Early summer often brings major life changes: weddings, graduations and moves. Along with these personal events can come career changes. Maybe you’re looking for your first job after graduation, or you’re moving cross-country for your new spouse and need to find work in your adopted home? More than 80 percent of respondents in a recent [...]
Articles By: Mary Ellen
5 for Friday: Summer Clothing Edition
Temps are warming up across much of the nation, or will be soon. Don’t let inappropriate warm weather clothes ruin your internship, interview or first day at a new job. Here are some tips for everyone on warm weather business attire. Don’t Be a Skintern. What Not to Wear to Your Summer Internship. Slate: “When [...]
How to Prepare for a Career in the Future Customer Service Department
Ashley Verrill is a CRM software analyst for Software Advice, as well as the managing editor for the Customer Service Investigator blog. She has spent the last seven years reporting and writing business news and strategy features. Her work has been published or cited in Inc., Forbes, the Upstart Business Journal, the Austin Business Journal [...]
5 for Friday: Tips for New Grads & the Unemployed
This week’s 5 for Friday rounds up articles featuring tips for new grads and the unemployed. 4 Resume Mistakes College Seniors Should Avoid. Fox Business: “Seniors should cite specific figures to complement their accomplishments, because it shows value in their experience, says executive and career coach Meredith Haberfeld. “As a fund raiser, if you know [...]
5 Rules for Navigating Social Media
This post is by Phil La Duke, a partner in the Performance Assurance Practice for ERM. La Duke has over 20 years of training, performance improvement, and lean manufacturing experience. It seems like everything you read about social networking these days contains some dire admonishment about the importance of keeping your social outlets squeaky clean. [...]
Why You Should Negotiate a Job Offer
This guest post is by Francesca Gino, a behavioral scientist and professor at Harvard Business School and the author of “Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan.” Imagine you have accepted a new job in another state. You want to drive to your new home, but your old [...]
Monthly Employment Update With Joanie Ruge
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation report for March 2013 was just released. We spoke with Joanie Ruge, founder and president of Tack Consulting, Inc. and employment industry adviser to Monster.com, to find out what those numbers, along with Monster’s own data, mean for employers and job seekers. MonsterWorking: Joanie, where is some of [...]
Live From SXSW: Praise & A’s: Maximizing a Millennial Workforce
By 2014, Millennials will make up 36% of the workforce. In their session at SXSWi, Jennifer Selke and Tim Street broke down what employers need to know to meet the new set of expectations and demands these workers bring with them. Here are a few of our favorite tweets from the session.
10 Tips for Better Job Interviews
This post is by Eileen N. Sinett, a speech and presentation leadership coach, communication consultant, author and keynote speaker. While the job search process has changed dramatically over the last few years with the advent of social media and online procedures, these tips for job interviews are still tried and true. Prepare! In an interview, [...]
Do Unusual Resumes Work?
Philippe Dubost’s unusual resume — repackaged as an Amazon product page — has sparked a lot of interest across the web this week. If you haven’t seen it, you should definitely check it out. It’s clever, for sure. But are such ploys effective for most job seekers? Probably not. Still, if you want to give [...]
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