Tag Archives: job hunting

3 Online Tools to Network your Way into Job

3 Online Tools to Network your Way into Job

Posted by Adam Justice Social media is becoming increasingly important for job networking. The last couple of years have been hard on the economy, and if you’ve been forced to hunt for a job during that time you know this all too well. On the bright side 63 percent of recruiters say that their organizations [...]

Pinterest and Job Seeking Learn More

Pinterest and Job Seeking Learn More

The social networking website Pinterest seems to be all anyone can talk about these days.. This “virtual pin board” allows users to create pin boards on any topic they want and pin things they find interesting onto those boards. Users can browse pinboards created by other users, re-pin their images or follow them to see all [...]

Jobs that give Women the Most Earning Potential

Jobs that give Women the Most Earning Potential

In the past 30 years, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed considerably. In 1979, the year the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking salary information by gender, women earned just 62 percent of what men did. Earlier this year, the BLS reported that, in the fourth quarter of 2011, that figure had risen [...]

No More Resume Black Hole Control Your Job Search

No More Resume Black Hole Control Your Job Search

Featured Feature: Real-Time Resume Tracking Here at the Bear, we aren’t typically the type to toot our own horn, however, in light of some big changes coming your way in the near future, its time we start. But before we make a fuss over all the new and improved features, let’s review some aspects of [...]

9 Famous Professors Who Rarely Teach

9 Famous Professors Who Rarely Teach

You’re a good student. You’re spending tons of borrowed cash to pay tuition to a coveted, well-respected academic institution. And you plan to take a class with one of the university’s hot-shot, famous professors, a professor whose name even your buds who don’t know a G-string from string theory will recognize. You can’t wait for [...]

25 Twitter Chats for Valuable Career Advice

25 Twitter Chats for Valuable Career Advice

While some lucky college students find work right away, for most others, the idea of hitting the job market after graduation is a little intimidating if not downright scary. With competition tough and opportunities limited, finding a job can be difficult. Yet, students and recent grads shouldn’t lose hope: finding a great job is possible [...]

Startup Or A Corporate Job, Reasons for Startup

Startup Or A Corporate Job, Reasons for Startup

Sure, a corporate gig might (initially) pay more than a startup and come with cushy benefits, but there are real, career-defining reasons to heed the siren song of a startup.   You’ve graduated from college, diploma in hand (or in the mail), and you have a couple of job offers on the table. Other than [...]

What to look for in a good recruitment agency?

What to look for in a good recruitment agency?

Recruitment agencies always play an important element in helping Companies to reach their business goals by finding the right people to fill the various roles they offer. Agencies also play an effective resource for an applicant as more and more companies are deciding to use them to advertise their roles. Agency services also cost nothing [...]

Jobs wanted, Harvard analysts suggest Rx for America’s unemployment doldrums

Jobs wanted, Harvard analysts suggest Rx for America’s unemployment doldrums

While parts of the U.S. economy have recovered from the recession, American jobs haven’t returned with them. Unemployment remains above 9 percent nationally for the third straight year. Harvard experts offer insights into what such static joblessness means for the nation, and what policymakers and others can do to fix a balky system. A succession [...]

What’s wrong with the Candidate Experience? Five Complaints from Job Seekers.

What’s wrong with the Candidate Experience? Five Complaints from Job Seekers.

On behalf of the recruiting industry, isn’t it time we apologized to job seekers everywhere? They’ve put up with challenges and complications associated with finding a job for too long. They’ve been jumping through hoops to land the perfect job, and frustration is mounting! We’re listening, and we’ve taken note of their biggest concerns. Where [...]