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Job Search Strategies for the Holiday Season
In the rush of the holiday season, many people are focused on celebrations, but it's also a unique time to find work. Holiday jobs create openings across …
Seasonal Jobs: Tips and Opportunities for Success
In today's dynamic job market, seasonal employment offers a unique opportunity for various individuals, including college graduates looking for temporary work. …
Preparing for Your First Job: What New Graduates Need to Know
Transitioning from college to a career is an exhilarating journey for new graduates. As you step into the professional world and search for college grad jobs, …
How Recruitment AI Impacts Your Job Search
In today's fast-paced job market, finding the right job can be challenging, especially for frontline, entry-level, and essential workers. However, Recruitment …
Understanding Employee Benefits: What to Look for in a Job Offer
In today's competitive job market, understanding the employee benefits package is as crucial as evaluating the salary when considering a job offer. A …
Swiftinomics: Navigating the Surge of Celebrity Job Trends with the ERAS Tour
In the bustling crossroads of entertainment and economics, a new term has emerged: "Swiftinomics." Coined from the unparalleled economic impact of Taylor …
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How to Find Your Dream Job
Wondering if the "perfect job" exists? A position that offers competitive pay, aligns with your skills, and ignites your passion? Can you even find your dream …
Make the Most of Your Free Time and Upskill
With hundreds of millions of Americans staying home due to the Coronavirus, and with millions currently also furloughed or recently laid …
Coronavirus & Your Career: Action Steps No Matter What Your Situation
With the discovery and spread of the novel Coronavirus, we are truly in unprecedented times. From forced restaurant and …
Why Strength and Power Training is Similar to Your Job Search
People don't like heavy lifting or soreness when it comes to physical training. As a former personal trainer, few people are willing to buy into the commitment …
Out-of-State Job Offer: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Relocating for a job is a daunting proposition, and it comes with both excitement and challenges. Identifying the pros and cons of relocation can leave you …
5 Elements of a Useful Job Search Blog in 2017
Blogs are powerful tools for getting noticed before or during a job search. Many job seekers see it as more than just a passive way to reach employers. People …
How to Create Realistic Expectations During Your Job Search
Your job search needs to be dynamic, but based on realistic expectations. We envy those who make it look easy. I liken it to getting and staying married. When I …
Be a Consultant, Not a Job Seeker or a Novice
If you were unemployed and a LinkedIn user in 2008, you likely heard the advice to list your latest job as a self-employed consultant. This way, lurking …
11 Uncomfortable Ways to Hit a Home Run in Your Job Search
You will fall behind the competition if you don't stand out in today's job search. For example, I know promoting myself makes me feel squirmy, a little dirty, …
This Document is as Useful as a Resume (Maybe More)
I talk to job seekers regularly who only depend on a few methods to find jobs. I find it interesting they prefer to rely on processes that could exclude them …
The Top 300 Best Job Search Sites
The one thing we can all agree on: searching for jobs online can be a PAIN. What if we told you we could make your search easier by giving you a list of the …
Hidden Job Market: 5 Secret Ways to Get a Job
If you are looking for a new job, we understand how difficult it is. In the increasingly competitive job market, there are often several dozens, or even …
Sudden Job Loss? Tips to Get Back on the Career Ladder
Let's be honest, losing your job is almost always a negative experience, whether it was your choice to leave or not. You may go through feelings of insecurity, …
Your New Degree is Not a Golden Ticket for Your Job Search
Taking more medication than you need is similar to over education. More isn't better; it takes time, and correct application to work, and what doesn't kill you …
What Students Should Know Before Graduation
Graduation can be a bittersweet time. Students say goodbye to their familiar routine and take their first tentative steps into the world of work. It can be …
What to do When Your Job Search is "Code Blue?"
