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Self confidence is a critical component to an effective job search. Confidence empowers us and gives faith in the ability to quell feelings of self-doubt – particularly important when you are trying to gain employment. How you feel about yourself is projected during the interview process and plays a major part in success or failure [...]
People like to do business with their friends and connections. When searching for a job, who better to network with than people who can vouch for your character. Good friends are worth their weight in gold. Why? They will praise you; they will tout your positive attributes; they will pump you up; they will SELL [...]
You have completed four years of college, taken all of the finance and economics classes you can stand and gained some practical work experience within the finance industry in the hopes of working for a boutique or well known bulge bracket firm. So, what can you really expect? Here is some information to help you [...]
Negotiating is an art, no doubt. Done correctly it will lead to victory. Done poorly it could lead to failure. When it comes to negotiating salary and other benefits in the workplace, nothing makes people more uncomfortable. He who talks money first loses as they say. Why? Well, it’s because the minute you reference your [...]
Probably one of the toughest tasks any employment seeker has to take on is the process of finding a job. This is because active searching requires just as much time and effort as actually working a 9 to 5.
But just because a job search is not served up with much glitz and glamour doesn’t mean [...]
Being fired from a job is not pretty – especially if you have a stellar work ethic. But sometimes it happens to the best of us. We may have been matched with a difficult co-worker or manager, or maybe just caught up in extenuating circumstances that resulted in our release.
Unfortunately, no matter why we were [...]
So you’ve recently been let go from your company and are receiving unemployment benefits when an amazing thing happens – you get a job offer. But it’s not the offer you were hoping for. While it will definitely pay the bills, it will result in you taking less than 50-percent of what you were making.
What [...]
With over 500,000 people losing their jobs in the month of November 2008, and over 10 million unemployed in the United States to date, the thought of acquiring a job can almost seem hopeless. But it’s not. Companies are still hiring, jobs are still available, and you can have one – as long as you [...]
Whether you’re looking for a new job or trying to make financial gains at the one you’re at, you may find that at some point you’ll need to make a salary negotiation. But how can you do it if you never have before?
It’s not as difficult as you may think. In fact, in many ways [...]
When searching for employment, you will find that most employers will at some point ask you to provide a list of your references. This may seem like a simple request to fulfill, but it actuality, choosing references is something that should be done with care. So before you throw your own list out there to [...]