Careers & Employment Information
3 Ways To Succeed On Your First Job (Or Any Job)
You've heard the real estate cliché: the three factors that determine a property's value are location, location, location.Well, here's an instant cliché about creating value on the job: to succeed, you need to work, work, work.
Overcoming the 7 Roadblocks Women with Families Face Making Career Changes
Family is the driving force of our lives. You need family to support you and in most homes you need money to support your family.
Why Your CV/Resume is Not Generating The Interview Offers You Want
If your current CV or resume is not generating the interview offers you want, it is time to start assessing it. Check to see that the following descriptors apply:*Begins with a succinct, clearly stated career objective tailored to the particular job for which you are applying.
How to Manage Your Career Like a Business
Look upon yourself as a company with a product or service to sell. Understand your market and devise a dynamic marketing campaign, remembering that companies hire employees who offer them the best results and the best value for money.
How to Answer The Most Difficult Interview Questions
The following 'difficult' questions are common to most tricky or adversarial interviews. In order to convince the interviewer that you are the best person for the job, you must prepare and rehearse your answers meticulously.
How to Prepare for A Performance Appraisal
Performance appraisal should be treated as an ongoing developmental process rather than a formal once-a-year review. It should be closely monitored by both employee and reviewer to ensure that targets are being achieved.
Active Listening Skill Tips for Interviews
During a job interview, a potential employer asks, "Can you take on more than one project at a time?" If you respond, "Yes," you may want to rethink that answer. According to Dynamic Listening: Interview Skills, a computer based training module from Mindleaders in Columbus, Ohio, you should avoid one-word or one-sentence answers.
Taking Charge During An Interview!
Perhaps you've found yourself in the position of seeking a new position due to a layoff, cutback or downsizing and are now facing the interviewing process. As scary as that may seem, one of the most critical points to remember is that just because you're sitting in the seat opposite the potential employer doesn't mean you have no control.
Getting the Job thats Right for You
I'm the type of person that considers a healthy, enjoyable job alot more valuable than a high paying one. This may be as foreign a concept to some people as our society continues to descend into the depths of materialism.
Job Security Is Dead! Are You?
Job security is an out dated concept. The idea is nice: The longer an employee works for a particular company, the more valuable that person becomes to the company in question.
How To Prepare For A Telephone Interview
It is important to prepare thoroughly for your telephone interview.Begin by studying the job description and the candidate profile.
How To Create A Winning Impression In Your New Job
Congratulations! You've just been appointed to your new job.
Now the real work begins.
How ToTalk Your Boss Into Giving You A Salary Increase
* If you believe you deserve a salary increase, ask for it as soon as possible; don't procrastinate or wait for your employer to offer it.* Determine what you are worth in the marketplace by carrying out a survey of people in comparable jobs.
Salary Negotiation Secrets Revealed
Before you go into the interview, it is important to know what salary you want, what you need to live on, and what you will be prepared to accept. Spend some time working out your budget.
Handing in Your Resignation and Serving Notice
Have you made the right choice? Before deciding to resign from your current position and move to a new employer, you should weigh up as objectively as possible all the relevant factors: remuneration, working environment, location, travel demands, training and development opportunities, promotional prospects, and your future bosses.Consider also what impact a job with the new company would have on your resume.
