How to Handle an Employment Gap

How to Handle an Employment Gap By Lindsay Olson How to remedy a hole in your work history. Many of us have had periods in our work history when we were not employed. That might be due to going back…



4 Reasons to Start Looking For a Freelance Job

4 Reasons to Start Looking For a Freelance Job SimplyHired More employers are continuing to do more with less, which is not necessarily great news for job seekers. If you’ve been looking for a job for a while, you probably…

How to Create a Short Speech Fast

How to Create a Short Speech Fast by Nick Morgan, Contributor I tweeted recently that every speaker needs a 3-minute and a 20-minute version of her speech. To that I would add that every speaker needs to know how to…

Cold Calling For Jobs, Not Just Sales

Cold Calling For Jobs, Not Just Sales Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Contributor It’s okay and can be very effective to reach out cold to decision-makers. Cold calling is not just for sales anymore, but can be very effective for jobs. Much has…

Where the Fortune 500 CEOs Went to School

Where the Fortune 500 CEOs Went to School By Menachem Wecker These schools awarded at least 10 college and graduate degrees to America’s leading executives. According to a U.S. News analysis of the Fortune 500 CEOs list—the magazine’s annual ranking…

How to get on executive recruiters’ radar screens

How to get on executive recruiters’ radar screens By Anne Fisher, contributor Giving speeches at industry events is a time-tested way to get noticed by headhunters, but Twitter has made it more of a gamble. Luckily, you have other options.

Top 2 Reasons LinkedIn Is Taking Over the World

Top 2 Reasons LinkedIn Is Taking Over the World Erika Andersen In my travels, I’ve discovered that LinkedIn now has 135 million members, all over the world, and that professionals are joining at an ongoing rate of 2 per second.…

Avoid LinkedIn At Your Peril

Recruiters Say: Avoid LinkedIn At Your Peril Allison Cheston You’re on LinkedIn, of course. But do you use it? Do you connect with people regularly, do you worry about your profile, is it part of your routine? Engagement with LinkedIn…

Questions to Ask and Avoid During Your Next Job Interview

Questions to Ask and Avoid During Your Next Job Interview Jimmy Sweeney The phone call you’ve waited for has finally come! You’ve been invited in for a job interview. Now your nerves are on edge. You know what to wear…

Four Techniques That Get Employers To Return Your Phone Calls

Four Techniques That Get Employers To Return Your Phone Calls – Deborah Brown-Volkman Are you frustrated when you receive no response after you send out resumes, no follow-up calls to hear how you did on interviews, no replies when you…

business etiquette rules that matter now

business etiquette rules that matter now Eliza Browning 1. Send a Thank You Note 2. Know the Names

Avoid ‘B Players’ Like the Plague

Silicon Valley Avoids ‘B Players’ Like the Plague By Joseph Walker

How To Get A Job If You’re Overqualified

How To Get A Job If You’re Overqualified Susan Adams One of New York job coach Robert Hellmann’s recent clients had an impressive résumé as a senior human resources manager. The client had logged 20 years, managed 30 people and…

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