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Data Entry Jobs and Resources
With today’s technology, working at home has become a dream come true for many. Numerous opportunities exist for working at home including performing data entry. If you’re considering pursuing a job as a data entry clerk, the internet is a vast resource of jobs. But be careful of scams. The golden rule applies when searching [...]
How to Easily Get a Job Today
The job search process has changed in the past 20 years. Although technical evolution has eased the access to job offers through Internet, the competition has become fiercely as more and more job seekers have good degrees and high abilities. The reality is that having a university degrees gives you no guarantee of getting a [...]
The “Hidden” Job Market
Many jobs aren’t advertised in the daily newspaper or at local career centers and temporary employment agencies. How do you find these jobs? Mostly by word of mouth. For years, everyone’s talked about the “Good Old Boy” network. What’s that? It’s a term for what is colloquially called a bunch of Good Old Boys, men [...]
Working With The Dysfunctional Duo
My parents always taught me that, regardless of position or job duties, any honest work was honorable. There was a time in my life, however, when I questioned that bit of wisdom. That time came after taking a job with a pair I nicknamed the Dysfunctional Duo. I had spent over 15 years in the [...]
Finding Ways to Help: A Few Suggestions for the Avid Volunteer
There are quite a few reasons why people decide to volunteer every day. Some decide to give back to the community out of a sense of duty, a desire to give something back. Others decide to volunteer to gain experience. Some even do volunteer work under the advisement of the local law authorities. No matter [...]
Avoid These Common Career Pitfalls
Everyone works hard to land the perfect job. From years spent accumulating knowledge (and student debt), to more years working our way up from menial jobs to those with more responsibility, climbing the career ladder is difficult. With all this hard work at stake, it is important to be on the lookout for common career [...]
Texas Companies Enjoy High Ratings on Fortune Magazine’s “Top 100 Best Companies to Work for 2007”
Texas rates well in the “Top 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007” in the January 22, 2007 issue of Fortune Magazine. To be eligible to make this list, companies around the United States apply. One of the criteria used to determine the best companies to work for is to allow Fortune’s researchers the ability [...]
Some Important Safety Tips for Online Job Seekers
We all know that the internet has done much to transform every aspect of our lives, from how and where we work to how we shop to even how we find a mate. One area of life that has been greatly transformed by the power of the internet and related technology is the way we [...]
Six Steps to Microsoft Certification
Gaining a Microsoft certification offers computer professionals instant credibility with their peers and their bosses, and a certification will give job seekers a leg up on their competition when seeking a new position. There are six important steps to getting the certification you need to enhance your career and your earning power, and those six [...]
What career matches your personality?
1. Which of the following best describes your personality? a) Hard-working, analytical, logical. b) Driven, confident, creative. c) Optimistic, friendly, a good listener. 2. How do you react under pressure? a) You search for the simplest way to get through. b) You feel totally at ease. c) You don’t let it get you down, even [...]