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1. Handing In Your Resignation and Serving Notice

By Gerard McLoughlin

Have you made the right choice? Before deciding to resign from your current position and move to a new employer, you should weigh up as objectively as possible all the relevant factors: remuneration, working environment, location, travel demands, training and development opportunities, promotional prospects, and your future bosses.

Consider also what imp... read more

2. Keywords For Job Searching

By Nell Taliercio

There are keywords that work better then others and not every single one of the keywords listed below will pull up legit jobs every time, but they are worth using. You might just uncover a gem of a job!

Try the following telecommuting keywords when searching for a job.

- telecommuting
- telecommute
- telecommuter
- telework
- tele... read more

3. Become a Change Leader

By Joel Garfinkle

One certainty in life is that the future holds unpredictable changes. We all start each day with a degree of uncertainty and the lessons and opportunities that life brings to us aren't always welcome.

Even though unpredictability is an inevitable part of life, most of us are afraid to make changes. It's never easy! Change forces us to take risks, become vulnerable, and open ... read more

4. Leave your dead end job?for good.

By Max Stein

So here you arestuck in a dead end job. Are you hitting the glass ceiling in a job you once loved, but now cant stand? Maybe the hours are long. Maybe you cant stand retail customers anymore. Maybe youre like 70% of college students who didnt earn a degree and you feel this is the best job you can get without one.
Take heart. There are a lot of great careers out there, especial... read more

5. Learn How To Network for HIDDEN Jobs

By Nathan Newberger

Most jobs are found through old fashioned networking. Use these tips and become a master networker in any situation. Before you know it, you will have people calling you about job openings.

People Who Can Network Get The HIDDEN Jobs

This career article will explain to you the benefits of networking. I will ... read more

6. Leverage Your Network to Break into Pharmaceutical Sales

By Ryan Stewart

Anyone who has tried to get a job as a pharmaceutical sales rep knows that is can be a bit overwhelming. You have to understand the strategies of effective networking, like finding pharmaceutical sales representative groups, the right questions to ask whenever you are in the company of those in the industry and other ways to break into pharmaceutical sales. A solid networking a... read more

7. Middle-Aged Managers, the Forgotten Digital Divide

By Mary Carroll

The digital divide is defined by the role computers play within widening social gaps in our society, as the condition of one group having an advantage over another group in regard to computers, technology skills and Internet access.

This is usually thought of as being a divide between the white middle class and minority communities; but there is another... read more

8. How To Talk Your Boss Into Giving You A Salary Increase

By Gerard McLoughlin

If you believe you deserve a salary increase, ask for it as soon as possible; don't procrastinate or wait for your employer to offer it.

Determine what you are worth in the marketplace by carrying out a survey of people in comparable jobs. Never base your case on a need for more money.

Be realistic in your assessment of what you are worth and w... read more

9. 5 Simple Steps to Creating an Allergy Friendly Home

By Emily Clark

It will seem horribly unfair to any child who suffers withallergies that they cannot have a pet or must loose one whom theyhave grown attached to. Is there a way to deal with pet allergieswhich may lessen or even eliminate the suffering for adults andchildren with allergies?

WHAT ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO?

By establishing whether the animal is actual... read more

10. Why Your CV/Resume Is Not Generating Interview Offers

By Gerard McLoughlin

If your current CV or resume is not generating the interview offers you want, it is time to start assessing it. Check to see that the following descriptors apply:

Begins with a succinct, clearly stated career objective tailored to the particular job for which you are applying.

Highlights how your skills and qualifications match the company's sp... read more

11. Making Sure Your Resume Gets Through to Recruiters

By Scott Brown

The Internet has made recruiting more efficient in many ways. It used to be that you'd have to send your resume to a company by postal mail and wait for it to get routed to the right individual. Now, with e-mail, you're often able to send your resume directly to the decision maker. Overall this is a good thing. The challenge though is that you have competition: it's just as eas... read more

12. Searching For A Federal Job

By Heather Eagar

Many years ago searching for a federal job was a long, complicated and drawn out process. Today, it has been become far less complex and is now just a three-step process. Finding a federal job used to be accomplished through postings in a government office branch and sometimes in libraries. Today, finding an opening can be done right on the Internet. There is a web site that li... read more

13. Learn How To Succeed At Career Fairs

By Nathan Newberger

Learn how to stand out in a career fair and get noticed immediately. These tips will help you get the job much faster than you imagined.

