Tag Archives: new job stress
The Ultimate Guide To Background Checks
If you’re applying for a job after graduation or thinking of switching careers, a potential employer may request a background check during the hiring process. A background check should ensure that the information you provided on the employer’s application is … Continue reading
Coping With job-search frustration: Maintain your sanity! — a Guest Post
There’s nothing like the job search process. Rigorous, tedious and demanding incessant effort, you can easily become extremely frustrated while chasing employers and maintaining an optimum level of efficiency. It happens quite frequently that you send out a zillion job … Continue reading
Age discrimination getting to you? Try these job hunting tips
Being a 50-plus worker today is tough. Being a 50-plus job hunter is even tougher. How do you get your foot in the door, much less get seriously considered for a position, in this environment? Continue reading
Unpaid Intern: maybe not as free as companies once hoped
Workers’ rights, such things as health insurance, retirement accounts, paid time off, are fading into the past in today’s difficult job market. So I was happy to see at least one corporate attempt to get something for nothing threatened recently. Continue reading
How do actors go job hunting?
First, it assumes you come prepared, no matter what the requirements set out before hand. Continue reading
How Do You Go Back to Work After a Major Health Problem?
A week was enough time to recover physically, my surgeon assured me. What about emotionally? That isn’t his department, it;s something I, or you, have to address after such a traumatic event. Continue reading
Can You Find a New Job After Taking a Buyout?
A reader took a corporate buyout, thinking he would be able to find a new position in a different city. It didn’t work out that way, read some of the lessons he learned and how he’s adapted. Continue reading
The Budget Challenge Once You Have a New Job
The lesson for others: getting a job is a battle. As a manager, functioning in a new job also is a battle. Continue reading
How Stressful Can a New Job Be?
I started a new job, and a new career, in mid-February and for the first few months spent time trying to learn a mountain of new procedures, forms and jargon. I was managing a veteran team of three who, more … Continue reading