Monthly Archives: October 2009

Judi Perkins, contributing career writer for JamminJobs.com 1. A BLAND OR GENERIC OBJECTIVE: If your objective could be applied to a marketing resume as easily as a resume for an accounting position, then your objective says nothing and will get you nowhere. An objective is NOT some required paragraph at the top of the page Read more...

The Useful Skills You Need to Qualify For a Job by Dusty Rollins, Career Consultant The career consultant?s job is to help clients in finding real and long-term solutions to various problems in finding the right career. After thorough and in-depth brainstorming, analysis and thought, they provide expert advice and new information. With the help Read more...

We do it all the time. When we?re ready for a job change we go online to search for a better job. You go to your favorite job board or employer?s site, find a job that fits you perfectly, and submit your resume and nothing happens. Just a typical online job hunting experience that we?re Read more...

Once you’ve accepted the offer with your new employer and set the start date, obviously the next step is to let your current employer know you’ll be leaving. Write a brief letter of resignation (the operative word there is “brief”). If you feel a need out of loyalty or guilt to write anything more than Read more...

Choosing a career path is one of the most important decisions you?ll ever make?but how do you decide what is right for you? You may take a career path that uses the skills you have or the education you?ve gotten. You may even choose a career based on what you think you ?should? do?because of Read more...

Travel nursing is a wonderful way to merge the nursing profession that you love, with a fondness for travel, meeting new people, and gaining new experiences. You can travel to and work in different locations and medical facilities around the country as a travel nurse or as a travel nursing professional. By joining an agency Read more...

Using a cover letter template when job hunting is a logical and time saving measure. Your time is limited, so writing one basic one and using it as your template will simplify the application process, making you more efficient and hopefully employed all that much faster. A basic template can be either bulleted ? sometimes Read more...

The Internet has now given the ability to take the job search beyond boundaries, in that you can now effortlessly look for a restaurant job in Toronto or chef jobs just with a few clicks of the mouse. Simply type your preferred career and location into your favourite search engine and watch the jobs opportunities Read more...

?I just want to give something back,? says one new nurse from a recent graduating class. Unlike your typical newcomer to a nursing career, Steve is not in his twenties and female. Rather, he?s one of the growing number of ?non-traditional? nurses who have adopted a nursing career after a lifetime of work in another Read more...

If you have been with a fast growing start up, boutique ? specialty set ups or small divisions of larger enterprises these problems would look familiar terrain to you. Until recently emerging HR practices largely ignored the small and medium business (SMB) challenges. Are they more complex than large enterprise issues ? Probably, No. Are Read more...