When you're looking for a job, finding ways to stand out and make a great impression can be everything.
Read MoreDuring these challenging times, with nearly 50 million Americans recently filing for unemployment benefits and millions more seeking out new opportunities, LinkedIn offers some smart insights and valuable advice to job seekers.
Read MoreOur identities are so wrapped up in our jobs and careers that we feel a loss of prestige and status when we're out of work. With this in mind, there's no longer a need to embark upon your job search alone.
Read MoreWhether or not AI is your preferred mode of science nonfiction, it is already an invaluable asset for recruiters and job seekers - the secret behind both how jobs find you and how you find jobs.
Read MoreIn light of the unrelenting series of bad news and events brought about in 2020, a majority of job seekers may pause their search and hope that things will turn around once the summer is over.
Read MoreThose who do land jobs after graduating during a recession tend to start at lower salaries than their counterparts whose careers start in good economics.
Read MoreYou use the rest of the summer to prepare and polish your faculty job search materials so you're ready to start submitting come fall. You continue submitting faculty job applications as deadlines come up. You have some faculty job interviews to prep for, which takes a lot of your time.
Read MorePhysically, a job search takes time, hours per week on a regular basis for months. Heading off signs of burnout ensures that you continue your job search efforts at a regular cadence, rather than start and stop. Schedule regular breaks as part of your job search routine.
Read MoreWhen getting ready for a job search, most prepare by updating their resume, scanning the job boards and considering which accomplishments to share during the interview.
Read MoreThe situation for job seekers is daunting - the country is experiencing record unemployment during a global pandemic and widespread social unrest.
Read MoreWhen getting ready for a job search, most prepare by updating their resume, scanning the job boards and considering which accomplishments to share during the interview.
Read MoreRead anything you can about the type of job you're going after and how easy or hard it's going to be to find a new opportunity.
Read MoreEven if you know what career direction you want to pursue, spend time examining your field with fresh eyes. Some, such as grocery stores, fast food, telecommunications and healthcare, may not match your original career vision but can provide valuable opportunities. Customer service, analytics and project management skills span all industries. If you need to reconsider your career goals, explore your options.
Read MoreAlthough the first US COVID19 case was noted in January 2020, the initial impact was simply a tiny ripple in the economy. It wasn't until the beginning of March that it began to feel like a tsunami was overtaking our country. Of course, we are all familiar with the narrative…jobs have been lost, the DOW has plunged, and people have suffered so many personal losses.
Read MoreIf you've been laid off, are burned out or have been unemployed for a period of time, the job search process can feel downright brutal.
Read MoreThe counterintuitive appeal of Stanford University sociologist Mark Granovetter's theory about "The strength of weak ties" being key to finding a job has steadily grown since he first published it in 1973.
Read MoreContinue doing everything you need to, such as submitting résumés to jobs that you desire, networking, interacting on LinkedIn, making tailored versions of your résumé specifically for each job and other measures.
Read MoreThis is the time to go on the job search. If you are one of the millions of unemployed workers in the U.S., that is an obvious and painful truth. But as the U.S. economy wobbles into a new normal, job seekers of all stripes—those looking for work and those looking to leap from one job to another—are finding that the market is not quite so grim as you might expect.
Read MoreWhen it comes to job searching in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Andrea Barringer has seen it all. She interviewed via Zoom for an opening at one company, and in person for another, where the prospective employers weren’t wearing masks. She got rejection letters from the retailer Target — three of them, to be exact — despite it being “one of the busiest places” in her area at the moment.
Read MoreWhile energy and zeal are generally positive qualities in a job candidate, be careful about diving in with both feet without doing your homework first.
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