Weekly News: 2/4 - 2/8
Here is the news update for this week:
Improving Marketable Job Skills: Learning How to Enchance Marketability to Reach Career Goals
As the unemployment rate continues to rise, it’s more important than ever to make sure you have marketable job skills to compete with all the other job seekers out there. While there are many ways you can improve your skills, it is often a daunting tast to consider. How do you start? What exactly should you do? In the article, Improving Marketable Job Skills: Learning How to Enhance Marketability to Reach Career Goals, you can discover several key steps to help you begin your journey of self-improvement.
Courting Your Career: Put Dating Advice to Work for You
In Courting Your Career: Put Dating Advice to Work for You, job advice is offered by two professionals in a very unique and interesting way. Since Valentine’s Day is less than a week away, they decided to give job seekers a ten-part list of things to do to help them get the job they want…in a way that is similar to how a person goes about trying to get a date. As those who read this article will find out, getting a job and getting a date actually involve many of the same skills and tricks. Whether you are actively searching for a job, or just want to pick up some job seeking (or date seeking) pointers, you’re sure to find this article an interesting read.
Resume Advice for the Over-50 Crowd
In the job market today, electronic and computer know-how are the key to many careers. Even in companies or positions where such exposure is minimal, in general, resumes have evolved from the traditional, old-fashioned paper models to newer, electronic versions. This can cause problems for many people who are looking for a new job, especially older individuals, some of whom haven’t had to write a resume since computers emerged as a mainstream force in the world.
The tips offered in the article, Rusume Advice for the Over-50 Crowd, is geared toward those individuals who may not fully understand how very different the job search of today is in comparison to that of just several years ago. Though the article focuses primarily on the difficulties faced by older individuals, it offers useful advice for anyone who is looking to create a good-looking, attention-grabbing resume to help them get their “foot in the door” of the company they want to work for. If nothing else, be sure to check out the bulleted list of tips at the end of the article for some short, concise information to help you make the best resume possible.
Quit Work for a While to Have Kids: Your Career Will be Just Fine
In the past, career-oriented women had to make a hard choice when they considered having children. Would they be willing to give up their career aspirations in order to take care of the kids? Or would they be willing to have someone else watch over their children while they continued to work? Today, this dilemma is no longer as black and white as it once was. As discussed in the article, Quit Work for a While to Have Kids: Your Career Will be Just Fine, modern-day women have discovered that they can leave their jobs to raise their children and then be welcomed back into the workforce when they return.
The article covers several reasons why this is true, including such factors as newly developed social networking technology as well as the labor shortage being created as the baby-boomer generation retires. What it all boils down to, however, is the simple fact that women no longer have to choose whether to have a career or raise their children…they can now do both with ease.
I hope you found this week’s news update useful and informative. Be sure to keep checking in for the latest news in colleges, degrees, and careers. Thanks for stopping by.
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