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 International Business Times | Obama campaign releases new Web ad trumpeting jobs growth The Hill By Justin Sink - 02/06/12 02:20 PM ET President Obama's reelection campaign released a new Web ad Monday playing up the president's jobs record on the heels of a January report showing better-than-expected employment growth. The ad features a chart of ... January Jobs Report: House GOP Down on Better-Than-Expected Job Creation President Obama has convinced Americans to settle for a poor economy Republicans argue jobs report wasn't all good news |
 USA TODAY | Greek leaders will cut 15000 jobs to get debt deal USA TODAY By Nicholas Paphitis, AP ATHENS, Greece – Greece's coalition government said late Monday that it has accepted demands by its rescue creditors to cut 15000 jobs in the public sector this year, under a new law that allows firings. Greece Agrees to Cut Public-Sector Jobs Under EU pressure, Greece to cut 15000 jobs this year Greece to cut 15000 public jobs |
 Kansas City Star | Greece to Eliminate 15000 Government Jobs New York Times ATHENS — Greece will cut 15000 state jobs this year, the government announced Monday, part of new austerity measures it must agree on to secure new debt agreements and rescue funds from international lenders. Athens is racing to push through economic ... Greece to Cut Government Jobs as Debt Pressure Intensifies |
 eMaxHealth | The Jobs Report and the “Missing 1.2 Million” New Yorker (blog) My post about Friday's jobs figures got folks riled up: some of you think I was shilling for Obama. That comes with the territory. I happen to be working on a longer piece about where I think Obama went wrong. Doubtless when that piece comes out, ... Still Wrong: Right-Wing Media Continue To Dismiss Jobs Report With Discredited ... St. Louis No. 20 in private-sector job growth Jobs in America: The Ugly Truth Behind Those Unemployment Numbers |
Boehner: Election year should not stop job-creating legislation Middletown Journal By Chelsey Levingston, Staff Writer 1:52 PM Monday, February 6, 2012 HAMILTON — An over-complicated tax code and “regulatory onslaught” from the nation's capital is keeping the US economy from creating more jobs, said US House Speaker John Boehner, ... Boehner visits growing Hamilton company Factory Backdrop for Boehner Speech Received Government Funds |
 AFP | Steve Jobs fans irate over Apple founder Jobs look-alike promoting Android ... Toronto Star Alyshah Hasham Staff Reporter Steve Jobs has come back from the dead, halo and all, to promote the “Action Pad,” a tablet running on Android, Google's operating system. At least that's the gimmick of a Taiwanese television commercial for local tech ... Outrage over Steve Jobs angel in Taiwan ad Steve Jobs angel ad creates outrage Steve Jobs' Angel Promoting Android Tablets in Taiwan |
 BET | Obama Unveils a Jobs Plan To Train Post-9/11 Servicemembers HispanicBusiness.com Those veterans have an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent versus 8.7 percent for non-veterans, according to the government's January jobs report. The announcement was made in Arlington, Va., in a fire station whose members were among the first to respond ... Obama's Jobs Plan for Vets Obama Pushes Veterans Jobs Programs Obama pushes for jobs for veterans programs |
From Relief To Despair: Varying Views Of Jobs Data Manufacturing.net So many jobs are being added that the unemployment rate has dropped for five straight months. At 8.3 percent, it's at a three-year low. Whether the job market actually feels stronger, though, depends on your perspective. The headline numbers mask vast ... |
Jobs fear in the Australian retail sector NEWS.com.au RETAIL jobs could be next in the firing line, after new figures showed retail spending fell over during Christmas. The Australian Bureau of Statistics released December's retail figures yesterday, showing a seasonally adjusted 0.1 per cent decrease in ... Retailers warn of job losses after |
 Los Angeles Times | Latinos, hit hard by job losses, are making strong comeback Los Angeles Times As the economic rebound picks up a bit of steam, Latinos are scoring bigger job gains than most other demographic groups and proving to be a bright spot in the fledgling recovery. Fred Moreno of Bell, who has an associate's degree in science and ... Labor Department Report: Latinos Filled 60 Percent Of All New Jobs In 2011 ... |
175 Power Verbs and Phrases for Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interviews
While you're revamping your resume or cover letter or constructing your proof-by-example stories for interviews, you'll find you need to watch your word choice. Why? Communication is powerful if the words we use to communicate are powerful.
My Career is in the Doldrums - Do I Need a Coach or a Therapist?
Is Monday the worst day of your week? Can you hardly remember when you enjoyed going to work? Do friends ask why you seem so down? Maybe this has been going on awhile, and you're realizing it's time to do something. But where do you turn? At one moment you tell yourself "It's just my career?Change that, and everything will be OK".
