career

With so many careers to select from, it’s no wonder that our choice of careers is one of our dominant life themes, right from our earliest years. Children as young as two can often be found playing around the theme of careers. At this tender age, career selection is one of the many ways to demonstrate our human need to participatemeaningfully in our community. Of course, awareness of ...

The way you feel about yourself will have a great bearing during job interviews. Although it is enough to hire a person based on mere confidence alone, it makes a person express what is in his mind and it allows him to express the kind of person that he is. Since confidence is one of the best tools in making your prospected employer feel you are the best candidate for the position, ...

Job search is said to be a job in itself and that it should be treated as a project- this is so true. Once you have your career search plan in place, start preparing a “Master Resume.”  What is a “Master Resume?” It is your comprehensive resume, a master document where all your qualifications, skills, experiences, achievements, competencies, attributes and other ...

Are you ready to write your next resume only to realize that you’re really not that ready? It may be that you’re not sure what to add to the resume. Or it could be that you’re now sure how to pull together all of the information that you do have in a way that shows you’re the right person for the job.  If you find yourself struggling to get your resume together, ...

It can be frustrating to put a lot of work into a resume only to realize that it is not bringing back any interviewing opportunities. While this feeling isn’t a good one, it is good to know that there are a number of reasons that this could be occurring. One is that there is a large pool of candidates applying for virtually every job you apply for. But even if this is so, there ...