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By Kate Lorenz on Apr 6, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Job Search, Mature Workers, Resume | 117 Comments
In an age of Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare, we’ve gotten used to broadcasting any and all information about ourselves. But when it comes to your résumé, it might be best to take a cue from architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who coined the phrase, “Less is more.” Today’s guest blogger, Catherine Jewell, tells job seekers [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Apr 2, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, News, Video | 13 Comments
We’re not out of the woods yet, but Americans got some good news this morning regarding employment. The BLS reported that nonfarm payroll employment rose by 162,000 in March, and the unemployment rate was 9.7 percent for the third month in a row. This welcome news comes on the heels of CareerBuilder’s latest job forecast [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 24, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, News | 73 Comments
What happens when you make a verbal blunder at work? Can you recover? Should you apologize? Should you even acknowledge it? It all depends on what you say, whom you say it to and who overhears it, says Joseph Grenny, co-author of “Crucial Conversations.” “It doesn’t just happen to news correspondents or politicians,” Grenny says. [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 17, 2010 in Featured, Job Surveys, Mature Workers | 953 Comments
Who invented the standard nine-to-five workday? He or she must have been a morning person because if I were setting the workday hours, I’d push it to start at 10 a.m. at the earliest. Why? While I’d love to be the type of person who just jumps out of bed alert and perky every day, [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 15, 2010 in Ask The Work Buzz!, Featured, Job Search | 30 Comments
Last week we kicked off our contest, Talk to The Work Buzz! You submitted your great questions about interviews and we picked one to answer. Our winner is getting a copy of the book Career Building. We like you. You like prizes. So we’re back with a new topic for the contest. This week we [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 10, 2010 in Featured, Job Surveys, Video, Web/Tech, Work/Life | 8 Comments
They do it while walking — oh so slowly — down the sidewalk. They do it at the gym. They do it at the movies. They even do it in the bathroom. They are using their smart phones. While some people are checking out Facebook, getting directions, reading the news or just plain addicted, many [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 5, 2010 in Employment Trends, News, Unemployment | 2 Comments
We’ve been a little crazed here at TheWorkBuzz lately and just realized the day has passed without posting our regular breakdown of the BLS’s monthly unemployment numbers. Luckily, our colleagues at TheHiringSite.com have already written about that very subject so we’ll refer you to their post.
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 5, 2010 in Featured, Mature Workers, Resume, Video | 9 Comments
When a house has been on the market for an extended time without an offer or even a showing, homeowners often get help staging their property and even make over important rooms, like kitchens and bathrooms. When it comes to your job search, perhaps you should use this approach with your résumé. With electronic job applications [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 10, 2010 in Employment Trends, Featured, Pop culture, Work/Life | 14 Comments
When you think of TV’s most famous romantic duos — Jim and Pam, McDreamy and Meredith, Turk and Carla, Sam and Diane, Mr. Burns and Smithers – they all have one thing in common: They met on the job. But when it comes to finding love, it’s not just reserved for primetime. Regardless of the [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Feb 5, 2010 in Employment, Employment Trends, Featured, Mature Workers, News, Unemployment | 19 Comments
The BLS released January’s jobs report this morning, and while it wasn’t complete cause for celebration, it was encouraging. The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged, down -20,000 compared to -779,000 in January 2009. Here are the highlights: The number of unemployed persons decreased to [...]
