Articles for category: Careers & Job Searching

Day Planner Tips

If you have trouble following tasks through to completion, or frequently find yourself forgetting appointments and scheduled meetings, a day planner can help you become prompt, increase your organization skills and stay focused. Simply purchasing a day planner is not enough, though. Learn ways to make the most of this handy tool. Go to a ...

Federal Income Tax when You Are Unemployed

When you lose your job and find yourself unemployed, income taxes may not be the most important thing on your mind. But during this difficult time, it is important to be aware of the different income tax aspects of your present situation, and the tax consequences of different courses of action you can take, in ...

7 Key Elements of an Effective Business Plan

In the fourth quarter of 2011, 1,638 extended mass layoff events involved 266,971 worker separations, according to The United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. But not every one is sulking at home in their pajamas as they scroll through Monster job postings. Many are following their dreams of starting their own business. ...

Determining Your Perfect Position

The keys to being a great leader are: understand the nature of the task or job, being willing to oversee, carryout, and responsible for the required tasks, and knowing and being honest with yourself about your personal strengths, weaknesses, tolerances, and limitations. Great leaders implement and execute plans of action involving these points. As this ...

Top 5 Most Needed Medical Jobs

The economy remains slow across the entire developed world, and some industries are feeling the pain harder than others – but the medical industry is scarcely feeling it at all. As a whole, a medical professional has greater job security and opportunities for advancement than nearly any other working professional today, but even within the ...

Live Auctioneer Tips for Beginners

Keep updated on disclaimers As a live auctioneer, keep updates on any information that guests need to be aware of when bidding on items. This is usually relevant for auction items that are not displayed with all features such as furniture sets or food baskets. A live auctioneer must be able to let guests know ...

My FBI Interview

In August of 2010 shortly after my graduation from high school, I took a big step in leaving my parents home and quitting my job at Harris Teeter, a local grocery store in North Carolina where I worked during my senior year of high school, to move to Edmond, Oklahoma to live with my aunt, ...

How to Become a Broadway Usher

As I prepare to leave the Big Apple and embark on my next life’s adventure I reflect back on one of my favorite jobs I ever had living in New York City. This job was also, in effect my first job in New York City and it was by far the job I held the ...