Posts Tagged ‘Jobs’

Should Monday After The Super Bowl Be A National Holiday?

Every year there are a few brave souls who suggest that the Monday after the Super Bowl should become a national holiday. After the Super Bowl two years ago, Yahoo! Sports wrote, “You shouldn’t have to work today. You shouldn’t even have to get out of bed. This should be a day where you can sleep in, sleep off the effects of all the “soda” you drank yesterday.”

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Five Tips For Keeping Your Job

It’s nearing the end of the year and companies are calculating bonus pools and budgets for the next year. That means your boss could be discussing the fate of your job at this very moment. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, but to fill your holiday season with joy, here are five ways to help ensure you won’t get laid off.

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Photos & Videos: The Wave Of The Future Of Job Postings

One of the things I admire about Glassdoor is that they’re helping to lead the charge on visual transparency of employers. Pictures are critical for career sites because they help show the culture of a company – that’s one of the most important criteria job candidates look for.

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Jobs In Retail: Cashiers – Who’s Hiring, What They Pay & More

Looking for jobs in retail? Want to try your hand as a cashier? We looked into some well-known retailers to find cashier jobs open right now and share with you what it’s like to work there from current cashiers at these companies along with what you can expect to earn.

Check out these five companies hiring cashiers now…

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Retailers Staffing Up For The Holidays

Santa is feeling generous about retail holiday jobs this season, but slightly less giving than last year. The retail sector plans to add about 600,000 seasonal staffers between October and early January, down from 627,600 last year, said John Challenger, chief executive officer of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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Degree Not Required: 15 Jobs You Can Land Without Going To College

Not all career paths wind through a college campus. Consider these 15 jobs for which a degree isn’t a prerequisite.

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How To Find Jobs In Small Cities

Small cities and towns can be great places to live if you’ve got the right temperament. There may not be quite as much going on as there is in big metropolises, but there’s often plenty to do if you know where to look. Smaller cities usually offer lower costs of living, easier commutes, and more close-knit communities. Finding a job in towns and small cities, however, can be a trickier proposition. If you approach the search a little differently than you would in a major urban center, however, you can still do just fine.

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Back To School Of Another Kind: Four Career Management Reset Activities

It’s that time of the year again – back to school. And although my oldest of three years is only starting preschool for the first time, very soon she’ll be getting older and then so will my youngest and then they’ll be going back to school again and again, to someday make the working world a better place. But that’s not the back to school I’m going to talk about in this article. There’s something much more serious to contend with today.

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10 Tricks To Landing A Job After The Great Recession

Hey people. This isn’t your dad’s job market, which means that your parents’ ways of getting a job just aren’t going to cut it. Here’s a survival guide for recent and not-so-recent grads on how to land a job.

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Fear Of Layoffs On Wall Street Distracting Workers

The fear of layoffs on Wall Street is distracting workers and exacerbating an already dismal pace of business.

With pink slips fluttering on Wall Street and markets reeling from debt crises in Europe and the U.S., finance professionals are avoiding risky decisions, validating poor ideas to win favor with managers, jumping to more stable firms and steering clear of collaborative projects that could reflect well on co-workers — all in hope of surviving the next round of layoffs — according to bankers, finance consultants and recruiters.

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