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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Mobile Banking is Booming

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Despite online security concerns, the number of Americans who use mobile devices to access their financial services is growing fast, according to new data from comScore. In the fourth quarter of 2010, almost 30 million Americans accessed their bank, credit card or brokerage accounts from a cell phone or tablet, up 54% from the same quarter a year earlier. Here's how that growth breaks down ...

Planned layoffs decline in March

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Employers announced fewer planned job cuts in March, even as government sector layoffs mounted, according to a report released Wednesday. The number of jobs cut fell 18% to 41,528 from February's 50,702, according to outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Year over year, job cuts dropped 39% from 67,611 in March 2010. The March numbers mean that 130,749 job cuts were ...

Women Working to Expand in Tech Industry

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In 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor released a list of the 20 leading occupations of employed women. None of them was in the technical field. That same year, only 3% of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies were women, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. From coders to venture capitalists, women remain a small minority in most tech-related businesses. In order ...

AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile

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In one of the largest telecommunication acquisitions of the past decade, AT&T has agreed to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion. If the acquisition is approved, it would move AT&T past Verizon as the largest U.S. mobile communications operator. The industry buzz had Sprint gunning for T-Mobile, but the AT&T deal seemingly makes more sense from a technology perspective. AT&T and T-Mobile both use ...

Is being an Orthopedic nurse right for you?

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Are you a nurse and want to branch out into a specialty? Are you someone who is thinking about a career in the nursing field? A career in Orthopedic Surgical Nursing might be just what you're looking for! Just what does an Orthopedic ...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Retailers asking applicants for ages

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As if this job market hasn't been challenging enough for the over-50 workforce, now comes news that some large employers are asking applicants to disclose their age on their online applications.

5 Ways to Improve Your Cover Letter Introduction

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Creating a proper introduction is perhaps the most important part of writing a cover letter because it introduces hiring managers to you and helps them decide whether they want to know more about you. There are often a lot of mistakes made when writing cover letter introductions. To help you avoid them, let's look at what some are and how you can make the changes necessary to improve your cover ...

Should Job Seekers Follow Up After an Interview?

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Clients often ask us if they should follow up after an interview. There can be a lot of doubt and confusion about whether following up is a proper job search strategy. But the answer is: YES! The majority of candidates will never follow up after an interview. I would say that for every ten people I've interviewed, only one has followed up after the interview. Job seekers as a whole ...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Get Back to the Present Moment

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Have you ever caught yourself worrying about tomorrow or next month? Do you have a minor anxiety attack when you think about the car payment that's due within seven days or the house payment that is due the day after, or those credit cards with high balances? Feeling Down? In your job, are you starting to get a bit concerned? It doesn't seem that everything is going the way it should. ...

The Success Triangle – Part 2

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In my last article, I discussed the concept of the success triangle and that it has three components. All three must be present in order for it to work properly and be successful. They are:
  • Skills
  • Knowledge
  • Attitude
In part one, I talked about some of the different obstacles to the proper people skills being present in a company or organization. In ...

Don’t Wait Until Retirement

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A number of years ago, I was interviewing a woman who worked at one of the big three American car companies. She made the point, that she was not very happy working at her job as a secretary. She told me she thought she would like it more, to be working in the hotel industry. I asked her why she did not change careers. Her reply floored me. She told me she only had nine and a half more years to ...

How to Transition to a New Career Field

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There comes a time when you're ready to make a career change – maybe your current job feels a little stale, maybe your company's prospects are uncertain, or maybe you're just feeling restless and ready for something new. Whatever the reason for making a change, it's best not to make a move until you've done some research and laid the groundwork for a successful transition. Whether you want to ...

