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Can I work while my Green Card application is pending?

Job Insider: Immigrants who are in the United States for temporary stay should file Form I765, application for employment authorization with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS, to receive an EAD or Employment Authorization Document. The EAD is also known as work permit. U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional permanent residents and non-immigrants who are authorized to work in the U.S. should not use Form I765, application for employment authorization. You can work in the United States even while your Green Card application is pending. If you want to work ...

Job Expert on July 22, 2010 0

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How to Make the Most of Your 401(k) Plan

Job Insider: Here are some tips to maximize your retirement savings: Consider a Roth 401(k) In a Roth 401(k), similar to a Roth IRA, you invest money that’s already been taxed. Then, when you retire and withdraw funds that money is not taxed. If you’re beginning your career, you’re probably in a lower tax bracket than you will be at retirement. So it might pay to suck it up and take the tax hit now, freeing you from headaches later. On the other hand, if you think your income will decline at retirement age, a regular 401(k) may make sense. If you can afford it, contribute to both...

Job Guru on June 10, 2010 0

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Firms Invest Big in Career Sites

Job Insider: Despite the cost-cutting and layoffs of the past two years, many companies have continued to beef up their career-opportunity websites in an attempt to keep their brands fresh in the eyes of younger would-be employees and to be ahead of the pack in attracting talent when hiring picks up. Some companies are investing in improving their online career portals, making their sites easier to use, adding more detailed company and job information and incorporating more social media. Job postings and text descriptions of corporate culture have been supplemented with YouTube videos and blogs from emp...

Job Guru on June 7, 2010 1

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5 High-Paying, Low-Stress Jobs

Job Insider: If you're like thousands of other job seekers, you may dream of earning the big bucks without having to deal with the extreme stress that goes hand-in-hand with top-paying jobs. Of course, a high-salary, low-stress job sounds too good to be true. Or is it? Believe it or not, you don't have to take on a heart-pounding career as a brain surgeon, airline pilot or stock broker to bring home some serious bacon. As a matter of fact, some of the highest-stress jobs pay surprisingly scanty salaries. Just think about police officers, firefighters and social workers. These folks have quite possibly t...

Job Guru on May 13, 2010 1

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9 Tax Free Employee Benefits

Job Insider: There is a constant power struggle between employers (wanting the best bang for their employee-related expenditures) and employees (wanting the best remuneration possible for their blood, sweat and tears). And in lean economic times as these, the gravity of this push-pull battle between employees and employers is multiplied. If this trend continues, we will have more jaded employees and less loyal employers. But all is not lost. There are many benefits employers can provide to rekindle employee morale, ensure loyalty, and increase productivity. And do it without increasing the employee's t...

Job Guru on May 11, 2010 7

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Is Hiring a Resume Writer for You?

Job Insider: Are you ready to write your next resume only to realize that you’re really not that ready? It may be that you’re not sure what to add to the resume. Or it could be that you’re now sure how to pull together all of the information that you do have in a way that shows you’re the right person for the job. If you find yourself struggling to get your resume together, you may want to consider looking for outside help. For many, this outside help comes in the form of a resume writer. But is this the right choice for you? The Benefits of a Resume Writer There are a num...

Job Expert on May 10, 2010 0

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Is Working From Home An Ideal Solution?

Job Insider: The phrase “working from home” has been popularised over the last few years as more and more people look for an alternative to sitting in hours of endless traffic whilst getting to and from work. It’s a great argument and it certainly has its merits, but is it really that simple, is working from home really the ideal solution? Ever since MLM burst onto the scene some fifty years ago, and now with the more modern online marketing companies, the lure of getting up on a winters morning and de-icing the car is becoming less and less attractive to us all. We all know people who spend around t...

Job Expert on May 10, 2010 0

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Careers for the Next Decade

Job Insider: U.S. companies, saddled with increasingly onerous costs of employing people, are downsizing, cutting employees' hours, hiring temps, automating jobs and sending work offshore. Meanwhile, technology is redefining existing jobs and demanding new skills from an aging workforce, and new competition for jobs looms in the form of 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants likely to get legalized in the years ahead. Perhaps most potent, the U.S. is experiencing the largest transfer of gross domestic product from the private sector to the government sector in history -- and shifting jobs along with it. In...

Job Guru on May 6, 2010 1

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Medical Assistants are in Great Demand

Job Insider: While most industries face cutbacks and layoffs as a result of the current economic climate, there is one career that is projected to grow steadily in the future: Medical Assistants. Experts predict that medical assistant jobs will grow as much as 35% by 2016, due mostly to the aging of the population and major advances in medical technology. The field of medical assisting offers many options and medical assistants can tailor their careers to their lifestyle. Medical assistants can be part-time, full-time, even work only evenings and weekends. Working conditions and benefits tend to be e...

Job Guru on May 4, 2010 1

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The Best Places for Business and Careers

Job Insider: Cities like Des Moines, Iowa; Provo, Utah; and Fort Collins, Colo.; lead our 12th annual list of areas with the most economic opportunity. The Great Recession ravaged almost every big city across the United States in 2009. Home prices were down in 182 of the 200 largest metro areas, while household incomes fell in 94% of these areas. The employment picture was even tougher: only four areas posted positive job growth with a paltry gain of just 4,300 positions created--combined. The other 196 metros together lost 3.5 million jobs last year. See full list below The wors...

Job Guru on May 4, 2010 0

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10 Jobs With High Return On Investments

Job Insider: A college degree was once a kind of insurance against high tides of unemployment, but this downturn took plenty of white collar, degree-necessary jobs with it. What's more, it's no longer a given that an advanced degree will launch you into the upper echelon of earners. Consider that a student could invest in a master's degree in anthropology, reasonably expecting to make the median wage for an anthropologist, about $54,000. The middle 50 percent of anthropologists and archeologists earn between $39,200 and $70,980, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Another student could invest i...

Job Guru on May 3, 2010 0

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What's a Degree Really Worth?

Job Insider: A college education may not be worth as much as you think. For years, higher education was touted as a safe path to professional and financial success. Easy money, in the form of student loans, flowed to help parents and students finance degrees, with the implication that in the long run, a bachelor's degree was a good bet. Graduates, it has long been argued, would be able to build solid careers that would earn them far more than their high-school educated counterparts. The numbers appeared to back it up. In recent years, the nonprofit College Board touted the difference in lifetime earn...

Job Guru on April 29, 2010 1

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America's Deadliest Jobs

Job Insider: You may have read news reports saying that America's Main Streeters want revenge on Wall Street for the financial meltdown and recession and mortgage foreclosures and lost life savings. That hardly makes fields like finance and insurance hazardous to be in, though. You're much, much likelier to get killed in other lines of work. Recently released Department of Labor data show that fishermen (and fisherwomen) and other workers in fishing-related professions were the most likely to die on the job in 2008. Of 39,000 fishing workers in the nation, 50 were killed, a rate of 128.9 per 100,000 ful...

Job Guru on April 28, 2010 0

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Yearly Salary Of A Dental Assistant

Job Insider: Dental assistants help dentists during and before procedures by sanitizing and laying down the appliances and handing them over to the doctor during treatments. They keep the patient's mouth clean through suctioning and also update the records in the database, as part of their job. Assistants also help teach oral health care and give directives for care after and before oral surgery. They create casts of mouth and teeth for dentures and are also liable for ordering supplies. Dental assistants also carry out receptionist duties, like recording the treatment, billing, and information on the pati...

Job Expert on April 23, 2010 0

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How To Survive The Recession?

Job Insider: Like many others around the globe I am trying to establish my own financial future by taking charge and controlling my own destiny. I am an entrepreneur, I have been for many years now and can honestly say that all of the money I have earned and the assets I have aquired have all been through my own efforts and NOT by working for other people or companies for a wage or salary. I have a massive sense of pride that I have achieved this, my family are reasonably well off and I don’t have to work. I have achieved my success in business, small business to be sure but lucrative all the same. Rober...

Job Expert on April 23, 2010 0

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Why Do People Leave Their Job?

Job Insider: Experience- Based Retention - Is it because of money? - Benefits? - The fact they believe there are no real opportunities for them at the company? While many might argue about which of the above has more impact on whether or not a person decides to jump ship, attempting to identify the main overall culprit is probably the least productive approach to increasing retention. Why? Because while studies may show that one factor carries more weight than another, those same studies also show that all of the factors have the ability to influence people to some degree. So that ...

Job Expert on April 9, 2010 0

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Even in a Recovery, Some Jobs Won't Return

Job Insider: Even when the U.S. labor market finally starts adding more workers than it loses, many of the unemployed will find that the types of jobs they once had simply don't exist anymore. ...

Job Guru on January 12, 2010 0

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