To rally those who have lost their jobs or are facing possible job loss in the current devastated economic climate, Quintessential Careers has created Job Action Day. Job Action Day, which is today, aims to empower workers and job-seekers to take proactive steps to shore up their job and career outlook.  As a blogger in this space, ...

A professional acquaintance just told me about a guy she hired last year.  The guy was from Southern California and was morally opposed to moving to Philadelphia, where my friend’s company was based.  But he’d been unemployed for a long time and thought the opportunity sounded “good enough.”  He took the job.   My friend ...

When you interview for a job, your prospective boss wants to know that you have the skills and experience to make a contribution to the organization.  But she also wants to know that you’re not a clock-watcher.   Clock-watchers are people that expend just enough effort to keep their jobs, and that’s it.  They’re not interested in ...