Job Search
Mistakes to Avoid at Your Next Career Fair
Career fairs can be great opportunities to find a job that will be rewarding in pay and in personal satisfaction, but only if you go about them the right way. There are many mistakes that are commonly made which can prove costly when attending a career fair and these mistakes should be avoided at all [...]
Job Interviewing
What can you expect in a job interview?
So you’ve finally obtained that hard-to-get interview – congratulations! But now what do you do? What can you expect in the interview? First and foremost, you must realize that in the job interview you’re a sales representative and the product you’re selling is….you! This means you have to be ready to sell your skills and [...]
Cover Letter Writing
Cover Letters: Follow the Posting
Everyone dreads the cover letter to some extent. This is mainly because a new one has to be written each time a job application is filled out or a resume submitted. Having a template to work with can ease the stress and reduce the work when customizing a cover letter for a position that you’re [...]
Resume Writing
Tune Up Your Resume – Part 4
In this last of my four part series on tuning up your resume, I’d like to cover some format and content suggestions. There are two basic resume formats: the “chronological” format and the “functional” format. In the chronological format, you list your employers in date order, beginning with your most recent employer and working backwards. [...]
Career Advice
Many People Would Kill to Get Sentenced to Life in Government Employment
If Dale Hausner illustrates anything whatever it is that a government job is a lifelong sinecure. And this isn’t only because the percentage of employees of the federal government who are dismissed from their positions for all of the usual reasons (lousy performance, sky-high absenteeism, gross misconduct) was at one-half of one percent last year, [...]
Recruiters
Job Hunting: Finding a Recruiter
It’s a jungle out there, especially for those looking for jobs in a tough marketplace. It can be especially difficult trying to navigate all of the job search boards, social networking sites, and classified ads, not to mention the job fairs that make your head spin. When you’re searching for a job it’s ok to [...]
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