Archive for September, 2005

Are your job references holding you back in your career?

Posted on 30. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Are your job references holding you back in your career?
Question:
I was downsized from my job at Merrill Lynch a couple years ago. For the first 6 months I didn’t want to work anywhere but Merrill Lynch so I applied to many jobs listed on their corporate website. A little over a year after the layoff, [...]

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Career Assessment Tools & Tests

Posted on 30. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Career Assessment Tools & Tests
Help plan your future with these self-assessment and career discovery tests.
What if you’re not sure of what kind of job or career you want? Not sure what to do with your life? Need some career direction? Spend some time here and take one or more of the following self-assessment tests to [...]

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An Aging Workforce’s Effect On U.S. Employers

Posted on 29. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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An Aging Workforce’s Effect On U.S. Employers
The aging workforce creates a challenge for employers seeking to retain top-notch people, and an opportunity for workers who may want to earn a few extra bucks in retirement.
About 76 million baby boomers, or those born between 1946 and 1964, are set to retire in large numbers by [...]

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IBM launches workforce consulting services

Posted on 28. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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IBM launches workforce consulting services
IBM today launched a new consulting service designed to help businesses plan for critical changes in their workforces as more of their most highly skilled baby boomer workers retire — taking their knowledge with them.
Using advanced analytical software tools to review a company’s workforce, IBM’s new services initiative will offer [...]

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How to get in the best workplace

Posted on 28. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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How to get in the best workplace
If you pay attention to the business media, you undoubtedly have seen more than one article about the country’s employers of choice. From Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list to Working Mother’s “Best Companies for Women of Color” feature, there is no shortage of help for professionals [...]

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Career path hits age gap

Posted on 28. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Career path hits age gap
What’s your idea of a career nightmare? Is it long hours and low pay? Or a micro-managing boss and disrespectful co-workers? For the vast majority of workers under 45, new research shows it’s the latter.
Today, people very much want to love what they do. And they want a considerable amount of [...]

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The Best Way to Organize Your Job Search

Posted on 28. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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The Best Way to Organize Your Job Search
Question:
How do I organize my job search?
Answer: Label 17 file folders with the headings below. Using them is easy. Review all the folders every day for a few weeks until you get the hang of it. This system will make your job hunting life much easier:

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Be Your Own Mentor

Posted on 27. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Be Your Own Mentor
In today’s fast-paced working environment companies don’t always have a straightforward plan for their employee’s personal and professional growth. Even if they do, chances are it’s a pretty low priority. To be sure you’re successful and growing in your career you often have to take matters into your own hands.
A lucky few [...]

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Who you are and why they need you

Posted on 27. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Who you are and why they need you Who you are and why they need you
Some see job hunting akin to playing the lottery. They send the same resume to various employers, close their eyes, and hope luck will tap them on the shoulder with an interview invitation. Career counselors agree shrewd applicants send their [...]

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Secretive Searching

Posted on 27. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Secretive Searching
Recruiter calls at work create a new dilemma for targeted employees. Do you talk or not? Oh, to be among the wanted. That’s what many workers out there say when they hear friends or colleagues moaning that they don’t know what to do when a recruiter — or headhunter — calls them at work [...]

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Secretive Searching

Posted on 27. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Secretive Searching
Recruiter calls at work create a new dilemma for targeted employees. Do you talk or not? Oh, to be among the wanted. That’s what many workers out there say when they hear friends or colleagues moaning that they don’t know what to do when a recruiter — or headhunter — calls them at work [...]

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Strategy for mature employees

Posted on 27. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Strategy for mature employees
Why is it so difficult in some professions to find a job when you have 10, 15 or 20 years of experience? Sometimes it is because employers discriminate and other times it is because hiring managers make assumptions about middle-aged or older employees.
If you are discriminated against because of your age, there [...]

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Companies prepare for baby boomer exodus

Posted on 26. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

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Companies prepare for baby boomer exodus
Bill Copeland of Annandale, Va., who retired recently from the real estate business, right, works with customer Gary Petrosian at a Home Depot in Falls Church, Va., in March. When executives at Platte River Power Authority, an electric company in Fort Collins, Colo., surveyed its employees 18 months ago, they [...]

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