It’s relatively recent that employers have begun checking out their employees online, but it’s created plenty of problems in a short time, none of them pleasant reading. The New York Times recently published a story about a student teacher fired from her job because someone found a picture of her on myspace, with the caption [...]
Emerging Job Markets: New careers opening up Demand is creating new markets for job seekers. Industries are being expanded by a rapidly growing need for services. In the next ten years, it is anticipated that health, IT, global marketing, and the sciences will create a lot of new jobs, and add to their existing structures. [...]
The world in the year 2100 is a busy place. Work and jobs happen at a continuous sprint. Most people have a series of global networks to find jobs, advertise for jobs, and work globally. The office is wherever you are. Even manufacturing isn’t a ‘factory’ scenario any more. Things are assembled, not built on [...]
Dream Jobs- Google Google has made a reputation for itself as a great place to work. In some cases, staff work four days, and have the fifth day for their own projects, using Google’s facilities. Not many complaints seem to be coming out of Google staff, either. Google says ‘We’re not a conventional company, and don’t [...]
Hard Times: managing your life Unemployment isn’t fun. Trying to fit a life into a fixed income is like trying to fit a whale into a teaspoon. We see a lot of people on CV Tips who are really going through some tough times. There are quite a few things you can do [...]
How do I find out who will pay most for my skills…? Demand and supply. This is where skills pay off, and it’s important to know how and why this happens. An oil man in the US will get half of what an oil man in Nigeria will, because of distance, allowances, and in some cases [...]
Happy at work ? Are you doing what you like doing ?
That is a defining question for just about everybody, at some point in their working lives.
