By anthony balderrama on May 6, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Job Search | 18 Comments
Social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs) and other user-generated-content sites (think of picture and video sharing sites) are not new. They certainly came of age in the past decade, but in Internet Land, a few years are equal to a few decades. Therefore, you’re not surprised that employers are looking online to see what information you’ve [...]
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 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 anthony balderrama on Mar 19, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Interviews, Job Search, Salary, Talk to The Work Buzz | 9 Comments
On Monday we asked you to submit your questions about accepting a job offer, and from the excellent questions we received, we chose Claire’s. She asks, “How do you ask if that’s the most that they will offer without offending them or sounding greedy?” Salary talks are always one of the trickiest components of a [...]
By anthony balderrama on Feb 24, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Interviews, Job Search | 40 Comments
When I look back at pictures of myself from years ago — specifically the 1980s — I cringe. The jeans, the ill-fitting shirts, the hair gel. At the time I thought I looked cool and no one told me otherwise. Alas, the pictures do not lie. I have the same feelings about my earliest job [...]
By anthony balderrama on Feb 15, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Job Search | 44 Comments
At a glance, you can quickly see that our culture is fixated on tests. From tests for children whose overachieving parents want to get them into exclusive day cares to students playing the college admissions game, people are filling in bubbles left and right these days. And I guarantee that most of us have had [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 27, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Job Search, Mature Workers, Video | 20 Comments
When you really want to — need to — work, is there anything worse than being unemployed? How about being long-term unemployed? The number of long-term unemployed people (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) grew to 6.1 million in December 2009, according to the most recent BLS data. That means that four-in-ten unemployed workers were jobless [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Jan 19, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Job Search, Resume | 235 Comments
Most job seekers know that, whenever possible, it’s best to address your cover letter to the person who has the power to hire you — or at least the person who can bring you in for an interview. But, all too often, if a name isn’t listed on a job posting, the job seeker resorts [...]
By anthony balderrama on Jan 14, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured | 13 Comments
Education is invaluable because it teaches you so much. However, it is expensive and involved, so not everyone has the funds and time to earn one degree or several. Some people already have the credentials, but they’re lacking in some skills. Plus, not every course you take in college translates to the proverbial real world, so you might [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Jan 4, 2010 in Career Advice, Featured, Guest posts, Job Search, Mature Workers, Networking | 10 Comments
This year finds us at the start of a new decade — and now is the time we can start anew. Well, many of us spent 2009 trying to start fresh in a new job to no avail. Perhaps it’s time to change up some of your job search tactics. Our guest blogger today will help you do just [...]
