From Amelia Grey comes a short list of stable careers where there is always demand. Here’s the list:
Somewhat surprised by graphic design - I don’t really see anything stable there. As the economy gets tough good design gets cheaper to compete - so there’s less money and a possibility of getting cut. Teaching is also out of place, but I guess she hasn’t heard about the hiring freeze for teachers in many states.
RJ Sherman from brand-yourself.com wants you to get more out of college by getting an internship. But which one should you pick and why? If you’re in the position to pick between a few here’s how to evaluate internships in College:
Yahoo! HotJobs roundup:
1. Well-Paid Jobs That Won’t Be Outsourced - because you don’t have enough to worry about just finding a job…
2. Hiring Tricks That Job Seekers Must Know gives some secret tricks that real recruiters and hiring managers use to weed out candidates:
They inspect your car.
Tina Hamilton, of HireVision Group, knows a corporate president who would find out which car belonged to the candidate he was interviewing. “The receptionist … would then go outside and look in the candidate’s car to see how neat and clean the car was, if there were food wrappers … how well maintained the car was,” says Hamilton. “The owner considered this a definition of the candidate’s character.”
They watch while you wait.
Some recruiters deliberately keep candidates waiting and have the receptionist report on how they choose to occupy their time, says career consultant Eileen Varelas, of Keystone Partners. “So if you are playing games on your phone instead of reading the Wall Street Journal on the table in front of you, you could be sabotaging yourself before you even meet the recruiter,” she says.
If you choose to do something besides quietly sit and wait to be called in, take care in choosing an appropriate activity. For example, reviewing your resume or an industry publication would be a good choice. Loudly sampling songs as you download them to your phone, not so good.
They try to see your inner gossip.
Waffles Natusch, president of The Barrett Group, says a senior manager client would have other people on the hiring team do the normal interview screening. Then he would have a friendly interview with the applicant during which he’d drop a sideways comment about someone on the hiring team and ask the candidate’s opinion of the person.? If the candidate agreed or added to the slam, or disagreed and defended the person, he or she wasn’t hired. But if the candidate refused to acknowledge or discuss the inference, a job offer was usually made.
They mind your manners.
Many recruiters use meals as a screening tool. “I know a recruiter who passed over a candidate because of the way they cut their meat during a lunch interview,” says Varelas. (The candidate cut his meat all at once, not one piece at a time.) Juliet Boghossian, a behavioral food expert and columnist for Food-ology.com, teaches execs what they can learn by the way someone eats.
“By observing an individual’s eating style or food habits, you can quickly reveal their character or judgment capacity, among many other behavioral facets,” she says.
3. Great Resume Beginnings: Objective or Summary? Another addition to the debate on how to start your resume.
Career Evolution in Advertising
Think your job is bad? Tired of arbitrary deadlines, endless meetings, and pointless performance reviews? Well, before you consider quitting your job, you may want to consider other undesirable occupations.
1. Liz Ryan has ten ‘boilerplate phrases’ that kill a resume (via Cheezhead):
2. CareerTV talks with Lindsey Pollak in a segment called Campus to Career
In our first five-minute segment, we’re answering viewer questions about finding jobs on Twitter, connecting professionally on LinkedIn and surviving when you move back home with mom and dad (hint: lay off the frozen yogurt).
3. 5 Career Questions You May Be Too Embarrassed to Ask
4. Another resume pet peeve from “ Jeff Altman, from Concepts in Staffing (NY) who complains about the “same” resume”. Listen or download.
1. 7 Surprisingly Creative, Well-Paid Jobs:
Not sure we agree about some of these being the most “creative” jobs possible.
2. How Far Will Your College Degree Really Get You?
Your degree track makes perfect sense to you. It gathers all your talents, skills, and aspirations into one neat and clean package that will inform the world at large who you are and what you can do. At least it’s supposed to. But what happens when the folks reading your resume are not exactly seeing what you think they are?
Robert J. Pietrykowski, assistant vice president for human resources and chief negotiator at Cleveland State University, explains that when it comes to college degrees, confusion is often the order of the day.
3. Can your name keep you from getting hired? (Note: I am linking to this mainly because of my love for Office Space)
1. New Research Examines How Career Dreams Die… some intense stuff:
Researchers found that it’s not enough to tell people they don’t have the skills or the grades to make their goal a reality.
People will cling to their dreams until they’re clearly shown not only why they’re not qualified, but also what bad things can happen if they pursue their goals and fail.
2. Not to state the obvious but, Parents: Help Your Graduate Get a Job. Here are 4 way:
3. From “The Personal MBA” comes The 4 Most Valuable Things I Learned in Business School (with a full breakdown at the site):
Now shorter and too the point. We’ll only list our links - but when we find something good we’ll comment on it:
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