Articles for category: Careers & Job Searching

On-Site Apartment Managers: Is This Career Right for You?

On-site apartment managers, or resident apartment managers, live in the apartment complex they manage. Although their responsibilities vary from company to company, they generally collect rent, lease apartments, perform minor cleaning and repair work, and make sure that the apartment complex is quiet and peaceful. They may also oversee maintenance and cleaning staff. The experience ...

Seasonal Jobs for Retirees

Working after retirement is not unusual. Seniors who have already worked 30 years or more are going back to work for several reasons. One basic reason is the increased longevity of the U.S. population. A person that retires at the age of 65 is expected to live to the age of 83. This makes a ...

How to Get a North Carolina CDL License

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) administers the driver’s licensing program for the state. Individuals interested in driving big rigs, buses and other large vehicles may need a commercial driver’s license. To get a CDL license in North Carolina, an applicant must first pass a written knowledge test. Upon ...

Ten Personal Branding Mistakes to Avoid

I never liked the idea of a canned elevator speech for use in networking situations. I want people — including you — to be spontaneous and to respond in the moment when someone asks them “So, what do you do?” But I also understand that people feel better if they have a few words prepared ...

How to Become an Ohio Electrician

Ohio has a Construction Industry Licensing Board that is part of the Department of Commerce’s Division of Industrial Compliance and Labor. This board issues licenses to certain electrical contractors. Such electricians need to meet experience requirements, pass an exam and meet insurance and related requirements to get licensed as an electrical contractor in Ohio. All ...

Find a Job Using Staffing Agency

It can be hard to find a job right now. There aren’t a lot of options available, and there’s a lot of competition. I’ve experienced the challenges job searching presents. With little success finding a job on my own, I recently decided to try something different. I found a job I was interested in on ...

How Do Freelance Bid Sites Work?

Freelance bidding sites allow you to do several different things all on one site – the main goal is to provide a secure marketplace where a buyer can post a project, relay the specifications of the project, and give an estimated budget for completing the project, along with the criteria for the professionally completing the ...

How to Apply Diversity Skills in the Workplace

The world is a different place from the time before the Civil Rights era of the early 1960s when many businesses would not hire people of a different race. Back then, minorities were nonexistent in many companies. If minority workers were hired, employers rarely used or even thought to consider diversity skills. All companies have ...

Alpine Access: A Great Work from Home Job Opportunity

Alpine Access is a very good company that hires people to work from home. Alpine hires people to do customer service/sales work from their home. Don’t let the sales part scare you off, it’s not “real” or pressure sales, you just need to offer customers additional products and services. It is part of the scripts ...

How to Prepare for the CGFNS Exam

Many nurses must take the CGFNS exam to get a US work visa for nursing jobs. It tests the immigrant’s knowledge of current practice in the US nursing industry. The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools sponsors the exam. Some nurses coming from overseas will also need assistance in improving their English skills. The ...