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DNL Global
provides a short online test to asses your ability to thrive in a ‘global’ career:

DNL Global, Inc. invites you to evaluate your global readiness using the
following free self-assessment test. The questions below represent a sampling
of our “Global Ready” assessment process. This evaluation utilizes the results
of the […]

Sarah Needleman of CareerJournal suggests the following four tactics to remove workplace clutter, which should increase your performance and job satisfaction:
1) Eliminate Distractions - Set and monitor your personal career goals and if your job duties don’t support them then discuss delegating them or moving out of that role with your manager.
2) Resolve Conflicts […]

Penelope Trunk discusses “How to get your company to listen to your ideas” at her Blog Brazen Careerist. Penelope states that “most employees don’t sell their ideas to their company properly.” “When you have an idea, sell from the perspective of the people who can make or break your outcome. Think about what obstacles would […]

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Accountemps, the world’s largest temporary staffing company for accounting, finance, and bookkeping professionals, recently published the results of a poll of 150 senior executives (HR, finance, and marketing) from the nation’s 1,000 largest companies - “Resumes Inching Up“. The executives were asked “What is the preferable length of a resume […]

Second Life is a “3D online digital world imagined, created, and owned by it’s residents.” Simply put it is a ‘website’ where real people can create online alter ego and interact with other people worldwide. As Dawn Rosenberg McKay of About.com writes, “residents of this virtual world, who take on the persona of a self-created […]

Fortune Magazine recently released its annual list of the 100 “Best Companies to Work For”. Along with this list Fortune provides the average annual pay for salaried employees for these 100 companies:

Rank

Company

Best companies rank

Most common job title

Average
annual pay*

1

Nixon Peabody

49

Associate Attorney

$181,099

2

Bingham McCutchen

94

Associate

$180,050

3

Alston & Bird

19

Associate Attorney

$166,300

4

Adobe Systems

31

Senior Computer Scientist

$161,127

5

Arnold […]

According to Siobhan O’Mahony, Asst. Professor of Neotiations, Organizations, and Markets at the Harvard Business School, if you are a contractor or temp you need “stretchwork” to bridge the gap to a more rewarding position and enable them to manage and advance their careers in the less predictable world of contract labor. Stretchwork is work […]

 Here is some sound advice written by Perri Capell of CareerJournal.com:
Question: I recently sent my resume to an employer and want to know if the position is still open, when interviewing might begin, and if I’m a candidate. I’d like to call the human-resources department but don’t know what to ask. Any advice?
Answer:Following up […]

According to the Spherion Employee Confidence Index, fueled by a more optimistic outlook on the strength of the economy and number of jobs available, U.S. workers’ confidence hit new highs in November.
Do you feel that your ‘career confidence’ is in line with the following statistics?

66 percent of workers believe the economy is strengthening or stabilized.
64 […]

A CareerXRoads study presents information on how employers are finding candidates to fill their jobs. The chart below shows that Employee Referrals and the Internet make up over 50% of all hires. College hires are gaining momentum as is Direct Sourcing from competitors and other companies.
From this information one can see that networking online (through social […]