I read today on Secrets of the Job Hunt, referencing a Bureau of Labor Statistics study, that the average college graduate can expect to hold between 10 and 14 jobs by the time they turn 38. C.M. Russell, author of the blog, suggests that job hopping and free agency are the way to get ahead […]

The following rant is primarily intended for young and new job seekers who have not already committed themselves to a mortgage, car payments, and an obsession with keeping up with the “Patels’.”
Most of us are conditioned to spend what we make. Sure, we build in some investments and emergency savings here and there, but we’re […]

Every time we leave a job - for any reason - there has been some fracture of the previous working relationship. Even if terms of the departure were amicable, there was obviously some reason for the split and one or both of the parties involved probably have some feelings or opinions about the parting of […]

Or, is it wrong for rich people to have jobs when there are so many unemployed people that could benefit from the work?
It’s a social dilemma that I heard posed the other day on the radio. It wasn’t a real topic of conversation, just a comment made in passing as a joke (I think), but […]

I posted recently about a friend of mine and his search for a new job, even though he is still currently employed. After a couple insightful comments on that post from Advice from My-Recruiter.com, I got to thinking about the importance of would-be job seekers determining that they should in fact be looking for a […]

During most of our secondary and undergraduate education, we are constantly reminded that we need to find a career path where we can make a living and hopefully find some level of fulfillment. Some of us are fortunate enough to “know” what it is that we would like to do with our professional lives and […]

It seems that the approach to job search from the perspective of job boards and from the vast majority of the employment industry at large is the same as we find in other areas of our consumption-based economy – Bigger. Faster. Stronger. Everything is about using the biggest job board or the largest resume database. […]

Jason Alba at JibberJobber has a great summary of a teleseminar entitled “Never Look for a Job Again”, which included offerings from various industry leaders and contributors. Jason provides a fairly comprehensive list of notes from the seminar, but I have picked out just a few:

People at work pay attention to the strategy of their […]

Most employees feel that they might be just a little smarter than the people above them at work. And in many cases, employees have great ideas for improving the overall performance of their company. Unfortunately, the ideas of employees rarely get beyond their initial introduction to management because their presentations are incomplete - they do […]

The biggest ongoing story in professional sports in the last five years has been the “revelation” that performance-enhancing drug use is widespread among all major sports and that detecting and/or preventing that use is going to be very difficult, if not impossible. An article in the most recent ESPN the Magazine introduces the concept that […]