The High Price of Résumé Padding
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson resigned this weekend over allegations of lying on his résumé. The entire Thompson hullabaloo has raised debate over whether the controversy counts as an inadvertent “error”...
View ArticleWe have entered into an age of career entrepreneurialism.
The tough economy means many recent college graduates are forced to wait tables, until they land a job in their chosen field of study. But others are taking a different route, cobbling...
View ArticleHiring Demand for Project Management Skills in the US at all-time high.
Whether or not you hold the official title of Project Manager (PM), chances are you’ll be called upon to lead some sort of project at some time in any job. A definition of project management...
View ArticleCareer Skills for the New Economy
A big part of the solution to the jobless recovery is to better align our educational training programs with the technical needs of today’s employers to be globally competitive. Employers need...
View Article2012 Mid-Year Hiring Outlook
The job market is a moving target…with businesses acting like a significant other who isn’t ready to commit. Instead of marrying themselves to permanent employees, companies are speed dating and...
View ArticleUSING RSS FEED AGGREGATORS IN YOUR JOB SEARCH – THE SMART WAY TO JOB SEARCH
At the very most — and some say this number is too high — only about 5 percent of job-seekers obtain jobs through newspaper classified ads, news journals, or job boards. Today…by far the most...
View ArticleHiring Managers Top 5 Least Favorite Things
When asked about deal breakers that would make them automatically dismiss a candidate from consideration, hiring managers included these top 5: Candidate throwing their resume at every job post-to see...
View Article201,000 Hired in August 2012
According to a new ADP National Employment Report, private-sector employment in the United States increased by 201,000 in August 2012, the biggest single-month gain in five months, blowing away...
View Article2014 In Demand Hard-to-Fill Positions
Four in 10 American employers are struggling to fill open positions. Our goal is to help the job seeker better understand the current job-market landscape…so they can better align their job search...
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