College students and recent graduates seeking to get a foot in the door in the working world can gain valuable experience through volunteering.

Are You Prepared To Negotiate For Happiness? Believe it or not, everything truly is negotiable! Each new job offer or performance review is an opportunity to negotiate base salary, bonuses, benefits, stock options and various other incentives that add to job satisfaction and ultimately, provide more financial security. You need to take control of your job search before your new job offer and plan ahead of time for your annual performance review to reach your ultimate goal of financial security and happiness. Are you prepared to negotiate?

Salary negotiating is an important topic that must be addressed prior to your initial interview with a prospective employer. You can win at this cat and mouse game by incorporating the following strategies.

How to use a follow-up letter after submission of your resume. How to use it to make you look very professional.

Most people believe summer is the worst time to conduct a job search. Between college students and high school students eating up the market, vacations, lagging budgets, etc. hiring would seem to lag during the summer making it a bad time to conduct a job search. In reality, summer is a very good time to job hunt. Here are some tips to make your summer-time job search more effective: Spiff up your telephone skills. With people on vacation, you will be receiving more voice ...

It is normal for every person to strive for career advancement and growth. It makes them feel that all of their hard work has paid off and that a promotion is, indeed, the best reward they can get. However, for some whose luck seems to be so illusive, they have to find their own growth somewhere else. That is why most of them opted for executive job searches, where they hope that someday they would be lucky enough to find the executive job that they have long been dreaming...

The Internet has revolutionized the way we work and it paved a way for generating thousands of freelance jobs all over the globe cutting across the borders.

Mortgage Brokers and Loan Officers provide a much needed service to the public. There should be no shortage of business for mortgage brokers and loan officers as numerous real estate properties are bought and sold every day in the U.S.

According to a Vanderbilt University School of Nursing study, the number of male nurses in the United States has nearly doubled since the 1980s - growing from 5 percent to 9 percent of the nation's 1.8 million nurses.

I�m worried about my resume. I love being a stay at home mom, but eventually I�d like to get back into the business world to make money again. What should I do to keep my resume from having a big empty gap in it? Signed � Cathy Career Dear Cathy, Don�t fret. There are plenty of ways to keep your resume hopping. Here are just a few ideas to get you thinking. 1. Volunteer. Not many people are aware of this, but, if you live in the United States, there�s a Presi...