Interviews help sell in today’s market Sellers know you never get a second chance to make a first impression — especially when you’re operating in a buyer’s market. More than a clich, that advice is gold for savvy marketers, whether they’re showing a house or a showcasing their skills to a prospective employer. According to
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Remember soft skills; forget synergy, interface If you’re wondering how to describe your job skills on your resume in a way that will get you noticed as a “match,” Marc Karasu, career expert at Yahoo!HotJobs, an online recruiting site, has some helpful insights. Though other career professionals often suggest that so-called soft skills should not
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Does Your Resume Say Too Much? Does Your Resume Say Too Much? For many job applicants, less is best I think about my greatest career accomplishments, the achievements I list on my resume do not necessarily come to mind. Sounds improbable, doesn’t it? How can you write a resume and not include your greatest career
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A dream job often is just that – a dream A dream job often is just that – a dream. And many job seekers defer that dream, especially when jobs aren’t plentiful and accepting any job at all seems like a good idea. But now may be the time to follow your dream. “Your dream
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Brighter picture awaits jobless tech workers The job market should brighten this year for the state’s laid-off technology workers. That’s the forecast from the Massachusetts High Technology Council, a trade association that represents 120 technology chief executives who work in healthcare, biotechnology, software, and medical device development and production. The study, based on the responses
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Seven Day Job Search The first step is to spend Monday writing your resume, but before you do be sure to adhere to the following quick tips. Your resume is not a place to list everything. Include only what’s relevant to the job you’re looking for. Another general rule of thumb is if you have
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The Gentle Art of Eating Crow Admitting you made a mistake is never easy, but if you gotta do it, do it with style. Here’s how to emerge looking professional and fair You stride out of the conference room flush with triumph. Man, did you nail it! You made great points and knocked down objections
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Long-Term Jobless Find a Degree Just Isn’t Working Dan Gillespie never thought he’d have to look so hard for work. When the Seattle-area resident left the Air Force in 1980, he earned a computer science degree and enjoyed 20 years of steady work. He saved enough money to buy his wife’s childhood home last year.
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Career Savvy at Age 40 ! QUESTION: I’m considerably older than my employer, and although there’s been no open acknowledgment, I feel that my age sometimes intimidates him. What can I do to make things more comfortable for us both? ANSWER: Age differences are going to be more and more of an issue for baby
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Back to school for a mid career MBA? For Phyllis Ludwig, a 42-year-old student in the Executive M.B.A. program at Temple University in Philadelphia, it was the worst holiday of her life. “Last year on the Fourth of July weekend, my husband took the kids to the beach. I stayed home and did finance homework.
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10 Reasons Why Blogging Is Good For Your Career From Tim Bray, who’s been practicing what he preaches for so long he was probably blogging by morse code – Ten Reasons Why Blogging Is Good For Your Career: 1. You have to get noticed to get promoted. 2. You have to get noticed to get
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Recruiters cite leadership, relationship skills as keys for IT execs The job market for CIOs and other high-level IT managers is starting to pick up again from the depths of the dot-com bust, according to a panel of three executive recruiters who spoke at Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference here this week. But the
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To focus on career goals, consult the pros In today’s evolving job market, where whole sectors can rise and fall in a decade, more workers are seeking help and motivation in focusing their career goals. Everywhere one turns, it seems that others have found job satisfaction and wealth by finally realizing long-held career ambitions. Many
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It can’t hurt to post your resume online 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
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The way you speak can speak volumes about your career For years, former SouthTrust Corp. accounting systems manager Mingming Jang relied heavily on display boards and handouts to communicate with colleagues in meetings. Jang, a native of Taiwan, had a tendency to speak too quickly and struggled with certain sounds in the English language such
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