Job Search

anthony balderrama on May 10th, 2010

Social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs) and other user-generated-content sites (think of picture and video sharing sites) are not new. They certainly came of age in the past decade, but in Internet Land, a few years are equal to a few decades. Therefore, you’re not surprised that employers are looking online to see what information you’ve [...]

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sparktalk on May 5th, 2010
By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Jessica Holbrook Hernandez Five basic résumé rules and the mistakes you make that break them. Thousands of job seekers make these mistakes. Are you making them too? FORGETTING TO INCLUDE A COVER LETTER Not attaching a cover letter to a résumé is like shooting in the dark. Hiring managers receive hundreds of unsolicited résumés every [...] Related posts:
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By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Jessica Holbrook Hernandez
Five basic résumé rules and the mistakes you make that break them. Thousands of job seekers make these mistakes. Are you making them too?
FORGETTING TO INCLUDE A COVER LETTER
Not attaching a cover letter to a résumé is like shooting in the dark. Hiring managers receive hundreds of unsolicited résumés every [...]

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I don’t buy lotto tickets often but I just picked up two for tomorrow night’s Mega Millions. Don’t judge. We all wonder what it would be like to win the lotto, especially when we’re rocking the unemployment. The jackpot is $266 million so I put down my $2 and got my winning tickets. Then I [...]

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Erin Seay on April 30th, 2010

I’m sorry to say that the job market still sucks (as if you didn’t know that already). That being said, there has been an upswing in part-time and temporary employment. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the temporary job sector has added 313,000 jobs since September. Many companies are now realizing that they let go of too many employees during the recession hysteria. As a result, they are adding temps to help keep their productivity up and get their businesses growing as the economy begins to recover.

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sparktalk on April 27th, 2010

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Rita Ogbeama
Are you frustrated with your job search? If so, you are not alone. There is nothing more frustrating than looking for opportunities when none seem to exist.
The following are a few tips the frustrated job seeker should embrace. The advice is simple and often discussed, but also often overlooked. Sometimes, the [...]

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