Are your job references holding you back in your career? Question: I was downsized from my job at Merrill Lynch a couple years ago. For the first 6 months I didn’t want to work anywhere but Merrill Lynch so I applied to many jobs listed on their corporate website. A little over a year after
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Career Assessment Tools & Tests Help plan your future with these self-assessment and career discovery tests. What if you’re not sure of what kind of job or career you want? Not sure what to do with your life? Need some career direction? Spend some time here and take one or more of the following self-assessment
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An Aging Workforce’s Effect On U.S. Employers The aging workforce creates a challenge for employers seeking to retain top-notch people, and an opportunity for workers who may want to earn a few extra bucks in retirement. About 76 million baby boomers, or those born between 1946 and 1964, are set to retire in large numbers
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IBM launches workforce consulting services IBM today launched a new consulting service designed to help businesses plan for critical changes in their workforces as more of their most highly skilled baby boomer workers retire — taking their knowledge with them. Using advanced analytical software tools to review a company’s workforce, IBM’s new services initiative will
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How to get in the best workplace If you pay attention to the business media, you undoubtedly have seen more than one article about the country’s employers of choice. From Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list to Working Mother’s “Best Companies for Women of Color” feature, there is no shortage of help for
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Career path hits age gap What’s your idea of a career nightmare? Is it long hours and low pay? Or a micro-managing boss and disrespectful co-workers? For the vast majority of workers under 45, new research shows it’s the latter. Today, people very much want to love what they do. And they want a considerable
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The Best Way to Organize Your Job Search Question: How do I organize my job search? Answer: Label 17 file folders with the headings below. Using them is easy. Review all the folders every day for a few weeks until you get the hang of it. This system will make your job hunting life much
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Be Your Own Mentor In today’s fast-paced working environment companies don’t always have a straightforward plan for their employee’s personal and professional growth. Even if they do, chances are it’s a pretty low priority. To be sure you’re successful and growing in your career you often have to take matters into your own hands. A
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Who you are and why they need you Who you are and why they need you Some see job hunting akin to playing the lottery. They send the same resume to various employers, close their eyes, and hope luck will tap them on the shoulder with an interview invitation. Career counselors agree shrewd applicants send
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Secretive Searching Recruiter calls at work create a new dilemma for targeted employees. Do you talk or not? Oh, to be among the wanted. That’s what many workers out there say when they hear friends or colleagues moaning that they don’t know what to do when a recruiter — or headhunter — calls them at
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Secretive Searching Recruiter calls at work create a new dilemma for targeted employees. Do you talk or not? Oh, to be among the wanted. That’s what many workers out there say when they hear friends or colleagues moaning that they don’t know what to do when a recruiter — or headhunter — calls them at
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Strategy for mature employees Why is it so difficult in some professions to find a job when you have 10, 15 or 20 years of experience? Sometimes it is because employers discriminate and other times it is because hiring managers make assumptions about middle-aged or older employees. If you are discriminated against because of your
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Companies prepare for baby boomer exodus Bill Copeland of Annandale, Va., who retired recently from the real estate business, right, works with customer Gary Petrosian at a Home Depot in Falls Church, Va., in March. When executives at Platte River Power Authority, an electric company in Fort Collins, Colo., surveyed its employees 18 months ago,
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Recruiters say lack of grades not an issue for MBAs Since employer-information sessions for second-year MBAs began last week, students and recruiters have converged on cafes and hotels across town to discuss past experience and future opportunities. But they haven’t been talking about grades. At these sessions, recruiters say, the previous work experience and practical
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Jazz up an ho-hum resume Innovative keywords can rev your resume and create hype about your candidature. Most candidates however kill their resumes with an overdose of worn-out staple, cliched and trite phrases. For example, every candidate prefaces the resume with the word hard hardworking, without work hard to make it a believable attribute. Examples
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