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How to Make the Best of an Unhappy Workplace

By Donald Sears ⋅ February 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Physical Therapy Jobs and Salaries On the Rise

By Donald Sears ⋅ January 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Physical therapy jobs are expected grow 27 percent between 2006 and 2016, according to statistics from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Salaries in the industry are also performing well and .  Median salaries rose 29 percent to $74,000 from 2002 to 2008, according to the American Physical Therapy Association.  The median salary [...]

Yahoo! CEO’s Dinner-Table Hiring Test

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz believes strongly in self-awareness, problem-solving skills, the value of lateral career moves and learning from bad managers, according to an interview she recently gave The New York Times. On hiring senior management, Bartz has a litmus test that has more to do with over-a-meal conversation than hitting exacting hiring standards.
Can I [...]

Research Job Applications to Make Your Case in a Resume and Job Interview

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Research is essential to finding a job, said Rafe Gomez, a radio DJ turned career adviser and author.
Gomez, author of “What’s In It for Me?” a book he wrote while conducting his own job search after his previous employer, CD101.9 in New Jersey, changed format and he was laid off. In an interview with NY1’s [...]

Initial Unemployment Claims Up 17,000 from Estimates

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

New unemployment claims rose to 551,000 this week, up 17,000 from the previous week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported.
Continuing unemployment claims declined 70,000 from last week, to 6.1 million.
Job losses are diminishing in the private sector, says a payroll report released this week by ADP.
Tomorrow, the government will release its monthly non-farm payroll report. [...]

Questioning Costly Job-Search Firms that Claim ‘Personal Marketing Services’

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 1, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Career experts do not think you need to sign up for expensive job-search firms offering “personal marketing” in order to get good career advice, says a Forbes article.
Career counseling, coaching, resume writing and many other targeted career-related services can be useful, they say, but not ones that promise the unemployed a complete “soup-to-nuts” strategy.
First, what’s [...]

Payroll Report from ADP Shows Diminshing Job Loss, But Still Loss

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The private sector shed another 254,000 jobs in September, less than analysts expected and one of the lowest declines in 14 months, according to payroll firm ADP. But researchers remain cautions about the health of the job market, MarketWatch reports.
“Employment losses have diminished significantly over the last two quarters,” said Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic [...]

The Work Blues Have Many a Worker Down

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Most workers are feeling pretty lousy at work , says a recently released Watson Wyatt report on employee morale.
“The fallout from the actions employers have taken in response to the recession is now coming to light, and it is significant,” said Laura Sejen, global director of strategic rewards consulting at Watson Wyatt in a news [...]

Technology Jobs Down 3.1% in 2009, But Better Than Most Industries

By Donald Sears ⋅ October 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Technology suffered job losses across all industries last year but fared better than most other fields, according to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
IT lost 224,000 jobs between June 2008 and June 2009, a 3.7  percent decline, while the overall job market was down 5.1 percent for the same period, said the [...]

Financial-Services Employers Raising Salaries to Compensate for Smaller 2009 Bonuses

By Donald Sears ⋅ September 30, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Financial-services companies are raising base salaries to compensate for smaller bonuses this year, according to a report in Workforce Management.
“Not ever in the 20 years I’ve been recruiting do I remember a time when there’s so much concern over the stickiness of the talent base,” said Jane Hobson Marcus, partner in the global asset and [...]

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