Career Development News
May 10, 2012 How to Write a Resume When You're Just Out of College- The University of South Florida junior felt like she had nothing to put on her resume. She had only held down one job, for three years, working part-time at a K-Mart while she was in school. What employer would hire her based on that bottom-rung...
May 01, 2012 The Brand YOU: Your Bio- Personal branding is about promoting what makes you unique and what allows you to stand out from the crowd. A major piece of branding is creating your professional "bio" or biography. That bio is, after all, a specific place to capture your...
April 17, 2012 Business Etiquette: 5 Rules that Matter Now- The word "etiquette" gets a bad rap. For one thing, it sounds stodgy and
pretentious. And rules that are socially or morally prescribed seem
intrusive to our sense of individuality and freedom.
April 17, 2012 The Best Accounting Firms to Work for- To celebrate Tax Day today, Vault.com, an online careers site, is unveiling its annual ranking of the best accounting firms to work for in the U.S. This year, Ernst & Young is at the top of the heap.
"The rankings and survey give you an inside...
April 17, 2012 Pay Gap Persists in Female-Dominated Career Fields- Tuesday marked Equal Pay Day, a day established in 1996 to symbolize how long it takes women to earn the same wages that men earned last year. However, a new study shows that the concept the day was founded on hasn't yet caught on, even in fields...
April 10, 2012 Business exclusive: Uptick In Temp Jobs Good Indicator Of Hiring Rebound- As everyone looks for job growth, the temporary staffing industry is a good place to begin.
March 19, 2012 Spring Clean Your Career: Online And Offline Quick-fixes- Ahh, springtime. Time to open the windows, rid your house of dust-bunnies and to give your professional paperwork an overhaul.
March 19, 2012 10 Steps to Getting More Done In Your Day- Every day, your to-do list seems to grow. And in this business climate of information overload and constant interruptions, it has become increasingly difficult for small business owners to get anything accomplished. Not to mention, instead of...
March 15, 2012 Ace Your Next Phone Interview- In today’s job market a phone interview is often the first step to
landing a face-to-face interview. Yet most job seekers dread phone
interviews. The lack of facial cues and body language tends to unnerve
interviewees. If you agree, the...
March 07, 2012 Accounting Changing, but Future Looks Bright- With more American companies needing big-picture financial advice, the future looks bright for accounting professionals.
March 02, 2012 COSO Explores Common Judgment Traps, Lays Out Five-step Decision-making Process - Many faulty business decisions can be traced to “confirmation bias” that leads people to unwittingly seek information that bolsters what they want to believe, says Brigham Young University accounting professor Doug Prawitt.
“We...
March 01, 2012 5 Things Women Should Never Say When Negotiating- Call me naive, but I find it shocking that in the 21st century, women still make less than men. The facts are sobering: The average woman makes about 77 percent of a man's salary in the same position. Asking for what you want—and...
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