You’ve heard me mention Steven Rothberg and his incredibly useful employment information website at CollegeRecruiter.com before, and this week Heather Eager wrote a terrific post on a topic I never considered – how to get a federal job. I never realized this, but the process of applying to work for the government is totally different ...

I knew something like this was coming, and leave it to Google to be the pioneers.  It’s Custom Search – the ability to create a personalized search engine tailored to your needs.  Using Google, you can now create a tool that will allow you to search a specific group of websites, blogs, or topics.  My friend Cody ...

I recently had the chance to chat with Chris and Stuart, two enterprising twenty-somethings who founded Gradspot, which they hope will become the premiere online destination for life after college.  They are super-impressive young professionals, having graduated from Harvard and Emory respectively and boasting work experience in the ...

I’m pleased to share with you the formation of a new online advocacy organization called Qvisory that is dedicated to helping young adults with their money, work, and health concerns.  Qvisory was the brainchild of Andy Stern at the Service Employees’ Union, and has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.  In conjunction ...

I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails from desperate folks who are short on cash and are hoping against hope that they can get a raise at work.  But just in case they can’t, over at Brazen Careerist, Alex Fisher has some great ideas for saving money during the current economic downturn.  Among my favorites: Replace your light ...

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 interviews, and never got a single job out of the ...

Did you know that the most accurate predictor of earning power is literacy?  Literacy does not just mean being able to read, but also refers to your command of written language. I recently read an article by Steve Kaufmann at LingQ, a company that provides web-based language tutoring, you can improve your skills by copying a sample ...

Two new career-expert friends have terrific books out that are great companions to my latest effort, How’d You Score That Gig?  Starting out, my fellow Ballantine author Pamela Skillings has written Escape from Corporate America, an extremely detailed and thorough roadmap to assessing if leaving traditional business is the right move for you, ...

Since we often talk about differentiating yourself in a crowded market around here, I thought you might like to know that twenty-something branding phenom Dan Schawbel recently launched a new magazine, Personal Branding.  As you might guess, the magazine is about establishing a professional and memorable identity in order to drive your ...

I’m trying to catch up on my reading, and I was finally able to get to my fellow Ballantine Books author Alan Corey’s very smart book on how to make a million bucks by the age of 30.  Specifically, as the cover proclaims, the book teachers twenty-somethings how to overcome a crap job, stingy parents, and a useless degree to accumulate enough ...