time work?
Read MoreFacing the facts of life
You are somewhere along the path of what will likely be a fifty-year work-life, and during this time you can expect economic recessions to swing by every 7–10 years.
You will change jobs (not always by choice) about every four years, and you will probably have three or more distinct careers over the span of your professional life.
Read MoreLet’s face it: There simply isn’t a better place to meet that bright-eyed love of your life than the place where you spend most of your waking hours: at work. And as a general rule, being at work is a time when you’re showered (hopefully), you’ve already dressed to impress and you’re ready to make a good impression. What other daily event is there where you go the full nine yards to look good other than for work?
Read More“I will get back to work”; “I will get a better job”; “I will get a promotion”: we all make New Year’s career resolutions to do better professionally and then promptly forget to harness these goals to activities that will get us there. Here are seven resolutions that can change the rest of your life.
#1. I will survive and prosper
Read MoreWhile many career fields are booming in 2012, it does not come as much of a surprise that two fields are topping all the rest, healthcare and computers.
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