I’ve made it to Maryland and have successfully completed my busiest day of interviews (3). One of the places was 167% not what I was looking for, and it really shocked me, because talking with them and looking at their website gave me a completely different impression than what I got when I wa...

If you are currently in the market for a job, which I am, you may find that some companies and agencies will only allow you to access their online job application and job search system through Window’s Internet Explorer.  I ran into this when trying to access the Texas Health and Human Services w...

Let’s say you get fired, or laid off, or you quit because after two weeks you know you’re at the worst company on the planet. In all of those cases, you will face the interview question: What happened at your last job? Here’s the answer you should always give: “I left to do x.� And you fil...

The end of my senior year is almost here and there’s still so much left for me to do… I really need to sit down and write out a schedule for when I need to have things done other than their actual due dates since most of them are so close to one another. Time management… I need to ...

For some reason I didn't notice until just now that the Portland Zoo insect keeper job is a temporary (May-September) position only. It would be idiotic to leave my wife for a year for a temporary job (considering that it would be pretty hard to get another one at the end of it) so I'm going to let ...

As the recession persists, we can watch social shifts and cultural trends. Some are good, some are bad. But in either case, one way to control how the recession affects you is to watch the larger trends and decide where you want to fit. Here are five trends that are emerging in the face of the large...

Seriously?  Why does life suck?  Every time I turn around something bad happens. I mean, good lord, I was just talking about the woman who has the world’s longest fingernails with my stepson today on the way home from school - and I come home to find out that she has been in a car accident, ...

Even if you’re gainfully employed right now, you’re probably keeping an eye on job listings in your field and news about your industry. It’s just good sense these days: while my grandparents might have been able to build their entire careers with just one employer, climbing the lad...

When you want to get a new job, don’t look at your resume to see what you could get. Instead, take time to build a resume that meets the requirements of the jobs you want. This doesn’t mean using keywords that are in the job description. That is not going to work. Instead, look at the types of e...

A recession is typically a good time for graduate schools. Their application pool goes up because people see them as safe shelter from the storm. The scariest part of a down economy is the idea of having no income. Of course, graduate school does not solve for that. But graduate school does solve th...