Often candidates feel they performed better than they actually did during an interview. Read this article to learn how you can tell what the interviewer really thought …

Most job seekers leave their recommendations up to chance – when careful planning can help you tell the most important parts of your story to a potential employer. The extent of most candidates reference planning stops at asking prior bosses, peers and clients to give a reference. While it’s polite to ask your reference first, [...]

Who’s Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 6/28/10. The hospitality, business service, retail, telecommunications, health care and banking are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards. Not only is this valuable for job [...]

Who’s Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the week ended 6-25-10. For the past week government, telecommunications, technology, energy, and manufacturing employers announced the largest layoffs. This information is intended for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are [...]

Do you have an egocentric resume? What’s an egocentric resume, you ask? Based on Wikipedia’s definition, an egocentric resume is a resume you’ve written for yourself as the audience. It makes you feel good. It should – you’ve written an autobiography, talking about things that are most important to you, that you’re proudest of and [...]

I had the opportunity to speak with T.A. McCann, CEO of Gist.com, to discuss how Gist’s free service can help job seekers. Gist.com is a plug-in for major email applications and web based email, that mashes-up your contact list with information from Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Google to give job seekers better information about the [...]

How do you eat an elephant? Learn how to eat elephants and how to apply this strategy to your job search by reading this article …

You just got the call (or email) – the company chose another candidate. Why didn’t you get the job? Here’s 10 reasons … Before we get to the list, let’s discuss a few things. The obvious reason you didn’t get the job is because the company’s first choice (or second, or third) accepted. So the [...]

Who’s Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 6/21/10. The hospitality, business service, retail, telecommunications, health care and banking are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards. Not only is this valuable for job [...]

Who’s Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the week ended 6-18-10. For the past week government, colleges, health care, business services, and hospitality employers announced the largest layoffs. This information is intended for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies [...]