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So exactly how does Fortune determine the Best Companies list? They conducted a survey with over 81,000 employees from 353 companies. To learn more, click “How we pick the 100 Best”. What is even more interesting about the list is the highest pay.  Bingham McCutchen takes the prize with an average annual pay of $256,000 [...]

By my count, I’ve listed tens of thousands of job opportunities since I started this blog last August.  Sounds hard to believe, but if you take into consideration all of the job boards, company career sites and headhunters I’ve covered and count the jobs on each of those sites, can I be far off? Today’s [...]

Network, Network, Network – the most important three words in job search. I don’t really know the real statistics on the percentage of jobs filled through networking. And, although you will see various percentages published all over the Internet, I’m not sure that anyone really knows the percentage of jobs filled through contacts versus any [...]

If you’ve been following the “Best Companies” series (from Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work for”) then you should already have at least a few leads to job opportunities and understand the process of direct job leads (going to the source of the hire). From time to time it looks like I’ve skipped a number or [...]

Research is the name of the game, as well as getting their quick. You can be sure that if you’ve found a job lead, so have others, so you need to prioritize and leverage your leads. Today’s post will focus on companies (and others) that are hiring.

T-Mobile – This communications companies career site has an [...]

Job boards, recruiters, company websites, friends, family . . . who’s hiring? Well, if you do your homework and are persistent, there are plenty of companies hiring. You should be using all of your resources (basically, everything listed in my first sentence) and balancing your search every day. Today’s post is about leveraging your resources [...]

We are quickly approaching the halfway mark with the Best Companies list. In addition to making this list, many of these companies are not as well known (even with making the list).  This makes it likely that the competition for job openings will be less than better known companies, so take advantage of that if [...]

It is amazing how many job boards are available on the Internet. While there will be a large amount of overlap on many of these boards, many also provide targeted searches or cover portions of the job market not covered by others. So it is sometimes worth the time to check out each of the [...]

Readership has been fairly low lately, so I am changing the post dates to four times per week: Saturday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  I will increase the number of links in each post so that on a weekly basis it will be approximately the same number.
Thanks for reading and good luck in your search.

What’s your profession, is it in the “top 10″ list? If you are a College student, do you know what the top careers are? These are important questions and the answers can definitely impact your ability to survive the current job market and succeed once we are out of this mess. Today’s links focus on [...]