http://www.glassdoor.com/blog Glassdoor.com - Company salaries, reviews, and interviews posted anonymously by employees Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:45:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A great deal of emphasis has been put on finding your dream job lately. And by lately I mean over the past 12 years or so. I believe strongly that really enjoying what you do is very important to a balanced and happy life and think everyone should strive to ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/dream-job-optimistic-current-job/ Dreaming your job into existence is much more than simply knowing what you want. There are three legs on the career management stool: understanding, promotion and attraction. Any effective job search, network conversation, cover letter, interview or development plan involves using all three. Understanding means all of the things you do ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/dream-job-part-3-infectious/ The gloves are off: the media has reported that AT&T is suing Verizon over the company’s “There’s a Map for That” ads with the claim that the spots mislead customers as to AT&Ts overall coverage area, representing only 3G and not wireless coverage overall. While this news is not unexpected, ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/atts-map-lawsuit-verizon/ A job search is full of obstacles, from unresponsive HR departments to those annoying blind ads that don't even tell you who the employer is. On top of the roadblocks that a job search imposes on us, here is one more that we create for ourselves: a dry-as-dust, boilerplate resume ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/human-voice-resume/ Liz Ryan brought up a good point last week - corporate recruiting doesn’t often work the way it should. Reactions to corporate recruiting tend to range from “amazingly bad” to a “soul-sucking, dehumanizing experience from hell.” Everyone agrees that things could be done a lot better. But you can make ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/evaluate-job-career-recruiter/ The work we have or seek has a value, and though it appears logical for companies to know the specific value each job adds to the company, not all jobs are easy to align with business revenue. Traditionally we consider sales because the position is directly tied to revenue and ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/common-cents-work/ Broken lines, broken strings, broken threads, broken springs, Broken idols, broken heads, People sleeping in broken beds. Ain't no use jiving. Ain't no use joking. Everything is broken. Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates, Broken dishes, broken parts, Streets are filled with broken hearts. Broken words never meant to be spoken, Everything is ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/workplace-organization-lackey-arguer-promotable/ About a year ago, Oprah Winfrey did a show with a panel of psychologists who discussed the power of a vision board. A vision board is a large presentation board that included cut outs of pictures, words or key phrases from magazines, newspapers or anything form of paper to capture ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/visualize-work-career-goals-create-vision-board/ So, you have gotten the interview that you desired and you know that you are going to be asked once, twice, maybe five or six times, some question that is like, “so, tell me about you”.  You then have five to seven minutes to tell your story.  When I interview ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/story-job-interview-part-1/ One of the worst things that can happen to a talented job seeker is to get caught in the Vortex -- that swirling, chaotic place where the hiring-process movement gets to be so fast and furious that it's hard to keep up with it. "They want me in New York next week ... http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/ten-reasons-run-job-opportunity/