Archive for 'Career' Category
Problems Using a Headhunter / Recruiter
30 January 2007I was just reading this article on CareerJournal about using a headhunter - a recruiter who tries to find people with specialized experience to fit a certain job a company is looking to fill. The article advised against ever contacting headhunters for strategy consulting jobs:
Very rarely do search professionals — or headhunters — assist candidates [...]
Should You Get Both An MBA And A Law Degree?
6 December 2006USAToday’s “Young and In Debt” series has an update for this week here, focusing on a young woman who is struggling with her student loan debt at the same time that she is getting her MBA. It wasn’t a particularly illuminating article, but I did notice that it mentioned in passing her career plan, which [...]
How To Get A Better Raise
7 November 2006This article is on the secrets you may not know about how your boss is making a decision about whether you should get a raise - and if so, how much. I’d take it with a grain of salt just because the decisions vary so greatly from company to company, and even boss to boss. [...]
Searching For Jobs When You’re Over 50
9 October 2006This can be one of the more difficult career problems people can face. Suppose you get fired, laid off, or for some other reason have to start a new job search - you’re getting up there in years, but you’re not ready to retire yet. The problem is that many companies don’t want you, no [...]
Looking For A First Job? Send Out Resumes In Bulk
29 September 2006Ask Uncle Bill has a good post with some advice for people who are first time job seekers. He suggests that in his experience, the HR people who put out those “1-2 years of experience required” statements on a job description don’t always stick to it - and don’t always have the final say on [...]
What Are the Reasons People Quit Their Jobs?
28 September 2006Dumb Little Man has a great post on this topic from a bunch of HR data he collected along with people from several other IT firms in his area. I think it’s an extremely important read if you are involved in employing people in any way, because they used the “Pareto principle” (the idea that the [...]
Story of an Awful Sales Job
16 September 2006Get Rich Slowly has an excellent post relating the story of the worst job he ever had: a sales position selling insurance to people who didn’t need it. It’s a great post, and I’m pretty sure that sales jobs are just no fun in general. I went in for an application to one, and it [...]
Pay Differences in Job Salaries Between Cities - Not Big Enough
16 September 2006CNN has a short article on a comparison they did between several jobs that earned a national median of either $60,000 or $90,000. They were trying to find out if a person with that job in an expensive city, such as New York, would make much more than a person in any of the cities [...]
Why You Should Be Careful With Your Work E-mail Address…
14 September 2006Via Chree’s World, there’s a perfect example of how you have to take special care of your reputation in the age of Google. A young investment banker named Lucy Gao in the United Kingdom sent off an e-mail with a hyper-controlling birthday invitation to a party at the Ritz - which was soon forwarded around [...]
Does it Pay to Learn a Foreign Language?
10 September 2006One of the constant refrains about education that has existed for decades is the idea that you are much better off if you become fluent in a foreign language. This is given as advice both to college students and to people in the workplace, on several theories: that you’ll be able to communicate with businesspeople [...]