One third of job seekers said they won’t take part because they don’t want it to impact their job search October is a month dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness and women’s health issues, but November is dedicated to the guys.
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Category: Author: Julie Shenkman
How Dressing Up for Halloween Can Actually Help You in Your Career
While dressing up for Halloween might seem unprofessional, it might actually help propel you forward in your career. Sounds crazy? Or makes perfect sense. When employers make hires they not only need someone that can perform the duty of the
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Change Your Career Course and Discover New Lands!
A career change can be very scary. Especially if you’ve only ever worked in one industry your entire professional career; and maybe even within just one organization. Maybe you are actually great at what you are doing right now but
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Top 5 Soft Skills Employers Look For
While employers and hiring managers typically use a job seeker’s technical skills to narrow down the candidate pool, it’s the job seeker’s soft skills that will most likely land them the job. The interview process is the time when a
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What skills matter most to recruiters? [INFOGRAPHIC]
So what are recruiters looking for, hard skills or soft skills? And are recruiters finding candidates with the skills they need
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How to Get Your Soft Skills to Shine Through on Your Resume
When we hire employees at Nexxt we employ a philosophy that has yet to steer us wrong. The philosophy is easy—the skills can be taught, but you can’t teach fit. With that idea in mind we decided to survey both
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Career Advice from One of This Year’s Emmy Winners: “Find that passion..it’s really worth it.”
It’s true that not many people make it in show business, but when they do, they like to talk about it and share advice on how to get there. Some of them claim that they’re simply lucky and it was
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Top Ten Places to Find a Job Q2 2014
So you’re in the market for a new job, but you don’t know where to look? Start here with the top ten places to find a job.
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Job Seeker Dilemma: What If You Have to Cancel a Job Interview?
There was recently a story in the news about a woman who left her children in the car while she went on a job interview. Shanesha Taylor, the mother of two, faced a dreaded decision that many job seekers are
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Being Let Go from a Job Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Talented
This week the list of Saturday Night Live Cast Members that will not be returning next season was released. While not every cast member at SNL will go on to have careers like Tina Fey or Jimmy Fallon there are
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