Guest post by Mona Abdel-Halim: While holiday activities may be keeping you plenty busy this season, it is important that you stay dedicated to your job search. Businesses aren’t taking the whole season off, and neither should you. Lucky for you, there is good news for those individuals looking to job search this season. Not only will you have less competition
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Someone once told me that a corporation was a nasty thing to fall in love with….because it will NEVER love you back. The rules of loyalty in the work force are changing. No one can deny that. However, knowing this doesn’t change the pain of getting laid off or let go. It hurts. It can wound. Each of us reacts
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For long-term readers of Career Enlightenment, you may feel uncomfortable at the very personal nature of this post. I am going to reveal to you one of my biggest weaknesses — and biggest frustrations. But in the end, in typical Career Enlightenment fashion, I hope to make a point relevant to your job search. I coach and present to many
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By Simon North is Founder of Position Ignition, which created the Career Ignition Club – a leading career support and career development resource for career conscious professionals. Many people tend to coast through their careers, from the time they leave school or university and get their first job to the time they retire. Although they go to work day in
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City & Guilds released the Career Happiness Index 2012, which offers broad insights into what people in the UK consider to be most important factors contributing to their happiness at work. The study reveals the jobs that make people the happiest and why, painting a picture of a British workforce who want flexibility, reasonable control over their daily duties and
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 Looking for employment in a down economy can be discouraging. But if you’re unemployed or trying to get a better job than your current one, you need to make sure that you employ a blend of tactics. Getting paper applications, networking and sending out resumes to influential people in your industry is still important, but if you’re not harnessing the
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Guest post by Karen Flowers. People who become CEOs at a very young age gain the respect of many. These people have been fortunate enough to take the lead in their field and make their way to the top. Their stories are true stories of success and inspiration. Indeed, there are a lot of things you can learn from them.
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Facebook’s privacy issues have come and gone in past months. With their recent release of the “groups” feature, we now have more control over who can see what. But is that enough? Or better yet, is technology the answer to a fundamentally human problem? For me, the issue is the use of Facebook in the job search. Probably the most
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Everyone wants to become the CEO of their company at some point in their career. However, it takes a combination of luck and hard work to get there. It also takes a set of social skills that some people just don’t have. There are three reasons why your career has stalled. You probably have done this in the past without
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In a recent study released by Evolv, over 100,000 call center employees were asked about their employment history and their current tenure. The results could change how recruiters look at your rocky employment past. Recruiters try to screen out “job hoppers;” that is, employees who seem to perpetually change jobs. For companies, this type of employee is very expensive, given the recruiting
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