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Strategies to Maximize Your Opportunities in Today’s Job Market
December 21, 2012 by William Frierson
As a job seeker, you want to put yourself in the best position to get a job. The following post has steps to help you on your way to achieving this goal.5 Steps to Reach Your Career and Life Goals
Step 1. Know What You Bring to the Table and What Drives You!
In order to bridge the gap from college to your first career you need to know yourself; what do you bring to the table and what drives you, what you value and what you can do that adds value. All of this should be succinctly crafted into a personal mission statement. I’d like to quote Eric Hellweg who writes for the Harvard Business Review. He asserts that most companies, regardless of their sectors, have a mission statement. And most are awash in jargon and marble-mouthed pronouncements. Worse still, these gobbledy-gook statements are often forgotten by, misremembered, or flatly ignored by frontline employees.
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Strategies to Maximize Your Opportunities in Today’s Job Market
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Small Business Hiring and Wages Stay Down
December 17, 2012 by William FriersonIf you’re a recent college graduate or a job seeker looking for a job at a small business, you may be hard pressed to find one, according to the following post.SurePayroll Inc., a leading nationwide online payroll provider to small businesses, has released the results of its SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard, which revealed that hiring was down 0.1 percent and the average paycheck was down 0.2 percent from August to September 2012. However, the level of optimism of small business owners rose to 68 percent, where it has been most of the year.
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Veteran Skills to Job Act Sails through Congress
December 11, 2012 by William FriersonThe following post focuses on legislation designed to help our nation’s veterans transition more easily into the workforce.Introduced on March 7, 2012, by Representative Jeff Denham (R-CA), the Veterans Skills to Job Act directs the head of each Federal department and agency to treat relevant military training as sufficient to satisfy training or certification requirements for Federal licenses, which includes licensing in aerospace, communications, energy, and maritime. (Many states already practice this.) The Act passed the House and the Senate early in July and was signed by the President on July 23.
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Parent satisfaction and the college student experience
December 06, 2012 by William FriersonColleges and universities should understand that parents and/or guardians can be influential when it comes to their child’s decision on where to go to school; they also have concerns. Find out what areas they’re concerned about in the following post.I am just one year away from my daughter Kylie enrolling in college. She is a senior in high school this year, and her college search is well under way. She knows her top two choices, plus she intends to apply to three other colleges. We did the first round of college visits last summer and spring, which helped to eliminate a couple schools from her list. We are now planning to schedule overnight visits at her top two colleges, to confirm that they are the right fit for her.
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Understanding the priorities of nontraditional college students
by William FriersonAre you a nontraditional college student who has some concerns about your educational experience? If so, some of them may be included in the following post about the priorities of nontraditional students.Every year, Noel-Levitz compiles national data on the satisfaction and priorities of nontraditional students, and each year I am struck by how satisfied these students are with their educational experience in general. However, there are still areas where institutions can improve the quality of the experience for these students.
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Understanding the priorities of nontraditional college students
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Entry-level jobs are no longer entry-level
August 27, 2012 by Steven Rothberg
Since 1994 we’ve been helping college students find internships and recent graduates find entry-level jobs and other career opportunities. So we’ve been through some economic up and down times including a few recessions. No recession came close to the one from which we’re still emerging. One of the unfortunate trends during and after each recession has been the significant increase in experienced workers taking jobs which normally would have gone to inexperienced workers. As a result, jobs which may be regarded and perhaps even advertised as entry-level are pursued and often taken by candidates with years of experience.It isn’t just CollegeRecruiter.com which has noticed this trend. Job aggregator SimplyHired is also concerned:
