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Phone interviews are becoming more and more common as companies gain greater access to candidates and as more recruiters and hiring managers work from virtual office locations. On the positive side, with a phone interview you don’t have to worry More...

Downsized, restructured, displaced, canned, terminated - any way you put it, you're still out of a job and it's still not the easiest subject to talk about in an interview. More...

Be confident and careful when negotiating a new More...

From the first Google search to the last interview, you can boost your odds at landing a better job with the right More...

There's a great deal of career information available to job seekers on the Internet. And some of the most important, timely content can be found in blogs. More...

A staffing agency is a company that provides a service to their clients (other companies), may it be temporary work for a day or longer to helping with the hiring process. The agencies do the leg work by interviewing, doing references and sometimes More...

Unfortunately, many people have lost their jobs in recent weeks and months.  With the demise of Lehman Brothers (at the beginning of this week), Bear Stearns earlier this year, the job reductions implemented at many financial institutions, and the More...

The right job listings can be hard to find. There are thousands of sites offering job listings online, from Craigslist to Monster, but most of them wind up listing very similar (if not identical) More...

Carrying your cell phone all the time makes it the single best place to centralize your job search information. Here’s how you should be using it for job search More...

Employed or not, spend at least 30 minutes per day actively reinforcing your brand and growing your network through the activities listed More...

Searching for a job requires you to do a lot of things the right way, avoiding missteps that can doom your efforts despite your strong qualifications and More...

No.1 question: Tell me about yourself: The most often asked question in interviews. You need to have a shortstatement prepared in your mind. Be careful that it does not soundrehearsed. Limit it to work-related items unless instructed More...