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 […]
Hot Jobs 20
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. […]
Applying for Financial Aid to Go Back to School
Have you recently decided to go to school? Maybe you’re a first-timer with your sights set on grad school and then a corporate job. Or maybe you are returning to school after a long break and lots of real-world work experience along the way. Whatever your story, odds are financial aid will be a part […]
What I’m Reading This Week
I can hardly believe we are 9 days into 2009. On my weekly perusals of the blogs, I found a lot of New Year’s Resolutions posts — like the one I did here about job seeking resolutions on JobMonkey. It’s interesting to read about the goals others are setting for themselves. It looks like a […]
Want to work at home? Beware of scammers!
For many people, working from home seems like the ideal situation (and I work from home, so believe me, I get how great it can be!) Maybe you are a new mom and want to be home with your baby. Maybe you are sick to death of your boss and want some autonomy. Maybe you […]