Career Gear: The TweetDeck, Your Job Search Dashboard
A lot has been written about using online social networks, and Twitter in particular, to find your next job. I can’t attest to “Tweeting = New Job”, but I can’t argue with the fact that many people are turning to Twitter for job and business leads (Follow Careersthatdontsuck.com’s tweets at @changecareers). And, even if you [...]
Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work” For are Hiring!
These days the company offering you a paying job is the best company to work for. But, Fortune’s still gone through the trouble of cobbling together the list, so we may as well give it a gander and see who among the 100 Best Companies to Work For is actually hiring. In this post I’ll [...]
Retirement: A Dream Deferred
Americans’ retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months. –Peter Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office The implosion of the financial industry has sent stocks into a death spiral, decimating retirement accounts that were heavy in stocks and piling yet another carcass at Americans’ doorsteps. We’re already [...]
New Job Search Service Offers VIP Pass Back to the Working World
Are you sick of blasting your resume into cyberspace or anonymous email boxes on Craigslist and getting nothing back? When was the last time you received even a “Thanks But No Thanks” note just to let you know you can give up hope? That’s over! Careersthatdontsuck.com has partnered with recruiters from top companies, recruiting firms [...]
Hiring Event: Vault’s Experienced Hire Program
Vault.com and BusinessWeek are hosting invitation-only hiring events for experienced professionals with at least 5 years of work experience and/or post graduate degrees in any of the following fields: Consulting Finance Accounting Technology Engineering Management Corporate law Operations Marketing Human resources The events are being held in New York (October 21st) and San Francisco (November [...]
Everybody Else’s Guide to Green & Socially Responsible Careers Now in Paperback (and e-book)!
Gas prices are down and oil companies are eager to hold on to their big profits. If you continue to hold back on your gas consumption, they’ll shift their focus to staking their claims in renewable energy production. This, and the passing of the Energy Improvement and Extension Act, means government and private money will [...]
September Jobs Report: 159,000 Jobs Lost
This month the U.S. economy lost 159,000 jobs. The losses occurred in nearly every sector, with only health care, government and mining showing signs of life. These sectors added 17,000, 9,000 and 8,000 jobs, respectively. Other than those small gains and the fact that the unemployment rate held steady at 6.1%, one has to really [...]
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