I Just Lost My Job: How Am I Going To Tell My Kids?
One of the responsibilities of a human resources professional is to let employees know that their job has been eliminated. It is seldom easy to do and often painful for the person who is hearing the news.
Effective Networking Skills: The Art Of Taking Your Job Search To A Whole New Level
Your network consists of family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and former employers. It also consists of your dentist, your barber or hair stylist, your accountant and your local grocery store manager.
Job Interviews: Six Steps to Acing a Telephone Interview
Telephone interviews are becoming more popular these days. Whether that's good or bad depends on how you handle them!Sometimes telephone interviews are used as a pre-screening technique for all candidates.
A Job is Not a Job
It only happened on Mondays. Sometimes I escaped the unpleasant ritual.
What is Mystery Shopping, and Can You Really Get Paid to Shop?
Mystery shoppers visit businesses "disguised as normal customers," and do the things other customers do-ask questions, make a purchase, make a return-but with a twist. These undercover customers are there to evaluate the businesses and their employees.
Can You Compete?
Are you looking to hire the best talent? Are you thinking about adding a new employee who will significantly impact millions of dollars in YOUR business? Do you want to hire the best? Then you need to show and convince your next hire that you are serious about him joining your team.In March, we received the following candidate's response to two high level interviews.
Should You Telework/Telecommute
"WOW! I can work from home and make money? I can sit around in my PJ's and work whenever I want? How great, I want to be a Teleworker!"There is much more to being a teleworker then working in your PJ's or working when you want to. Yes, those are nice benefits to teleworking, but you'd be surprised by how much work goes into working from home.
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Career Opportunities for New Graduates
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Career Opportunities for New GraduatesThis article relates to the Career Opportunities competency and explores issues such as internal growth opportunities, potential for advancement, career development importance, and the relationship between job performance and career advancement. Evaluating the Career Opportunities competency in your organization will determine whether your employees believe they have a chance to grow within the organization.
Seminars: Why Are They Popular, and What Advantages/Disadvantages Are There to Attending One?
Seminars dealing with "special topics" have actually been around for decades, and are an older form of marketing and information exchanges, that have seen quite a resurgence of interest in the past ten years.Seminars are simply a group of people coming together for the discussion and learning of specific techniques and topics.
Prepare for Your Performance Review Before You Start the Job
When you start a new job, you probably realize the first three months are critical to your long-term success. Everybody's eye is on the "newbie" as you learn the ropes.
Fear of Being Outsourced? Fight Back
Me, outsourced? Impossible. How could they replace a business-humor columnist? But my brother-in-law, the radiologist, told me his hospital was threatening to cut his position because they had found a medical group out of India that would read MRIs at half the cost.
Is Job Loss Making You Sick?
Job loss affects most of us like any other loss in life. Yes, there are other losses that are greater, but this one comes close too!From my experience, job loss can make anyone sick! There can be terrible anger; anger which turns into depression.
Mystery Shopping
Mystery shopping is an excellent way to make extra money. In fact, some people make a full time living doing it.
Resume Posting: Tips for Jobseekers
Recruiting firms, like most businesses today, must embrace technology in order to prosper. Part of modern recruiting is understanding the value and benefit of internet job boards.
Interview Thank-You Letters
The number one etiquette tip for interviews is writing a thank-you letter. This is not a tool commonly used by job seekers right now.
Workplace Melodrama--A Flair For The Dramatic
A flair for the dramatic is a theatrical term used to describe an actress or actor who has a talent for melodrama, characterized by intensely enacted interpersonal conflict and exaggerated emotions. The central figure in a melodrama is the hero, who spins his tale or portrays the justice of his cause in a positive light.
Should You Make A Career Decision Based Upon A Career Quiz?
Q. I'm about to graduate High School and I don't know what I want to be "when I grow up".
During Midlife Change: Are You a Jumper or a Clinger?
Over the years, I have identified two kinds of midlife career changers: Jumpers and Clingers.Jumpers thrive on energy, enthusiasm and improbable luck.
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