Who’s Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 1/31/11. The hospitality, business service, retail, health care, telecommunications and banking verticals …

Who’s Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the week ended 1-28-11. For the past week pharmaceuticals, retail, education, entertainment and government employers announced the largest layoffs.

Fake job postings definitely are out there, from my personal experience. Here’s some career advice about how to best deal with them.

A participant in my Resume Revolution webinar asked “Once you connect with a recruiter how many times a week should you check in?” This article gives some ideas of how to get a recruiter to want to work for you.

Sometimes I see great ideas for career advice in unusual places. This unusual place was a signature block – one of the best I’ve ever seen. “Always bring a gift”

Candidates do far more research shopping for an appliance than we do searching for a job. Why not learn how to search for a job, like we shop for a fridge?

Who’s Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 1/24/11. The hospitality, business service, retail, health care, telecommunications and banking verticals are the top industries …

Who’s Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the week ended 1-21-11. For the past week financial services, engineering, aerospace, education, and banking employers …

Your email address is often the very first impression you make as you apply for a job, and the first establishment of your personal brand. It’s often the first thing a hiring manager looks at when deciding whether to open an email … or delete it.

Let’s discuss if functional resumes really work. Many candidates use functional resumes to hide experience gaps, current experience, age, unemployment …