Job Search & Career Blog

Myspace and the other social sites can be a big help to your job hunting. They can also be a liability, and you have to know the whole story.

Smoking is an issue with non-smokers, whether smokers like it or not. That includes issues with employers, and there are a few things smokers really do need to know.

Generation Y has been getting a pretty bad press from everyone. They’re called the Millennial Generation, those born in the early/mid 80s. Generation Y are described as overconfident, overpaid, you name it, they’re something negative. The irony is that neither the Baby Boomers or Generation X, who are bleating about them, are in a position [...]

You can commit a crime without even knowing it. Nasty new scams are putting job hunters into dangerous situations.

Surviving Loss of a Job: Kenyan Survival Stories You wanted a job, right? So you wrote a good curriculum vitae that pointed out clearly your unique selling point, the skills, name it. And you got the job. From a state of hopeless joblessness to one of having a good job, possibly living well, just like you [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]