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[24 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 810 views]
Resume Basics

In the age of internet marketing and a flooded job market, it has never been more important to perfect the basics of your job search. The first and most basic step is to ensure your resume is clean, focused and contains the basics that you can not afford to leave out.
Contact Information: Ensure your contact information is correct, accurate, and highly visible. Your contact info should at minimum contain your current phone number and email. In most cases, it is wise to also include your current address, website, and professional …

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[1 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 900 views]
Looking for a Job? Try Your hand at Writing

Writing helps share the knowledge you have acquired and can lead to your next job. This approach spreads the message of your job search in a viral fashion. It helps you establish yourself as an expert in a particular field. Then when you get to the interview stage, it helps the hiring manager certify your expertise.
In your professional career to date, you have learned skills or acquired talents / abilities that many people don’t have. While you likely take many of these things for granted, others do not. People with …

Job Markets, Job News »

[28 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 575 views]
Signs of Recovery in a Slumping Job Market

At the national level, the Feds are talking about the potential of a market recovery. Earlier this month, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke even stated that the recession is “very likely over”. The federal government may just be right. On local levels, this potential is already taking root. Across the country small pockets of local businesses are recovering and actually hiring or re-hiring employees.
These small pockets are showing up all over the country. Employees are being recalled in specific areas throughout the Midwest and the South East. For the third …

Job Markets, Job News »

[24 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 689 views]
Job Market Review – September 2009

Finding a new job in today’s job market can be tough. Most companies are unsure of their financial future, so new openings are few and far between. If you are searching for a job, being chosen to fill one of those few openings is difficult. The 9.7% unemployment rate is definitely not on your side. Today’s job market clearly favors the employer. However, there is hope. Job losses have slowed and the economy is showing signs of stabilization. This means that the wait may be drawing to an end.
According to …

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