Job Seekers Continue to Shift Towards the Internet, The Conference Board Reports
Job seekers are steadily increasing their use of the internet as a key part of their job search, The Conference Board reported today. In the most recent survey of workers who searched for a job between January and September 2007, 73 percent reported using the internet compared to 66 percent of job seekers in the same time period in 2005.
"The Internet has become the most popular method of job searching," said Gad Levanon, Economist at The Conference Board. "Newspapers are still popular as a major job search method, but job seekers reported using them less, dropping from 75 percent to 65 percent between 2005 and 2007."
Most job seekers continue to use more than one method in searching for a job. Online and print ads were not mutually exclusive and are still the most frequently used methods of exploring job openings. Continue reading...
Top 10 Interview Do's and Don'ts for 2008 Job Seekers
For many professionals one New Year's resolution is finding the perfect new job or even switching careers. Axelrod says that the common mistakes made by people who haven't interviewed for a while and are out of practice are easily correctable. Below is his list of Top 10 Interview Do's and Don'ts to help job seekers in their quest for that perfect job. Continue reading...
Education- your entrée to a new career
By Wendy Croix
The common wisdom that you should "stay in school" has never been wiser. Over the past twenty-five years, the connection between lifetime earnings and education has grown stronger.
While lifetime earnings of uneducated workers have dwindled, earnings of workers with a BA degree are nearly twice that of their high-school-educated age mates. The payoffs for advanced degrees have never been higher.
Most of the twenty fastest growing occupations in the U.S. require career education.
You can begin an in-demand career like nursing with an AS degree and earn your BSN on the side while you work.
Going back to school can significantly change your life
Lets be honest about the career education bottom line. Education and career define social class, as do income and wealth. You're no snob, so should you care? Yes, says the New York Times, since class determines the quality of your life, your work, even your health.
An AA degree puts you in America's 75th educational percentile, a BA in the 91st. Either opens doors to higher income, which allows you to accumulate wealth.
But it all begins with going back to school. What are you waiting for?
Sources Bureau of Labor Statistics <www.bls.gov> Day, Jennifer Cheeseman and Eric C. Newburger. The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings. <www.census.gov>
How Class Works. New York Times. <www.nytimes.com> (May 19, 2005)
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