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Originally Published March 4, 2010 Great Occupations Blog You want a new job in a new career?  Consider the following. Your Resume Your resume is only capable of attracting what you have on it. In other words, if your experience and education doesn’t accurately reflect what you want to be ... Read More

Originally Published February 26, 2010 Great Occupations Blog What if the job you would love to do requires you to shift career direction?  What would you do?  We suggest you make a plan.  Below are the stories of 3 real people (names have been changed) who were laid off and decided to use ... Read More

Half a decade ago, Joan Didion wrote a book called The Year of Magical Thinking.  In the very first chapter, she offers this extraordinary passage: “Life changes in the instant.  The ordinary instant.”  She was talking about momentous changes—life and death events—but I ... Read More

With today's vast online capabilities, keywords are driving the way people search for information. Candidates are now looking for jobs on job boards, like Jobing.com; navigating major search engines, like Google, Bing, and Yahoo; and even browsing their favorite social media sites for opportunities. As an ... Read More

For this blog post, I decided to interview myself on the topic of social media.  Interviewing yourself sounds like a stupid idea, but I decided to give it a go anyways. I figured at the very worst, the post would turn out like Peter in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and at the very best, it would be valuable ... Read More

Originally published  February 25, 2010 Great Occupations Blog Have you noticed that we talk about “finding work you love” here a lot?  Last December 15 we addressed job boredom and the 4 Basic Needs Your Career Fulfills.  On January 15, we gave you that great line from ... Read More

The U.S. Senate recently passed what some consider to be a long-awaited “jobs bill.” The $15 billion Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act would provide Social Security payroll tax exemptions to employers that hire workers who have been unemployed for at least 60 days. Companies that keep a ... Read More