The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently identified the top 30 occupations that are likely to have the most new jobs over the next ten years. Six of the top seven jobs are generally lower-skill and lower-wage jobs. The BLS is projecting that the leading sector producing most jobs in the next decade is healthcare with as many as 4 million new jobs. Here is the complete list:
Losing a job always brings financial hardship. Many who are unemployed struggle with paying bills on time, often ignoring them, not realizing that their tarnished credit history could become a barrier to finding a new job.
A recent study (conducted by the Society of Human Resource Management) has found that nearly 60% of employers run credit checks on job candidates. This is almost a 20% increase from just six years ago.
Many employers have been relying on credit histories in hiring decisions as indicators of a job candidate’s reliability. Even though there is little research showing a correlation between bad credit and poor job performance, an increased number of employers resort to credit checks.
Are you afraid that your less-than-perfect credit history may affect your job search? What can you do?
A woman, interviewing for a pharmaceutical sales position, answers common interview questions. Denham Resources created great examples of bad and good answers.
The recruiting process varies by industry, company and profession, but end result is the same: only one person out of many candidates is hired. Not every company sends out rejection letters and only few say why.
For those who aren’t hired, it can be a mystery to understand what happened, but knowing what exactly goes on behind the scenes may give you the inside track for a job.
Many employers use recruiters or human resources (HR) personnel to pre-screen applicants that meet a job’s basic qualifications. The goal is to remove only candidates that are a clear miss. Some screeners read every resume, but many search for certain keywords. Some of them consider cover letters and others may ignore cover letters completely. To stay on the safe side, it is better to submit a well-written cover letter and include relevant keywords that usually found in the job posting. Read this »
Before going for an interview, find out as much information about the company as you can. It may seem obvious but there are a lot of people failing to answer the “What do you know about our company?” question. The best way to show enthusiasm for the job is to research the company and position you are interviewing for. Human Resource managers say they are impressed when the interviewee is well-informed. Read this »
If you are unemployed and filing tax returns, you want to make sure not to miss out on many deductions available to job seekers. We have recently published Tax Tips to Maximize Your Refund This Year and by popular request decided to continue on that subject, putting together a list of job related expenses that you can and can’t write off this year:
The Ground Rules
In order to maximize your deductions and not get in trouble with IRS, it is important to understand the ground rules:
• You can only write off expenses for a job search in the same field in which you were formerly employed. In other words, you can’t write off job search expenses if you decide to switch to a different career.
• Unfortunately, if you just recently graduated and/or haven’t held a full time position, you are not entitled to writing off expenses associated with your first job search. The tax law only allows you to write off expenses incurred in searching for a position in your present occupation.
Three boys are in the schoolyard bragging of how great their fathers are.
The first one says: “Well, my father runs the fastest. He can fire an arrow, and start to run, I tell you, he gets there before the arrow.”
The second one says: “Ha! You think that’s fast! My father is a hunter. He can shoot his gun and be there before the bullet.”
The third one listens to the other two and shakes his head. He then says: “You two know nothing about fast. My father is a civil servant. He stops working at 4:30 and he is home by 3:45!!”
It is hard to keep spirits up when finding a job seems nearly impossible! All the news we hear on TV and read on the Web are depressing and discouraging: The unemployment rate by December 2009 was 10.6%… The number of job searchers is an all-time high and job availability is at lowest levels in decades… Current numbers show that for every new job opening there are 6.3 job seekers… These are arguably the toughest times in generations….
Getting a job in this climate is hard but it is still possible! According to the recent report by the United States Department of Labor, nearly 50 million Americans got new jobs in 2009 and so can you!
Leadership concepts describe the way we organize, inspire, evaluate, and reward employees. With so many management theories, there are some ill-conceived practices that are widely used:
Recruiting system that requires candidates to go through multiple steps before they can get as much as a phone interview. Those steps can often be insulting and may include reference and credit checks, questionnaires, online and work assignment tests, etc. Giving hiring responsibilities back to hiring managers can improve the speed and quality of recruiting process.
Sometimes we are so bored. Many of us have a job that we really don’t like, which is, of course, very boring.
A latest study conducted by researchers at University College London shows that boredom can kill you. The researchers analyzed questionnaires completed between 1985 and 1988 by more than 7,500 London civil servants ages 35 to 55. The civil servants were asked if they had felt bored at work during the previous month.
They then found out how many of the participants had died by April 2009. Those who reported they had been very bored were two and a half times more likely to die of a heart problem than those who hadn’t reported being bored. Read this »
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently 
Losing a job always brings financial hardship. Many who are unemployed struggle with paying bills on time, often ignoring them, not realizing that their tarnished credit history could become a barrier to finding a new job.
The recruiting process varies by industry, company and profession, but end result is the same: only one person out of many candidates is hired. Not every company sends out rejection letters and only few say why.
If you already have your job interview day you should take it very seriously and start your preparation immediately. We recommend you to read 
If you are unemployed and filing tax returns, you want to make sure not to miss out on many deductions available to job seekers. We have recently published 
Three boys are in the schoolyard bragging of how great their fathers are.
It is hard to keep spirits up when finding a job seems nearly impossible! All the news we hear on TV and read on the Web are depressing and discouraging: The unemployment rate by December 2009 was 10.6%… The number of job searchers is an all-time high and job availability is at lowest levels in decades… Current numbers show that for every new job opening there are 6.3 job seekers… These are arguably the toughest times in generations….
Leadership concepts describe the way we organize, inspire, evaluate, and reward employees. With so many management theories, there are some ill-conceived practices that are widely used:
