Looking for work isn’t something you want to become an independent expert in. So it makes sense to employ the services of people who do this for a living. So we’ve compiled this list of the top 30 online resume services and resources dedicated to bringing you a better resume. Some are free. Some are inexpensive. Some will set you back a few hundred dollars. But if any of them have the chance to get you the job you’ve been looking for, they’re all worth a closer look. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are a job seeker and you didn’t know this, you should – employers are as desperate to find a qualified applicant as you are to find a good paying job. Everyday thousands of ads are thrown in our face and quite a few of them are recruitment ads. Unless you are looking for a job you probably won’t notice them but there are quite a few that circulate the web, the newspapers, television and radio each day. Some we simply tend to ignore cause they are the “same old, same old” kind. However, there are a few that grab our attention. We’ve already covered creative resumes to highlight job applicant’s creativity and today’s post highlights some creative recruitment ads.

Below you will find ten creative recruitment ads that are not only amazing but almost compels you to apply for a job. Some may have never seen the day of light as they were a concept and could possibly have changed when the final version came out, and others you might have come across when you were looking to apply for a job. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »

This isn’t one of those “quit your day job and makes thousands a day kind of posts,” although we would love to find a way to do all that. To be honest, there are ways but the only thing is..it takes years to build yourself to that status and it’s not something that happens over night. Well, the thing about success is it doesn’t happen overnight unless you win a lottery. But again, winning a lottery isn’t really a success now, is it?

Anyways, we are going to drill down on some of the things that might help you quit your dreadful job and do what you love the most – all from home. There are no golden rules although there are rules that needs to be followed and if there were one golden rule to working from home and making enough to support it, it would have to be patience. While you keep your job search active, follow these simple but wonder working rules that might help you work from home in a  couple years or months for that matter. Read the rest of this entry »

Walmart is the biggest company in the world. It has a wealth of detractors, including the site Wakeupwalmart dedicated to exposing the damaging effects it alleges Walmart has on its employees and their communities. The hit blog thepeopleofwalmart.

Walmart offers everything you could possibly want at prices too low to believe. A 2007 Fast Company article showed how Walmart even hurts its suppliers and manufacturers, often forcing those companies to choose between outsourcing their manufacturing or seeing their products pulled off the most lucrative shelves in America. One blog (with the initials WIPE) goes so far as to say that Walmart is pure evil. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are unemployed and live in New York City, your job search might soon come to an end.

This year some high paying jobs have surfaced on the web that paid pretty big to use social media tools such as blogs, facebook, twitter, etc. Two that got quite a bit of buzz were A Really Goode Job from Murphy Winery and 67 Days of Work from Orlando Tourism Bureau. Now Procter & Gamble has kicked off another social media related job for their toilet paper Charmin. Read the rest of this entry »

You don’t have to take the bait on that 12-month, 0% APR credit card offer cluttering your mailbox to appreciate the value of junk mail. That’s because a lot of those letters from insurance companies and coupon brochures to water park resorts have something every job hunter really does want: writing that sells.

So if you want to keep your resume and cover letter out of the circular file, you may want to incorporate some of these golden junk mail tactics to prepare killer resumes and cover letters.

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We did a presentation a few months back called the “job search commandments.” We uploaded it on SlideShare and since then every week we get one email from the Slideshare teams saying it’s hot on some platform. We think it’s about time we shared it here too. As of now the slideshow has received more than 18,000 views, 30+ embeds and 50 favorites. We are sure you will find these job search commandments helpful. We have included both the slideshow and the text version. If you would like to add to the commandments feel free to do so through your comments.

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Every office has that one jerk who is so rude you wonder how he or she ever got hired in the first place. Just thinking about people like that stings even more when you consider you’re the one looking for work. But we can all learn a lesson from the a-holes.

Being nice might not make you finish last, but it often leads to finishing 2nd, which is even more frustrating. So here are 10 “nice-guy” mistakes for you to avoid if you ever hope to land a job.

1. Understating your upside

Muhammad Ali said it best: “I don’t mean to brag, but I’m the greatest.” With friends, be humble. When you’re applying for a job, though, by all means brag. Employers want to be impressed. Tell them something that will make them say, “Wow!, not, “well, she seemed nice.”

2. Acting like a friend

Friends ask how your family is. They ask about your day. They comment on how nice your office looks or how excited they are to see you. Do you know what friends don’t do? Pay you $50,000 a year. Act like a professional who wants a job, not a lonely person who’s just glad to leave the house. Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to using online tools, it is extremely important that you know the slightest misjudgment on your part can cost you your job. We know that the internet has become a convenient gateway to job search, but it has also become a viable tool for employers to keep track on employees or applicants. You can say that your employers don’t have the right to fire you based on what you do after work, but if your “after work remark” derogates the company name or personnel, I assume they have the right to take action, which in most cases starts out by getting you fired.

Today we want to talk a bit about Twitter (If you would like to learn more about Twitter, check out our visual guide to twitter). The networking platform that seems to be talked about almost everyday by both traditional and new media. Although it has become the core platform for many job seekers to find jobs online, it has also established itself as a worst nightmare for job seekers and employees in a sense. Each week it seems like someone is getting fired over their use of twitter. Just search google and you will see what we mean. We’ve been looking into twitter search for a couple days and it’s overwhelming how many people talk so casually about “hating their boss” and everything else. Well, if you really want Twitter to get you fired, these five pointers will certainly help. Read the rest of this entry »

Until it’s filled, an open position is just an idea. It’s a company’s idea of how to meet their needs and accomplish their objectives. But what if you have a better idea? What about those businesses that don’t recognize their biggest inefficiencies? Try thinking less like a job hunter and more like a business-to-business sales agent, and you just may be able to sell a company on your full-time services, and do it all on your terms.

So we’ve come up with a list of five needs and objectives many businesses simply fail to meet. With a little innovation and research, you can help some company do a better job, a job you’ve designed yourself.

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