I recently signed up for a free newsletter for a resume writing service whose website I had visited. In the first newsletter I received, I was surprised that it contained two “great methods” (in the words of the person writing the newsletter) to use during the job search process. The first method suggested paying a [...]

Most companies who are hiring and run ads on an Internet job board or in the newspaper will probably say “no phone calls please” or something to that effect. Basically, they don’t want dozens if not hundreds of people calling them regarding a particular job especially these days when it’s so easy to attract hundreds [...]

The Internet has made job searching easier and harder at the same. It’s easier to fire your resume off to dozens or hundreds of companies quite quickly and feel like you’ve accomplished something. It’s harder to understand how so many of us got tricked into thinking that this was a good use of our time [...]