3 weeks ago Being a newspaper reporter is the worst job to have in America. That's the word from Careercast.com which looked at five factors to compile a list of the ten worst jobs to have in 2013.
February 22, 2013 During my fathers generation an Associates Degree made you very employable. In my day you needed at least a Bachelors Degree and now for my son, he'd better consider a Masters Degree or better to put his resume on the top of the pile.
Summer internships on Wall Street can be difficult to snag, especially if you aren't related to one of the firm's senior executives.
But as an unnamed college student has proved, the really honest approach to job seeking can also work. His cover letter, in which he admits he has "no unbelievably special skills or genius eccentricities" and says he "no qualms about fetching coffee, shining shoes or picking up laundry," was immediately passed around the boutique investment bank he had applied, where it was praised as an instant classic.
May 4, 2012 Utica has been a bustling hub of commerce for over 150 years. We've seen businesses come and go over the years. The area has remade itself first as a halfway stop on the Erie Canal then textile and manufacturing. No
If you have a desk job, nodding off at your keyboard could get you a lousy performance review. But if you’re a transportation worker, on-the-job grogginess could actually put people’s lives at risk.
At some point you’ve probably held a job that turned out to be unpleasantly different than you thought. As it turns out, though, the warning signs of what positions really entail might actually be right in the job postings.
The Occupy Wall Street crowd may have derided the so-called “one percent,” but someone is so proud to be in those upper ranks that he showed his disdain for the rest of us by tipping a restaurant server exactly — yes — one percent on a tab, and including a nasty note to boot.
In this economy, people are lucky just to have a job.
Which is perhaps why the majority of Americans would pick job security over higher pay, if given the choice.
The second annual Simply Hired Job Seeker Survey reveals that when it comes to our jobs, some things truly are more important than money.
October 19, 2011 There are some jobs every country has, such as a cook, a farmer and a shopkeeper. Then, there are some jobs that are unique to specific cultures. The Chinese happen to have a bunch of seriously weird jobs. So if you’re looking for some new work, these jobs might be for you!
September 28, 2011 With unemployment hovering around nine percent, there are plenty of able-bodied people out there on the sideline, looking for work. Some might settle for terrible jobs, but honestly are these jobs that bad?
September 22, 2011 Have you ever sat there and daydreamed about a dream job? Maybe you wanted to be an astronaut, or maybe a movie star. Sometimes these “dream jobs” aren’t as good as our fantasies.
