In a recent post on Recruiting.com, Jason Davis talks about the importance of Follow Up Calls in the hiring process, especially from the perspective of recruiters and their candidates trying to impress the hiring client in a highly competitive atmosphere. While his example is appropriate and even includes a nice script for candidates to use […]

In a recent Justjobs.com post, How to Increase Your Creativity and Be Promoted at Work, the theory is put forth from a Rice University study that grumpy people are more creative problem solvers in the workplace. The study hoped to determine why some people move up corporate ladders faster than others and what traits […]

I came across a very popular recent blog post from Violent Acres: Don’t Treat Your Employer Better than They Treat You. I found it on Digg, where it has nearly 2000 “diggs” so far and a growing number of comments — the vast majority of which are supporting the overall “The Man is keeping me […]

With today’s swearing in of Mike McConnell as the new Director of National Intelligence, the US government is planning to focus on the hiring of fluent speakers of key languages in the War on Terror. Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, and other languages of the Middle East and South Asia are in the highest demand. An […]

I have seen a couple things recently that got me thinking about the concept of failure from the perspective of one’s career and/or professional aspirations. Having been involved in entrepreneurial pursuits since the infancy of my working life, “success” and “failure” have always been extremely fluid concepts, changing with almost every new realization, idea, […]

OK, that’s a harsh title, I know.
But, as a professional resume writer, I see SO MANY resumes filled with errors and ineptitude that I had to alert you to some of the worst.
Without further ado, here’s how you can write a resume that works … by NOT writing one that is brutal.
1) […]

According to the Robert Half International “2007 Salaries Guides” as posted on Yahoo!’s HotJobs, the top 5 jobs for 2007 are as follows (in no particular order):
1) Internal Auditor
2) Copywriter
3) Senior Administrative Professional
4) Web Developer
5) First-year Legal Associate
That is a fairly diverse list of top positions for this year. Not that everyone with skills in […]

There’s a great post at Secrets of the Job Hunt about the realities of the video resume and the fact that it may actually be a negative from the perspective of recruiters. The article is called Time to Hit Pause on Video Resumes and is clear about the problems they can present to recruiters.
I’m not […]

Recently I have taken notice of the number of seniors that are still working in various jobs, even though most or all would seem to be of “retirement age.” They are working in grocery stores, the post office, accounting firms, and in an array of other jobs covering the spectrum from blue-collar laborer to white-collar […]

I was on Jobster yesterday and noticed “free job postings” and, sure enough, read today on Techcrunch what exactly is going on over there. The move is being hailed (by Techcrunch at least) as a move to target Monster.com, the job board behemoth on the block. With $50 Million in funding and a CEO who […]