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Career Tips, Insights and Career Advice by Paul Freiberger

How To Cope With Job Loss

You will find another job.There is too much job loss shock these days. But I encourage you to be constructive about it from the very start. That’s the best approach to avoid some of the most difficult consequences. It’s normal to feel: fear of the unknown, financial ...

A Bit of Good News for College Grads on Job Hiring

There’s no denying that the job market for New Grads is still tough. But there a few signs of improvement. CareerBuilder’s Annual Job Forecast reports that 21 percent of companies hiring New Grads will hire more than a year ago. And 16 percent plan to offer higher starting ...

Job Interview History: Who invented this process?

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It's hard to imagine how and why the job interview became the normal way to get a job. Exactly when did the job interview become standard practice?Once humans advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage of cultural development and began to assign professions to certain individuals, the passing on of these ...

A Resume's Basic Framework

As you approach the task of  building your resume, you need to be comfortable with the standard, expected approach. It's the technique a qualified professional resume writer uses and the one hiring managers expect to see. You can find examples of this in properly written sample resumes that professional resume ...

Job Rotation: Career Magic or Catastrophe?

Gerald E. Ledford, Jr. The world of work is filled with irony. Those who are most desperate for work can’t find jobs, and then they are ridiculed for not wanting to work. And specialization in the workplace, a trend for many years is running up against another: job rotation ...

Resume Writing Help for the Legal Mind

Everyone needs  a quality professional resume. But for attorneys, the resume's style may reflect more on the job candidate than it does for most professions. As president of a career counseling and resme writing firm with many attorney friends, I know that a legal resume must meet the exacting ...

You Must Stand Out: It's the Purpose of Your Resume

Employers scan the average resume for 15 seconds, so you must stand out at first glance. Does your resume distinguish you from the rest? Create one that sparks that golden, "must-have" feeling in the employer. Employers only care about your history, your skills and your abilities for one reason: Will ...

Your LinkedIn Photo is You

LinkedIn is a professional networking site, and while you certainly don’t want to shy away from letting a little bit of your personality shine through, when it comes to how you present yourself visually you need to be careful. You may think that a casual photo of you at ...

Help for Job-Seeking Engineers/Programmers and Resume Tips

I have been counseling many software engineers this year, developing resumes for engineers and crafting job-search strategies. The economy has made it tough for some very smart people. There are some things to keep in mind. I'll offer a few here today and I'll come back to this topic again ...

1-2-3 Shrug for the NBA

Does anyone out there in the land of casual basketball fans care that the NBA has yet to start its season? Has anyone noticed? There may be some diehards who are feeling the pain, but the rest of the country seems to be reacting with a collective shrug. After all ...

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