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Job Seeker’s Guide to a Confidential Job Search
Are you trying to look for a new job while employed and struggling with how to do so without attracting attention from your boss or other stakeholders at your current company? Our new ebook, Job Seeker's Guide to a Confidential Job Search can help. Learn how to leverage LinkedIn for your search wi...
Career Solvers Wins 2 Top Resume Writing Awards
September and October were great months for Career Solvers! In September I received the National Resume Writers' Association ROAR award for outstanding achievement in resumes and in October I was nominated for 3 TORI (Toast of the Resume Industry) awards by Career Directors International and won in ...
10 Networking Mistakes Most Job Seekers Are Still Making
I've followed thousands of job seekers and one of the biggest sticking points for them tends to be their networking strategy. Some people hate the process and find it incredibly daunting; others embrace it but can still get frustrated when things don't move as quickly as they hoped. Here are the to...
5 Ways to Use Twitter for Your Job Search
Twitter can be a great source of competitive intelligence during a job search. Here are five tips for using Twitter to source information related to your job search that can help you find key decision makers and accelerate your networking efforts. Follow the Twitter handles for the companies you a...
5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Google+ in Your Job Search
Most job seekers I talk to rely solely on LinkedIn as their main online tool for finding contacts for their job search and being found by decision makers. LinkedIn is a fabulous resource, but Google+ can be used to supplement a job seeker's strategy and open new doors that could be challenging to op...
6 Things No Job Seeker Needs to Hear
Everyone wants to help a friend in need. But before you start dishing out advice to a friend who is in a job search, make sure your advice and comments are actually helpful. Consider these typical comments/suggestions that many well-meaning friends make during someone’s job search. Are you really ...
Stop Trying to Define a Salary Range for Moms
Over the years a few annual surveys have come out about working and stay-at-home mothers right around Mother's Day. Salary.com has the How Much Are Mom's Worth? salary wizard which calculates how much someone would be paid for all of the jobs moms do (teacher, cook, chauffeur, etc) and reminds moms ...
Stress and Sedentary Behavior Leads to Weight Gain at Work
According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, the stresses associated with full-time employment may be a contributing factor to weight gain among US employees. Of the 3,000 people surveyed, 57 percent of workers feel they are overweight. The survey also revealed: - Extremely high-stressed workers wer...
Famous and Infamous Office Romances
According to a 2015 CareerBuilder Office Romance Survey, 37 percent of workers surveyed reported they have dated someone they have worked with and 24 percent of office romances involved a superior. Nearly 1 in 5 workers who have had an office romance (19 percent) have had an affair with a co-work...