Your audience, of course, is that narrowing strait of employers and/or academic committees empowered to consider you a candidate valid enough to grant interviews resulting in employment or entry into an institution of higher learning. In order to swim that channel during the screening process, your resumes and cover letters must not only be rich […]
“I’m gonna move away from here; You can find me if you want to go there.” While this chorus of a time-honored Paul Peňa song may seem as circuitous as a Yogi Berra adage, it may well be adopted as the battle cry of those compelled to pull up roots and relocate in order to […]
With Washington, DC sinking approximately $46 billion into the construction of a renewable energy infrastructure, the green industry stands among our nation’s fastest growing employment sectors, particularly wind and solar energy. The lion’s share of available jobs (as much as 65%) come via corporations whose missions target the recycling of waste, the reduction of greenhouse […]
In the boxing ring of the current recession, competition that was heretofore nonexistent or negligible has now pulled off the gloves and tossed them down on the mat. While mega-retailers such as Wal-Mart tempt consumers with packaged foods that, assembled and heated at home, are more cost-effective than patronizing restaurants, eateries such as The Outback […]
Earlier this week, a job-hunting article that appeared on Yahoo’s home page caught our attention. Authored by Liz Ryan, listed as a recognized career expert, the article expounded upon inclusion of any of ten of the most frequently used self-descriptive phrases as being one of the deadliest resume sins one can commit. While we agree […]
When I was a kid trying to pull the wool over my mother’s eyes, she would invariably fix me with a knowing eye and declare, “The truth always comes out in the end.” Indeed it did; my punishments befitted my fibs. Thankfully I learned a valuable life lesson, one that, unfortunately, went unlearned by many […]
