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North Carolina Program Proves That There Is Hope for the Long-Term Unemployed

October 21, 2014 /

Miranda Hairston is the marketing director for K&P Consulting in Charlotte, North Carolina. She’s been in the position since January of 2014, but for a long time she was afraid that she might never find another job, having fallen victim to budget cuts that eliminated her job with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system. She had no…

6 Out-of-the-Box Job Search Ideas That Worked

October 14, 2014 /

I am constantly striving to educate my clients—and the general job seeking public—that sitting at home scrolling through the job boards all day is NOT the way to find a job. I’ve published many articles on hidden job market strategies, and over the past week, I have been taking a microscopic look at individual job…

How One Woman Found Full-Time Work by Staying at Home

October 9, 2014 /

People work for all manner of different reasons. Usually, of course, the primary motivator is the need for money. Fulfillment, however, is also a huge factor; and ideally, the two will go together. For Huffington Post blogger Stephanie Giese, however, it didn’t quite work out that way to begin with. Stephanie lives in central Pennsylvania,…

How One Man Found a Job Without Applying at All

October 7, 2014 /

Chances are you’ve never heard of Ernie Miller. He’s just a guy who found a job he really loves. What makes him interesting, though, is the way he found it. He didn’t go through the usual channels. He didn’t pound the streets carrying resumes, didn’t network, didn’t search the job boards. He found a job…

Bright Outlook for Technology Jobs

October 2, 2014 /

If you think there’s no good news on the job front, think again; the Bureau of Labor is forecasting a strong outlook for jobs in computer science, with growth estimated to increase roughly 15% in the ten-year period between 2012 and 2022. It’s even better if you’re a software developer; growth over the same period…

Top 25 Uplifting and Inspiring Career Quotes

September 25, 2014 /

This month I’ve been focusing my writing efforts on providing encouraging content to job seekers—writing about topics that inspire and encourage so you can stay positive in what could otherwise be a daunting and overwhelming place. Today I wanted to share some of my favorite inspirational quotes. I think many of them could apply to…