Refine Your Small Talk Job Search Skills
We’ve all found ourselves in that situation where someone we don’t know asks us what we do for a living. Depending on your mental energy level at the time, you may offer a job title-only response or you might go into a little more detail about what it is that you actually do for a [...]
Coordinating an Effective Local Job Search
With the growing number of unemployed Americans and the tendency toward firing out resumes and browsing massive job listings on the Internet, we sometimes overlook the employment opportunities that are available in our immediate area. Obviously, people living in major urban centers aren’t going to make that mistake, but those of us out in the [...]
Are Labor Unions Dead?
I came upon an article today about the Employee Free Choice Act in the Guardian and, as I was reading it, I couldn’t help but think that the traditional definition of a labor union may be obsolete in this country. The article was raising the possibility that the EFCA could usher in a new golden [...]