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Articles in Home | Business | Careers articles Title|Newest|Oldest Not my house, not my car  By : Marsha Maung Some people prefer to have a job and live their lives driving someone else's car and living in someone else's house. Have they ever wondered what would happen when the owner rips everything out from under their feet? Would their world crumble? Franchises Offer Shortcuts, But Not Control  By : Tim Knox Franchising can be a great way to start a business career, but you should make sure you're not just trading one job for another. Unless you plan on being an absentee owner, which I highly discourage, you are gong to be working in the business just as an employee would, so be sure the business you choose doesn't turn your lifelong dream into a never-ending nightmare. Franchising Pros and Cons  By : Tim Knox Some folks offered helpful insights and suggestions on how to pick a franchise and a few things to watch out for, while other emails came from current franchise owners asking me to help them sell their operations to Anthony R. Why the Beatles Made More Money than Einstein  By : Sam Vaknin Why did the Beatles generate more income in one year than Albert Einstein did throughout his long career? Job Salary: Avoid the 6 Biggest Mistakes!  By : Paul Megan Before you even go to an interview or first meeting with a decision-maker you MUST avoid the compensation pitfalls that can derail your good intentions. Adventurers needed: No Experience Possible. Unlimited Salary Potential  By : Eileen Silva Learn how to succeed in multi-level-marketing where so many have failed with these step-by-step instructions given by marketing pro, Dr. Eileen Silva, who has over 20 years experience and millions of dollars in results to back her up. Dr. Silva’s personal, yet informative, article addresses the causes of multi-level-failures and shares valuable experience and advice. Career Builder: Turn Your Passion Into A Dream Career!  By : Paul Megan What if you could build a custom career around a vocation or avocation you’re passionate about? Recruiting Excellent Job Candidates:  By : Amabaie Here are six useful tips for recruiters and human resources staff to find the most qualified job candidates. Job Search Market Plan . . . a 21st Century Success Tool  By : Paul Megan Employers have new and different expectations of a job candidate. And all this has required new and alternative ways of thinking about finding a job. Hot Job Listings for 2006!  By : Paul Megan According to recent reports here are the six areas where you can expect to find an above average number of openings. Interviewing? Follow These 7 Tips To Set Yourself Apart  By : Lee Dobbins Successful interviewing is not only about talking up your skills and accomplishments, it’s also about selling yourself. The Pros and Cons In The Work Of A Cultivator  By : James Monahan A cultivator is a person who is involved in the cultivation and supervision of a land, whether he may own the land or not. They play a vital role to the development of agriculture all throughout the world. Drafting As An Art Of Technical Drawing  By : James Monahan Drafting is also known as technical drawing, it is the method of creating drawing for architectures and engineering. The Path to a Profitable Speaking Career  By : Mike Moore All you need to know and do to enter the world of professional speaking Freelancers: Your Job Away From Job  By : James Monahan Freelancing is not for the faint of heart. Freelancing is also for the adventurous who are willing to take risks on uncertain seas. Freelancing intrigues some people because as they are, they won’t easily be able to land salaried jobs. Life After Downsizing  By : Lee Dobbins You worked in your field as a professional for over 20 years putting in long nights and weekends. Now you find yourself working at the local grocery. What can you do to keep you your spirits and get back into the race? Employers are Hiring Good Candidates, not Good Employees  By : Robert Cameron Employer’s often use the wrong criteria to evaluate a job candidate. A survey showed the attributes of a good candidate aren’t the same as a top employee. Robert Cameron examines the problem and how to do a more effective job of pre employment testing. Job Layoffs: Are We The Problem?  By : Virginia Bola, PsyD You know, we all talk a good game about keeping job positions in America and stemming the tide of illegal immigrants who pour through our borders at an alarming rate. But are we really willing to change our lifestyle, to put our money where our mouth is? Unemployment Blues: Talk To Yourself  By : Virginia Bola, PsyD I find the most effective way to improve your mood and self-esteem is to create your own positive scripts for regular re-reading and study. On those days when you're really down on yourself and think that you're a failure, immersing yourself in a book crammed with notes about your qualities and accomplishments can restore your balance, brighten your spirits, and re-energize you for the rigors of the job hunt. Job Interviews: Make An Application Cheat Sheet  By : Virginia Bola, PsyD It is so easy to sit down to complete an application and suddenly your mind blanks. You can't remember dates or names or telephone numbers. If you have a varied work history, you can't recall which job came first. If you have worked for the same employer for years, you forget when your duties changed or when you received a promotion. Unemployment Blues: Life Changing Events  By : Virginia Bola, PsyD If we are unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, we experience a personal tsunami - a misfortune of devastating proportions that sweeps away our routine lifestyle and forever changes the world we know. Interviewing Skills: Presentation of Your Work History  By : Virginia Bola, PsyD It may take you some time and self-exploration to identify it, but there are always some aspects of your work history that carry a positive spin. Don’t be afraid to dwell on your strong points no matter how unimpressive you fear your prior jobs may seem. Genuine Help Vs. Exploitation  By : Virginia Bola, PsyD A correspondent raises a very interesting question. Is there something inherently exploitative about selling a product or a service to individuals who are in a place of great need and few resources? Unemployment Blues: Are We Pre-Programmed To Be Productive?  