This http://www.WorkTree.com career article will give you somegreat tips on successfully navigating thru career fairs. This issue will quickly cover the following... read more

14. #1 Fear that Holds People Back in their Careers

By Scott Brown

Surveys have shown the average American is more afraid of public speaking than they are of death. No wonder many people have let promotions at work pass them by for fear of having to speak in public. It may not even have been a conscious decision, but public speaking fear has been shown to be the cause of missed opportunities for many people. As someone looking to move ahead in... read more

15. TIPS FOR LAWYERS: Creating Effective Habits in the New Year.

By Jatrine Bentsi-Enchill, J.D., CPCC

It's that time of year where we all feel enormous pressure to make resolutions for personal and professional improvement. Lawyers are no exception! The problem is too often we set the new goals without a real plan of how we're going to avoid reverting to our old habits!

Habits can be a friend or foe. Think of a habit as a pattern of behavior. Successful habits can help u... read more

16. Interior Design For Children

By Rosemary Leake

Interior design for children is one of the most fun, delightful aspects of the business if you ask me. It is so fun because children are limitless as far as their creativity and imaginations are concerned. Whenever planning interior design for children, be sure to involve the children in the planning and-if you feel very brave, the implementation of your designs.
... read more

17. What a Career Coach Can or Cannot Do for You

By Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A.

What a Career Coach Can or Can't Do for You

I want to start with what I think good career coaches do for people who are
looking for new jobs, facing downsizing, ready to retire, but want to work longer,
etc. Any category of job seeker is who we want to work with. I'll start
with my own definition..

1. Coaches can become friends with you. Friends of a... read more

18. How to Become a Computer Consultant

By Joshua Feinberg

Have you ever wanted to become a computer consultant, but you werent sure if you could cut it? Do you have a basic understanding of computer-systems, strong problem-solving skills, and a desire to help other people? If so, then you already possess the main abilities and traits that you need to become a computer consultant.

In this article, well look at the business opportuni... read more

19. Optimizing your Resume Presentation

By Scott Brown

One of the unfortunate realities of the job search process is often, people who are a good fit for a job get passed over because of an inadequate resume. In this age of online recruitment, hiring managers and recruiters may review a hundred or more resumes before deciding on who they want to interview. Given this high volume, they are only able to spend 30 seconds (or sometimes... read more

20. Researching the Job Market

By Scott Brown

In our last job searching tip, I discussed ways of improving your resume. In that article, I pointed out how networking with other people can help you improve your resume. Once of the best sources of advice on improving your resume is from managers who are actually hiring people like you in your field. If you can network your way to meetings with these people, it can be benefic... read more

21. Ten Hottest Careers

By Alexandria Haber

What do you want to be when you grow up? If you are still trying to figure out which career path you want to follow, examine the following list of occupations currently considered the ten hottest careers:

1. Elementary school teachers
2. Accountants and auditors
3. Computer systems analysts
4. Secondary school teachers
5. Computer software engineers
6. Special... read more

22. Guides To Interior Design

By Rosemary Leake

These days, finding advice or guides to interior design is a quick and easy task. Are you looking to design that dream room, the one that you have kept vision of for up teen years and never acted upon? Maybe youre a professional who is interested in livening up their career situation by delving into the world of creative design. Or perhaps, a certain recent event in your life s... read more

23. How Can I Learn Spanish?

By Ben Shar

To learn Spanish, you could invest a lot of money in a college education in which you could earn a degree in the language. You would end up very fluent and very well versed in the history of it. But, this is costly and, well, time consuming. If you need to learn Spanish you will probably want a more speedy result. And, you can find this without a problem in several areas. In fact, ... read more

24. Making Sure You Have Good Employment References

By Scott Brown

Most people don't give much thought about references until after a potential employer asks for them. After all, searching for a job is very time consuming and doesn't give you much of a chance to think about anything except getting interviews. But reference checks are a very important part of the job search process: both for job seekers and for employers. For employers, referen... read more

25. Job Search Advice for Desperate Job Seekers

By Roger Clark

Another morning of job hunting lies ahead of you. You pour a cupof coffee and open the paper to the employment section. With amixture of anticipation and desperation you pick up a stub ofpencil and prepare to target and identify some possible jobopportunities.

There are less ads to circle this morning and despite thepromising words and vague description... read more

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