Archive for May, 2008

Retail Management Careers - More Than Just A Retail Job

The manager of a retail store is the person who is in charge of scheduling employees, supervising shifts, and/or dealing with customer complaints. A retail management job pays better than a position like cashiering, and offers more power, which some people may find to be very attractive. Becoming a manager isn’t easy, but it is [...]

How To Use Employment Agencies To Find A Job Super Fast

If you’ve ever been unemployed and had to search for a new job, you know that the search for a new job is a job in itself. To maximize your time and resources and find a new job as quickly as possible, you could really use some help. After admitting you need help finding a [...]

Career Reinvention

There are times in everyone’s career that you feel like running away and starting all over again, and I’m here to say that you can do it!
I’ve reinvented my career five times including being a disc jockey in radio, public relations director in professional sports, community relations director in television, regional marketing manager in finance, [...]

How To Avoid Laundry List Resumes

The process of writing a resume can be very tedious. There are often so many jobs and responsibilities to include that many people find themselves wanting to create the simplest one possible just to avoid the grunt work.
But while creating a resume that resembles a laundry list of previous jobs and duties can be tempting, [...]

Appointment Setting & Service: Make Money Dialing At Home

Are you good on the phone? Ok I didn’t ask, do you talk on the phone a lot, but can you sound professional and create positive energy to the person on the other end of the phone?
If so, then you may consider working from home as an appointment setter - service representative. This is a [...]

Electrical Retraining: Its Easier Than You Think

When classroom learning is combined with practical experience, it is called electrical retraining. No electrical retraining course can be done overnight. Most of it takes a lot of time and hard work to be put in. it requires immense discipline, and safety concerns are a major threat if one doesn’t have proper training. For getting [...]

Job Searches – How Do You Ensure You Find Every Job On The Market?

When most people start looking for a new job, they tend to consider the activity as one complete process. Successful job applicants, however, will see it as three distinct phases:
Job searches
Resume (curriculum vitae) preparation
Interviews
The aspect that the casual applicant will spend the least time and effort on is job searches – yet logic dictates that [...]

Writing A Resume – Don’t Forget Its Role In The Process Of Finding A New Job

Too many would be job applicants get overly worried about the quality of their resume (curriculum vitae). Although I’m not advocating a sloppy document, in my experience, too many people spend a disproportionate time on it.
Most would-be candidates I speak to will spend 10% of their time looking for jobs, 10% preparing for the interview [...]

How To Be Successful At Interviews – One Tip Often Overlooked Is To Focus On What’s Not Said

Depending on which expert you believe, up to 95% of communication is non-verbal.
So if just five per cent represents the words, why do so many interviewees rely on this single aspect to convey what they mean and understand the interviewer?
This article is all about the major part of communication – body language. Up to 60% [...]

Real Work At Home Jobs - It Takes A Little Weeding Out To Find Them

Real work at home jobs can be few and far between to find. The world of work at home jobs has become a scammer’s paradise. That’s not to say that every offer is a scam. Far from it! There are some real work at home jobs that are real gems. It just takes a little [...]