By : Virginia Bola, PsyD To feel productive seems to be an inherent human need. We feel good about ourselves when we are contributing -- to our own independence, to our family, to our community. Many of the great discoveries, inventions, and explorations of history were made by individuals born to family wealth who had no need to ever lift a finger to ensure adequate self-support. Yet these individuals wanted to contribute to the world in some way and left their homes, worked through the night, and even died trying to be part of some enterprise. 4 Powerful Career Education Tips: Success Is In Your Attitude!  By : Paul Megan A savvy career education review may tell you it’s not your job that's slowing you down. Worried about Layoffs and Offshore?  By : Roger Thompson This article describes how people can avoid layoffs and offshoring of services. Aggressively Written Resumes  By : Alesia Benedict When writing resumes, it is important to remember whom it is you're trying to please - (is it you, or the hiring authority?) In this article I will present my ideas of what makes up really aggressive documents, based on my many years in the industry, and my career in owning and managing a successful resume writing and career marketing firm. Who Is Reading Your Resume? Make no mistake about it, aggressive documents are necessary to be successful in today's competitive jo... Navigating The Summer Job Market  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC Most people believe summer is the worst time to conduct a job search. Between college students and high school students eating up the market, vacations, lagging budgets, etc. hiring would seem to lag during the summer making it a bad time to conduct a job search. In reality, summer is a very good time to job hunt. Here are some tips to make your summer-time job search more effective: Spiff up your telephone skills. With people on vacation, you will be receiving more voice ... 6 Factors Of Career Success  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC What do employers look for in potential employees? That was the question that was posted recently on a career discussion forum online. Naturally, for each different position, the particular answers to that question would be different. However, there are some common skills that employers look for in all employees, whether the employee happens to be a network engineer or a fry cook. In-Demand Skills for Success 1. BASIC SKILLS‚ Reading, writing and arithmetic! Believe it... Career Builder: Using Job Boards For More Than Jobs  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC If you are like most job seekers, you have registered your resume on the major online job boards such as Career Builder, Monster, TheLadders.com, Headhunter, etc. But are you aware of the plethora of good information and job search tools that are available on these sites in addition to job listings? Take CareerBuilder.com for example. The main navigation pages at Career Builder are “Home”, “Find Jobs”, “Post Resumes”, “Job Alerts”, “My Career Builder”, “Advice and Resourc... Six Tips For A Better Engineering Resume  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC One of the most key elements of success in a job search is the resume and the engineering resume can often be one of the more difficult documents to develop. The engineering resume is the engineering job seeker’s primary marketing document that sells the product – the skills and experience of the engineer. To be effective, an engineering resume must grab the attention of the reader in 35-45 seconds. A good engineering resume will extend that attention span to over a minute. A... Engineering Job News: Tips To Survive Offshore Outsourcing  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC The cheap labor costs of Southeast Asia are like a siren call to more and more US employers seeking to lower support costs and improve profits. The increasingly common trend toward outsourcing labor to countries such as India, Malaysia, and Pakistan means jobs are leaking to a part of the world where workers fresh out of college or technical school will work for pennies on the dollar compared to American workers. For the American workers, that means the bar for entry-level po... Resume Tips For Technical Grads  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC The hurdles facing today’s new technology graduates are the same as with other industries. One of the largest hurdles for new grads in preparing a first IT resume is the “no-experience” fence. A hi-tech grad may not have any formal experience working with technology in a real-world situation. While this hurdle is best handled long before you graduate by seeking part-time or full-time employment in technology or an internship, the fact remains that you may be coming out of col... 8 Tips To Help You Get That Raise  By : Lee Dobbins Nobody likes going in to ask the boss for a raise, but everyone likes getting one! Unfortunately, sometimes the only way to get the boss to hike your pay is to go in and ask. This can be a bit stressful and awkward, but here’s 8 tips you can use to make asking easier and better your chances of getting that well deserved pay increase. Career Path Divergence - Navigating The Ten-Year Fork In The Road  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC After working with engineers and IT professionals for over ten years, I have noticed a consistent pattern in