Despite all of the futuristic ways there are to land a job, you still have to have a resume—even if nobody cares about it. The people who are in a position to hire you often give your resume about six seconds Read the Full article

Expert Tips For Using the LinkedIn site most effectively as a job search tool Read the Full article

Want to stand out from the crowd of college-educated job seekers? Forget summa cum laude or fluency in Mandarin. If you’re as qualified as the next applicant coming in for an interview, you can set yourself apart with one simple thing: homework. Read the Full article

Now that hiring is starting to pick up, it may be worth trying again at companies where you applied in the past. Here’s how to do it. Read the Full article

Slaving over your resume to land a new job? You may be focusing too much on the wrong thing. Recent trends are pointing to changes in the job market – and if you can meet some of these new hiring standards, experts say, you’ll be high in demand. Read the Full article

If your teenage kids are yearning to earn some pocket money or save up for college, here’s some happy news. Companies are stepping up their summer hiring. Read the Full article

One of the most frustrating aspects of job hunting is believing you’re doing everything you can and still finding yourself out of work. Read the Full article

It’s a common frustration of job seekers everywhere: you know you are the right person for the job if only you could get the attention of the person actually hiring. Read the Full article

We all have heard — or at least seen in the movies — great stories about people who are working in soul-destroying jobs, then quit in some spectacular fashion and move on to fabulous second careers.

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Although we may never know why we didn’t get chosen for a job interview, a recent study is shedding some light on recruiters’ decision-making behavior.

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How do you know your effort will pay off or if it’s just too much of a stretch? When is a dream job feasible v. just a pipe dream? Read the Full article

When you’ve been job-hunting for a while, it’s easy to become frustrated and wonder what on earth employers are looking for. Read the Full article

How long will a job recruiter look at your resume? A study released yesterday says it’s often over in the blink of an eye. You spend hours writing and refining your resume. When you send it in, guess how long an employer reviews it? Sadly, less time than it took to read this paragraph.

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Ahh, springtime. Time to open the windows, rid your house of dust-bunnies and to give your professional paperwork an overhaul. Yeah, you read that right.

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Employers increasingly are asking job candidates to perform work for them gratis as part of the interview process. Here’s how to do it right – and win the position.

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Want to land an in-demand career? Going back to school to advance your education could be a step in the right direction. At least that’s what a report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce suggests. Read the Full article

Have you spent countless hours writing, polishing and blasting your résumé—only to find that it ends up in a black hole, where you’ve sent it to dozens or even hundreds of places and never heard a thing?

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Getting a job offer should be the end of a stressful journey—you can relax and enjoy it, right? Well, not always. If you don’t handle the offer stage correctly, then you risk having the offer pulled away.

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Job seekers often spend hours perfecting their resumes and agonizing over their cover letters, and then blow it all by sending an email that comes across as unprofessional.

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You can have the perfect resume and a compelling cover letter and show up for the job interview ready to impress, but get ready to forgo the job offer if you make one of these stumbles.

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