There’s an eyeopening article in today’s Wall Street Journal, http://tinyurl.com/nn5uut, about some of the hoops that job seekers have to jump through when applying for an open position these days. Go to an interview and you won’t just be answering complex case questions or providing an on-the-spot business analysis. In an effort to really determine [...]
Time can rob you blind, especially if you’re out of work. How many weeks until your severance or COBRA ends? How many weeks after that until your savings are used up? How many hours are there in the day to look for your next gig?
At GetHired we always advocate working smarter rather than just longer [...]
The current jobs recession has been very democratic, everyone’s been hit – the unskilled and expert, those just starting out and long-term experienced professionals. Everybody is suffering. But the impact will be felt hardest by one group – older workers. That’s because once economy starts to turn around, they’ll be the last ones hired.
Why? Because [...]
I know a lot of you have been out of work for some time, and that all your efforts to find a job in your chosen field are getting no results at all. You’re probably starting to wonder if you’ll ever work again. What’s doubly frustrating is that maybe you didn’t love what you were [...]
In Part 1 of this posting, we talked about whether now is a good time for a career change. We identified the parts of your last job that you didn’t like to see if it made more sense to simply change those things about your job that you didn’t like but keep the things you [...]