With a quickly dwindling Social Security fund, lost 401ks and bonds, the ‘third age people’ are finding themselves in a place where they have to go back into the workforce. It’s not an easy process in this economy. Job seekers aged 50 and older face potential disadvantages including less knowledge about new technologies and perhaps [...]
An absolutely disastrous job interview is never a good thing, right? Well, “Mason Mochran” completely blows his own interview and you can win prizes by watching him fail. Thankfully it’s a mock interview with 360JobInterview.com coach Maria White, a high-powered human resources consultant for Lehman Brothers and the aerospace industry, and WalletPop’s Jason Cochran as [...]
While preparing for your interview, you run over your answers to the standard questions, check to make sure all of your paperwork is intact, look in the mirror to ensure a presentable image, and make sure you leave yourself enough time to arrive 10 minutes early. What you don’t realize, however, is that this preparation [...]
Don’t abandon your career goals. Don’t allow the economy and news of job loss/unemployment to sidetrack your dreams. Strengthen your strategy. While the world is constantly shifting, our lives may take new direction, but it is your job to avoid repeated redirection. It is this redirection that gets in our way of making plans and [...]
You already know it’s a Web 2.0. Social media and social networking are the wave we’re riding into the future. Great, but how does that help you? You’re searching for a job and don’t have time to play around on things like Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, right? Wrong. Your next job offer could very likely [...]
