Careers Hot Trends

Archive for November, 2008

Having 200-300 CVs or resumes to analyse, a tight schedule, and probably working late, an employer's or recruiting manager's approach is to scan the huge pile quickly and look for any little reason to trash your CV or resume. Learn how to avoid your CV or resume being trashed and how to almost guarantee that it gets noticed and shortlisted.

The scenario described above of a recruiting manager or employer is fairly typical. With hundreds of CVs or resumes, little time, and the pressure of identifying the best person for the job, the strategy a recruiter takes is to first eliminate all those who show any little sign of being worthy of elimination. And the basis of that is your CV and resume, highlighting the great importance attached to this one or two page document.

While you still have a job, why not start a parallel career by freelancing and aim towards the end goal of being your own boss (which is what changing career the Parallel Career Way is all about)? Don't wait until you face a midlife crisis or after you lost or quit your job.

Today, literally millions of people all over the world have established highly-successful Careers as freelancers. Many of these work-from-home professionals have found that freelancing offers a dream lifestyle - flexible working hours, free from bosses, total control, independence and 'good money'.

As more institutions realize the importance of speech language pathology, there will be more job opportunities becoming available in this stimulating and rewarding career. A speech pathologist also referred to as a speech therapist or speech language therapist, helps patients overcome or manage communication problems. Speech pathology involves assessing, diagnosing, and treating speech disorders. Speech problems are linked to difficulties with the voice, language and speech, and fluency in which one speaks. Speech impediments may be the result of delayed development, a mentally challenged condition, brain injury, a stroke, loss of hearing, cleft palate, and cerebral palsy. Because the success of speech therapy greatly affects the emotional and physical well being of patients and their families, a speech pathologist requires a personal dedication and desire to help patients recover.

Potential Students Attracted to Careers in Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Massage Therapy, Spa/Wellness and/or Alternative Medicine Can Use Off-Time to Investigate Fields of Interest

Spring break for many high school seniors is a time to kick back and enjoy friends, travel and fun, but there's more to explore, say editors at HolisticJunction.com and SpaBeautySchools.com, two sites dedicated to holistic and massage/beauty/spa/wellness-related educational resources.  During off-time, students–both traditional and nontraditional adult learners–should think about their future education, career goals, success options,  and deadlines. 

Are you struggling with today's challenging employment trends?  Learn the most important activities you should always be doing to overcome the challenges of today's career market, and bulletproof your career for the future.

EmploymentGuide.com, a division of Dominion Enterprises, has launched a nationwide job fair series, Putting Americans Back to Work, that aims to help 10,000 Americans find jobs. Based on The Employment Guides already successful job fair series, this new series invites only companies with immediate hiring needs to participate. The job fairs are free and open to all job seekers.

The current economic situation has caused dramatic business changes and a nearly-unprecedented level of layoffs. However, many businesses in retail, food service, health care and transportation are making structural changes to adapt to the economic climate, and are hiring both part-time and full-time workers on a national scale.

Boost your candidacy with these must-follow resume writing strategies!

Due to the increasing competitiveness of todays job market requires the job seeker to be far more aggressive in their overall job search campaign, particularly when developing their career-marketing document – the resume.  

With a window of opportunity often as little as 10 seconds for the resume to spark the readers attention, demands a dynamic document that portrays the candidate's expertise and overall value offered. Gone are the days of a tasked-based resume with an inventory of a position's responsibilities, coupled with a standard (and boring) list of personal aptitudes. This has been replaced with an achievement /accomplishment driven document that depicts you as a pro-active candidate that demands results and demonstrates the significant value on offer to the organization.