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How to Use LinkedIn for Your Job Search

How to Use LinkedIn for Your Job Search

Networking remains the number one way to find a job. That is why social networking on the internet has become such a popular tool for job searching. Social Networking allows you to meet and communicate with many different professionals and contacts within the teaching profession. And great tools such as LinkedIn allow you to expand [...]

Recruiters: Gatekeepers of Hidden Jobs

Recruiters: Gatekeepers of Hidden Jobs

What Recruiters Do Recruiters may work within an organization’s human resources department typically or on an outsourced basis. Most recruiters tend to specialize in permanent, full-time, direct-hire positions or contract positions, but occasionally in both. The recruiters responsibility is to filter candidates as per the requirements of each client/company in which they represent. Types of [...]

How to Write a Properly Formatted Cover Letter

How to Write a Properly Formatted Cover Letter

A cover letter has many different uses in business, including: An introduction of yourself and/or your company. To outline your services, experiences, and qualifications. To and request a call to action to be taken by your customers and/or clients. To introduce other documents that are enclosed in the same package.   Letterhead If you don’t [...]

How to Be Successful As a Freelancer

How to Be Successful As a Freelancer

Freelancing is the best job for many people who want to stay at home, out of the traffic and avoid the strict and stringent rules of the office. Instead of doing what others tell them, they can do their job according to their own rules and regulations. It is also the perfect job for moms [...]

Boomer Entrepreneurs: Do You Make These 3 Common Blunders in Your Home Business?

Boomer Entrepreneurs: Do You Make These 3 Common Blunders in Your Home Business?

Weather you’re a novice or a veteran boomer entrepreneur, the chances are that you’ve made several blunders in your home-based business. Some more than others!   However much you try to err on the side of caution, it’s simply impossible to protect yourself from not to do something wrong at some time or other. The [...]

Your Future Is 100% In Your Control

Your Future Is 100% In Your Control

Your future is 100 percent in your control! Many people think the future just happens to them or its just luck. Well it doesn’t work that way. A major determinate of your success and happiness is the learned behaviors of your past and how they shape your future. “Whether you think that you can or [...]

Your Lovely Bones: Exercises to Prevent Osteoporosis

Your Lovely Bones: Exercises to Prevent Osteoporosis

My mother’s skeleton crumbled when she was in her 80′s. I have a mental picture of a collapsing infrastructure that can no longer support the body around it. In the space of five years, she had joint replacements in both hips (caused by fractures in two separate falls) and both knees. Now at the age [...]

How to Tailor Your Resume for the Job You Are Applying For

How to Tailor Your Resume for the Job You Are Applying For

Today’s seasoned professional possess a variety of skills and abilities that benefit the work environment. Corporate employees are expected to keep up with trends within their field of expertise. If you are fortunate your employer will pay for your education and training. As a result of increased duties and cross-training many job seekers realize they [...]

6 Resume Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

6 Resume Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

It may be a horrible situation to be in, but being unemployed gives you the time to create the best resumes. But do you know what makes the best resume writing? Chances are, you’re making some big resume mistakes. Most people overlook important details when they create a resume. Here are 6 resume mistakes that [...]

The Informational Meeting, Job Offer Connection

The Informational Meeting, Job Offer Connection

Not all of us are born “schmoozers,” but it’s a skill that we should all learn as best we can. From a career skills perspective, schmoozing refers to relationship building, a skill that is in high demand. If you are serious about landing your dream job, faster, don’t ignore the power of the schmooze, which [...]