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Chief Financial Officers See Economic Optimism, Pessimism on Jobs
Executives responsible for a company’s financial outlook–CFOs and Controllers– are bullish on company profits and revenue growth in 2010, but do not expect to fill many new jobs, according to a newly released quarterly economic study from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Of the 998 [...]
Update Your LinkedIn Profile Status Often, but Don’t Self Promote
Blatant self-promotion is bad form on social networks, said social marketing expert Veronica Fielding in the article “How to Build and Nurture a LinkedIn Profile Network” for TheLadders. Updating your profile’s status, however, with informative article links, industry event notices and posting community-centric information regularly is a great way to stay visible and be viewed [...]
What Font Should You Use on Your Resume?
Keep it safe and consistent when it comes to which font you use on your resume, advised professional resume writer Steve Burdan in the article “Top Nine Executive Resume Mistakes” for TheLadders Career Advice. Too many resumes are riddled with multiple font styles after people cut and paste from past resume files, their LinkedIn profile, [...]
How to Make the Best of an Unhappy Workplace
Sick of your job? Feel trapped? Fantasize about walking in to your bosses office and declaring emphatically “I quit!”?
Don’t let negative thoughts and emotional trappings derail a career, wrote Pat Olsen of Harvard Business Review in his post “How to Survive in an Unhappy Workplace. Find ways to make the job work for you while [...]
Wall Street Added 1,000 Finance Jobs in December
Financial services jobs in New York NY are on the upswing according to a recent report by the New York States Department f Labor.
Wall Street lost more than 30,000 the start of the recession in December 2007, but firms are now looking for experienced executives with active client lists and a book of business, recruiters [...]
How to Write a LinkedIn Profile Summary
There are two things you can be sure of when executive recruiters discover your LinkedIn profile: They expect to see a summary, and they expect to learn a little about who you are, wrote Kris Dunn, HR expert and blogger of HR Capitalist.
Job titles and dates of employment alone on LinkedIn will not cut it. [...]
Your Need for a Job Won’t Get You One
The best way to get a new job is to stop looking for one in the traditional way – sending out resumes, waiting for interviews and hassling recruiters. Become a resource – a treasure trove of information – not a nuisance on the job search, said executive career coach Darrell W. Gurney in the article [...]
How to Customize Your Resume to the Job Listing
If you want to be included in a recruiter’s call back pile keep your resume’s chronological information static, but tweak the language in the top section, advised professional resume writer Steve Burdan in the article “Customize Your Resume for That Plum Job.”
Burdan believes strongly in the importance of customizing the top third section of a [...]
Offer Employers a Plan to Make Money or Save Money
“[L]earn everything you can about the industry and your target employer(s),” said Vikki Brackett, a career coach told CIO.com’s Meridith Levinson, in the article “Job Search Secrets: Targeting Done Right.”
You need to know the industry’s and the company’s pain points and business goals so that you can communicate exactly how you’re going to solve [...]
Healthcare Jobs For Hire in Philadelphia
Philadelphia employers need to fill more than 6,000 job openings in the next six months, according to a poll reported in the Philadelphia Business Journal. The bulk of the openings are healthcare jobs in Philadelphia and there are a number of finance jobs in Philadelphia with companies like Wells Fargo, PNC Bank, and TD Banknorth, [...]
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