Should You Lower Your Salary Expectations? - Careers Articles

How to tell if you're being realistic about what you should be earning

Everyone is pinching pennies these days, including employers. Hiring freezes, lower salary offers to new hires and smaller raises for existing employees have become commonplace. The unfortunate effect of all of this, is that many workers will have to accept -- or at least consider accepting -- lower salaries than in the past. Still, taking a pay cut is a big deal. So how do you decide whether lowering you salary expectations will be beneficial to your job search or just a hindrance to achieving what you're really worth?

33 Interview Tips That Help Make a Great First Impression - Careers Articles

Many think that some people are natural interviewees and that those with outgoing personalities will surely do better in an interview. But with practice everyone can learn how to interview effectively. Here are some quick interview tips for creating a more powerful interview strategy.

1. Your interview starts the moment you walk into the building; anyone you meet may be connected with the hiring manager or the hiring team.

Unemployment Benefits Extension: Prolonging Unemployment? - Careers Articles

The debate over whether an unemployment benefits extension discourages people from looking for work is causing a Senate bill to languish that would extend benefits to people who have been out of work the longest.

Many people think 99 weeks -- the current maximum to collect benefits -- is enough time to find a job and another unemployment benefits extension is a disincentive to finding work. Others say that in this recession -- the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s -- it's so difficult to find a job that benefits should be extended to keep people on their feet.

Back in the Saddle — Landing Your Next Job | CareerEnlightenment.net

Guest post by CareerAlley.com

“When the horse dies, dismount.” – Unknown

Losing your job is a very traumatic experience (see “I Lost my Job, Now What?” and “Dealing with Job Loss“), but it is a lot like falling off of a horse — you need to get “back in the saddle” as soon as you can. Of course, many times that is easier said than done. Whether you’ve lost your job because the company is cutting back or because it was not the right fit, the end result is the same. It really doesn’t matter how you got there (as long as it wasn’t the result of a felony). Now I know it’s not as easy as “get over it” or “suck it up,” but you really do need to start your job search as soon as you can. There will be a million excuses why now is not the right time — as well as a million distractions. This post will provide resources (from our deep inventory) for fast-tracking your search.

Why It Is Hard To Get Excited About Positive Jobs Forecasts and News | JibberJobber Blog

I have a hard time getting excited about all the jobs “created”… I already ranted about the fake census jobs.

Here’s another example.  From my local news station, in their article Where the Jobs Are, Part 2:

Goldman Sachs & Co. is in the middle of a dramatic expansion in the Salt Lake City market. Two years ago, Goldman boasted 350 employees locally. By the end of the year there will be more than 1,150.

That’s great news, right?  A mid-sized city like Salt Lake getting about 800 new jobs?  HOW EXCITING!

And my heavens, these are jobs at Goldman Sachs!!!  How freaking awesome.

I’m going to put my resume in right away.  They have saved my family (hallelujah!), they have saved our town (hallelujah!)… unemployment in Salt Lake is going to shoot way down (hallelujah!)!

But waaaaaait…..

What I’m hearing (and maybe I’m wrong) is that most, the grand majority, of these new jobs are (wait for it….) ENTRY LEVEL.

10 tips for using Twitter in your job search - Career blog - Position Ignition - taking you to the next step in your career

We’ve given you 10 tips for using LinkedIn to find a job and now we’ll turn our attentions to Twitter, perhaps the most talked about social media site of the moment. Although Twitter is arguably perceived as being more about socialising than professional networking, it is still a hugely valuable tool for businesses, professionals-and job seekers. Here are 10 tips for using Twitter to get a job.

Cover Letter Debate: How to Know When to Send One | Brand-Yourself.com Blog

Job seekers who have received advice from others on how to get a job in this tight job market have likely heard the statement “make yourself stand out” on many occasions.  There are a bunch of great strategies out there that, when followed, can really make a difference in a job search.  To stand out, you need to do all the things that set yourself apart from everyone else and gets you noticed.  Likewise, if you are a job seeker it is best to utilize the various job search strategies, but many strategies offer that you do not need to send a cover letter with your resume because many hiring managers do not read them.

Does that make sense? It doesn’t to me. If the word used to quantify the number of hiring managers who do not read cover letters is not a verifiable all, then a job seeker truly cannot afford to skip out on this task.