CareerAlley

While I’ve mentioned college career sites and offices, I’ve not spent much time covering them.  Most colleges and universities have a web-based career site as well as a walk-in career center.  These are generally open to both current students and alumni and can be a great resource in your job search.  Many employers provide local colleges and [...]

While I’ve covered most topics associated with job search resources, I’ve neglected to point out one of the most important resources – each other.  Sharing real life experiences with each other is an important source of information.  Thanks to a reader for pointing out a website that does just this (first review below), I’ll cover [...]

One topic we’ve not touched upon is resources for recent college grads (although we had one link in a recent post).  This post will focus on resources for college grads (as well as those who are in their first year or so following graduation).  I will also create a special page for college grad links listed [...]

You’ve just received a job offer for your dream job, now what? Negotiating a job offer can be difficult.  How do you get what you are worth without killing the job offer or selling your self short?  Before the negotiating begins, remember not to let the “heat of the moment” take over before you’ve had a chance to [...]

It’s been a few posts since I reviewed job search sites.  I don’t have any particular theme in mind, so I will just list a few that somewhat different in nature.

Jobsinthemoney.com – This site focuses on careers/jobs in Finance and Accounting.  It offers Resume (multiple if you want) upload, job search, news and advice, salary [...]

Time again to provide a few more employment firm websites (not to be confused with Job Search Sites). These are what I call “general recruiters” (cover a broad range of industries) as opposed to targeted or specific industries.

Solomon Page – While their lead page indicates Accounting and Finance, this pertains to the job functions not [...]

It might seem silly to some, but Thank You letters are very important.  There are some hiring managers who will eliminate a candidate if they don’t send a thank you letter.  The general rule of thumb is always send a thank you letter.  Over the last few years, it has become acceptable to send Thank [...]

The second most important document after your resume is your cover letters.  No resume should be sent without a cover letter.  This is true whether you are sending your resume via “snail mail” or via email.  Many job sites now give the option of including a cover letter as well, if this option is offered [...]

As with most things in life, sometimes you can “do it yourself” and sometimes you need professional help. The job search process has become very complex and very competitive, you need to think about:

Resumes
Cover Letters
Thank you notes
Interviews
Job Search
Contacts & Resources

The Internet has, in some ways, made the process easier but has also made it more [...]

Your work has paid off, you have a job interview – what now?  Be prepared for your job interview, many people think they can “wing it” but very few people can pull this off.  There are 10’s of thousands of articles on this topic (a Google search comes up with over 6 million results), but [...]