Posts Tagged ‘#CollegeGrad’
#JobSearch #Friday WHAT 3 MISTAKES OFTEN ARE MADE BY PROFESSIONAL CAREER SEEKERS?
With over 40 years of Expert Professional Recruiting experience, you may imagine that I have a front-row seat to viewing the mistakes of professional Career Seekers. Of course, over all those years, I have one observation – Humans are wonderfully creative with developing dumb actions! Therefore, let us focus on three of the more common…
Read More#JobSearch #Friday – You Graduated from #College – Importance of Resilience
What does Resilience mean to you? Bend but not break? Life comes at us quickly with unexpected challenges. Covid-19 is a great example right now. What are you doing to create an opportunity for your career and livelihood? Waiting for Covid-19 to end is not helpful. Almost every generation has experienced a recession close to…
Read More#JobSearch #Friday – You Graduated from #College – You Are Smart! Do Something!
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of May 31, 2020, 21.2% of the workers in the United States were unemployed, underemployed, or working part-time when they would prefer to work full time. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm (Table U-6) For perspective, in May 2019 there were 130.06 million workers in the US. This means that at…
Read More#JobSearch #Friday – You Graduated from #College – Negotiating Compensation
Wait a minute! A recent college graduate may negotiate a larger compensation package? The best answer is…It depends. If you plan to work for a government agency or a nonprofit, there is little room for negotiating salary. However, there is ALWAYS room to attempt to negotiate something. Understand One Important Fundamental in Negotiations The first…
Read More#JobSearch #Friday – You Graduated from #College – Show Your Interest!
When new graduates are interviewing for jobs with companies, many of even the most confident grads become nervous – and the ones who are not nervous may create concern if they are not cautious. My wife was an intensive care nurse for 46 years. Occasionally, her unit would hire a newly graduated nurse who felt…
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