Posts belonging to Category Daily Career Tips

Budget Time is Hiring Time

If you've ever been a manager, you know what the September thru December timeframe brings (besides football games, back to school and holidays).  It means BUDGET TIME!!!
As a job seeker this is one of the best times of the year to be job seeking.
Managers are now planning for the upcoming fiscal year and closing out [...]

Daily Career Tip #41: Moving Expenses

It's been common practice lately for companies only hiring 'local' employees or if hiring from out side the area to pay NO moving expenses at all.   For a family moving from a house that cost could be $60,000 or more and for renters $15,000 or more.
In Salary Negotiations take into account moving expenses and ask [...]

Daily Career Tip #40: Use Daily Alerts

 

One of the easiest ways for you to have an ongoing set of leads on a consistent basis is to set up Alerts that go right to your email address.  You can do this from almost any job board such as Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com, etc…   but it's just as easy going to an aggregator of jobs [...]

Daily Career Tip #39: Create Solutions

Business people love solutions to problems.  They love people that can provide solutions, particularly when unsolicited.
It doesn't matter if you are employed or not, if you are looking for a new opportunity examine an area of a company or industry that has a problem.  Meet with people that are in that industry or company.  Uncover [...]

Daily Career Tip #38: Are you an A or B Candidate?

Do you want to find out if you really are the stud you think  you are?  Contact a Recruiter in your field.  Show them your resume and they can give you a grade right there.
When done ask them what you need to be an A candidate.
Too many of us live in a vacuum and believe [...]