What’s Best For You – Contract or Permanent?
The availability of contract work has grown enormously as an alternative to conventional permanent work, but how do you decide which is for you? Let’s examine their individual benefits and drawbacks. 40
Define Yourself To Become A New Person
Personal development is a topic often broached in times of hardship. What can I do to make myself better? How can I go about doing it? Well you have come to the right place! This article will give you the tips and pointers you need to begin your journey of personal development. 39
Outdated Resume Elements
If you are searching for a job, chances are that you have passed out your résumé numerous times with no callbacks. The problem may not be that you are under qualified, but you may be overwhelming employers with unnecessary information. You may want to make revisions, as we list five top outdated elements on résumés.
Interview Tips: Making an Impression that Lasts
If you’ve just graduated and are looking for work a great idea is to get into an industry that’s rapidly expanding. The online and mobile casino industry is growing fast and the demand for employees grows on a daily basis. It’s not only developers and designers that are needed for this industry, customer service representatives,
Retired to Work: Successful New Businesses Started by Retirees
For some Americans, retirement involves moving somewhere sunny, enjoying afternoon tee times, and relaxing by the pool. After a few months of this permanent vacation, some of us might feel the need to get back into business. Other American retirees, feeling the pinch of a slumping stock market, may simply want to generate some extra
More Companies Recruit Bilingual Employees
Employers and staffing agencies get creative to find capable bilingual workers. 56
Where Did Everybody Go?
Here are some ways to avoid ‘quick quits’ and strengthen retention efforts. 46
Make Your Metrics More Strategic
You know the areas of staffing and recruiting that are worth measuring, but how can you become more strategic with your findings? One suggestion: By capturing ‘from’ data as well as ‘count’ data. 34
Various questions and answers about the work (Part 1)
Do we have to pay hourly employees a daily minimum? 08-01-00 I have heard that there is a law that employers have to pay a minimum of hours worked for part time employees who work on the clock. e.i. An employee comes in to work on an unschedualed day (because he/she is asked too) and
There’s a Light at the End Of the Jobless Tunnel
When you’ve been jobless for any length of time, the light at the end of the tunnel could be a freight train coming the other way. That’s often the mindset of someone who’s endured weeks of the gut-wrenching, paralyzing condition called unemployment. 32
Why You Should Update Your Management Style
It’s not your father’s management job. That’s the first and most important thing to know, whether you’re a new boss, a veteran boss, the boss’s boss or a boss to be. Yes, Dad may have trudged eight miles in the snow to get to work, but when he got there, he could depend on seeing
Do Technology Experts Make Good Managers?
Even in the current uncertain environment, the U.S. economy is driven by nerds — a term that recently morphed from an insult into a quasi-compliment. Nerds specialize in computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering, physics, biophysics, molecular biology, nanotechnology, bio-nano and who knows what. They are smart, sometimes arrogant, and not necessarily the most sociable folks
‘Why I Want to Be A Corporate Director’
Dear Human Resources Manager: Hi! I’m writing to apply for a position on your board of directors. While I have only modest knowledge of polymer-based hollow-rod extrusion, stenciling and vapor recovery — and no actual office experience per se — I am eager to be well-paid for little or no work. 38
How to Take Control Of a Lopsided Life
“Dad, I’ll pay you a dollar if you baby-sit me for an hour.” Coming from his five-year-old daughter, this offer got the attention of a middle-aged oil-company executive. “All the money in her piggy bank for an hour of my time,” he says. “I realized I’d let my life get pretty far out of whack.” 37
New View of Parenting: It’s Good for Your Career
Jolene Tornabeni, 50, started out as a nurse 25 years ago. Two grown children later, she is the chief operating officer of Inova Health System, a health-care provider with facilities in Northern Virginia. She attributes her rise in the ranks to being a mother. “People always ask me if children didn’t stop me in my
Starting a New Career Without Leaving Home
As any stay-at-home mom can tell you, quitting work and staying home to raise a baby is a far cry from retirement. If you’re planning on it — or have already done it — you’ll find that this 24/7 on-call position provides many intangible benefits, but, unfortunately, no income. 46
New View of Retirement Takes Shape Overseas
When should an executive retire? The question is gaining urgency in Europe where, for years, companies and governments have pushed people to retire earlier than their American counterparts. The mindset in Europe was that this cleared room for younger executives and brought in fresh ideas. Now, in a shift, some European companies are pushing to
Senior Hiring Improves In Surprising Industries
Go out and mingle with top headhunters — those gregarious talent scouts who are constantly scouring the world in search of managers to fill the top executive jobs — and these days you’ll find some most happy people. 43
What to Do When Your Best Reference Has an Attitude
Question: I worked for a semi-famous woman, who is known for having a huge temper and being reactionary. I use her as a work reference and, during my job search, she was called by people who just wanted to talk to her — even in cases where I had not interviewed with them. At one
Making A Career Change
Is it time to move on? If you are considering a career change you might find it helpful to examine the answers to the following questions: 41