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New Job-Hunt Articles & Career of the Week

November 2nd, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Three great new articles were added to Job-Hunt this week, written by 3 of  Job-Hunt Experts: Beverly Harvey for Executive Job Search, Wendy Gelberg for Introverts’ Job Search, and Job-Hunt’s editor Susan P. Joyce for Online Job Search:

Career of the Week: System Software Engineer – $70,000 average annual income, expected 10-year job growth is 38%. More about other Careers…

New Job-Hunt Articles & Career of the Week

October 26th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

This week, we introduce Susan Guarneri, the Assessment Goddess and Job-Hunt’s newest Expert, specializing in Career Assessments.

Three great new articles were added to Job-Hunt this week: Susan Guarneri’s first article on Career Assessments, Diane Hudson Burns, Job-Hunt’s Veterans’ Job Search Experts, and Erin Kennedy, CPRW, Job-Hunt’s Marketing & Sales Expert:

Career of the Week: Health Services Manager – $73,000 median annual income, expected job growth rate is 16%. More about other Careers…

New Job-Hunt Articles This Week

October 14th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Three great new articles were added to Job-Hunt this week, written by 3 of  Job-Hunt Experts: Sean Harvey for Values-Based Careers, Barbara Safani for Finance Industry Job Search, and Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter for Job Search Marketability:

More articles on Job-Hunt every week, in addition to the posts here on Job-Hunt’s Job Search News Blog.

Job Search Short Cuts

October 10th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Here are 4 things you can do which will speed up your job search by making your job search more effective.

Conducting a more effective job search will shorten the time it takes you to find a job, so these time savers will be short cuts for you.

Biggest Job Search Time Savers:

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LinkedIn Groups Replacing Job Boards?

September 2nd, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

This is another phase in the evolution of online job search, and, if you were paying attention, you knew it was coming. It has arrived!

Candidate “Sourcing”

Monday, I took “social media sourcing” class.  ”Sourcing” is a phrase that’s been using in the online recruiting world for a few years. Basically, it means searching for good job candidates using many different tactics, rather than posting jobs.  Sourcing as a recruiting speciality developed for 2 simple reasons:

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ARRP Top 50 Employers: 9,000+ Jobs Open

August 30th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

These employers, the 50 Best Employers for Workers Over 50, were selected by AARP based on an application the employer submits to AARP which is evaluated by an independent panel of judges.

For each employer, you will find: a link to the AARP Profile, a count of the number of jobs posted, a link to the jobs posted, and the employer’s primary location.

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Six Companies that are Hiring

August 6th, 2009 by Joel

If you’re currently amidst a job search, you’re probably under the impression there aren’t a lot of options out there. Think again.

A recent study from Fortune Magazine found the most admired companies to work for. That list covered 64 industries and was global in nature. An article from NewJerseyNewsroom went one step further by finding the companies that are actually hiring and are best placed to survive the next recession.

The top six companies, located in a vast selection of industries, are as follows:

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Construction Jobs Not Created by Stimulus

August 3rd, 2009 by Joel

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that, in many areas, the construction industry has been one of the hardest hit by national recession. This is, at least in part, due to the fact that the real estate market has been in a state of crisis for some time now.

With fewer people able to afford buying new homes and foreclosure rates up, the market has become saturated with properties. This has severely decreased the need for new projects, which has had an adverse affect on construction jobs.

One hope for the federally appointed stimulus funds was that they would increase hiring in the construction industry. So far this has not been the case. According to a recent press release put out by the Associated General Contractors of America, the stimulus plan has yet to have any real significant influence on the industry’s job market.

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Management Jobs on the Rise

August 3rd, 2009 by Joel

With the national unemployment rate continuing its uphill climb, many people are either looking for work or concerned about their chances of finding jobs if they are laid off.

According the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9.5 percent of the nation’s population was unemployed in June. This figure is now 3.9 percent higher than it was during the same month in 2008.

But hope may be on the way, at least for upper level management jobs. According to a recent press release, the CareerCast.com and JobSerf Employment Index, which measures online recruitment activity for managerial positions across the country, experienced yet another increase.

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Nursing Job Shortage Creates Concern

August 3rd, 2009 by Joel

Across the nation there has been talk about the possibility of a nursing shortage. From those with healthcare jobs in New York to those with healthcare jobs in California are concerned about the potential lack of medical workers.

For starters, a large portion of the people who currently hold nursing jobs will reach retirement age within the next few years. On top of this, teaching hospitals cannot educate new workers fast enough to fill these slots. Both of these issues have caused many hospitals to begin to look to alternative methods of keeping their facilities fully staffed.

One of the most popular options is to hire travel nurses to fill in for vacant positions. Travel nurses are fully trained nurses who work at a facility for a contractual period, usually a few months to a year, before going on to work at another hospital. These individuals help by filling in until a hospital can find a full-worker.

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