By Christiane Soto, Snelling.com Summer – time of pools, picnics and parades. The scent of sunblock and bar-b-ques and chlorinated water fills the air. These are the three months of the year when people begin to focus on their personal lives in the form of vacations, staycations, summer school breaks and general family time. If […]
By Christiane Soto, Snelling.com Want to know how to make me think you are lazy? Send me a generic résumé, asking me to consider you for a specific job opening. Guaranteed bad impression. I have read advice columns that say not to customize your résumé. The logic goes that if you have a well-written résumé […]
Online privacy. It is a huge subject right now, with the debate centering on how much of your life should be private and how much should be made part of the public record. Whether or not you have a Facebook account or a LinkedIn profile or you “tweet”, you probably know people who have eschewed […]
Spring break. You know what you are getting into. Do not lie. The college ritual that is “spring break” is not a secret to anyone. Not to you. Not to the police. Not to your parents. Not to your potential employer. There will be alcohol. There will large gatherings of people. There will be promotions […]
To email or to call? It seems to be the perpetual question for many people, whether they are fully employed or searching for new opportunities. For the purpose of relationship building, a telephone call is better. But for documentation reasons, an email is better. How do you know which way to pick and in which […]
It is true. Finding a job today is not easy. As pointed out in yesterday’s Snelling Blog, we no longer live in a task-oriented world. We live in a rapidly changing technological world, where skills sets have to evolve quickly. Determination and good physical health are not enough anymore to guarantee you full-time employment. Think […]
Many of us covet dreams of business ownership, thinking that the hard work we do for others could be better channeled for ourselves. It is a heady concept….not working for “the man”. However, one thing that I learned a long time ago is that not all of us are suited to own our own business. […]
But is the expense (in terms of both time and money) worth it? There is no denying that education pays. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in 2011 that the unemployment rate for people with college credits but no degree was 8.7%. That number plummeted to 4.9% for people who earned a bachelor’s degree and […]
According to LinkedIn, only 50.5% of people have a 100% completed LinkedIn profile. Being complete is very important; it makes it easier for people to find you, because your profile “lands higher” in search results. To quantify this, users with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities. A complete profile will set […]
A recent nationwide survey by Glassdoor found that 1 in 3 employees plan to look for a new job in 2013, and 1 in 5 people plan to start the job hunt in the first quarter of this year. Over the last year, we have offered tips on how to make your job search more […]
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