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Tuesday, April 26, 2011



Parents Are Interfering with Their Child’s Job Search

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There is a disturbing new trend where parents are becoming more involved in decisions that should be made solely by their adult children. After years of micromanaging their children's lives, many parents are not ready to let go just yet. As a result of this, numerous parents are becoming actively and excessively involved in helping their child find their first job. Some employers are beginning ...

Successfully Switching Careers

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If you are considering switching careers, it is important to first determine why you want to make the change. By identifying the driving force behind your decision, it will help you to figure out what job changes would make you the most happy. It is also important to learn more about yourself and recognize your strengths and weaknesses so you can apply them to your daily life as an individual or ...

Make the Most of Your Online Job Search

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Job hunting can be a very stressful process. In order to help ease the pain and simplify this endeavor, it is important to avoid making these common mistakes when searching for a job online:
  • Under-utilizing available resources. Many job seekers don't take advantage of all of the valuable and available resources today that will help develop a powerful resume to effectively market ...

The Trend for Job Seekers and Employers is to Go Niche When Searching for the Ideal Job or Candidate

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The virtual career space is experiencing an evolution as users of general job boards are beginning to migrate towards niche job sites. Many employers and job seekers are making a shift because these niche web communities have the ability to attract a more targeted audience based upon specific industries or geographic locations. Niche jobs sites are also gaining popularity due in part by some ...

The Next Generation Workforce

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Generation Y, a much sought-after group, also known as "Millennials", represents a generation of ambitious, confident, hopeful and goal-oriented twenty-something employees who are taking corporate America by storm. They are the workforce of the future and they have an entirely new way of interacting and doing business. What really sets this generation apart from other generations is the way ...

Maximizing Online Recruitment

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Over the past decade, the Internet has become the single most powerful tool in recruitment advertising. Because of the growth and popularity of online recruitment, thousands of job boards are now emerging, giving employers more options than ever before to target and hire quality candidates. Posting jobs online has become an integral part of most employer recruitment programs. However, few ...

How to Recover from a Bad Job Interview and Get The Job

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It can happen to anyone. For one reason or another - a late arrival, botching answers to key questions, failing to show knowledge about the company - you had a bad job interview. Although the proverb is true, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, you do have an opportunity to make up some of what you lost in your bad job interview. Was It as Bad as You Thought? First of ...

How to Use an Informational Interview to Get Hired

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There's a lot of great job interview advice that's available when you're looking to get hired, but for those who are looking for a new job, sometimes the best advice isn't conventional. One example of the less common advice involves looking into less common job interview techniques and options like the informational interview. Unlike a traditional job interview, an informational interview ...

3 Simple Ways to Make Your Resume and Cover Letter Work Together

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When writing a resume, your job is not just to write an amazing document but also create an amazing component known as the cover letter. Sometimes job seekers forget that these two documents work together, especially if they have written a resume, and are then told at the last minute they need a cover letter. Because the two are intertwined it's a good idea to make sure that they are indeed ...

How to Format a Master Resume

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If you're thinking about creating a master resume, you're on the right path to writing amazing resumes when you apply for specific jobs. Master resumes allow you to have one place to store all of the details of your career so that you can easily find specific details to add to submission resumes. Though the master resume is one you won't submit, to help keep your information organized, it's a ...