It’s amazing what a well-written and nicely presented resume can do for your job search. Before you send yours out, follow this checklist to ensure you are sending out an excellent quality representation of yourself. 1. Grammar, spelling, punctuation – Use the grammar and spell check function, then print it out and read the document word for word. Spell checker…
Category: Careers
6 Factors Of Career Success
What do employers look for in potential employees? That was the question that was posted recently on a career discussion forum online. Naturally, for each different position, the particular answers to that question would be different. However, there are some common skills that employers look for in all employees, whether the employee happens to be a network engineer or a…
Wage For The New Grad
Fresh out of college, most people are excited about landing that first job. Given that most grads do not have work experience or only had a part time job while studying, it is not easy to secure an executive position right away. Starting from scratch, one has no choice but to start from the bottom in an entry-level position then…
How Long Is An Esl Working Week
It seems that some schools combine long hours with revolving days off so that teachers find it hard to recharge their batteries, let alone keep up the quality of their teaching. As so often this comes back to cultural norms. Many teachers come from a background in which it is normal for the working week to run from Monday to…
Career A Self Help Guide
Could you hope to live without a career all life despite inheriting a legacy? Career is not just about living out of inherited money, nor is it limited to earning livelihood. Holistically speaking it is the progression of ones working or professional life. Career indeed means a lot these days. Nowadays, parents start grooming their children from the day one…
How To Get Referrals From Warm Contacts
You may find it hard to use networking to find a job if you can’t rely on your warm contacts to give you the information you need. At times, you would have to ask your warm contacts to refer you to at least two people that they know who will be able to give you the information you needed. However,…
I Can T Get No Satisfaction
Haley, a self-assured real estate broker, should have been happy with everything she has achieved in life. Yet despite all her career and material success, there is still one thing that eluded her grasp: contentment. Even if people saw her as being very beautiful, in her mind, she was so far from being perfect. In fact, it was her secret…
Quiz Do You Deserve Promotion
So you think that you should be promoted. You are irritated also that why your promotion is getting delayed. You are working hard and doing your work satisfactorily. Why should you not get promoted? You want to ask your boss, but do not know how to ask? Can you we find out if you deserve to be promoted? If you…
Dark Secret To Getting Knock Out Recommendations Finally Revealed
All of us know one or two people who aren’t particularly good at what they do, and yet they always seem to be the ones who get ahead in life. They advance, while everyone else has to sit and watch. It wouldn’t be so infuriating if they were the most deserving – the most intelligent, the most skilled, or the…
Going On With Life Women Juggling Cancer And Career U S Employers Rank Last As Source Of Support For Working Women With Cancer
For Shirley Mertz, continuing to work throughout the past 14 years as she battled breast cancer was not only natural but also critical to her well-being. “After I was diagnosed with breast cancer, continuing to live a normal life was extremely important, and for me, normal meant working,” said Mertz, a former assistant superintendent for a public high school district…