My dad was a career federal employee. He had a good career and has a pension.
I remember when I commuted to his office with him and his peers, sometimes they would talk about money. They would say something like “you won’t get rich but as long as you manage your money well you’ll always be [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Job Benefits author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
I’ve been thinking about Monday’s post about how much time we spend in a job search… the question is WHY?
I know why I spent a lot of time in a job search… I was HUNGRY, and wanted to be able to support my growing family (my wife was pregnant ) and pay my own [...]
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I got an interesting email about the role a credit check has in your job search… I am copying the entire email here since it might help you understand the process better. I don’t know anything about the person ( Ken) or the company, but this information seems to be helpful.
Does your credit impact your [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, job search author: Jason Alba comments: 1 Comment
I’ve had these to blog posts open for a few days and I just can’t get them out of my mind.
First is Long-Term Unemployment: 80 Percent Of People Jobless Last Summer Still Out Of Work from the Huffington Post.
Second is 7 Wildly Successful People Who Survived Bankruptcy from Mental Floss.
They tie together… some thoughts:
8 out [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Required Reading, Salary & the Market, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
There is a great article for professionals in a job search titled How LinkedIn will fire up your career, posted on CNN Money (Fortune). Read the article… and then read this post with some contrasting info from recruiters.
This is quite insightful for anyone interested in career management… of interest is the information from Accenture’s internal [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, LinkedIn, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
I just read an article on CNN titled Young job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages. It’s a critical read if you are in a job search. Some thoughts:
This applies no matter how old you are (even though the title says “young job-seekers”).
This applies to other social networks (MySpace, Twitter, your blog, etc.).
Recruiters are really looking at [...]
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“Long live the resume!”
The traditional resume will die!”
“Video resumes rule.”
This debate will go on and on and on. You know where I stand – the traditional resume will not die, but there is room for other “things” to come in and fill some gaps.
Enter the Social Resume.
I just got an email from the Brazen Careerist [...]
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Manny Otiko is a PR professional who wrote a great post called Tips on Surviving a Layoff. You’ll have to read his post to get the explanations of all of his points, which are:
Be Patient. Based on today’s economy he argues that it takes considerably longer to land a job – not our fault but [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Education, Links to Related Articles author: Jason Alba comments: 1 Comment
Do you ever get the feeling that the grass is greener on the other side?
Perhaps it is.
I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of a city… why do people tend to move closer to one another? Think about NYC, or LA, or Mexico City, or any major city… what is it that makes people move [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, job search author: Jason Alba comments: 1 Comment
I’ve been thinking about a blog post from Penelope Trunk titled Being an expert takes time, not talent. On my mind was this part:
Figure skating is a good example. I figure skated for ten years. I was good, until I went through puberty and then was clearly the wrong body type to be doing double [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Work/Life Balance author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
