Posts Tagged ‘Job Search for New Grads’

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

September 13th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Career Spotlight: Advertising Salespeople earn an average of $43,000/year, with expected 10-year job growth of 20%.  Advertising and sales are always in demand, even if the advertising platforms have changed a lot the last few years. If you like helping companies reach their target markets or just enjoy sales, this seems like the perfect job.  Around 56% holding bachelor’s degrees or more. Find out about other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Quote of the Week: This quote from Georgia Feiste of Lincoln, NE (GO BIG RED!) who Tweets as @fiestycoach, received the most ReTweets last week:

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. ~Babe Ruth

As usual, we also added 4 new articles to Job-Hunt last week:

Stay tuned – more next week, of coursel!

Good luck with your job search!

Career Jump Start for College Students

January 9th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Start your online professional networking now, while you’re still a student, and you’ll be ahead of the job search game for a very long time!

Yes, I know you have a very active Facebook account, and you have all your friends around you in class or the dorm and everywhere you are at school. But, you’ll be leaving them all soon, when you graduate. You’ll want to find a job, and you’ll want to help your friends find jobs, too.

So, Start NOW While You’re Still Seeing Everyone Regularly!

Even if you don’t graduate for 6 months or 2 years, lay the foundation for your life-long network and your job search using LinkedIn in ways that Facebook and Twitter can’t do for you. LinkedIn is the favorite place of recruiters right now, and is apt to be for several years into the future.

LinkedIn is more important to your career and to your job search right now than Monster or CareerBuilder. (more…)