Career Ramblings

A couple of days ago we were asked for our first resume review. This is good news considering we have only been running this site for about 3 days when we received the request. Although we have not officially launched our resume and cover letter “extreme makeovers”, we are more than happy to [...]

You have the offer…now what? Negotiating is an art, an art that can be uncomfortable, unsatisfying, and down right scary if you don’t have experience doing it. It’s scary because you don’t want to come off pushy, but at the same time, you don’t want to get low balled. What you are looking for is [...]

FIRST STEPS- I recommend that you begin your market research efforts with these initial steps:
Review the Rankings- Find out the company’s ratings. Do a little web research (Google, CNNmoney); buy yourself the Wall Street Journal, or if you’re in Southern California, the LA Business Journal; is the company filing for bankruptcy? Find out as much [...]

Although some of you have probably been shopping Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s also a good time to start updating your resumes and cover letters for summer internships or post-grad jobs. The earlier you start the better so take the next month and get the resumes looking as good as possible to make yourself [...]

Large consumer-products companies wouldn’t think about introducing a new product to a market without first doing extensive research about customer’s preferences and demographic profile. Likewise, as a professional, you need to gather as much information as possible about the companies that intrigue you before you develop your resume, cover letter, application packet and especially before [...]