Careers & Employment Information
Changing Careers: Taking the Plunge
Are you changing careers? If answering this question is irritating, equally exciting is the joy of starting a new job. With every career change, you hope to move up and on to new responsibilities.
Photography Careers
Are there many options available to you if you're considering a career in photography? You bet, now more than ever in the digital information age, freelance and full time career options are endless.
Great Waiters are Not Born -- They're Made (Part One)
Food service jobs are open to virtually anyone. Getting into the hospitality industry is reasonably easy, but to progress, it is important to have relevant skills and knowledge.
STOP Lying To Yourself!
Most of us are taught from day one as children that lying is BAD! This is probably not a new revelation to you and I believe that the moral majority is not deceitful most of the time.
If You Want To Be Successful In Your Job Search
If you want to be successful, the following advice should be followed:
Don't Be An Interview Idiot!
As a recruiter in the restaurant industry, I see candidates or job seekers do stupid things in the interview all day long. Obviously, we all have an idiot gene hidden in our bodies waiting to emerge somewhere down the road.
Super Moms Return to the Workplace
When Keisha Case decided it was time to go back to work and join the legion of working mothers, it wasn’t whether or not to return that was the tough decision – it was what to do.
Summer Job Hunting 101
Sooner than later, the lines at your local fast food joints will be filled with more summer job seekers than hungry customers. Mallrats will be replaced by well-mannered students with résumés in hand.
Attack Of The QSR and Why Quick Serve Restaurants Rule!
QSR or quick serve restaurants are here to stay. Love them or hate them, fast food is "where it's at". This segment of the food service industry is growing more rapidly than any other area with sales forecasted near $145 billion this year.
I Can Help Everyone In The World!
As a restaurant management recruiter, I help a lot of people find new and exciting careers in the food service industry. Although I can't directly place or find career opportunities for everyone, I always provide some degree of help on their search.
Divas and McDonalds
Why do people have such a low level of respect for quick serve team members? This continues to fascinate and disgust me at the same time
The Katrina Effect
First off let me say how much compassion I have for all the participants of the devastating Hurricane Katrina. I don't like the word victim because that implies a guilty party inflicting harm on another and whom can you blame in this case?
Why Should We Hire You?
Sometimes this is the last question of a phone screen or a face-to-face interview. Regardless of when it occurs, and believe me it will, you should be ready to rock and roll with your answer!
The Counteroffer Strikes Back!
So you are thinking about accepting the counteroffer even though I said it was bad? You ask what could be so bad about getting an increase in salary or a big new promotion with your present employer versus making a change to leave them and go with a competitor?
Beware Of The Counteroffer!
A counteroffer is a ruthless and potentially hazardous renegotiation of your salary with your current employer, which occurs when you threaten to leave for employment with a competitor.
Interesting Career Path of a Private Investigator
If you find yourself longing to become a private investigator, there is a series of steps that you will have to take in order to start your career. This is true for any professional career, so knowing what you have to do to pay your dues ahead of time will save you some grief down the road.
What Makes A Great Manager Great?
A great manager is someone who can provide direction for a team in a results oriented environment and due so with ease.There are many managers in positions of authority who are terrible managers and certainly not great managers.
Get Hired Faster Using A Recruiter
There are many reasons to use a professional recruiter in your career search.
Do You Have Interview Cancer?
I have a friend named Owen, who I recently worked with to find him a new career in the restaurant industry.I am a restaurant management recruiter, but more importantly, a career coach and a developer of interviewing talent.
Freedom to Enjoy Life’s Passions
Steady cash flow comes from steady work. If you want money you have to do something that produces money.
Do What You Can and What You Enjoy
You will be most successful if you pursue a career that you are able to do. Some jobs do not mentally or physically suit our abilities. Some people find work to do but are only able to maintain their vocational effort until they are 50 or 55 years old. This is fine as many people are able to financially retire in their fifties. Jobs that require strenuous physical labor become less productive for many as they age.
March Madness - Would You Like To Coach?
Have you ever thought changing jobs? Have you ever aspired to be a college basketball coach? Now is a great time to get your resume together.
Junior Achievement Program Supports Girls in STEM
There is a well-known gap between girls and boys when it comes to interest in STEM careers. And evidence shows that that gap may be widening based on a survey from Junior Achievement, a non-government organization that prepares youth for future jobs.
5 Tips for Balancing A Career and Caregiving
An estimated 34 million Americans provide unpaid care to adults age 50 or older every year, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, and that number is rapidly growing. More than half of those caregivers feel they have to make compromises at work to care for their aging parents, according to a new survey from Home Instead, Inc., franchisor of the Home Instead Senior Care network.
