Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn were originally meant to serve as places where people could meet, become friends and share their interests and aspirations, but in more recent years they have become places to find out where the jobs are and how to obtain them—and LinkedIn is particularly useful for that purpose. Social media, in short, has become a new way for job…

The number one purpose of a resume is to enumerate the skills of a job candidate for the person who might wish to hire him or her. If it does not serve that end, it fails completely as a resume. And one of the most valuable skills that a candidate can offer an employer is language…

Resume Distribution Services exist to get your job application into the hands of as many employers as possible, but what do they do? How effective are they?

The prospect sounds promising to anyone looking for a job, especially in an economy where they are hard to find. The fact is that there are more job seekers than jobs available and the result is…

Job interviews are usually associated with the long tense wait in a queue, especially if there are several interviewees. On entering the boardroom there are the panelist, who by taking one look, one can easily forget all the interview tips mastered for this special day. This is a scenario that does not exist in a lunch interview which by the way most people…

A business analyst is somebody who examines and analyzes the way a business or an organization is set up or should ideally be set up. A more formal definition —that of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Chartered Institute for IT is paraphrased here— would be “an internal consultant who investigates business systems, looks for ways to improve them and uses IT…