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What Questions Can Employers Legally Ask?

What questions can employers legally ask? When dealing with background checks, are there limits to how far back they can go? Are they just looking for felonies or misdemeanors too? I hate answering these questions. I am in the process of getting an... (More)

Ways to Increase Your Chances of Hearing Someone Say You're Hired

Take your job search seriously: Consider looking for a job your new job. Devote time each day to your search, establish an area in your home as your workstation, and commit to making a specific number of contacts each day.

Want a Big Raise, Look For a New Job

Tom was a longtime Boeing engineer who loved airplanes and believed he'd have a permanent lifelong career with the company. His layoff caught him by surprise. He panicked. He worried about who would hire him now and how he would afford his son's... (More)

Time to Update Your Resume

We are always making lists to keep on top of the daily/weekly schedules and deadlines that face us in our business lives. But, odds are, that many of us keep our noses to the grindstone and forget to do a periodic check to see if our jobs and careers... (More)

10 Reasons You Are Not Getting Interviews

You created the resume. You composed the cover letter. You applied for the job opening and now you wait. Waiting... it's a hard place to be when you desire action in your job search. Want to increase your chances for getting an interview? Make sure... (More)

Ready For an Unexpected Job Interview

Most job seekers wait to polish up their interview skills until they are looking for a new position. Important interview opportunities, however, can present themselves at any time.

Get Hired Faster and Get Paid More by Getting More Done

Whether you're looking for a new job or looking to get promoted in your current job, ask yourself this: What did you do with your time yesterday? Did you waste it, kill it, spend it, or invest it? If you're not happy with your answer, read on to... (More)

The Art of Negotiating a Raise

Negotiation is a give-and-take process until an eventual agreement is reached between two or more parties. To understand the art of negotiation, a jobseeker must understand that it is a give process as much as it is a receiving process. Look at the... (More)

Making Others Look and Feel Great

Terry Arndt talks about making others look and feel great. This is part 3 of a 5 part series "Your New Job - Strategies for Success."

Looking or Waiting For a Job

Kevin Donlin explains how job seekers tend to wait for a job rather than actively looking for one. He goes on in detail on how to properly look for a job.

Are You Looking for a Job?

Kevin Donlin discusses the difference between looking for a job and waiting for a job. Knowing how to look, and how to network, can become the difference between starting a new job and still looking.

Four Internet Job Search Mistakes

Kevin Donlin article talks about common mistakes that are easy to avoid while looking for a job online.