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Right now, even the best and brightest are being ejected from promising jobs. But it is still possible to find another. Here are lessons from six determined people.
Right now, even the best and brightest are being ejected from promising jobs. But it is still possible to find another. Here are lessons from six determined people.
Whether you are looking for a job, trying to generate new business, researching competitors, or simply establishing connections, LinkedIn can help.
Here are the top 10 ways to discover the site’s hidden features and make the most of its more obvious ones, with tips from job consultants David Gowel and Patrick O’Malley.
A group of chief executives from some of the biggest companies in Massachusetts has been meeting privately with state political leaders on ways to spur job development, a coordinated high-level business effort reminiscent of Boston’s Vault organization that weighed in on public affairs decades ago.
In these times of staffing shortages and higher acuity patients, we are constantly forced to do more with less. Quite often, time is the resource we seem to need the most. (2/17/09)
After nearly a year without work, Gary LaPlante was happy to take a three-week construction job. What he didn’t know was that the job would cost him more than two-thirds of his benefits when he went back on unemployment.
Chances are you’ve seen one of these “film set” signs around greater Boston in the last couple of years. Recent tax credits for the film industry and Boston’s unique charm are making the Bay State a hotbed for movie production.
What is an internship? An internship is an opportunity for supervised practical experience in a career field of interest. Internships can be part-time or full-time, paid or unpaid, and are offered by a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Internships are always temporary.
Liberty Mutual Group, one of Boston’s oldest corporate titans, will expand its operations in the Back Bay with a $300 million office tower and 600 additional employees, a sharp reversal of the city’s recent history of losing the headquarters of large employers that once dominated its landscape.
When economic hard times hit, it’s crucial to stay on top of your career. One way to help you upgrade and fine tune your on-thejob- skills is through a graduate certificate program.
Q. I can’t tell you how long it has taken for me to start getting interviews, but I have been doing the exhausting work of getting a great resume, networking, researching, making calls, using job boards, everything you are supposed to do to get a job. I finally got an interview, and I thought I was ready to answer anything. …