Tips for Online Job Hunters
Online job hunters make common mistakes, writes Elizabeth Garone in the Wall Street Journal . Things to keep in mind: Mind your manners: This applies to your tweets, blogs, even your Facebook postings....
View ArticleLabor Dept Has a New Site for Jobless
For those who wish they were working this holiday weekend, the Labor Department has a new website aimed at helping out-of-work Americans land a job. Called My Skills, My Future, the site allows...
View ArticleAmerica's Worst Job-Hunting Cities
Miami and LA might be beautiful places to live—but they’re really terrible places to find work. Those two cities top the list in a new Indeed.com analysis of the worst cities to find employment....
View ArticleJobs Site Monster Cutting 400 ... Jobs
It's a layoff announcement with a sad, ironic twist: Monster Worldwide, which runs the online recruitment site and makes job-search software, is itself slashing 400 jobs, reports Reuters . That amounts...
View ArticleHow to Get a Job: Stay Positive for Months
If you're looking for a job, get ready to stick it out for four months—and keep up that can-do attitude. Researchers tracked the job search experiences of 177 unemployed subjects for 20 weeks and found...
View ArticleeHarmony Looks to Match Bosses, Workers
EHarmony is moving from the business of love to the business of, well, business. The dating website is developing a job service that aims to cut through what one eHarmony exec calls the "artificial and...
View ArticlePhoto Editor Mistakenly Makes Job Plea Very Public
Gawker has spotted a cringe-worthy gaffe by a photo editor at the Associated Press whose job search went inadvertently public. A photo caption that went out across the wires began in ordinary fashion,...
View ArticleWhat Our Voice Says About Us
Job hunters, take note: If you're insecure during an interview, your voice may give you away. A new study reveals that people speak in higher-pitched voices when they're speaking to someone they see as...
View ArticleShe Applied for Work at a Job Fair. She Didn't See the Camera
Ja'Naea Modest thought she'd been stealthy. On her lunch break from work Friday, the 33-year-old from Champaign, Ill., switched outfits, headed to a job fair, and filled out an application, thinking...
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