Tapping into the hidden job market Dear Mr. Walberg: Could you please let me know what you mean the “hidden job market?” I got laid off April and am still looking for a job. I have mailed resumes to companies throughout my area and then call to make sure they received my material. But all
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Team-based flexible work programs are pushing into the mainstream Laurie Dowd, a manager of PNC Financial Service’s PFPC, says of the team approach, ”We rely on each other, and it works.” Flexibility is high on everybody’s wish list, but as often as not, it’s still a special perk that’s tough to wrestle from a reluctant
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As the IT-job market improves, employers need to revise pay, benefits, and workplace policies to ensure their most valuable people don’t leave Tom Gagné knows that keeping top tech talent requires making work fun. But “fun” at work isn’t about foosball tables anymore. As chief technology officer at HCS Payment Services Inc., a small company
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Tackling the job of finding a new job Tackling the job of finding a new job Looking for a new job requires focus, tenacity and a number of diverse skills. These new offerings may serve to ease the transition by helping to fill in a few gaps. Winning The Interview Game: Everything You Need to
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Cold calls: Ticket to a good job Cold calling is for champions. Skeptical? Well, I’m not sure you have much of a choice. Fewer than half of all jobs are advertised, and most people don’t get jobs through listings. So how are you going to find them? Your best odds are networking. But most people
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Personality Counts Personalities clash or gel. Jobs fit or they don’t. It’s inevitable. Or is it? What if you could take out much of the guesswork involved in finding the right people to work together, fitting the right people to the right jobs and positioning the right personalities necessary for your company’s stage of development?
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The 12 biggest mistakes people make on their resumes A resume is not an ad for the personals section of the newspaper. But the guy who sent this resume to job recruiter Jon Reed didn’t seem to know the difference: “Makes a strong and commanding presence — tall 6-feet-4, 235 pounds, athletic, sophisticated and mature,”
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It takes more than a career coach to get back into game We are a service-crazed society that fervently believes in personalized help. We also believe — whether it involves our looks, our physical fitness or our careers — in the Holy Grail, certain that, if we look long enough and hard enough, we can
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Entice ‘boomer workers’ to stay on the job Over the past several weeks the media have been reporting on the rise in jobless claims due to the dislocations caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The resulting upward blip in the unemployment rate has led corporate recruiters as well as some job seekers to speculate that
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Network Your Way to a New Job or Career Connections Made by Networking Are the Key to Finding a Job When Cookie Burkhalter relocated from Colorado to Wilmington, Delaware three years ago, she thought finding a new job would be easy. With first-rate qualifications and more than twenty years of professional experience at Fortune 500
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Avoiding the passive job search For some people finding a job is easy because their occupation is in high demand and applicants in short supply. For most of us the search endeavor is more difficult. So what are the some of the things job seekers in fields with less demand do wrong and, if you
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Using online networking sites could land you your next job Looking for a job? Even if you aren’t, it’s important to remember that the era of lifetime employment at a single company is over. Sooner or later, most of us are going to find ourselves looking for a new employer. Bearing that in mind, you
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What It Means to Be An IT Contractor If I were to offer you an opportunity where you could double your pay, would you be intrigued? Even if there were many drawbacks to the offer, doubling your pay is nothing to sneeze at. A senior IT professional’s compensation might be something like $90,000 in a
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