Your Career
Getting Your Dream Job
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!First, let’s set aside the insanely inefficient circling want ads in the newspaper, and carpet bombing every employer within a 5-10 mile radius with your résumé. That’s about getting a job, any job, and purely expedient when you’re between everything […]
Online Degrees vs. Traditional Degrees: No Significant Difference
Study after study has consistently come to the same conclusion that there is no significant difference in outcomes between learning in a traditional classroom and learning online. (However, there are some who raise valid points about how we ask the question, but they address technology and the role it plays, not the outcomes.)
As shocking as […]
Career Relocation
Relocating for work is a hard decision to make. Sometimes it’s absolutely the right decision, and as I found out through the experience of friends, sometimes it’s not.
A friend of mine once applied for a job in a different state after having been unhappy with her current position for several months. The new job was […]
Résumé building tips
Résumés are supposed to summarize your education, experience, accomplishments, and other professional qualifications. Its purpose is to present your essential qualifications and relevant work experience to the prospective employer and get you an interview. As such, it should be brief and to the point; it should be written in active voice, first person, using carefully […]
Getting ready to begin a New Job!
Congratulations! Getting a job offer is no small thing, especially in today’s competitive market. But now the celebrating is over, you’ve tied up loose ends at your current job, and the new position is suddenly staring you in the face. Where to begin?!
In my family, we have always treated beginning a new job like going […]
