The Job Ad You’ve been sitting there for about an hour now, waiting for an answer to the question that is slowly driving you mad: What is the recruiter looking for? There’s this position, you see, and you know lots of other people are going to apply for it. You want to make sure that
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New hire protected by age bias rules Q. I went for an interview and fared so well that I expect the company to hire me. I don’t know how the interviewer will react once he finds out I’m 66 years old. I am worried about what happens if I get the job. Can the corporation
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Leave your job in a halo, not in a huff Leaving your job can be stressful, whether you’re moving on by choice or if you’ve been fired. Even though emotions may be running high, now isn’t the time to let them overwhelm you, writes M. Rose Jonas in her new book, “Can I Lie on
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Talent drain needs fix A talent crisis for most workplaces is not years or even decades away, according to the latest survey from professional services firm Deloitte & Touche. It is already here. Through December and January, Deloitte surveyed 123 human resources executives at companies across the nation for insight into how their companies are
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Online job posting good first step Q: I’ve been job-hunting the old-fashioned way, but am curious: Should I put my resume on all those online career sites, given the millions already posted there? A: Absolutely. If you’re like most of us, a new job is elusive quarry best tracked with every possible bow in your
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Working-age people with jobs on decline Dick Merrill lost his sales job at a metals company two years ago. He networked with people in the business, sent out hundreds of resumes for sales positions in other fields, but nothing turned up. Frustrated and a bit discouraged, his full-time search for work petered out. “I looked
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Grizzled veterans can find job change daunting Can staying at the same job for most of your career cause problems? Last week, I wrote about the symptoms and cures for an interrupted career path. That’s a career in which the worker left the work force to take care of someone or to tend to a
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Checklist can help job hunt succeed Question: I was recently laid off from my most recent job as an executive assistant. I have been in this field for more than 10 years and have been applying to no avail for positions that I know I am qualified for. Should I try changing my rsum? Answer:
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Smart networking has subtlety, mutual help factor How networking works: Networking wherever and whenever you can might not always be a good idea. That’s a concern of Gail Golden, a consultant at RHR International Co. RHR is staffed by psychologists that specialize in the management and development of people. Based in Wood Dale, it has
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Why “Blink” Matters: The Power of First Impressions Professional speakers and trainers have long asserted that people make up their minds about people they meet for the first time within two minutes. Others assert that these first impressions about people take only thirty seconds to make. As it turns out, both may be underestimates. According
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Women ‘earn less’ after career break Professional women who put careers on hold for family or other reasons earn 18 per cent less once they return to the workforce, a new US survey reports. The salary penalty for hopping off the career track is even higher in the business world, where earnings dropped an average
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Multi-Story Rsum, Higher Profile Turn your life into short narrative tales of achievement — and no one will dream of filing that job application in the trash. Sometimes, I think I missed my calling — that I should have been a man born in the Middle Ages. True, the medical care was abysmal and life
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Give your resume a makeover Its a New Year time for a makeover. When Jan. 1 rolls around its natural to start thinking about making a fresh start. The events that make up your daily routine start to feel stale and enthusiasm levels for things you once loved, or simply tolerated, begin to plummet. So
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As Computer Jobs Continue To Shrink, Health Care, Service Work Replace Them When it comes to jobs, California’s Silicon Valley is beginning to look a lot more like the rest of the country. The engine that helped drive the U.S. economic boom of the 1990s is finally close to emerging from the employment slump that
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Ageism warning to employers over new recruitment laws But the skills shortage could also help older IT workers Changes to discrimination laws and a skills shortage will force employers to tackle the problem of ageism in IT, according to a leading industry recruitment body. New laws on age discrimination come into force in 2006 and
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