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Choosing A Career Path
How To Succeed As A Start-Up Founder
It's the business issues that don't crop up until you're already up and running that can cause the most headaches at a startup venture. Find out the lessons learned from an IT security professional who set up his own Infosec company. What Really Drives Your Career Choice
Research into the human brain shows that genetics play a large role in determining if an a person is psychologically predisposed to engineering and its traits such as strong systemizing and spatial ability.
IT Careers: Making A Change
Is your IT job feeling a little stale? It's a great time to switch companies or even industries, and some emerging fields and technologies could make a change all the more intriguing.
Veterans Have Job Choices In Civilian Workforce
Making the move from military IT to the public sector can be a daunting career decision, and the key is making sure you communicate your skill set in a clear way.
How To Move Into An Academic Networking Job
The IT Guy provides career guidance to a job seeker looking to move into networking within a school IT environment.
The Difference Between Freelancing And Consulting
Are you a freelancer or a consultant? How you define yourself as a contract worker can impact your work environment, your earnings, and the way your customers treat you.
Why You Don't Want To Jump Off The ASIC Career Path So Fast
ASIC designers have a pretty rosy career future. That is, if they don't stand still too long when it comes to boosting their skill sets.
Going From Full-Time to Freelance
More IT pros are joining the contractor ranks, but the big question is whether they'll succeed. IT career expert Doug Berg says yes, but only if professional best practices get adopted now.
7 Tips For Starting a New Job Successfully
You've landed that new IT job, now you just need to know what to do in the first three months to cement your employment.
How To Succeed As A Start-Up Founder
It's the business issues that don't crop up until you're already up and running that can cause the most headaches at a startup venture. Find out the lessons learned from an IT security professional who set up his own Infosec company.
Career Success A Matter Of Matching Skills With The Right Job
While 'likeability' plays into hiring and promotion decisions, if your skills don't match the job, or vice versa, career success will be elusive, says a business expert..
The Job Search
5 Ways To Know When It's Time To Find Another Job
Are you underpaid and overworked? That's an obvious sign of a bad job; career experts from Challenger Gray & Christmas and Monster.com offer advice on when you should consider your next career move.
How To Make The Management Move
The steps needed to get into management are well known, but they're hard to climb.
Layoff Prompts A Career Role Decision
An engineer ponders staying in an application role or if he should return to PC/FPGA design. Career expert Rusty D'Aversa offers up some advice.
Techniques For Successful Career Networking
Tech events such as conference and seminars are valuable for career networking. The trick is knowing how to make a good introduction and come away with some good potential job contacts.
Career Networking: The Do's & Don'ts
Working an industry event as part of a job search can be an intimidating scenario. But as a career coach advises it's critical for building future job security.
Career Success A Matter Of Matching Skills With The Right Job
While 'likeability' plays into hiring and promotion decisions, if your skills don't match the job, or vice versa, career success will be elusive, says a business expert.
How Important Is A Job Title Change?
Career expert Oreste "Rusty" D'Aversa says a career title change should be about the duties and skills you are responsible for and the progression of responsibility in the new role.
Advice On Changing Career Tracks
Two tech professionals seek advice on how to prep a resume, and their professional development, to move into new IT career arenas.
Recruiters Offer Up Insight On Top Skills, Hot Job Areas
.Net leads as the skill in demand, according to expert recruiters, who also say you won't be wasting time or money going for that next certification.
How Networking Leads To Job Referrals
An architect I've known for many years called me up the other day to meet with him, a builder, and two other architects for an afternoon "training meeting" at a local bar. From our first meeting seven years ago, I have gotten to know the architect through lunch-and-learns, phone calls, informal lunches and just stopping to say hello. The relationship began when he referred me for several odd jobs. Today, I can count on him for a continual stream of qualified referrals, meetings with other industry professionals and information about potential and existing clients.
Move The Job Search Forward By Approaching It Backward
Career expert Lloyd Feinstein advises the best way to approach initiating a job hunt after a layoff or firing. The key is to not mass email resumes or rush the effort.
Today's Job Search Requires A Proactive Approach
The methods and practices of applying for a job are not what they used to be and both returning and new entrants into the job market often find themselves at a loss of how best to proceed. Here's what you have to do.
Free Job Site to Help U.S. Veterans Find Jobs
OperationHeroforHire.com is a special job site that enables veterans to quickly identify employers who are sensitive to their employment needs and apply for positions in a variety of fields and locations in real time.
Why You Need To Map Out Your Value Proposition Before Seeking That Next Job
Today, the job seeker and/or candidate must have a value proposition. Companies are now hiring solutions and not people and that's why applicants need to show the relevancy of their backgrounds to the employers' needs.
Digital Dirt Derailing Job Seekers
Careful how you pad those resumes. More and more employers are searching online for information about job applicants.
To Get That Job, Bring On The Charm: Survey
A job candidate's likeability and personality matter as much or more than skills when it comes to hiring and promotions, according to a new survey of senior managers.
The Drawback Of Working For A Small Firm
The role is exactly what you want, as is the money. But before you sign the offer letter, find out who's making the tech decisions. Small firms typically freeze IT out of the equation.
The Recruiter's Role
How To Work Well With Corporate Recruiters
A corporate recruiter offers up tips and insight on making the job seeker-corporate recruiter relationship work successfully.
Tips For Forging A Good Recruiter Relationship
You've made the decision to partner with a staffing agency to find that next great job. But unless you understand a recruiter's role, and what your own personal responsibilities are with the job search, the partnering won't pay off.
How A Staffing Agency Can Aid The Job Search There are more than a few misconceptions about how a staffing agency fits into the job search scenario. Learn the truth, and how agencies can be a big help.
Best Practices For Making Recruiter Relationship Work Expert recruiters relate that open communication, understanding of hiring company's needs are key elements for working together to get that next job.
The Interview
Questions To Ask During A Job Interview
When discussing a new job, make sure to ask enough questions to find out whether that opportunity really is a good fit.
15 Tips For Making The Job Interview Successful
In many ways, the job interview amounts to a sales call, a parallel that probably explains the anxiety many job candidates feel. Learning to overcome this discomfort and manage the communication process can help them make a more positive impression on hiring managers.
What Can, And Can't, Be Asked During The Job Interview
In most states a small business owner can inquire about a job candidate's convictions, but not about arrests. Here's what hiring managers can and can't ask.
Don't Let Online Info Sabotage Your Next Interview
If you're job hunting today, one of the first things you have to do is make sure there's nothing online that will sabotage your quest for an interview.
Questions You Shouldn't Pose In A Job Interview
When it comes to interviewing for that next role, make sure you don't ask one of these humdingers of a question if you really want the job.
The Odyssey Of The Salary Offer
You've gotten offered the job you wanted. Now it's time to negotiate an offer that will make you feel good about working for the new company.
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