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CAREER HACK: If you are in an area where Security Clearance positions are in demand consider applying for these positions and gaining clearance. If you are able to receive Security Clearance it can boost your salary by 25% on average while providing stronger job security.
Would getting a security clearance be better than getting an MBA […]

Everybody starts their career somewhere,even CEOs. Below are some interesting profiles of CEOs and how they broke into the business world:

Gary Kelly
CEO, Southwest Airlines
THEN

First job after college:CPA for Arthur Young & Co. in Dallas
Responsibilities: staff auditor,CPA
Annual pay (2006 dollars): $47,996
College: University of Texas,Austin
Degree:BBA, accounting
Year of graduation: 1977

NOW

Started with Southwest: 1986
First […]

The more education one receives the more money they are likely to earn. The following chart shows how average weekly earnings are effected by educational milestones.

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Career Hacker * www.careerhacker.com * By Bill Inman * www.billinman.com

ECONOMICS
Jessica Vassellaro, of the Wall Street Journal Online writes, “according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, economics majors in their first job earn an average of nearly $43,000 a year — not as much as for computer-science majors and engineering majors, who can earn in excess of $50,000 a year. But those computer […]

From ‘Able Seaman’ to ‘Zoologist’, CareerPlanner.com has over 12,000 job descriptions you can search for free. Why is this valuable to you? You might use this information to:

 Enhance your resume by adding some of the skills mentioned in CareerPlanner.com job descriptions to the previous or current position(s) listed on your resume.
Understand better what it will skills […]

“There are people who assumed that their hard work and conventional ’success’ would leave them with no worries,” writes Matt Miller of Fortune Magazine. These people include doctors, accountants, engineers, lawyers, and Vice Presidents. The frustration of these individuals lies in the fact that there is seemingly no way for these to live with ‘unlimited’ […]

According to Debra Fine, a study at the Stanford University monitored MBA graduates for 10 years after graduation and found that GPA was not a factor in their level of success - conversational skills was…
Debra Fine, speaker and trainer, offers 12 tips for using small talk to create career success, including:

Prepping three conversation openers for a function […]

Focused on helping students, carer changes, parents, and career advisors gain information on occupations experiencing growth Career Voyages motto is “good jobs, better pay, brighter future.”
There is a wealth of information on hot industries and occupations and Career Voyages provides a Video Tutorial to quickly learn how the website can assist you in “starting a new […]