Job Search News

Career Spotlight: Live in a hot or, at least, a very warm climate? Being an HVAC Technician might be a good job for you.  The average annual salary is $40,000/year.  Training is typically on the job, and a college degree is not required.  In fact, 58% of HVAC Technicians have not attended college.  Expected 10-year job growth is 9%. More careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Four new articles this week:

• New Grads: Overcoming “Not Qualified”
  The standard “catch-22″ for new grads, getting a job without any apparent experience, is tackled by Job-Hunt’s Working with Recruiters Expert Jeff Lipschultz in this article.
• 5 Flexible Healthcare Careers (not Requiring 4-Year Degrees)
  Need a flexible job and interested in moving into the healthcare industry but don’t have any or an appropriate college degree?  Job-Hunt’s Lifestyle-Friendly Careers Expert Nancy Collamer.
• Mastering Marketing: Generating Leads
  Once you have identified your target market, your next major task is generating leads because some of those leads will become sales. In this article by Job-Hunt’s Self-Employment Expert B. Michelle Pippin, learn where and how to generate those leads.
• Heat Up Your Job Search: Avoid Job Boards
  Most job seekers spend way too much time “working” the job boards.  Learn why plus better ways to spend your time in this new post  by Job-Hunt’s Editor, Online Job Search Expert Susan P. Joyce.

Good luck with your job search!

Our friends at AARP have created this excellent videoAARP Interview Tips for 50+ Job Seekers.  Even if you are younger than 50, you’ll find good information here, but if you are over 40, you’ll find VERY useful tips on interview preparation and handling some of those tough questions.

Also, four great new articles this week from Job-Hunt’s Experts:

• Power Play: Brand to Land
  In this 2nd article in her 5-article series, C-Suite Career Plan Power Plays, Job-Hunt’s Executive Job Search Expert Deb Dib, Deb describes how executives can  move from a “personal brand” to an “executive brand” for greater opportunity.
• Beat “Apply Online” at Job Fairs
  The last thing you want to hear from the Fortune 500 company recruiter (or any other) at the job fair is, “Apply online.” In this article by Job-Hunt’s Fortune 500 Job Search Expert Laura Labovich, learn how to move beyond that and get some help with your job search at that employer.
• 3 C’s Personal Brand Test
  If you are still struggling with defining your own personal brand, don’t feel alone, but do read this article by Job-Hunt’s Personal Branding Expert Meg Guiseppi.
• Change Ahead for Working Women
  Job-Hunt’s Job Search for Women Expert Deborah Shane offers the results of her research into what is happening for women in the world – the demographics, the economics, and the politics.

Career Spotlight: Do you love (live?) to shop? This may be exactly the job for you.  Get paid to purchase!  It’s much more complicated than just hitting the malls and outlet stores, usually, but, on average,  Buyers earn $54,000/year, with expected 10-year job growth of 22%.  Most buyers have a college degree or some education after college, but 22% don’t. More careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Good luck with your job search!

Career Spotlight: Want to be “the eyes and ears of top management”? This may be the job for you.  Work your way up from a lower level PR job and you could be making very good money.   PR Managers earn an average of $82,000/year, with expected 10-year job growth of 12%. Over 75% of PR Managers have a college degree, and many have advanced degrees.  More about other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Four great new articles this week:

• All Jobs Are Temporary
  Article by Job-Hunt’s Fired-to-Hired Transition Expert Tory Johnson.
• Resume: Education Highlighted
  Article plus sample resume by Job-Hunt’s Resume Expert Susan Ireland.
• Resolving Conflict by Understanding Communication Styles
  Article by Job-Hunt’s Career Assessments Expert Susan Guarneri.
• Finding the Best Employers from the Job-Hunt Blog

Good luck with your job search!

This week, we’re very happy to introduce Miriam Salpeter, Career Action Coach and Owner of Keppie Careers, as Job-Hunt’s new Social Media and Job Search Expert.  In addition to being Job-Hunt’s Social Media and Job Search Expert, Miriam also provides advice on the nationally known Examiner.com site, where she is the National Career Coach Examiner.

Three great new articles this week:

• Using LinkedIn’s New Company Follow
  Introducing LinkedIn’s new Company Follow function and ways you can leverage it for your job search in this article by Job-Hunt’s NEW Social Media & Job Search Expert Miriam Salpeter.
• Applying the Four P’s Process to Job Search
  The 4 P’s Process from The Introverted Leader book by Jennifer Kahnweiler are applied to job search in this article by Job-Hunt’s Introverts’ Job Search Expert Wendy Gelberg.
• 6 Step Social Media Marketing Campaign
  Sales and marketing professionals learn 6 steps to leveraging social media for their job search, demonstrating that they understand how social media impacts marketing and sales in this article by Job-Hunt’s Marketing & Sales Job Search Expert Erin Kennedy, CPRW.

Free eBooks for job hunters:

• Resume Kit for 50+ Job Seekers 
  NEW, just added this week, from our friends at AARP
• Guide to Effective Resumes on USAJOBS.gov
  To help you land a job with the US Federal Government, ebook by Job-Hunt’s Federal Job Search Expert Camille Carboneau Roberts
• More FREE job search guides…

Good luck with your job search!

Latest addition to Job-Hunt’s FREE job search guides: AARP’s Resume Kit for 50+ Job Seekers. Our friends at AARP are committed to helping people over 50.  So, we happily make this newest edition to the FREE eBooks available on Job-Hunt. Just take it – no registration, no tracking.

Career Spotlight: Looking for a job that won’t be sent to another country any time soon and is pretty recession-proof (fewer than 1% of them are unemployed)?  This might be the job for you: Dental Hygiene Technicians.  Average annual salary is $67,000 with expected 10-year job growth of 30%.  64% of dental hygiene technicians got additional education after high school, but did not have to get a college degree.  More about other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

• Exploring Clean Energy Careers – Job-Hunt’s Green Jobs Job Search Expert Carol McClelland takes you on a tour of “clean energy jobs” spanning the entire supply chain of opportunities.
• Handling “Speed Interviews” – covering the 3rd of 7 new types of interviews, Job-Hunt’s Job Interviewing Expert Laura DeCarlo helps you understand how to manage a “speed interview” situation.
• Too Much Information in Your Resume? – your resume should provide plentiful, but relevant information to attract an employer’s attention, and  Job-Hunt’s Job Search Marketability Expert Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter suggests how you can do that.

And good luck with your job search!

Career Spotlight: Enjoy telling computers what to do? Maybe you’d be happy as an Application Software Engineer.  Average annual salary is $85,000, with expected 10-year job growth of 45%. Over 80% of Application Software Engineers have a 4-year college degree, and another 13% have at least some college.  More about other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

We added three great new articles to Job-Hunt:

• Mastering the Marketing Maze – If you are thinking of starting your own business, maybe working from home, this article, the first in a series on marketing, by Job-Hunt’s Self-Employment Expert B. Michelle Pippin will help you get started in what Michelle has aptly labeled “the marketing maze.”
• CONUS Job Search from OCONUS Locations – Members of the military who are stationed outside of the continental US (a.k.a. “OCONUS” in US military jargon) can still conduct a CONUS (a.k.a. Continental US) job search if they follow the advice in this article by Job-Hunt’s Veterans’ Job Search Expert Diane Hudson Burns.
• Volunteering to Lifestyle-Friendly Non-Profit Career – Thinking of working in a non-profit for your next job or new career, this article by Job-Hunt’s Lifestyle-Friendly Careers Expert Nancy Collamer helps you see how you can leverage volunteering to help make that move.