Ten Tips to Help You Overcome Your Employment Gap
Concerned about getting back in the workforce after a gap in your employment? You should be. The job market appears to have qualified candidates for most positions. Employers hate to be risky. How will your resume as a stay at home parent, with a ten year employment gap, stack up against those of people who have been racking up career achievements and accomplishments for the same ten years?
Promote Your Personal Growth and Motivation
Are you feeling blah about your life? Does boredom make you unmotivated and unexcited? Are you having a mid-life crisis? You can promote your personal growth and motivation to overcome this inertia. Here are ideas and tools that will help you explore personal growth, set new goals, choose motivation and get your life and work back on a course that excites, motivates and fills your life with joy.
Create the Life You Want With a Mid-Career Crisis
Are you experiencing a mid-career crisis? And, if not, should you be? Are inner voices asking, "Is this all there is?" Do you have a growing sense that you would be happier doing something else? Do you hate going to work each morning? If so, it's time to create a mid-career crisis. I'll share with you some career resources, career assessments and tests and career planning tools to help.
Top 10 Reasons to Quit Your Job
These are the top ten reasons why you might want to quit your current job. These are difficult, if not impossible, to solve. Read more ...
How Do You Know When It's Time for You to Go?
Are you feeling increasingly unhappy about your job? Do you find yourself day dreaming about other things you could be doing with the time you spend at work? Do you dread the thought of Monday mornings? Then it may be time for you to quit your job. Take a look.
Holiday Job Searching
Many job seekers are convinced that job hunting between Thanksgiving and the middle of January is a waste of time. If you buy into this myth, you are losing one of the better job searching seasons of the year. During this season, you enjoy reduced competition for jobs and more. Debunk the common job searching myths.
Singing the Job Search Blues: A Viewpoint From the Candidate
My recent article about "How to Make a Potential Employer Fall in Love With You" sparked both praise and controversy. There are two perspectives to every job search issue. In fact, a Forum reader said,"Want a job search perspective from the other side of the desk?" Want to hear more? He gave employers plenty of good, common-sense advice.
How to Make a Potential Employer Fall in Love With You
Looking for ways to impress a potential employer? Want to make your resume or job application stand out from the pack? In the past few weeks, I've reviewed 485 resumes and applications for 18 different positions. I've interviewed 23 candidates and brought six back for a second, more intense round of interviews. Believe me, I can tell you what rang my chimes.
Compress Your Job Search Timeline
A critical factor in life and business is resilience in the face of adversity. The question people who are unemployed or unhappy with their present job ask, is will my resilience last long enough for me to find a new job. Find your next job faster.
It's Not About the Resume
Why do so many job searchers focus on writing and rewriting the resume? Because most people don't know what else to do to ace a job opportunity. The resume is a concrete, accomplishable tool for job search. What else will the successful job search emphasize?
Why You Really Ought to Want to Love Your Work
Are you working more, enjoying it less, and dreading the time you spend most days at your work place? If you answered "yes" to this question, take time to explore your current career choice and consider all of the other options life has to offer.
Top 10 Books for Job Seekers and Career Changers
Thinking about your current job search or a career change? For dads, grads and others, these books will help you find your way. Learn about the job market. Translate your most important needs, interests, and goals into a rewarding career. Find techniques for a successful job search. These are my long term favorites. Gift a favorite person with the opportunity to explore their desired future.
Things Not to Say at a Job Interview
Bubble gum, dogs, and Walkmans. What do they all have in common? Check out this fun humor site!
Electronic Recruiting Exchange
Site features a listing of HR positions. It also provides articles by Dr. John Sullivan, currently on leave from his position as Head of the HRM department at San Francisco State University. Topics feature diversity, recruiting, and more.
Training Jobs Using the Web
Want to take a look at several sites recommended to help training and development professionals find jobs? Audrey Choden, Suite101.com editor, reviews several sites worth your notice.
Recruiting Options
Recruiting Options identifies, sources, pre-qualifies and refers candidates for executive Human Resources positions.
Recruiters Online Network
Recruiters Online Network (RON) is a leading site for employment professionals worldwide. RON is an association with over 7,000 retained, contingency, contract, interim and temporary employment firms. Job seekers can find a job or recruiters.
