TheJobBored

This is part one of a five part post on How To Save Your Job. Here is Part 2.
The Weatherman Technique
To paraphrase from a famous cartoon character, Knowing is Half The Battle.
When downsizing is on the horizon, your best chance for survival is to be the first one to know about it. The sooner […]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/business_finance/New_Series_This_Week_How_To_Save_Your_Job’;I’m not saying I’m any sort of expert on the economy. I’m not saying that the recent surge in clients we’ve seen at ResumeWriters.com is any sort of leading indicator. I’m not even saying that I know what it means when even the Federal Reserve Chairman announces the economy is slowing.
What I do […]

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If you have career or job search question you would like answered on this blog, click here to Ask Brian.
Reader Jason from West Texas writes:
“If I’m overqualified for the job, should I leave things out of my resume so I don’t seem so overqualified? The situation is this, I’ve been out of college […]

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I’ve been sitting on this one all day, but it seems to be the number one most emailed article on Marketwatch today, so it seems other people are as conflicted about this as I am.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “models, demonstrators, and product promoters” as a category is one of the worst jobs […]

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Careers can be faddish things. 2-3 years ago, ResumeWriters started getting a flood of resumes from fields we hadn’t had many clients in previously: mortgage agents and brokers. And the number of people with freshly minted real estate licenses on their resumes more than doubled. I remember in late 2004 we had to hustle to […]

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