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| Overcoming the Challenges of a Healthcare Career Posted: A career in healthcare is one of the most demanding jobs a person can have. It requires complete dedication, attention to detail, and accuracy, leaving no room for errors. Mistakes committed in a healthcare profession can literally be fatal, and the professional challenges that come with high pay and a recession-proof career abound. Our experiences in dealing with some of the most hardworking ...  |
| Finding Jobs Created by the New Stimulus Bill Posted: We all know that in 2009 some major adjustments have been occurring on the job front, including a new stimulus bill that is proposing to create 3.5 million new jobs. But how are you affected by this new bill? If you have been recently laid off from an employer affected by the recession, or are simply looking for a new opportunity, the bill is going to open new ones. So let's take a closer look ... |
| Too Fast, Too Furious, 200 Googlers Gone Posted: Looks like nearly 200 Google employees will be doing their next search on the unemployment line after the company laid off the workers on Thursday. "Google has grown very quickly in a very short period of time," wrote Omid Kordestani, senior vice president, Global Sales and Business Development, in the company's official blog. "When companies grow that quickly it's almost impossible to get ... |
| IBM Poised For Major U.S. Job Cuts, Workers Say Posted: Officials at a group that comprises current and former IBM workers claim Big Blue is on the verge of major job cuts in the United States starting as soon as Thursday. Messages on a Web site maintained by the group, Alliance@IBM, said the cuts could number in the thousands. One post on the group's member forum referred to the job action as "Black Thursday." Published reports said the cuts ... |
| Recession Takes A Bite Out Of Pay-For-Performance Outsourcing Posted: Risk-reward IT outsourcing contracts, where service provider fees are tied to business outcomes, have been viewed as the next tier of maturity for the outsourcing industry. But the slowing economy has dampened interest in the model, and getting to that tier is going to take longer. That's not what we expected. Before the recession, interest had been growing among IT outsourcers and longtime ... |
| IBM Snags A Pair Of Outsourcing Deals Posted: IBM's services arm appears to be benefiting from the economic downturn of late. The company in the past two days has announced outsourcing deals with companies looking to reduce costs and operate more efficiently at a time when corporate IT budgets are under close scrutiny. On Thursday, IBM announced a $184 million deal with National Account Service Co., which provides claims processing ... |
| Global CIO: Will Your Talent Pool Fix You Or Ruin You When Growth Returns? Posted: With national unemployment hitting 8.1% and lots of companies stuck with frozen or slashed IT budgets, it's a pretty long stretch to imagine a shortage of IT people anytime soon. But that's something IT leaders should be thinking about. Once the dust clears from all the chopping that's been going on, and more companies refocus from heads-down cost cutting to new business growth plans -- ... |
| Posted: If you work long enough, something along the way will probably happen to you. You will work with a co-worker who drives you crazy, a boss that doesn't get you, or an employee that keeps you up at night. It's all a part of the working world. At other times, things will happen to you that will throw you for a loop. Your job is eliminated. You are fired without reason. Your industry goes away. ... |
| Posted: By Jennifer Anthony, Professional Resume Writer Hiring managers, recruiters, and business owners conduct numerous searches on career sites each day. The words they use to search for possible candidates are known as keywords. If your resume doesn't include these keywords, it can't be found very easily. The bad news is that there are as many, if not more keywords as there are job openings. ... |
| Generic Cover Letters Don't Cut It Posted: By Jennifer Anthony, Professional Resume Writer The internet makes it possible for jobseekers to apply for several job openings in a click of the mouse. Consequently, the competition is fierce in many job markets because the internet has opened doors to candidates that before might not have otherwise even known about the position. Due to the ease of applying to several positions at one ... |
| Targeted Resumes: How to Target Your Resume to the Job You Want Posted: 1. Determine what you are trying to accomplish. Make sure you have a clear goal in mind. Hiring managers are too busy to try to figure out what you want to accomplish. Writing a general, one-size fits all resume won't cut it in today's competitive job market. You have to make an effort to stand apart from everyone else. If you don't know what you want to do, STOP and figure it ... |
| The Most Powerful Questions That Recruiting…Never Asks Posted: More often than not, it is the simplest things in life and in business that produce the biggest impacts. Having spent more than 30 years analyzing corporate recruiting practices and strategy, I have noticed there are some rather basic questions that, if only posed, would have a profound impact on the effectiveness of most recruiting endeavors. Unfortunately, the questions are rarely asked, ... |
| Career Search – getting started. Posted: Don't expect too many results if you have the attitude "I don't care what I do" or "I'll do anything". Such an attitude receives very limited results. It's important you try to dedicate your search to a particular specialism or area of expertise. This will help you quickly manipulate industry knowledge, and allow you to speak their language. However, if you're unable to focus on one ... |
| What You Need to Know When Choosing a Healthcare Staffing Agency Posted: America's best facilities, more often than not, work with healthcare staffing agencies to connect them to nurses, therapists and allied healthcare professionals. Thus, a lot of healthcare workers go to agencies to seek placement. As staffing agencies do the hiring and human resource management for these facilities, you, as a professional, will work with the agency on almost every matter ... |
| 5 Things To Do If You Lose Your IT Job Posted: As the financial crisis plays itself out across global markets, pink slips are flowing like Mountain Dew at a WOW tournament. And while it's only natural to feel apprehension about IT job security, some are discovering opportunity in the wake of unemployment. When Robert Fleming was laid off from his job as an IT administrator for an Ottawa software firm two months ago, he went through a ... |
| Posted: Writing a cover letter is a commonplace aspect of conducting any job search. When you apply for a job, even if the prospective employer does not ask you for one, it's good to send one as a way to give them a little more insight into who you are and what you're capable of. But despite the fact that people write them everyday, many still are unclear about the more important aspects to keep in ... |
| The Advantages of Working with a Healthcare Staffing Agency Posted: There has been a lot of bad rap about healthcare staffing agencies in the past. This is mainly due to some agencies' inability to get their applicants a job or the unpleasant work environment in facilities where they are placed. Not to mention that some of these agencies overwork their clinicians and underpay them. Although some of these stories are true, healthcare staffing firms that are ... |
| Network Admins Report Shrinking IT Budgets, Little Hope For IT Efficiency Tools Posted: Symantec today released results of a survey of 300 network administrators that canvassed their thoughts and feelings on an array of IT topics. The majority of network admins are adversely affected by the economic environment: — 62% said their IT budgets would either remain stagnant or shrink in 2009 — 66% said their IT staff would stay the same or become smaller this year — 42% are ... |
| IT Giants Lobby For Obama Bucks Posted: SAN JOSE, Calif. — A group of at least a dozen large computer and communications companies is proposing a set of high tech projects they'd like to see funded with money earmarked for technology goals under the recently passed economic stimulus package. The group is not ready to talk publically about the details of its proposal or even who exactly is behind it or which agencies they are ... |
| Advanced Energy Chops 22% Of Headcount Posted: SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (AE) Thursday (March 12) cut 330 jobs—22 percent of its headcount—across all functional areas and geographies. AE (Fort Collins, Colo.) also announced other cost reduction measures, including lowering the salaries of management and executive officers by an additional 5 percent, bringing the total to 15 percent, effective April 1. "While we ... |
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