29 Dec, 2011
Cover Letter Letter Resume Cover
Your resume cover letter (or simply “cover letter”) should move your job search to the interview stage. If you’re not getting interviews for jobs you have applied for and are qualified for, your resume cover letter is not doing its job
When accepting advice regarding cover letters, be careful where you are getting your advice.
Personally, I have always enjoyed writing and I feel it is one of my better skills so I’d like to help you understand how to craft a top-notch letter that gets results.
Plus, as a recruiter, I’ve literally seen thousands (no exaggeration) of resume cover letters – good and bad – so I think I have some insight that you will find useful and equally important, accurate.
This section will discuss some tips for writing great resume cover letters.
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17 Dec, 2011
Assessment Strengths Assessment
I receive a large number of emails from readers asking about strengths assessment, usually via a question that looks something like this: Dr. Civitelli, I need to make some career decisions, and so I am trying to figure out my strengths and/or skills. How can I figure out what Im good at doing?
Here are some suggestions for strengths assessment:
1. Ask yourself: What do you routinely do for family, friends, and acquaintances because over time you have realized that you do these things with ease while others may struggle?
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15 Dec, 2011
Cpa Cpa Gives
On any given workday, one can find Edward Estrin, CPA, and CFO and vice president of Private Asset Management, Inc., sitting at his desk in the investment advisory firm’s San Diego headquarters, bookmarked between two genteel art prints one might expect to find in any decorous accounting office. On one side hangs Norman Rockwell’s Daydreaming Bookkeeper, the famous Saturday Evening Post cover of June 7, 1924. The painting depicts a wan accountant wearing the traditional visor and sleeve garters of the times, sitting on a stool over his ledger book, lost in a daydream. Read full article…
12 Dec, 2011
Gap years, at any stage in your student life, give you the ability to demonstrate the desire to develop yourself as a global citizen. Photograph: Alamy
Despite the stark youth unemployment statistics and tough competition for graduate jobs, there is still a “war for talent” among top employers. Many firms tell us that new recruits aren’t as prepared for the world of work as they would like them to be, that more should be done while students are still at university to help boost their employability.
Multinational employers are looking for something even more.
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9 Dec, 2011
Retirement Retirement Ages
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – After nearly 40 years in public education, Patrick Godwin spends his retirement days running a horse farm east of Sacramento, Calif., with his daughter.
His departure from the workaday world is likely to be long and relatively free of financial concerns, after he retired last July at age 59 with a pension paying $174,308 a year for the rest of his life.
Such guaranteed pensions for relatively youthful government retirees — paid in similar fashion to millions nationwide — are contributing to nationwide friction with the public sector workers. The
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