The Work Buzz

Happy Tuesday!

Normally I despise people who do the “Happy Tuesday!” or “Somebody’s got a case of the Moooooondays” thing, but a little excitement in the midst of a job search is sometimes necessary.

So, as you have come to expect, here is this week’s list of companies hiring this week. Continue reading

Email etiquette 101 declares that anyone composing a message should be careful about how their words can be misinterpreted by a reader. When looking at a computer screen, the reader doesn’t know what you intended and can’t hear the tone of your (imaginary) voice. Continue reading

We’re halfway through 2011 and many job seekers are wondering what the state of the job market is. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases employment figures each month, the data can be informative but still doesn’t answer the questions a lot of people have: Who’s hiring? Continue reading

The reason we put out a list of companies that are hiring each week is to simplify your job search. We figure pointing you to available positions is as close as we can come to actually applying for you. (If we could just hand out job offers, we’d gladly do it. Continue reading

Celebrities don’t always make the best role models. For every Bono and Oprah Winfrey there is a real housewife of [choose your city] screaming at her supposed friend in a busy restaurant. Celebrities don’t always make the best authors either. Just because someone can sing or act doesn’t mean they’re capable of writing a stellar autobiography either. Continue reading

In the new movie “Larry Crowne,” Tom Hanks plays a Navy veteran who is a manager at one of those big box stores where you can buy bananas, a TV, new tires for your car and fish tank all under one roof. Continue reading

It’s almost July, can you believe it? Well, it doesn’t matter if you do or not because it’s the truth. The summer is speeding by and we’re very near the midway point of 2011. Where does the time go?

Hopefully it goes to something fun, like a water park or cocktails by the pool. Continue reading

We’ve established that co-workers can be just plain weird. They can even be toxic. If you’ve been lucky, you might have also found that they can be great friends. Can they also save your life? Yes. (They can also kill you, as any quick online search will tell you, but let’s not go there.)

In a 2011 article published in “Health Psychology,” the American Psychological Association finds that some workers benefit from having a “peer support system” from their co-workers. Continue reading

Politicians like to talk about jobs and how, when they’re elected, they will magically fix the economy. All parties make this claim, but job creation is a strange monster that has a mind of its own. Figuring out which jobs are disappearing, which will never come back, which brand new ones will arise, and how we can influence any of it is a Herculean task. Continue reading

This morning on Twitter, I asked job seekers how they were ringing in the first official day of summer. One person eagerly responded that she had just accepted a temporary position. A new job seems like one of the best ways I can think to begin the summer. Continue reading