Tuesday, May 24, 2011

10 Steps to a Successful Career Change

Interested in a new career? If so, it is important to take the time to evaluate your present situation, to explore career options and to choose a career that will be satisfying for you.

Ten Steps to a Successful Career Change

1. Evaluate your current job satisfaction. Keep a journal of your daily reactions to your job situation and look for recurring themes. Which aspects of your current job do you like/dislike? Are your dissatisfaction's related to the content of your work your company culture or the people with whom you work?


Friday, April 15, 2011

Top 10 Companies Hiring This Week



(April 15 - April 21)

We know that your job search can get quite frustrating these days with more people trying to find a job and less employment opportunities available.
To ease the burden, we've tracked down 10 top companies with the most job openings this week -- from sales jobs to finance jobs, full-time jobs to part-time jobs. We hope you find a job that's perfect for you.
Good luck job hunting!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

10 Tips For Managing 'The Facebook Generation'



"We need to look around our environment and say, 'Is our environment encouraging the best talent possible? Are we choosing the right generational mix of people?'" Meagan Johnson says about the responsibilities managers have today.
Johnson and her father, Larry, are multigenerational workforce experts who recently spoke with me about their new book, Generations, Inc.: From Boomers to Linksters -- Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work, and the challenge of managing multigenerational workforces. One of the unique challenges managers face today, they told me, is learning to work with and manage a new generation of workers they refer to as "Linksters."

Thursday, February 24, 2011

84% of Employees Plan to Look for a New Job in 2011



According to a new survey by the employment company Manpower earlier this month, 84% of North American workers plan to actively look for a new job in 2011. This is up from a 60% response in 2009.

According to Douglas J. Matthews, president and CEO of Right Management, a Manpower company, the results are "more about employee dissatisfaction and discontent than projected turnover."

Matthews believes that the results are, in part, an expression of employee distrust in the ability of their organizations to thrive in the new economic climate.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Weekly Jobs Update (February 14- February 20)



Last week when we posted our list of companies hiring, we were all bracing for a blizzard. Now, in the aftermath of the big game on Sunday, we’re stuck with pantries full of canned soup, jugs of water, and economy-sized jars of mayonnaise that we didn’t get to use during the storm. While you’re figuring out how to make a delicious stew from those items, feel free to check out this list of companies hiring this week. They’re ready to bring on new employees right now, and you could be one of them!

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