Job Search Reviews – I Read it on the Web

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle You know what they say “you don’t know what you don’t know”. With the vast wealth of information on the Internet, it is virtually impossible to cover any one topic from beginning to end with all of the links [...] [...]

Good Morning Job Search

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill It’s 10:30pm and I’m on my way home from work. No, I don’t work the night shift. By the time I get home (11:30pm or so), there will be 5 hours (if I’m lucky) before I have to get up for [...] [...]

Welcome to My College Job Search

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon Spring. It’s that time of year again. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing and your parents are telling you to get a job. For some its a break between college semesters and for others it’s the cold hard reality of “time to [...] [...]

5 Ways to Leverage the Internet in Your Job Search

“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call.” – Liz Carpenter You are out for lunch one day and you get a call from a recruiter who has this amazing job opportunity, but he needs your latest resume in 15 minutes. You are no where near a computer, [...] [...]

The Best Companies for College Grads

Third Law of Applied Terror – “80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn’t read.” We started interviewing our college interns a few months ago at my company and this Summer’s “class” will join in a few short weeks. Having graduated in what feels [...] [...]

Starting at the Bottom, Working for the Best

“Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to is.” – Elbert Green Hubbard Do you remember your very first job? Not the one where you worked in the supermarket, but the first job that you felt it was the beginning of your career. I remember my “first job”. This was the first job where I had to wear a [...] [...]

Leverage College Career Centers in Your Job Search

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon There’s nothing like great advice, especially if it is free. Of course, that is what the Internet is all about. In the “old days” (like when I went to college), the only way to get to your college career center was to visit [...] [...]

Who is Hiring from the Fortune 1000 Vol 4

“The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.” – Mark Twain I’m switching it around a bit and starting from the top of the list for this post. Large companies and lots of jobs, the companies range from Oil and Gas (which dominate the top [...] [...]

4 Tips for Getting a Job

“If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else!” – Yogi Berra The vast volume of job search information on the Internet is overwhelming. From countless job search sites, to endless blogs and company career sites you could spend years just looking at all of the data. Of course the real [...] [...]

5 Great College Career Sites for Summer Interns

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain Summer Interns in March? Yes, the summer intern interview [...] [...]