As you get near the professional world and hear news of how gloomy the job market is, I’m sure you’re panicky. Don’t fret-there is some good news!
A new CareerBuilder survey completed in June finds that 48 percent of workers who were laid off from full-time jobs in the last three months have found new full-time [...]
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Workers are having some success
Posted in Job Search, survey on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Interns are in high demand
Posted in Internships, Job Search, Jobs for College Students, tagged Internships on July 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You and I know internships are great. They give you experience, teach you new things, expose you to valuable contacts and often count for course credit. Overall, internships are something you want.
So I wasn’t terribly surprised to see this article posted on The New York Times site the other day about companies having plenty of [...]
Can your internship become a job? Yep!
Posted in First Job, Internships, Job Search on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Part of the appeal of an internship is the opportunity to parlay it into something bigger and better. For some students, an internship is a necessity for a class, earning an advanced degree or finding a job in the industry. For other students, it’s a way to network and get your foot in the door [...]
Those pesky student loans
Posted in Job Search, tagged student loans on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Aaaaah, college. The place that teaches you just how much pizza one person can consume in a single week. The place where you learned that one red shirt can, in fact, ruin an entire load of laundry. The period of your life when you find out just what your limit is on having an obnoxious [...]
Employers intend to maintain staff levels
Posted in Job Search, survey on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The bad news: We’re still in a recession. A bad one.
The good news: Most employers don’t plan to decrease staffs.
In the upcoming months (Q3), most surveyed employers expect their staff levels to remain the same as recruiting patterns hold steady and job losses trend downward, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder and USA TODAY’s.
The [...]
Some hope in the numbers?
Posted in Job Search, tagged BLS, job loss on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know how many of you pay attention to the job loss numbers that come out every month. For the last several months, the numbers have been grim. Sometimes downright shocking. Lately we’ve seen some big losses, but they were expected because we knew the economy was–and is–still struggling.
Well, the numbers for May came [...]
Employers are hiring this summer!
Posted in College Jobs, Job Search, survey, tagged summer hiring, survey on May 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the quintessential moments of Americana is a teenager’s first job, normally in the summer. It seems like everyone had that first paycheck for doing something related to summer. Worked at the movies? A burger joint? Mow lawns? Be a lifeguard?
It’s that time of year again, and employers are still hiring for summer jobs [...]
Standing out in a crowd — it’s all about the right words
Posted in CBcampus Ambassadors, First Job, Job Search, Resumes & Cover Letters, tagged CBcampus Ambassadors, Job Search, résumé, writing on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When you’re putting together your application materials for college, you obsess over the essays, SAT verbal scores, and application itself. High school juniors and seniors freak out over writing-related documents–I remember all too vividly. But when we get to job hunting, we often get so wrapped up in interviewing skills and presentation that we neglect [...]
How are you making sure you stand out?
Posted in CBcampus Ambassadors, First Job, Job Search, Resumes & Cover Letters, tagged CBcampus Ambassadors, Job Search, résumé on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the great constants of all job hunts is the need to rise above everyone else. No matter who you are or what job you want, the people who are memorable get the position. It’s not about being the craziest applicant, so don’t think dressing like a swan for your interview will leave a [...]
Getting a Job is a Lot Like Dating
Posted in CBcampus Ambassadors, Job Search, tagged CBcampus Ambassadors, dating, jobs on April 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Jobs, jobs, jobs. Is that all anyone talks about these days?
Well, here we do because, well, it’s a blog about helping your job search. However, we also like to get out of the classroom and the office every once in a while and have a social life. So to make job searching a little more [...]
