Archive for February, 2006

Volunteering can help you find jobs

Posted on 13. Feb, 2006 by Bill.

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Volunteering can help you find jobs
One of the most difficult aspects of being unemployed is the time spent cooling your heels. If you’re used to working, sitting around the house waiting for someone to call you about a job can drive you nuts.
But what if there were a way to keep busy, make valuable contacts [...]

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Hints to help ease your 21st century job search

Posted on 11. Feb, 2006 by Bill.

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Hints to help ease your 21st century job search
Q. I’m in a good job now. But, at 37, I see a new generation of competitors over my shoulder – clinging to their iPods and IM-ing each other all day – and I’m wondering about a new generation of technology in the job market. In job [...]

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Clients Claim They Didn’t Get Job Help They Paid For

Posted on 08. Feb, 2006 by Bill.

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Clients Claim They Didn’t Get Job Help They Paid For
Finding a job is hard enough on your own. Some people go to others for help. Clients of two companies that claim to help job seekers say they didn’t get the help they paid $6,000 for.
The NBC 10 Investigators recently went into the Edison, N.J., office [...]

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Internet job hunt may have just gotten harder

Posted on 07. Feb, 2006 by Bill.

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Internet job hunt may have just gotten harder
Do you know what the OFCCP is? It is the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and that little taste of bureaucratic alphabet soup is a part of the Department of Labor’s Employment Standards Administration. The OFCCP’s job is to ensure “that employers doing business with the Federal [...]

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Face it: E-mail can’t land the job

Posted on 06. Feb, 2006 by Bill.

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Face it: E-mail can’t land the job
“We never talk anymore.”
No, that’s not your significant other talking; it’s corporate America.
According to a survey developed by OfficeTeam, a staffing agency that specializes in placing administrative professionals, executives today spend less and less time conversing with colleagues by phone or in person, and much more time online.
Only 13 [...]

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Job networking works, when you work it correctly

Posted on 05. Feb, 2006 by Bill.

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Job networking works, when you work it correctly:
Matthew Bernius hit many low points on his way to snagging that coveted job.
It began when Bernius returned to Rochester last summer after graduate school at the University of Chicago. He had just finished a yearlong educational leave from Eastman Kodak Co., and his one-time employer wasn’t taking [...]

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Cold calls can bring hot jobs

Posted on 01. Feb, 2006 by Bill.

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Cold calls can bring hot jobs
Phoning strangers out of the blue to make an employment connection is a tactic job seekers can’t hang up on, Marjo Johne finds. When Maria Kim returned to Toronto after a two-year stay in England, she had no job and no prospects.
But rather than fire off a bunch of résumés [...]

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The job loss roller coaster

Posted on 01. Feb, 2006 by Bill.

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The job loss roller coaster
Ed Widdifield got his first full-time job at 19 and thought he was set for life working for an automotive battery-manufacturing company. In the nineties, the company switched gears and got into fibre optics. Then came the telecommunications crash and, after 21 years, he and 250 colleagues lost their jobs.
“It was [...]

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