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It’s never easy to know for sure if now is the right time to quit your job, but as the New Year approaches it may be time for you to consider moving on in your career. Whether you are reasonably happy with your current job, merely content with it, or have to force yourself to go every morning, there may be something better out there for you – exploring your options can’t hurt you.
How do you know it is time to leave your job?
There are…
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There is no doubt that the manufacturing industry is a vital part of the American economy. Although weaker than it once was, manufacturers continue to mend the industry that practically defined the economy in the 1970s.
The Titan of Industry
By June of 1979, 22 percent of all non-farm workers in the US were employed by the manufacturing industry. Unfortunately, manufacturing sustained huge losses during the recession. By 2007, manufacturing…
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When job seekers are in the interview process, social networks can be a critical tool to their advantage. If you have an upcoming interview, you can still spend time with your typical social network activities (uploading pictures, writing creative status updates, and chatting with friends) but you should also make sure to balance that out with job related searches.
LinkedIn is the main social networking site that comes to mind when people…
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You’re probably not going to ask the types of hard-hitting questions that are the envy of veteran journalists when conducting your first job interview. Yet that doesn’t mean you have to flounder through an awkward fifteen to thirty minute conversation with a candidate. If you follow these steps before and during the interview, you can get what you need from a candidate to make a well-informed, effective decision for your company.
Know the…
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In an ideal world, questions about salary will never make their way into the first job interview. However hiring managers are inevitably going to ask the ultimate salary question: How much do you want to make? How you address it is not as simple as throwing out a number.
Is there a best answer to the salary question?
If you can’t as to avoid the topic of salary during the initial job interview, you are going to have to come up with a…
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Consider this: over 10 percent of Chicago’s economy is directly dependent upon manufacturing. Approximately 323,100 people from all around the Chicagoland area make their livelihood in one of the numerous metropolitan manufacturing facilities and close to 600,000 work on production floors statewide. Should it be any surprise that state and university officials are striving to keep new life pumping into the industry?
Birth of the Illinois…
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Asking the right questions to candidates during the interview process can be a difference-maker. If you ask the right questions, you could get the right fit. If you ask the wrong questions, you could end up spending copious amounts of your time and resources searching for an ever elusive candidate.
The reason for this is because hiring managers and HR recruiters often get tied up in asking one-size-fits-all questions to every candidate they…
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Social gatherings are perfect for networking and, with the sheer number of parties sprinkled throughout the month of December, no active job seeker can afford to silently hang about like garland trimming the wall. Just because people are converging on the dessert trays and eggnog doesn’t mean you have to check your job search at the door. Instead, mingle with your fellow partygoers in a way that blends both professional and personal topics…
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As the Bureau of Labor Statistics unleashed the numbers for the November Jobs Report this morning, it appeared as if Christmas had come early to many economists on Wall Street. Some have called the report bulletproof, as the numbers were solid, but does it capture the entire picture of the economy? Are the numbers a precursor to a greater economic recovery, or are they merely a seasonal trend that occurs at the closure of every year?
By the…
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According to an ExecuNet survey, two-thirds of executive recruiters are increasing or remaining constant with their hiring search, dispelling the old myth that companies don’t hire during the holiday season. One story that you should keep in mind when determining who to hire is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Stay with me here.
Though the primary lessons Scrooge learned is that sharing with the less…
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