I recently ran into an individual who had been laid off. This was his third time. He’d been in banking in branch management, and when his bank was bought by another mega-bank they of course laid off many of the in the English terminology “redundant” personnel. What I discovered during our initial meeting shocked me
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Email is an important part of your job search. You can distinguish yourself from the “e-illiterate” by paying careful attention to your electronic communications. Here are a few guidelines to emailing recruiters and potential employers. Include your name and telephone number at the end of the email message. It’s amazing how many people do not
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Part serious, part humorous, these hiring manager war stories will help you avoid both common and comical mistakes known to trip up job seekers. Being on the frontlines of the employment scene, recruiters have heard every story in the book – in fact they wrote the book – on candidate faux pas. Don’t commit these
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For a while, the phase “The New Economy” meant a wonderful time when almost all companies could do no wrong and the venture capital firms threw money at the smallest, riskiest start-up dot.com. Information Technology (IT) jobs sat there for the taking at wonderfully high salaries by anyone with some vestige of technical computer training.
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Regardless of your computer career you will all go through some traumatic situations. Sometimes you suffer through a lengthy interview process and still don’t get the job. You might feel trapped in a job you hate. Even resigning from a job can be traumatic. Regardless of how upsetting these situations might be, I can imagine
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The Internet has made job searching easier and more complex at the same time. Currently, there are nearly 50,000 websites devoted to job searches and careers. You can now send your resume to thousands of potential employers with the touch of a button. Good, bad or indifferent, it’s a new world. Here are the top
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