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We know waiting is hard. Sometimes sending out a resume is like dropping it down a black hole. It’s swallowed up and you never know what happened. But it’s worse if you’ve interviewed and you’re waiting for someone to reach out to you. Should you call the hiring manager or send them an email? Are there valid reasons why you may not have heard back yet? We have answers that can help ease the waiting and keep you moving forward in your job search.

Reason 1: The Coordination is Taking Time If you’re working with a recruiter or a hiring manager, it takes time to collate all the opinions of interviewers. If you interviewed with a panel of...

You made it. Graduates this year will face an interesting job market where salaries are increasing and your skills may be high in demand thanks to record-breaking resignations and a labor shortage stretching across every industry. It’s different if you would enter the job market in a recession; today the question is whether you should take the first job being offered.

This blog will look at the market you’re stepping into and some career path considerations if you are a recent college graduate.

2022 Job Market for Recent College Graduates

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Here’s what that college recruiter didn’t tell you when you signed up for your freshman year: Finding a job after college is pretty challenging. There is often massive competition even in the kind of candidate-driven market we have today. Imagine a flood of new college graduates competing for the same kinds of jobs. All of you have very little practical experience beyond an internship or two. How can you stand out to employers post-graduation?

Brand Yourself Step one is to brand yourself online as an up-and-coming professional person. Consider setting up a web page with your domain name (yourname.com). There, you can add your picture, your resume, and even testimonials from your teachers or the bosses at your internships. Add a page for your volunteer work complete with pictures. Did you serve on a committee at school? Do you have a portfolio? Then link that web...

In today’s job market, candidates have much of the power. That power allows you to accept or decline the job offer often based on other competing positions that have also said “Yes” to your candidacy. For these reasons, it’s a great time to be on the job market.

However, now you have a decision to make and that can be hard. It’s also hard to know how to decline or accept an offer so that you come across as professional. You can be enthusiastic in your “Yes!” but you don’t want to cross any lines and come across as too eager. You can also worry that you’ll disappoint the recruiter you worked with (who was so nice) when you turn down their job offer.

This blog, though, will help you approach accepting or declining a job offer in a way that presents you as highly professional and smart. Here are some best practices to consider.

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Searching for a job is stressful. It’s the great unknown. Not only do you have to find a job but even with a careful interview process, you may be left wondering if you’ll like it. Will you fit the culture? Are you sure your boss will be nice? If you’re not careful, getting the job may open the door to a host of worries about whether you’ve taken the right position. Here are some things you can research even before the job interview to help you land the work but also know that you’re creating the perfect match.

Do Your Research

Research the company well before you even go into the interview. This will help you prepare for talking to the hiring manager but also help you begin to evaluate if you even want this position. Some of the things you can find online include:

It’s the Great Resignation and the temptation to quit your job is probably high right now. In January, 2022, almost 4.3 million people quit their jobs. There were also more than 11 million job openings. Employers have raised their pay and the demand for workers in every industry remains high. You’ve read these numbers and know you’re unhappy in your current job. But is it the right time to quit? Ask yourself these questions before you turn in your notice.

With this job market to back you up, you’ve probably fantasized about quitting for months. We don’t blame you a bit; sometimes the work environment is so bad that your only option is to give up. But not so fast. Turning in your resignation now may be emotionally satisfying—we get it. However, we encourage a careful, less emotional, and more logical approach before...

With 10 million open jobs today , you should realize that your employees have options. Every employee probably knows it, too, which means that they are a potential flight risk. Who can blame them; we are in the midst of the Great Resignation, and employers are paying signing bonuses, higher salaries, and improving their benefits to attract talent from anywhere they can find it—including from your company.

How can you retain your top talent in this environment? We have some tips that you can put right to work to retain your best staff.

Employee retention 101 starts with a review of what matters to today’s job candidates. If a person seeking a job at your company is looking for this attribute, the chances are high that so are your current employees. We’re talking about: