Managing your career skills you need to survive the next round of layoffs at your job

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: , 25 June, 2009    3,294 views    (0) Comment

What’s triggering fears and sleepless nights for many of us about the unemployment abyss is not the job-loss stats themselves, but the depth of the cuts—and the qualifications of some of the people getting jettisoned. The questions we keep hearing are: Why do highly skilled, seemingly essential people get cut while others don’t? Are there patterns? How can I make myself indispensable? In talking with employers about what they most value in employees right now, it became clear Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Successful Interview: How do you make it?

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: , 9 June, 2009    2,442 views    (1) Comment

Congratulations! The resume that you spent many hours carefully crafting has resulted in a face-to-face interview at a Company that you are extremely interested in. After the adrenalin rush has worn off, you think “OMG, I have to put together a seminar, make travel arrangements and buy new clothes and shoes (well only if you are a woman)”. Although you may think that the hard part of your job search is over; think again….the fun is just beginning. I had similar tough time in 2003 like Read Full Article (Click here)...

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The Tide is Turning on the Job Front – U.S. unemployment rate hits 9.4% in May, highest since 1983

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: 6 June, 2009    1,273 views    (1) Comment

The Labor Department report offers some hope, however: The 345,000 jobs lost last month are the fewest since September and half the average of the previous six months. June 6, 2009 Reporting from Washington — The nation’s breathtaking pace of job loss slowed significantly in May, bolstering hopes that the worst of the recession is over. But millions of Americans and their families face continued economic pain with the unemployment rate jumping to 9.4%. The contrasting trends Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Top-Paying US Companies

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: , 28 January, 2009    2,204 views    (0) Comment

by Milton Moskowitz Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1. Bingham McCutchen Average total pay: $256,312 For: Associate* Best Companies rank: 30 Headquarters: Boston, MA For the second year in a row, this law firm is the top-paying Best Company to Work For. Lawyers fresh out of school get starting salaries of $160,000 a year, topped off with fat bonuses. (Non-attorneys are eligible for bonuses too.) Bingham, which prides itself on keeping pay scales “competitive at all times,” looked at Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Six Unusual High-Paying Careers

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: , , 2 January, 2009    406 views    (0) Comment

American job titles and responsibilities are constantly morphing to suit the economic and cultural transitions of our madcap age. Euphemisms are often the way recruiters dress up old job titles to narrow the field to specialists. A “hash slinger” is now termed a “culinary resource professional.” Kidding aside, today’s workers are often forced by marketplace realities to undergo at least one rapid job change over their adult lives. Many enroll at online colleges Read Full Article (Click here)...

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