If you are interested in how you can find trustworthy remote job listings, I have compiled a list of my favorite websites. More and more companies are offering these types of job opportunities, but unfortunately, it can be difficult to find ones that are legitimate and a good fit. Today, I wanted to share a…
Category: Job Hunting
Essential Tips for Finding Work from Home Jobs on Indeed
Indeed is one of my favorite job search websites, and I use them all the time to find work from home jobs. However, without the right tactics, you can miss a lot of the jobs that allow you to work remotely. So, I have a few essential tips for using Indeed to find a work…
How to Recover After a Job Rejection
This afternoon I received a job rejection email for a place I interviewed with last week. I was disappointed to hear they had decided to move forward with another job candidate. Although I’ve been enjoying work as a freelancer, I am still looking for a permanent job and this one was right in line with…
5 Places to Find Work from Home Jobs
Since losing my job, I’m keeping myself open to a wide variety of job opportunities. Ideally, though, I want to find a work from home job. My previous position had a one hour commute to work and one hour commute home. Sometimes it would be longer. I genuinely never want to face that type of…
What I Learned About Unemployment During My Travels [A Guest Post]
To paraphrase Tolstoy, “All employed people are alike; each unemployed person is unemployed in its own way.” To expand on this rather clumsy piece of paraphrasing, employed people of all nations and cultures are the same – happy to be working and getting paid for their work. However, unemployed people differ greatly from one part…
The Job Applicant Hierarchy – Who Really Gets the Job? [by Marc Shaeffer]
Overall, the job market is getting better. Slowly getting better, that is. Personally, I’ve been having more job interviews in the last 6 months than anytime time period since I was let go from my full-time job in 2010. Last Friday, there were signs that more discouraged workers that were once sitting on the…
5 Reasons Why Employers Repost the Same Job
Have you ever responded to a job posting that later got reposted? Or worse yet, after the second round of interviews, you find out that the job you are interviewing for was reposted!I find this baffling, rude, and pointless. Pointless, because I wonder who this employer thinks they will get with this new listing. The…
The Perils of a Poorly Written Job Posting [A Guest Post by Marc Schaefer]
I find it infuriating when a job seeker, such as myself, spends a great deal of time and energy crafting a resume and cover letter to match a poorly written job posting that neglects to mention key skill requirements. Back in March, I applied for a government position in the parks department in the…
Job Hunting is Expensive by Ed Tsyitee Jr. (Twitter @GreenChileAdict)
I couldn’t wait to post this, because this expresses a tragic truth of the job search. It’s expensive and you are dug into a hole very difficult to get out of. Thank you to guest writer and fellow Twitter peep, Ed Tsyitee Jr. @GreenChileAdict. Here is the cold hard truth that career advisers and coaches…
Frustrations of a Job Seeker by Ed Tsyitee Jr (Twitter @GreenChileAdict)
Thank you to Ed Tsyitee Jr. who shared his story today about frustrations of a job seeker. Make sure you follow him on Twitter @GreenChileAdict After living in Virginia for 12 years, I moved back to Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2006. I ended up working for Wal-Mart that year. With a Bachelor’s Degree….