Starting Out
How To KEEP That First Job
Getting a job is not easy. There are the many interviews, the endless emails and resumes and the competition for the best spots. Amazingly enough, having gone through this marathon process, having been hired, the hiring process is not over.
Huh? How can this be?
In the U.S. today we have a surplus of job seekers and [...]
How To Beat The No Job Blues
The market for jobs is bad and getting worse. As this is written the official unemployment rate is 10 percent and 15.4 million people have lost their jobs as of November 2009. The real numbers — which include the underemployed and discouraged workers — are much larger.
These are lousy numbers and lousy times for many [...]
How To Write Your First Resume (With Sample)
No resume is easier to write than the first one — and no resume is harder to write than that first specimen.
A first resume is easy to write because there’s very little to note. You don’t yet have a work history, or much of a work history.
On the other hand, a resume can be enormously [...]
Late To Work? Why You’ll Be Fired
You hear it all the time. “But boss, I’m only five minutes late. What’s the big deal?”
Actually, it’s a very big deal.
“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment,” said Horace Mann, the great educator, “is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.”
No one has perfect attendance, [...]
How To Write Your First Cover Letter (With Sample)
A resume without a cover letter is like a plane without wings, it just won’t fly.
If you have not previously been in the civilian workforce, if you are just finishing school or military service, then you will need to develop both a resume and a first cover letter.
Why You Need A Cover Letter
The purpose of [...]
Is This Employer Abuse?
Question: I have an opportunity to get a new job in a new field. The employer wants me to train and try out for three days. The catch? I won’t be paid for the three days. Is this fair?
Answer: I have mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, you’re putting in time and the [...]
How To Get A Federal Government Job
In the midst of a lousy job market there’s one sector of the economy that would really like to see your resume.
Uncle Sam is hiring civilian employees — and when the federal government hires it offers both good pay and great benefits. There are full and part-time jobs as well as jobs for entry-level workers [...]
Help — My Job Isn’t Perfect!
Every so often I speak with someone who’s having a hard time at work. Sure the pay is okay and the benefits exist, but lately the boss is a bastard, the schedule is a mess and no one appreciates them. I want to quit and I want to quit now, they say.
I listen to this [...]
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