career paths of these types of professionals. The career paths are generally similar in that the first three years are spent breaking into their career fields, learning skills, gaining additional training, and establishing their professional reputations. Between three and seven years, they begin taking on supervisory roles such as team lead, group leader, or functional... Enticing New Employees With Corporate Stability  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC Employment is on the rise and with it, the return to attractive compensation packages and salary levels. After several down years in the employment market that was the result of the normalization of an inflated stock market and the beginning of the War on Terror, employers are constructing compensation packages with an eye to drawing dedicated employees. During the economic bubble of the late nineties, employers were in head-to-head competition with each other to offer be... Job Hunting On The Sly  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC So you want to look around for your next career step but you are concerned that your current employer will find out and give you an early exit? Confidentiality in your job search is a reasonable concern and makes the way you approach finding your next position all the more important. Confidentiality and privacy issues in today’s hyper-informative world are issues that should be taken seriously. Keeping your intentions of changing jobs a secret is a challenge but secrecy i... Outsourcing To Podunk: Keeping Jobs Within The Borders  By : Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC If you have called a company’s customer service call center or a computer manufacturer’s tech support department lately, you probably have had the “joy” of experiencing outsourcing for yourself. The inefficiency of non-native English speakers as tech support personnel is astounding; however, corporate management across the US feel the money saved in salaries by sending jobs to southeast Asia outweighs the nose-dive in customer satisfaction ratings. Forrester Research predicts... CORPORATE INTEGRITY ISSUES STILL LOOM LARGE  By : Eileen Silva In the face of all the corporate scandels, networking can provide extra income and some protection in the light of these financial catastrophes. Here is an opportunity to evaluate the potential and security of your current job and to choose another path if they do not measure up. Executive Recruiter Tip: They Don't Work For YOU!  By : Paul Megan Don’t place a lot of job campaign emphasis on recruiters. They play a very limited role in your search. Job Interview Skills - Going for a Job  By : Robin Chandler Hints and Interview Tips on CVs, Job Interview Questions, Interview Technique and Interview Advice. Do you need a new job in 2006?  By : Neil Gordon Many people are unhappy or unmotivated in their jobs and careers. This article examines the possible reasons for this, and how to get to the root cause of work and career related problems. 3 Steps to a Better Career: Finding Your True Talents to Work from Home for Life  By : Sylvie Charrier Did you know that you have an untapped source of revenue at your very fingertips? It’s true, but there’s no need to look too far for it because that source of revenue is you! If you’re ready to uncover the hidden skills inside you and leave the rat race of work-at-home job boards behind, then you’re definitely in the right place. Why Do You Have a Job? Five False Beliefs that Lead People into Jobs they Hate  By : Debra Thorsen There are five false beliefs that lead people into jobs they hate. Before you change your job, company, or career, you need to examine these false beliefs. Getting Creative In Your Job Search  By : Lee Dobbins Have you been looking for a job for ages? Been to all the online job boards? Do you routinely check the help wanted section every morning with little success? Here's some tips on some unusual ways to find that perfect job. Good Flexible Jobs… Separating The Good From The Bad  By : Adwina Jackson Congratulations! So you’ve decided to make a leap back into the workforce after having a baby (or two!). Millions of moms have known for years that you can manage the two and do it without being burnt out and without sacrificing quality time with your family. In fact, most working mothers report that their life is much more rewarding because they have the best of both worlds. How do they do it? If you want to get back into the workforce what you really need to do ... Paralegal How to Get Certified  By : Linda Moore In today’s economy everyone is looking for a way to get the advantage over other job seekers, looking for a career that is almost recession proof. Fortunately, there is one profession that is never going to fade away, and that is lawyers. While the though of going to school and becoming a lawyer may not thrill you, becoming a paralegal might. Underwater Welding Takes Combination Of Skills  By : Peter Vermeeren Underwater welding is a high paying, much in demand, lucrative and rewarding profession. Underwater welding also takes a combination of skills. If you are wondering how to get started in this great career, the American Welding Society makes recommendations at their web site to encourage young people to enter the career field of underwater welding. To get a basic idea of just what it takes, here are a few skills you should have. First you must be both a certified welder and... How to Make a Year-end Job Search Work for You!  By : Paul Megan You could be missing out on one of the most productive job search times of the year. Bartending Secrets Revealed Special Report - Two Strategies to Instantly Increase Your Tips  By : Theodore Watts So you want to learn how to increase your tips? If you want to learn the time tested techniques that will help fatten your wallet, then you must read this report. 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