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Thursday’s good reads roundup

Can’t you just taste Friday?

Or can you just taste dinner? It’s almost the end of the work day and I could go for a good meal. Any by “good” I mean anything I don’t have to cook.  Either way, here are some worthwhile stories from today’s news to chew on:

For anyone working for the weekend, as Loverboy might say, tomorrow’s almost here!

Anthony Balderrama

About Anthony Balderrama

Anthony Balderrama writes about hiring trends, workplace issues and job search tactics for CareerBuilder.com and its blog The Work Buzz. He was born and raised in Dallas (115° degrees isn’t hot!) before moving to Chicago (-23° isn’t cold!). He studied creative writing, therefore everything he writes is usually cut in half once he realizes he spent 400 words just on the intro. He knows that looking for a job and dealing with co-workers are not always fun activities, and reading about them is even less thrilling. That’s why he’ll take any opportunity he can to mention his favorite TV show or band in an article. Basically Anthony’s doing whatever he can to avoid hate mail.
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rachel zupek

Hi Alma,

You ask a great question, which we actually just blogged about recently. You can find an answer to your question here:

http://www.theworkbuzz.com/ask-the-work-buzz-3/featured/2369

Rachel

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Alma Spaulding

Hi Anthony! I read your article "25 Ways to Sabotage Your Job Search" published on CareerBuilder through MSN.com and I have to say you listed very important issues that job seekers run into, when performing a job search. Now, I would love for you to write about how to fix/avoid some of those 25 items on your list. For example, when you talked about "No generic cover letter", you specified to not use the "To Whom It May Concern" but, that is not always avoidable. Nowadays, most (if not all) job postings are basically ANONYMOUS, like the ones on craigslist, you never know the company name or the person you are sending the email to. No one wants to put too much information about them, to avoid calls so, I wonder, who do you address a cover letter when you do not know whom are you sending it to?

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