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It's hard to resist a job offer like this: Help the environment by joining the cleanup efforts of the BP oil spill and make $40 an hour, plus transportation, room and board. That's exactly what was promised by a couple of businessmen in mid-June to nearly 500 members of a the Yakama Nation tribe in Toppenish, Wash., some of whom quit their jobs in anticipation of a four-day bus ride to the Gulf. Unfortunately, the bus never came, and now tribe officials and consumer advocates in the state suspect the whole venture may have been a scam. "These are vulnerability pitches," said Zan Derry, lead investigator with the Better Business Bureau's Eastern Washington, North Idaho & Montana division. The BP....
Author : Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC.com contributor
Publ.Date : 7/26/2010 12:32:02 PM
Your résumé is spit shined, polished, lightly buffed and glistening in all its glory. You've run it through key word tests, tailored it to specific employers, focused on results you've achieved, and even printed it on coffee-scented paper stock (one can never be too prepared, right?). But when it comes to that darn objective, you're never sure what to write. Will you sound too generic? If you get too creative, will it turn the employer off? Yet the truth is that objectives -- at least in the traditional sense -- are dead. Ready to take its well-worn place is something far more important -- a stark assessment of who you are through the eyes of your potential employer. Maybe your past experience is....
Author : Nels Wroe, SLH Group
Publ.Date : 7/8/2010 6:28:21 PM
Does your application secretly have the words "overqualified," "desperate" and "likely to be bored stiff within a month" written all over it? If you are aiming too low in your job search, chances are employers will read between the lines and notice -- and move on to someone else. According to Duncan Mathison, co-author of "Unlock the Hidden Job Market: Six Steps to a Successful Search When Times Are Tough," there are two primary reasons why people aim low: 1. They want to increase the number of opportunities. (There are more lower-level positions available than higher-level ones.) 2. They think it will raise their odds of being hired. (They believe they will appear more qualified compared to ot....
Author : Beth Braccio Hering, CareerBuilder Writer
Publ.Date : 7/6/2010 6:10:11 PM
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