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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...

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Seven Ways to Be Happier at Work

Best Companies: Let's face it: Many employers' efforts to inject fun into the workplace are feeble. Serve birthday cake. Allow workers to throw Frisbees. Keep the break room fridge stocked with soda. Although the following ideas may not turn your workplace into a barrel of laughs, they're more likely than the company picnic to make your worklife more pleasant. Telecommute. Sometimes a good way to find happiness is to just stay home. Would you enjoy playing tennis with friends during the day? Rolling on the floor with Fido? Watching daytime soaps or CNBC's stock ticker? Who cares as long...

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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Online Job Search

Career Advice: If you're tired of working at that same old job, but still interested in staying in the same line of work, you can jump start your job search and go directly to applicable resources in your field of interest. Or, if you're looking for a new line of work, you'll find wide variety web sites which focus on a particular industry or career field. Start by searching the major jobs databases utilizing keywords which describe your preferred occupation, then move quickly to resources which target your specific interests. Start with the Search Engines Use the job...

Job Guru on January 14, 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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How to Ensure Employers Can Find You

Career Advice: When you're conducting a job search, you need to make it easy for employers to find you online. Employers, who can be inundated with resumes when they post jobs, often seek passive candidates (qualified candidates who aren't necessarily looking for work, but who may be interested if the right job comes along). Anyone who doesn't want to pass up what could be an excellent opportunity should make their professional credentials readily accessible online. How Employers Can Find You Candidate Sourcing In addition to reviewing resumes posted to their compan...

JobActs on December 16, 2009 1

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Use Your LinkedIn Profile as a Resume

Money Saver: I recently asked a question on LinkedIn about online recruiting and the best strategies hiring managers and recruiters use to find candidates. Granted, I was asking a captive audience, but every respondent suggested that LinkedIn was an excellent tool for finding candidates, and, a good resource for finding jobs, as well. The Importance of Your LinkedIn Profile One of the most important parts of LinkedIn is your profile. That's what you use to connect with people in your network and your profile is how you get found on LinkedIn by potential employers. In addition, your L...

Job Guru on December 16, 2009 0

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Movement On Your Resume

Career Advice: I would have to say one of the biggest problems that job candidates have today is movement on their resume. Regardless to what skills you possess, or the fact that you passed your CPA exam at the first sitting, clients want to see stability on a resume. They want to make sure if they invest in you that you are going to stay with them and not split for the next passing ship. Whenever we submit a candidate who has been with a company for a short period of time or with a series of companies for a short period of time, we always have to explain the movement in detail and “justify” why our...

Job Guru on December 16, 2009 0

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