Posts Tagged ‘Employment’

What To Do If You’ve Been Wrongfully Terminated

What To Do If You’ve Been Wrongfully Terminated

When you lose your job, regardless of whether you were fired or laid off, it’s always hard to understand your employer’s reason behind it. After doing some soul searching what if you realize you were let go for an ? If this is the case of you, then you have the right to bring a [...]

Conducting Your Own Background Check

Conducting Your Own Background Check

If you are looking for a new job, odds are good that prospective employers who are seriously considering you will conduct a background check. With today’s technology, there’s no telling what they may learn about you — unless you beat them to it by conducting your own check on yourself.   Today’s employers, especially large [...]

10 Things to Remove From Your Resume

10 Things to Remove From Your Resume

20 seconds. That’s the average amount of time that an employer will spend scanning your resume. The phrase “Less is more” has often been used for design purposes, but it can apply just as well to your resume. The point is to keep only information on your resume that is clear, simple and that supports [...]

Resume Writing Tips to Succeed in a Tight Job Market

Resume Writing Tips to Succeed in a Tight Job Market

It’s an undisputed fact – today’s job market is tighter than ever before. During this period of economic strife and instability, competition for the best jobs is extremely stiff. Job stability seems practically non-existent. Turnover rates are at an all-time high, given the number of layoffs and agency closings. Millions of individuals are unemployed and [...]

Do You Have A Brand?

Do You Have A Brand?

It is a cold winter Sunday morning. I’m running 20 minutes late. Church starts at 11 a.m. It is 11 a.m. I still have to pick up a child I’m mentoring who lives 15 minutes away. I arrive at his home. Instead of sending my usual text “I’m here,” I anxiously, but gently blow the [...]

How to bag an executive job

How to bag an executive job

Trying to secure a job as an executive is a much more difficult process than applying for non-executive positions. The level of aptitude and proof of the necessary experience to cut the mustard at the lofty end of the corporate ladder is naturally higher and the required skill set has to be of a level [...]

Unemployment Survival Tips

Unemployment Survival Tips

Losing a job is one of the most unfortunate things one can ever experience. It can make you worry about lots of things such as your monthly bills, health insurance, and grocery stuffs. If you have been a victim of a wrongful termination recently and feels like you are nowhere to go, the following are [...]

Mastering The Job Search Process

Mastering The Job Search Process

In the last decade, job seeking has changed and competition for every role is more competitive than ever. The prosperous decade of the 1990s, when jobs were plentiful and money (not to mention credit) was seemingly free flowing, failed to give way to an equally prosperous 2000s. Individuals seeking employment in this market are finding [...]

Avoid These Job Hunting Mistakes

Avoid These Job Hunting Mistakes

Job Hunting is a difficult, stressful experience for anyone. Unsurprisingly, many people approach job hunting incorrectly and end up with an unsatisfactory job, or no job at all. Here are some key mistakes to avoid when looking for a job.   Waiting for something good to happen. While it is not unheard of for a job [...]

Deciding Whether You Need to Write a Career Plan

Deciding Whether You Need to Write a Career Plan

In the same way that a Vision Statement helps a company define its goals, a personal Career Plan can help you to solidify your goals and identify the steps you should consider taking in order to reach those goals. Whether a Career Plan would be useful to you is a question only you can properly [...]