Resumes and Job Hunting
For the first in a six-part series about stepping up your job-search or job-upgrade process, business coach Kate Hanley explains the importance of keeping a calendar. First, please tell me what you do. I help …
Carolyn Walstein, profession organizer, explains the importance of staying organized in your job search. First, please tell me what you do. I’m a professional organizer. I help people update and prioritize, and let go of …
If one goes out looking for work coming from a place of exhaustion, worry, and resentment, that is what he or she will give off.
Wear little or no cologne or perfume. What smells good to you may not smell good to the interviewer.
While older workers are less likely to be laid off than younger workers, they arre about half as likely to be rehired.
Robert Coleman, executive director of the Second Chance program, offers tips and resources for the “hardest to employ.” First, please tell me about Second Chance. Second Chance is dedicated to creating opportunities for self-sufficiency. We …
The biggest no-no is creating a website that looks like you did it yourself.
Why would a company ask questions specifically designed to probe a potential employee’s honesty? The answer is that employers are experiencing a great deal of employee theft. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that employee …
Not sure you have any examples, stories, or incidents that are applicable? Nonsense. Everything that has happened to you in your professional life is a story.
The manager is interested in your attendance record. Do you frequently call-in sick, arrive late, leave early?
Don’t be a victim. You’re already jobless and you don’t need any more stress in your life.
Many employers require candidates to take tests.
Here are some résumé, application, and interview blunders which employers have shared with me. They would be amusing if they weren’t so tragic, and so avoidable: We received a résumé written in long-hand on three-ring …
What makes these job fairs unique is that they specifically target America’s service members and veterans.
For the last eight months, Jan Browning, 54 of San Diego, searched the Internet, networked diligently, and used all the social networking tools available to find a job. After 347 applications and 45 interviews she …