Do you put your entire work history on your resume or only jobs that are relevant to the position you’re applying for?
We’ve been doing a lot of interviewing at work lately and I’ve noticed that a lot of applicants list every single job they’ve ever had on their resume, regardless of whether they’re applicable to […]
Quitting your job isn’t easy but sometimes it’s the right thing to do. The problem is, it’s not an easy decision to make. In fact, a lot of times it’s an easy decision to avoid because you can’t figure out what your best options are.
Quit Your Job or Not – What’s Best for You?One of […]
Welcome to the Carnival of Careers #5, back at brip blap for the week! There were a lot of great submissions below, and I highlighted a few as my picks. Enjoy!
photo credit: Daquella manera
Editor’s Picks:
Kristie presents Bored with your job? Work overseas for the summer! posted at Norway - An American In Oslo. It’s […]
What if you could be a fly in the wall at some company you’re really interested in joining? Know what life is really like at the company where you commit your precious 50 hours a week to.
As employees, we get ourselves ranked, rated and reviewed every time we have a performance evaluation from which […]
Here it is! I mentioned last week that we had launched the next phase of our business. Here’s the newest place to find me writing about money. And this isn’t just any money, it’s Kids & Money!
About.com
I joined About.com as the Kids & Money Guide focused on teaching children about money management.
What better […]
One thing I learned over the period of time that I was “problogging” was that working at home is a train wreck for me. Part of it is simply that I have no backbone. I don’t have the steel core that allows me to shout at the rest of clan Blap “I’m going downstairs, […]
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate
photo credit: Chovee
I’ve started work at a new client and the contrast between this client and a ‘normal’ company is severe. This company is reeling from multiple frauds, bad investments in the subprime mess, poor leadership and (in a […]
Recession proof your job and career!
I’m planning a series that lists out some of the best choices you can make during this recession. I’ll start off with what you can do for your job and career during tough times like we’re experiencing now.
With unemployment numbers aggravating the markets last week, we’re seeing a quadruple […]
Welcome to the June 9, 2008 edition of carnival of careers! There were a LOT of submissions to the carnival - unfortunately I had to reject a fairly significant portion of them for being off-topic. Remember, if you’re submitting to the carnival, it has to be a career-related article. The next edition’s […]
Welcome to the June 2, 2008 edition of carnival of careers! This is the inaugural edition, and the first of many to come! Considering all of the articles are about work and jobs and careers, I thought I’d add in a few pictures and facts about some of the most popular beach/seaside destinations in […]
I’ve started entering carnivals again with a vengeance, and I’ve noticed that there isn’t really a carnival that addresses careers (or lack thereof). The Carnival of Personal Finance does include a category for careers, but it’s aimed more at the financial aspects of careers. I am not trying to compete; my thinking was […]
The following is a post from Patrick of Cash Money Life. Like me, Patrick blogs on personal finance but includes a lot of posts on career management - recently he’s been chronicling his search for a new job leading right up to his resignation. His blog is in my short list of favorites; […]
In honor of everyone getting ready for Miller Time on Friday afternoon after a hard week punching out widgets for The Man, I collected a few career quotes and made a few comments. Working at home is no picnic. I’m woozy staying up until 10:30 thanks to a particularly demanding boss (Little Buddy) […]
Note: this post was directly inspired by some of the comments on yesterday’s post.
When I was a young fellow, fresh out of accounting MBA school, I had a prestigious job working for one of the (at the time) six biggest accounting firms in the world. It was a small office, but it was […]
I had an interesting question from NH Mom of 3 about my WIDD idea. A WIDD, in case you don’t remember, is a “what I done did” file - a record you keep of all of the projects and details of your past positions.
“I wonder, is there a way to “cram” and get down […]
Yesterday I talked about the downside to consulting. I presented the bad news first to make sure that it would be clear it’s not all roses. No job is, whether it’s an employee job or a self-employed job. But there are a number of advantages to being a consultant, and the […]
The term consultant gets tossed around a little too freely these days, but the core definition of a consultant seems to be “someone brought in from outside a company to give advice.” Consultants, of course, come in many different packages. There are consultants who are themselves employees of other companies, there are long-term contracted consultants […]
After you have built up your emergency fund, started saving for your children’s college education (if you want to make that choice, which I don’t agree with) and invested in whatever retirement plans are available to you, it is time to build up your “go to hell” fund.
That’s right.
Your “go to hell” fund.
If you are […]
I like to think of myself as being a step past the normal employee grind, but I still get up most days and schlep to my client’s office. Sure, I take off when I feel like it and work moderately flexible hours, but I do the lunchpail shuffle. I do know that there are changes […]
A couple of months ago, my wife and I were taking a trip. On the flight back home, my wife started reading The Nanny Diaries. For the next 5 hours, I was subjected to comments like, “Oh my, that’s so true… listen to this…” followed by snippet from the book.
For those […]
A couple of weeks ago, I described a particularly interesting interview that I faced during my ongoing job hunt. Throughout the entire job search process, I had several other interesting learning experiences and thought it may be appropriate to condense some of them in this blog post.
Below is a compilation of some salient points […]
When I was 8 years old, my parents bought the family an IBM PCjr. It was a great computer and one that I’ll always remember fondly. My brother showed me how to get to the BASIC interpreter and my parents bought programming books. And boy did I program. You name it, […]
Every quarter things get really busy at my job and everyone works like mad to get things done on time. Teams stay all night and work weekends, it really sucks for the people involved.
Since the majority of people are salaried employees, there is no incentive for staying late and working insane hours. As a team […]
Several decades ago, people built a career-long relationship with their employers. Now-a-days companies are all about the bottom line and our employer relationships are more like bad high school crushes. How many of these 20 reasons can you relate to?
Pre-Relationship1) Every person has an image of their ideal job in their head; many people spend […]
What’s the secret to being able to quit your day job? Make your own time worth more to you per hour than your employer is paying. How can you do that, one step at a time : )
Step One – Overcome NaysayersThis is a topic I’ve been giving a lot of thought to recently. Actually […]
