Job Search

Hiring managers and recruiters share the features of resumes that grab their attention — or make their eyes roll. Time was, a well-crafted resume that was a good resume was enough to get your foot in the door at most companies. Today, with easy access candidates have to apply to thousands of job openings online, … Read More

With the privileges of working come responsibilities that start even before you are hired. Working can be a real privilege. For one thing, it’s a great adventure. Every employee from the top to the bottom of a corporation’s org chart gets to be a part of the adventure — the daily challenge to create value, … Read More

It’s still a buyers’ market, but job seekers (the sellers) should be prepared to exercise more leverage in the hiring process. It’s no fun being a commodity. For much of the last two years it was a buyers’ market for hiring companies — they had their pick of willing and available candidates. The result was … Read More

Staying current in the technology and IT certifications is just the start. A career in Information Technology requires skills previous generations of IT executives ignored or scorned. (People skills? What are those?) The modern IT executive must be a master of the technology he manages plus the business lines it supports. What follows are the … Read More

Not every job scam is an outright con, many are just promises the employer can’t keep. If a job sounds too good to be true, it probably is. So say employment lawyers and career coaches, who warn that, especially in this economy, employers may be making promises they can’t fulfill. “There is a lot of … Read More

Excerpted from ”You’re Better Than Your Job Search” By Marc Cenedella and Matthew Rothenberg If your experience is in a troubled industry, you may have to find a whole new way to package it, says Randy Hain, managing partner at Bell Oaks Executive Search in Atlanta. “I know a guy who was senior in the … Read More

Don’t take a lowball salary offer personally. A low salary offer is not an insult; it’s just a lowball salary offer and it’s probably just the starting place from which you can begin a salary negotiation and work toward a bigger salary. Read More

Electrical engineers, magazine designers and others are enduring sour salary prospects, while closely related fields experience sharp improvements. Is it time to switch industries? Sometimes two adjoining industries will experience vastly different prospects. How can you adjust your search to improve your odds? Case in point: Electrical engineers face a dismal job market. Job growth … Read More

Whether you’re on salary or on the hunt, you need to manage your time and energy. Approach the latter with the same focused structure you’d give the former. Read More