Build Your Rolodex of Networking Contacts How important is networking in your job search? Take a look at the astonishing numbers surrounding how job hunters ultimately become gainfully employed. 14% of job hunters get jobs through newspaper classifieds. 13% of job hunters get jobs through employment agencies. 5% of job hunters get jobs through career
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The Elephant in Your Resume Self-inflating fibs are easy to spot. So stick to accentuating your positives — and maybe spinning them a little, too Fans of the late, beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss will recall Marco, the protagonist in And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street. Marco is an embellisher: In
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For young vets, jobs are hard to come by Paul Briones thought he had done everything right to relaunch his career in the civilian work force. After serving five years in the Army as a radio operator and GPS tracking specialist, the 26-year-old had become an expert in his field and banked on his military
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Changing Direction In The Middle Of A Career Whether it’s because they’re laid off or their business is cooling off, many Rochester-area residents are switching careers. In uncertain times, some turn to careers that virtually guarantee them a job. Bruce Rosenbaum owned a business and sold electronics. Lisa Brillian worked at Xerox with engineers and
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Are you a baby boomer about to retire? Concider a second career In the next decade, it is estimated about 76 million baby boomers will hit retirement age, but don’t try to talk to them about it – they are much too busy. And to be honest, they don’t really want to even think about
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Career goals rebooted As an eager freshman in the fall of 2001, Andrew Mo’s career trajectory seemed preordained: He’d learn C++ and Java languages while earning a computer science degree at Stanford University, and then land a Silicon Valley technology job. The 22-year-old Shanghai, China, native graduated this month with a major in computer science
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Attitude Adjustment A massive new study of the U.S. workforce has some sobering news for corporate America: many of today’s young workers are massively disaffected with their jobs and often constitute a negative influence on the whole workplace. The survey, of 7,718 workers in every industry, by researchers from Ken Dychtwald’s Age Wave group, the
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Expand Your Professional Network As a counselor, I help my clients find sources for finding jobs. There has been a big emphasis on using job boards,career and job Web sites and recruiters and agencies. At Pace University we post jobs and have an alumni job listserv and we send daily listings to our alumni. In
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Advice for recession-scarred job hunters With the job market returning and companies hiring again, now comes a new wrinkle: How do you write a resume that explains what you’ve been doing for the past four years? This was a period, after all, when people with master’s degrees drove cabs. When tech workers bounced from temp
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Web portfolios grow beyond techies When the staff at a Scholastic Corp. unit heard that Cindy Eng was being hired as their editorial head earlier this year, they did an online search of her name.Fortunately for Eng, their searches led them right to her Web portfolio, a personal Web site that trumpeted her professional accomplishments,
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Computer jobs lose luster for young aspiring techies As an eager freshman in fall 2001, Andrew Mo’s career trajectory seemed preordained: He would learn C and Java languages while earning a computer science degree at Stanford University, then land a Silicon Valley technology job.

How Do Successful Job Hunters Do It? We are all destined to go job hunting again. The only question is how soon. The job hunt now occurs some five to nine times in most people’s lives, with two or three career changes thrown in somewhere along the way, just to keep things interesting. So the
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Be honest about resume gaps With the job market returning and companies hiring again, now comes a new wrinkle: How do you write a resume that explains what you’ve been doing for the past four years? This was a period, after all, when people with master’s degrees drove cabs. When tech workers bounced from temp
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The Office of the Future – the skills you will need Reskilling, upskilling, telecommuting, downsizing, redundancy changes in the workplace are all a bit scary unless you have a high tolerance for uncertainty. According to new research the office of the future will be increasingly mobile, with technology enabling employees to perform their jobs from
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