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How to Choose the Best Resume Format

Posted on 15. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

How to Choose the Best Resume Format
The unthinkable has happened and you have been downsized from the company where you have been employed for the past ten years. In all this time, you haven’t touched your resume and now find that you must completely rewrite it. Being the intelligent person that you are, you figure [...]

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Projected Hiring And Job Search Activities For The Upcoming Quarter

Posted on 15. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

Projected Hiring And Job Search Activities For The Upcoming Quarter
CareerBuilder.com, the nation’s largest online job site with more than 20 million unique visitors and over 1 million jobs, released the results of its latest survey tracking projected hiring and job search activities for the upcoming quarter. The survey, titled “Q4 2005 Job Forecast,” was conducted [...]

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Retiring workforce - Deloitte survey

Posted on 15. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

Retiring workforce - Deloitte survey
Looming talent crisis signals need for organisations to employ new strategies for talent management
Impending baby boomer retirements, a widening skills gap and outdated approaches to talent management are combining forces to produce a “perfect storm” that threatens long-term business performance, according to a new survey conducted by the Human Capital practice [...]

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Good job hunting

Posted on 14. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

Good job hunting
I suppose Notre Dame does a good job of filling us with enough anxiety and terror concerning our post-grad life. The barrage of Career fairs, expos, seminars and practice meetings is starting to drive me a little crazy especially now that I am a senior. Thus, instead of getting asked about my future [...]

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How to Answer These Tricky Interview Questions

Posted on 14. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

How to Answer These Tricky Interview Questions
Does the thought of going on a job interview cause your palms to sweat and your body to break out in hives? Stop itching; you’re not alone.
The vast majority of job seekers admit to emotions ranging from mild uneasiness to downright panic leading up to their interviews. The [...]

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Seven Habits of Highly Successful Job Seekers

Posted on 14. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

Seven Habits of Highly Successful Job Seekers
In the job search craze, there are those who land a job right away and those who struggle through the process of finding one for a long time. ‘Luck’ is usually the response one hears from disenfranchised job seekers when they find out that their neighbor down the street [...]

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Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Resume

Posted on 12. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Resume
In my line of work, I see hundreds of resumes, and I often see the same patterns over and over again. I frequently observe resume tendencies that are not necessarily mistakes, yet the jobseekers behind these resumes could have much nicer, cleaner, more readable resumes if they just tweaked [...]

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Smart strategies can get older workers in the door

Posted on 12. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

Smart strategies can get older workers in the door - 09/12/05:
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 [...]

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Jobless execs need not apply

Posted on 11. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

Jobless execs need not apply:
Out-of-work managers face special perils. Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Bait and Switch” is a worthy companion to “Nickel and Dimed,” her engaging and infuriating 2001 expose of the hard lives of working-class Americans. The new book provides a victim’s-eye view of the world of unemployed white-collar workers – people struggling, mostly in vain, [...]

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Hiring tests: the right fit

Posted on 11. Sep, 2005 by Bill.

Hiring tests: the right fit:

Bruce McWilliams, general manager at Lee’s Summit Honda, credits a 15-minute pre-employment psychological profile with reducing employee turnover and boosting sales at the car dealership.
Rich Mellor, a loss-prevention advisor and division vice president at Helzberg Diamonds, believes a pre-employment integrity and attitude assessment has improved staff quality and cut inventory shrinkage.
Jennifer [...]

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