Tammy Erickson of Harvard Business Online recently wrote about the changes that may be coming as a result of baby boomers reaching retirement age. I’ve written about how the workplace may need to become more flexible to avoid the “brain drain” that would occur as more mature and experienced workers leave their companies. Erickson’s prediction […]
Don't Rely on Job Sites as the Cure-All for Your Search
The Wall Street Journal’s Career Journal reports that: Visits to job sites during the first four weeks of 2008 rose about 22% compared to the same period in 2007, according to a new report from Hitwise, a market-research firm. Beware of being sucked in to a false sense of security when you apply to jobs on […]
Top 5 Resume Do's and Don'ts
There is a lot to consider when writing your resume. You don’t want to miss an opportunity for an interview by offering a less than stellar result
Get Paid To Interview?
And you thought that e-mail inviting you to be paid to interview for jobs was spam, didn’t you? In what could be the ultimate acknowledgement that it is easier to find a job when you have a job, a startup called notchup.com arranges for “passive” job seekers (employed workers who are not seeking opportunities) to be […]
Can Being Too Happy Hurt Your Career?
From BusinessWeek, February 11, 2008… Researchers from several large universities determined that people who rate themselves as an 8 on a happiness scale of 10 (ten being the most happy), actually achieve and earn more than those who top out at a 10.  So, why are the slightly less happy workers doing better than their […]