27 Job Search Boards and Thousands of Jobs

Hard to believe, but 50 job search boards is just the tip of the iceberg. These are not necessarily the 50 biggest or best, but the list does include the usual suspects. I would be the first to tell you that you should not be using 50 job search boards (less than five is ideal [...] [...]

Most Popular Jobs Vol 1 – Targeted Search for Healthcare Jobs

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” – Mark Twain Targeted job search posts are always in the top 10 on my site and my posts on targeted Healthcare jobs are near the top of the list. The good news is that health care jobs are increasing at a rate of [...] [...]

The Last Spring Break – Tips for College Grad Job Search

“At every party there are two kinds of people — those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.” – Ann Landers Four (maybe more) long years and here you are at your last Spring Break. Who would’ve thought? Four years sounded like a [...] [...]

Job Search – It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain One of my friends has been spending a lot of time building his LinkedIn contacts. He’s been working for over 25 years and is in the “500+” club on LinkedIn. He is [...] [...]

Bored with Job Boards – How to Find the Best

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean So how many job search boards do you think there are? 50? 200? Thousands? This is, of course a rhetorical question because I’m not sure that anyone knows the answer (but I am willing to be proved wrong). It is safe [...] [...]

Are Bigger Niche Job Boards Always Better?

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” – C. S. Lewis Author Byline: An exceptional resume authority, Jessica Hernandez and her team of credentialed writers partner with professional- and executive-level candidates to open doors to jobs at prestigious corporations, achieving over a 99% interview-winning success rate. [...] [...]

My Favorite Job Search and Career Sites – Vol 1

“When the dog bites When the bee stings When I’m feeling sad I simply remember my favorite things And then I don’t feel so bad” –  Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II I’ve seen hundreds of career and job search sites over the three years that I’ve been writing for CareerAlley. While I’ve not kept a real “list”, I do [...] [...]

Hired Help – Job Search Made Easy

“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of “do it yourself”.” – Marshall McLuhan I traveled down to Wall Street in NYC from my midtown location the other day having not been down there in a few years. I was [...] [...]

Who’s Hiring in Finance Vol 2- Targeted Job Search

“When the truth is found to be lies” – “Somebody to Love”, performed by Jefferson Airplane (written by Darby Slick) Very tough times at work lately. So, in order to put some hope in my day, I went off and purchased a lottery ticket. I’m not sure about you, but for me buying a lottery ticket [...] [...]

The World is Not Flat – Modern Job Search

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight David Eisenhower My current job is in a  small company (several thousand people) and many of the people I work with have been at this company for 15 to 20 years and have [...] [...]