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• Hiring Managers Slow to Accept Online Degrees

  Well now, this is kind of scary… While employers and hiring managers are seeing more job applicants with online degrees these days, they’re not exactly clamoring to hire them. According to Vault.com’s 2008 Online Degrees Survey , while 49% of those who Read More... Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Continuing Education, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Job Hunting, School

• Should You – and Can You – Get a Temp Job?

  I’ll be honest. I always thought that going to a temp agency was a waste of time. This perception comes from the fact that when I was in college in the late 90s, I visited a few firms, filled out reams of paperwork, took a few computer tests, did several Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Employment Trends, Handy Resources, Job Hunting, Work

• Hot Fields' Lower Salaries Leave Candidates Cold

  We've talked periodically about the impact that the economy's downturn is having on the job market. Last week, in the new Outside Voices blog that recruitment guru Joel Cheesman is writing for U.S. News and World Report, the topic is compensation in traditionally Read More... Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Compensation, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, HR Issues, Job Hunting

• Did Your Interview Questions Break the Law?

  My friend Chris Russell over at Secrets of the Job Hunt reported on a recent study by global HR consulting firm Development Dimensions International and Monster that examined the most inappropriate questions job seekers have been asked during an interview. Read More... Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, HR Issues, Job Hunting, Management, People Skills, Troubleshooting

• Recruitment Spotlight: Can Candidates Find Your Jobs?

  In the coming months, I’m going to be focusing some of Water Cooler Wisdom’s content around employee recruitment and retention techniques. Let’s start with the obvious: the e-advertisements that you, as a manager or HR rep, might be perennially posting Read More... Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Employment Trends, HR Issues, Job Hunting, Technology

• Intriguing Career Trends for 2008

  Everyone has been buzzing about the different careers featured in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Careers of 2008 piece. Since I’m going to be doing my fair share of talking about cool jobs come the spring , I thought I would highlight some of the more Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Current Affairs, Discovering Your Passion, Employment Trends, Handy Resources, Job Hunting, News and Politics

• Job Help for Young Iraq Veterans

  Thanks to my fellow career blogger, Anita Bruzzese , for calling my attention to the important issue of the unemployment and underemployment of recently-discharged Iraq war veterans. When a person joins the military, says the website HireAHero.com , there Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Handy Resources, Job Hunting, Networking

• Career Changers Are Everywhere!

  I’m really interested in the topic of career change, so I was intrigued by this new study by Career Builder and Harris Interactive , which showed that fully one-third of employed workers are seeking a change. According to the survey, nearly three-quarters Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Employment Trends, Job Hunting, News and Politics

• Check Out The Most Painless Job Hunting Activity Ever

  It’s official: recruiting has entered the twenty-first century. A few weeks ago, I introduced the concept of Web 3.0 , and what do you know? We’re here already. TMP Worldwide is working with exclusive companies including eBay , Microsoft , HP and Verizon Read More... Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Creativity & Innovation, Employment Trends, Job Hunting, Networking, Technology

• Job Videos Bring Candidates the Insider View

  Employer videos, or video job advertisements, are popping up all over the Web from YouTube and Facebook to the company Web sites themselves. And depending on the type of firm and its willingness to be cutting-edge, these videos are often really entertaining Read More... Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Job Hunting, Technology

• SHRM Says 3/4 of Employees Want Out of Their Jobs

  More than 75% employees are looking for new jobs, according to the 462 employees and 367 HR professionals surveyed in the 2006 U.S. Job Retention Poll released last week by the Society for Human Resource Management and The Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal.com Read More... Posted Sunday, December 24, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Business, Job Hunting, Life Balance, Work Attachment(s): http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/US/Careers/03/29/cb.quit.job/story.quit.job.jpg

• The Internship Is The New Entry-Level

  This week in the Chicago Tribune, Carolyn Bigda discusses the phenomena of the internship as a gateway to a full-time job. Now while this is not necessarily new, the cache of the internship has definitely increased in recent years. In fact, I was pretty Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Entry Level, Employment Trends, Job Hunting, Goals, Plans, Hopes, Work, School

• The Brainy City Debate

  CNN Money reports that the U.S. Census Bureau has released a list of the “brainiest cities in America” based on education rankings. If you equate education with intelligence, then the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7 percent of its Read More... Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Continuing Education, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Job Hunting

• The Best Jobs...Or Not?

  Money Magazine , in conjunction with Salary.com , has just come out with the Best Jobs of 2006. These folks began by assembling a list of positions that the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects will grow at an above-average rate over 10 years and that Read More... Posted Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Cool Careers, Employment Trends, Job Hunting Attachment(s): http://www.askmen.com/mediakit/CNN%20Money_files/cnnmoney.logo.gif