9 Understandable Reasons to Quit a Job
Working is important, it teaches us responsibility, work ethic, and accountability. While we spend more time than we’d probably like at our jobs, it’s a necessity for our way of life. Our jobs provide us the means to build comfortable and secure lifestyles, unique to each of us.
How to Stage the Scene for a Winning Video Interview
In recent years, video interviewing has risen 49-percent. This means that if you’re in the market for a new position, there’s a very good chance that a potential employer will want to meet with you on Blue Jeans Network or other video [...]
Keep Your Job Search Game Strong With These Tips [INFOGRAPHIC]
We’ve welcomed a few new players to the job search field. Today’s job seekers have more retargets to help draw out the Xs and Os than ever before. The wealth of online retargets and social platforms can help you break free from [...]
Exploring the Burgeoning Indian Employment Market
Quoting trade-analyst.com: "Studying the trends of various sectors, the media & entertainment industry has rocketed a 62% growth. Robust growth is exhibited by almost all the industry sectors monitored by the index like IT/ITES, Healthcare, Engineering& Construction, Production & Manufacturing, Travel and [...]
Inspiration During your Job Search
Job Search can be stressful and take much longer that you expect. It's not easy to go through the pressure at times. Success comes to those who keep going, positively, enthusiastically and with a plan. Here are some inspiring sayings that might [...]
Online Tools to Use during Career Change
Stuck in a job you don’t like anymore? Want a career change but don’t know how? Ready to step on a new journey to discover a satisfying career? Yes! There are many of us everywhere who are pondering over this question now. [...]
How your Word Choice Affects your #JobSearch
Words have the power to influence, soothe, agitate or amaze. Using them carefully in your jobsearch may not seem that important to you at first thought, but the answer to success may lie in the trivial pursuit to write each word in [...]
Planning a Career Change? Here are 4 Career Directions to Consider
When you have built your career to a certain level, it brings things like financial security for your family, as well as a good level of respect from your peers. Often though, people find that this isn't enough and grow tiresome of [...]
5 Essentials to Kick Start your Jobsearch
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." ~ Mark Twain Get going on your job search but know what [...]
Higher Education gets you Hired – Faster Better
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” ~ Malcolm X Education is very important in the present job market or for the skills required for the future. For better career options, a [...]
Searching for a Job? How to Make Social Media Work for You
In management studies, students are always told to get in the consumer's shoes. When you know what your audience wants, it's much easier to deliver directly to their expectations. Getting hired is a similar process. When you go out there in the [...]
Looking Beyond the Job Description – Research the Company well before the Interview
Matching your career path with a company that'll take you part-way along the route is little more than a gamble if you don't do the research. It's all about best fit, for you and the company. The more you find out prior [...]
What Freelancers or Business Owners Must Know when Going Back to Full Time Job
There’s a possibility that at some point of time due to circumstances or by choice a freelancer or a business owner plans on going back to full-time work. It’s never easy but then most of the things aren’t. All you have to [...]
Looking for a Green Tech Job? Move to One of These States
There's an international focus on growing renewable energy and cutting back on emissions. With government funding and private sector investment, the green energy is quickly growing to satisfy global requirements—and so are the job opportunities. Regardless of whether you’re a new grad [...]
The Era of Creative Resumes
This Guest Post is by Kukook Resumes Writing a Modern Resume This is an era of modernity and creativity. People enjoy seeing new and innovative ways to showcase information. So is the case with your resume. How you are dressed, how you [...]
Dashing Through The Winter Job Search [INFOGRAPHIC]
Winter is coming, but that doesn’t mean your job search has to stop. Too many job seekers hold-off their job search during holidays, missing out on great job opportunities. Continuing a job search during the winter months can help you beat your competition, [...]
Two Reasons Why You Must NOT Accept Unpaid Internships
Ready to apply for an internship? Would you accept an unpaid offer? Why or why not? Here are two reasons why you must not accept unpaid internships: Legal Nathan Parcells, co-founder and CMO of InternMatch, an online platform connecting the best intern [...]
ATS Still Being Used to Scan Resumes – Here’s How to Let the Robots Read your Resume
Many employers are still going strong on ATS resume scanning. And while we wait for better technology or ways for resume scanning, it is good to know what you must do to ensure that your resume is read by these robots. Here's [...]
Use these 5 Cs in your Resume to be more Competent at your Entry Level Job Search
The purpose of a resume is to convince the hiring manager or the recruiter that you are the best (or one of the best) candidate for the job. It is not an easy task to come through convincingly if you are an [...]
How to Stand Out During Your Entry Level Job Search [Infographic]
You’ve got a 4.0, created the perfect resume, and established a flawless network of connections, but it takes a lot more than these things to gain the attention of employers. Today more than ever before, competition is fierce in the entry-level job [...]
Are You Prepared for Tricky Behavioral Interview Questions?
Behavioral interview questions are some of the toughest you may be asked by a potential employer, but they don’t have to be. We’ve answered some of the trickiest behavioral interview questions to make sure you don’t get stumped! 1. What did [...]
High Tech Job Boom in Missouri
While Silicon Valley, and to a lesser extent New York, is still the nation’s undisputed high-tech center, it appears that there is a quiet revolution starting to happen in Missouri. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Missouri surpassed both California [...]
10 Mistakes Job Seekers Make and How to Avoid Them
Career Coach and Author Ford R. Myers Highlights 10 Little-known but Deadly Mistakes That Can Stop a Job Search Dead in its Tracks! Many people make significant job search mistakes and never even realize it. These blunders are easy to make ... [...]
1 in 6 Jobseekers Tribute Social Media for Helping them in their #JobSearch [Infographic]
Social Media has changed how business is done and the future of work and business depends largely on how we leverage it in near future. The game is changing and those who adopt and learn fast from the new trends are the [...]
Informal Sector Hire Challenges: HR Speaks
Recruiting and managing informal sector workers in India has proven to be a difficult task for many employers across India. In spite of this, recent interviews with Bangalore employers show that there are ways to engage with and keep informal sector workers [...]