Get Professionally Fit in 2020 With Expert Online Leadership Training
As 2020 approaches, make the new year and new decade the time to turn heads in your profession by boosting your leadership skills.
3 Expert Pay Negotiation Tips for Women
As advocates continue to put gender equity under a microscope and some progress has been made there's still a long way to go. The income gap between men and women has yet to be closed and while employers have a huge role to play in creating a level playing field many women could advocate for themselves more effectively during salary negotiations.
Schools Must Do Better to Prepare Students for a Freelance Future
Almost two-thirds of children currently in elementary school will end up in jobs that don't exist yet.
How High Schoolers Can Boost American Business
Finding skilled workers is an ongoing challenge for American businesses.
Schools Must Do Better to Prepare Students for a Freelance Future
Almost two-thirds of children currently in elementary school will end up in jobs that don't exist yet.
Where the Jobs Are: Why Relocating May Be the Best Option
Unemployment rates and joblessness has been a prevalent topic in the U.S. since the recession began in 2007. Just three years into the country's economic slump, an estimated 8 million jobs were lost nationwide.
What It Takes to Get One of the Most In-Demand Jobs
Which jobs will be in demand in the coming years?
Employment Growth May Be From Your Street
There is no doubt the economy is healthier than it has been in quite some time. One has only to look to the news to discern that the U.S. is in the midst of an economic growth spurt.
How to Cash in on the Gig Economy
There's an exciting career revolution taking place for those who want to call their own shots, set their own schedules and control their destinies. Say hello to the "gig economy," a booming new job market.
Computer jobs that the US Market Offers
Computer jobs can be broadly classified into hardware and software careers. What is the Difference? Computer hardware professionals or engineers design and develop computer equipments and peripherals. They test these equipments and solve complex problems in computer hardware.
Project based summer training for engineering students
In view different IT and core group companies works on different technologies, which are not commonly tough to students during their B. Tech, MCA or any other technical gradation. Students understand better about these technologies while their internship time period when they help their seniors during working on project paid to them to work upon by companies.
Dermatology Pay Levels
This article outlines the pay information for dermatologists, you'll learn about the average salary as well as the factors that contribute to a dermatologists salary.
Clerical Jobs Versus Career as a Receptionist
Receptionist and clerks both play an important role in any organization. Many of their main responsibilities or tasks are overlapping. However major distinctions between clerical jobs and receptionist jobs are the degree of responsibility handled by them and their skill sets.
Find a General Practice Job in New Zealand
A person seeking gp jobs New Zealand should look for recruitment consultants who can guide them in finding jobs for general practice. New Zealand apart from being a tourist spot also attracts medical professionals from foreign countries.
Medical Recruitment Consultants for Finding Jobs
There has been an emergence in agencies providing medical recruitment services. You have local agencies which provide recruitment services locally and then there are the ones who place candidates globally.
Jobs In Agriculture And Animal Health
As present day cultivating practices improved, the necessity for maintainable horticulture was increased from financial and nourishment satisfactoriness to natural and social manageability.
Enchant People the "Apple Way" for Career Success
Many of us have career dreams we aspire to achieve, but often we are left feeling daunted by how to turn those dreams into reality.
Nurses Find Competitive Edge in Continuing Education
There's little denying the importance of continuing education in the nursing field. For many nurses, it's state law.
Knowing the Value of an MBA
As the economy begins to improve, all industries will require the expertise of management professionals to help sustain financial growth and prepare for new organizational structure.
Navigating the Learning Curve of College Visits
Finding the perfect college is kind of like investigative journalism -- you must do loads of research, ask all the right questions and visit the scene to gather first-hand knowledge and experience.
New Career Opportunities Abound as Dependency on Computer Technology Grows
In personal and professional life, computer technology impacts even the simplest, everyday tasks.
Finding a Way to Increase College Persistence
It's great to get low-income students to college, but what if they drop out during their first year?
Engineering Field Sees Low Unemployment, Higher Pay
When faced with an intimidating job market and sizeable student loans, students must give serious thought to which college degrees will help ensure a job with a substantial salary.
The GRE Tests Give Students More Options than Ever
Accepted by more institutions than any other graduate admissions test, the GRE revised General Test now provides more options and opportunities for test takers.
Observations From the Field: Changes in Mechanical Engineering
The face of mechanical engineering is changing -- dramatically. Engineers aged 55 to 60 are retiring, taking vital knowledge with them.
Want a Job Interview? Fire Your Resume
With almost 4 billion resumes distributed annually, there's growing frustration among job seekers that they are blending into the competitive landscape.