Archive for the 'Careers' Category

  • Is Your Next Career A Non Profit Job or Contract?

    The non profit job sector is larger than most college graduate job seekers may be aware. People think of “non profit” and automatically think “no money” or “volunteer work” which is true in many smaller non profits of those using lots of volunteer labor. As a result, it’s easy to forget that many nonprofit careers [...]

  • The Color Career Test is Pretty Cool

    I’ve got a ton of experience in the Career Development field. I’ve seen my share of “Career Assessments” and most of them leave me with a sense of dread if I’m asked to take one. You know the questions… “Do you like having your teeth pulled without anaesthesia?” (Wait, that’s not an actual question, that’s [...]

  • 10 High Paying Work From Home Jobs

    Here’s 10 High Paying Work From Home Jobs as seen on Careerbuilder. My only disagreement might be “Financial Planner”… most of the ones I know meet people in an office that’s plush and “bank like” to make the customer feel like their money is being handled well even if that doesn’t happen at banks! But [...]

  • How Many “Dropout Factories” Does Your State Have?

    This is from Associated Press. It’s a graphic that tells what percentage of high schools in a given state are “dropout factories”, schools were 60% of the freshman class don’t make it to their senior year. The worst state is South Carolina with 96 out of 185 High Schools being a “drop out factory”. Oregon [...]

  • Update: Creating Automated Job Search Engines or Job Engines

    I have been letting this lens sit around too long in an incomplete fashion. Given the junk you find on Squidoo, by comparison people (or their algorithm!) thought it was complete! Oh well. At least now it’s in better shape. You could apply it to working at home by tweaking the rss feeds you use, [...]