Nearly everyone has some sort of gap in employment at some point in their career.  The days of “lifetime employment” are all but extinct.  While most gaps are relatively short, up to a few months, sometimes they end up being much longer.  Or perhaps it’s not really an employment gap but a career gap - [...]

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Here’s a useful post from Lavie Margolin’s blog, Lavie’s Job Advisement
How do I answer the question, “What is your greatest weakness?”
“Remember an interview is your chance to continue to ‘sell’ an employer on your appropriateness for their job opening. Every answer that you give should make your candidacy stronger.
“I suggest explaining a challenge/problem that you [...]

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We all know that when you’re between jobs, planning to look for a job, semi-employed, or self-employed, every dollar counts!
One very easy way to earn some extra money is to leverage customer acquisition programs. Many companies, such as some banks, will actually pay you to refer them customers. Why do they do this? Well, customer [...]

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I saw a post on a job search group in Yahoo! Groups and sent an email to the job seeker with several suggestions.  I’m not including the original post here but am including the text of the email I sent her, in the hopes that someone else can also benefit from this.  In case you’re wondering, the title of this blog [...]

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No, I’m not talking about your favorite team, or even a sport at all.
A company called Scorelogix has come up with a statistically valid way to predict the probability of an individual losing his or her job.
“Job Security Score™ is an innovative, proprietary score from Scorelogix which predicts the probability of an individual [...]

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Having a bad day or week at work? You may have read this joke before as it has been widely circulated online, but I thought I’d post it in case you could use a good laugh…and a reminder that even if you are having a really bad day in your dry, room-temperature cubicle, it’s probably [...]

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…and steps you can take to identify if your job is at risk, and protect yourself if it is.
There is an excellent article called “Lay-Offs — Are You Next?” on George Lenard’s Employment Blawg.
“How can you tell if you are one of the predicted millions of employees who will be in danger of [...]

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 A job like this will make you appreciate your desk job.

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STATE COLLEGE, PA–(HR Marketer)–March 27, 2008–CollegeGrad.com, the #1 Entry Level Job Site, today released the results of its survey on what employers want most in hiring new college grads. What is most important to entry level employers – the college you graduated from? Your GPA? Or what you majored in? According to the survey results, [...]

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I found an interesting post on Monster Blog that generated some fascinating comments.
The writer was responding to a blog post by Penelope Trunk that focused on emphasizing achievements on a resume (a very good thing) but saying that achievements are “only things that should be on your resume” - which is the point [...]

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