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 [...]
What? 2009 a long year? But we’re only a third of the way through! It’s just that even though only few months have gone by, all the miserable employment news has made it feel like a decade to me. I mean could the numbers get any worse? Well, as we struggle to get our economy [...]
I have to confess, I’m continually amazed by the number of job seekers whose sole method of finding a job is responding to postings on employment sites like Monster or CareerBuilder. Now I’m not saying that job boards have no value. But if that’s your only job search strategy then you’re up against some very [...]
As I’m sure you’ve found, more and more companies are asking for (and even insisting on) salary requirements or history, well before they make you an offer. Often it’s stated in the job posting with a line like, “Please include salary requirements.” With so many qualified candidates chasing too few jobs, companies are looking for [...]