Recession-Proof Your Career With These 5 Growing Career Fields

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There's no denying it, it's still a tough job market out there. So many people are looking for new jobs or wondering how long their current job will last. Jobs titles are being consolidated, positions are being outsourced and some are even being eliminated completely. In today's climate, job security is hard to come by. That is why so many people have started thinking about changing their ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

When You Should Follow Up After Submitting an Application

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Wondering whether you should follow up after you've submitted an application for employment? In very rare circumstances you'll have the HR manager's e-mail address or contact information (most likely you won't if you've applied online in some form or fashion). But if you do have the employer's contact info, when should you contact them after submitting an application—if at all? I will caution ...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Diversity and the Supply Chain

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Before we go into why diversity matters in logistics and supply chain management, let's get one thing clear: There is no black, or female, or Asian, or Hispanic, or white way to move materials from point A to point B. Roads, rails, trucks, trains, boats, ships and airplanes may vary in speed, capacity, condition and quality, but they function the same way the world over. What does differ from ...

Five Reasons to Join Professional Associations

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Professional associations add value to the pertinent profession. Most professions are linked to a professional association. Most associations meet once a week. The format is typically lunch or breakfast, networking, speaker and job announcements. Some organizations have student chapters and students pay a reduced rate to join. In this day and age, the investment is worth cost. The employment ...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A “Must Attend” Symposium for Women in Engineering

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Women engineers are urged to attend MIT's critically important symposium--Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT, scheduled for March 28 and 29, 2011 at the Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue.
This symposium will engage present students and postdocs, junior and senior faculty, alumni, and friends of MIT. It will focus on the landmark 1996 and 1999 ...

3 Key Strategies for Creating a Winning Resume – It’s All About Relevance!

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It's important to express in a resume the unique skill set, expertise, and knowledge that you can bring to the employer. It is commonly referred to in the career world as your unique promise of value. Essentially, what you're communicating to the employer through this unique promise of value is exactly that—the value that you offer the employer if they choose you over another candidate. So ...

3 Tips for Developing the Perfect Executive Resume Title

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You've made it. All your hard work has paid off, and you're officially The Big Cheese. Now it's time to go out and find a great job that bears both the responsibilities and rewards of being a top executive. The trouble is, depending on which company is advertising a job, you may be applying to be CEO, Director, or President. How should you title your resume in order to be picked up by ...

3 Strategies for Landing That 6-Figure Job

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Imagine for a minute that you have $150,000 to invest. You have 2 choices about who will manage this investment: a guy with a great-looking Web site claiming a solid track record of investing for his clients—or a guy you know who drives a luxury car, lives in a huge house, and just funded his kid's Ivy League education. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather give my money to the guy whose ...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Career Management: Top 10 Networking Conversation Starters for Introverts

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Among the challenges associated with networking is the simple act of how you start up a conversation with a stranger. Add to that challenge the fact that you might be slightly introverted where pointless conversations are like staring into the black void. Nothing comes to mind. You don't have a relationship, no common ground, you aren't yet even sharing a common experience – so how to you do ...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Refusing Applications from the Unemployed: Best Practice or Madness?

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Is it a good idea for firms hiring to purposely exclude the unemployed from consideration? If you missed the news last summer (June 2010) about the growth of this practice, then you might be scratching your head and thinking to yourself, 'that's crazy.' However, for those that follow trends and deal with job postings daily, it's clear that postings increasingly contain some variation of the ...
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Friday, March 4, 2011

Articles


You Are Kind of a Big Deal

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"I'm kind of a big deal." When Ron Burgundy uttered this famous line in Anchorman, everyone in America laughed and started throwing this phrase around. Of course, the line was funny because it would be ridiculous for anyone to say this about themselves in real life … right? One of the greatest challenges people face in writing their resumes is feeling comfortable talking about their ...

How to Make Your Cover Letter a Perfect Fit for Any Opening

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Let's face it, a blanket cover letter just isn't going to cut it these days. So how can you make the best use of your time while maximizing your results? Here are a few simple steps to customizing your cover letters. A MEMORABLE OPENER Here's a mistake I see more and more job seekers making: the opening line on their cover letter reads, "Please accept this in response to the (position) ...
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