When you're at a hospital and you the overhead speaker blares "Code Blue," do your thoughts automatically go to the patient and his or her family? If you're not …
Hold the Door! Get your Foot in at a Company That Isn't Hiring
We all have companies that are on our “wish list.” They’re the employers with mission statements so profound they bring tears to our eyes, have Instagram …
How to Apply for Jobs When You Already Have One
Job hunting when you’re unemployed is one of the most stressful things you'll ever do. You feel pressured to jump on the first opportunity you find just to have …
Five Tips for Landing an Entry-Level Job
The search for an entry-level position is very competitive. New job seekers, recent grads, and people changing careers means that there could be hundreds of …
33 Career Experts Share Their Best Advice for Your Holiday Job Search
The holidays can get overwhelming, add in the unemployment factor and they can be downright unbearable. Just because it’s the holiday season that doesn’t mean …
10 Job Search Mistakes College Students (and You) Make
Well, you've spent tens of thousands of dollars on your education, and now you're ready to head out into the real world, but there's one course they don’t seem …
12 of the Creepiest Jobs That Really Exist
With Halloween right around the corner ghouls, goblins, and clowns are preparing to scare anyone out collecting sugary loot. We decided to scare up the …
3 Ways the Computer is Hurting Your Job Search
If you’ve been job searching, you know what an amazing tool the computer is. You can look for and apply to jobs 24/7 while you sit on your couch in pajamas. …
The 8 Emotional Stages of Your Job Search
Two of the most dreaded words in the working world: “You’re fired.” And the two that follow: “Job search.” I can hear your disgust from here. You …
15 Things You Wish You Knew During Your First Job Search
Everyone talks about how awful job searching is. If you’ve been there (or are currently there) you understand exactly how terrible it can be. What no one tells …
Job Search Warning Signs You Should Never Ignore
When you're looking for a job, you tend to be more concerned about what a potential company thinks about you than what you think of them. Which means you may …
5 Ways Pokémon Go is Like Looking for a Job
Catching all 151 creatures on Pokémon Go is a lot like job searching, and you can be successful as long as you’re vigilant and know where to go. Here’s …
So You got Rejected, Now What?
Face it: No matter how qualified and skilled you are or how well you present yourself at a job interview, you’re not going to get every job you apply for. …
Do You Really Need an Internship?
Your college professors, advisors, friends, and parents told you getting an internship is the only way to get a job and the experience of a job before you enter …
Did You Miss That "How to Get a Job" Class in College?
Research shows that it takes anywhere from three to nine months for a college graduate to land their first job. If you’ve already begun the search for your …
3 Ways to Stop Worrying about your Job Search
Looking for work takes so much time and effort, but once you’ve spent part of your day networking and applying for jobs, you probably still have hours left to …
Fired!? How to Handle an Unexpected Professional Breakup
Losing your job is terrifying. Not only does your ego take a huge hit, but so does your income. Here are a few ways to handle the breakup, plus a few things you …
Four Job Search Survival Skills You Need Right Now
It’s midnight and you're staring blankly into your computer at the the 15 open tabs that have jobs you’ve applied to. Your “cover letter” folder is exceedingly …
If the Shoe Fits: How to Know if a Company is Right for You
On paper, the job seemed perfect. The position was completely in line with my background, the responsibilities were right up my alley, and the office had a …
15 Unusually Creative Ways to Land a Job
Even as the job market improves, jobs seekers are finding more and more creative ways to land a job in competitive fields. Video resumes, interactive personal …
Unpaid Work That Could Actually Land Your Dream Job
Some career experts debate about whether or not to include your volunteer work in the relevant experience section of your resume. If you have 30 years of work …
Who Are You and Why Should I Recommend You?
First, let’s break down the difference between references and recommendations. References are what you provide once your potential employer has …
Why EQ is as Important as IQ in Your Job Search
So what is EQ and why should you care? We'll let the person who coined the term explain. We've written about EQ before—"The Weird Reason Why …
The Struggle Is Real: 9 Not-So-Funemployment Lessons
Congratulations, millennial! You graduated from college and are preparing to enter the workforce (or you’ve already taken your first stepping stone job). One …
How to Get Hired from Miles Away
Searching for jobs out of state? We have some tips to give you an edge on getting noticed by hiring managers (and getting hired) no matter where you live! In …
Job Search Resources for Veterans
The unemployment rate for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was lower in October — at 4.6% — than the national average of 5%, according to recent Bureau of Labor …
8 Job Search Essentials You'll Love
(Featured image from MOO.com) Leave Your Mark In a world where social media and all things internet are king, Aliza Licht writes about how you can use your …
How to Survive a Company Merger
With a Dell/EMC deal in the works and the announcement of a tentative Anheuser-Busch, InBev and SABMiller #merger, employees and job seekers are wondering what …
How to Make Yourself Stand Out for a Competitive Job Position
You’ve sent in your application and got the call back for an interview. Congrats! Now what? Now, it’s time to stand out from the rest for the …
How to prepare for your last semester of college
You’ve survived three and a half years of meal plans, dorm living and less-than-awesome roommates. Due dates, research papers, mid-terms and professor …
Quick Tips to Prepare for Your Job Search
We all know job hunting can be stressful. Combat this stress by following these quick tips to prepare for your job search: First, figure out where you want …
Why your holiday job search shouldn’t wait (and how it can)
With the holidays just around the corner and a full work-year to wrap up, employers are not looking for new hires until the New Year… Right? WRONG. This …
Tips for your mobile job search
Even though Web traffic from mobile devices continues to increase and roughly 75% of job seekers have used a smartphone in their job search over the past year, …
How-To Online Job Search on Jobs2Careers
“Job searching is my favorite thing to do.” - Said no one ever. Hey, we know job searching can be a pain. And if you’re not sure of the best way to use a job …