I hope you are having a great weekend. We’ve got freezing temperatures and snow here, but I’m staying warm inside and enjoying a little trip around the (career) blogosphere. Here’s what I’ve got for you this fine Saturday. >> A Warning for Job Seekers: Is That Job Ad Real? @ the Job Hacking blog. Here’s […]
Make It Your Job to Find a Job
The best advice I ever got from a career counselor was to approach my job search like it was my full-time job. I was about to graduate from college and venture off to a new city to make my fame and fortune (okay, truth be told I made neither fame nor fortune), so I scheduled […]
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Welcome to Wednesday! Yesterday I talked about how to make a good impression on your first day of a new job. If you’re still in the job market then file that post away and focus instead on today’s hot jobs. Every week, I give you a list of three exciting new opportunities from JobMonkey’s cool […]
How to Make a Good Impression on Your First Day of a New Job
If you have recently landed a new job — congratulations! Now it is time to turn your energy from making a good impression in your job interviews to making a good impression on the job. How do you do that? Here are six suggestions that take a page from President Obama’s playbook on this most […]
What’s Your Dream?
Today Americans are celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, so I am — not surprisingly — thinking about dreams. I’m not talking about dreams of paying off the credit card and taking a vacation dream. I’m talking about long-term visions for yourself. What would you be doing and where would you be living if money […]
Link Love to Career Blogs
What a beautiful day! My whole family is outside enjoying the unseasonably warm weather… except for me! I’m stuck inside working. C’est la vie, I guess: Such is the life of a freelancer! I am managing to find a lot of great inspiration from the blogosphere today, though, and wanted to share some of my […]
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Are you looking for a job? Have you checked JobMonkey’s free job boards lately? Updated daily, the database features jobs from around the country (and the world) in every imaginable field. From high school students to retirees to everyone in between, the job center is a great place to start your job search. Every Wednesday […]
Career Tips for the Un-Retired
The current economic recession (or wait, are we calling it a depression now?) has caused forced a lot of retirees to go back to work. The uncle of a friend of mine is 63. He has been retired for a year, but just went back to work last month as a bagger at Trader Joe’s. […]