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Job Searching While Employed:The Do’s And Don’ts

Job Searching While Employed:The Do’s And Don’ts

Though the job search if often treated like a 9-to-5 position, it becomes more difficult to manage when you already have a full-time job. More often than not, job seekers face discrimination for being unemployed, which may lead to finding job openings while gainfully employed. Whatever your reasons may be for leaving, job searching in [...]

Study: How Do Employers Manage Social Media?

Study: How Do Employers Manage Social Media?

Social media has become a major player in recruitment (and well, everything else), so it is important to understand how companies are using it today. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) released a survey today titled “An Examination of How Social Media Is Embedded in Business Strategy and Operations”. This is their fourth survey [...]

Job Hunting, Just Like Trying to Get a Date? Same Thing?

Job Hunting, Just Like Trying to Get a Date? Same Thing?

Are you dating your boss? No, not actually dating your boss- silly, but are you searching for the right company, the right employer, the right boss? Searching for a new job, a new company, and a new boss to establish a long-term relationship can be emotionally draining. It is like trying to find that perfect [...]

Professional Resume Writer, Should You Use One?

Professional Resume Writer, Should You Use One?

Although the economy is showing signs of recovering, many people are still out of work or are about to be. And as the labor market improves, large numbers of workers are again considering making a job change. So, in this highly competitive market with lots of people vying for the same opportunities, how do you [...]

What Is Your Recommendation for the Children?

What Is Your Recommendation for the Children?

ResumeBear’s  new state-of-the-art job board is going live soon, and we are really excited about this new chapter in ResumeBear’s story. We will be charging employers just $99 per post, per city, and we will be donating $25 of that fee to help veterans find jobs. We would like to donate another $25 of that [...]

15 Reasons Corporate Recruiters Won’t Talk to You

15 Reasons Corporate Recruiters Won’t Talk to You

Job seekers love to diss corporate recruiters. Why? Because corporate recruiters don’t pay enough attention to job seekers. That’s “enough” as defined by job seekers, of course. Have you ever wondered why recruiters don’t pay enough attention to job seekers? Talking with you is their job, isn’t it? Well, it could be that they’re: Talking [...]

How to Keep Social Media From Working Against Your Job Search

How to Keep Social Media From Working Against Your Job Search

Social intelligence has historically referred to one’s ability to interact with others socially in an intelligent way. Simply put, it is akin to emotional intelligence, and is most definitely an important aspect for job seekers. The capacity to interact on the job in an appropriate social manner is critical to career success. The newer meaning [...]

10 Tips On Acing Your Next Telephone Interview

10 Tips On Acing Your Next Telephone Interview

Executive Career Moves 10 Tips on Acing Your Next Telephone Interview ©Irene Becker, www.justcoachit.com Focus on developing rapport and credibility, and understanding next step in the employer’s interviewing/hiring process 1. Position yourself for success. Relax. Get ready. Remember to talk directly into the mouthpiece. Hold the receiver approximately three inches from the mouth, not below [...]

LinkedIn – Dig a Well Before You’re Thirsty

LinkedIn – Dig a Well Before You’re Thirsty

Are You Prepared to Network When the Time Comes? “I can always tell when someone’s looking for a new job because they suddenly send me an invite to connect on LinkedIn, along with a whole bunch of our former coworkers.”  I hear this sentiment all the time. It’s a little late to start reaching out [...]

The 50 Best Books for the Unemployed

The 50 Best Books for the Unemployed

Being unemployed can be stressful, frustrating and depressing, especially in an economy where jobs are scarce, competition is fierce, and there doesn’t seem to be much change on the horizon… While things may seem bleak, it’s important to keep your chin up and your motivation high if you’re going to make your way back into [...]