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Get Your Commercial Driver’s License and Start Driving Trucks For a Living

To get a trucking job, you must first make sure that you get your commercial driver’s license - or CDL. In most instances, you need to be 18 years of age and under federal law you need to be 21 years of age to drive across state lines or transport hazardous materials. You must pass [...]

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True or False: Teaching ESL Abroad is the Job For You?

Look before you leap - Know yourself, and what you want in a job teaching English as a second language, before jumping into a position abroad. Enlist the help of your friends, family, or anyone you trust, who will help you answer the questions below as completely and candidly as possible. There are no right [...]

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Cooking Careers 101 - How to Become a Hotel Chef

Hotel jobs are very stressful and can be extremely tiring as you will work long days preparing and making food for guests as well as catering for functions that the hotel might be hosting like a wedding, party or corporate event. Qualified chefs are in short supply leaving many jobs unfilled longer than hotels would [...]

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Job Seeker Dilemma: Overcoming the HR Black Hole

I’m not sure there is anything more frustrating to today’s job search process than companies that post online for open positions, insist that candidates contact them only via online forms, and warn against trying any other means of applying for the position. Obedient job seekers then follow all the requirements, sit dutifully by and wait, [...]

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Resume Writing - Can Software Make a Difference?

It’s a dog pile of bad news - plants closing, banks foreclosing, thousands more out of work just today. If you’re somewhere in the middle of that pile, you already know that “recession” has a human face. Maybe you’ve got a resume, but it’s getting you nowhere. Or maybe you haven’t yet started to work [...]

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Resumes Are Not About You

I’ve written several blogs and online articles now on this subject because I believe that a disservice has been done to most job seekers, and to career changers, in particular. Somewhere along the way, job seekers have been loaded down with overwhelming advice about how to spiff up their resumes, to create that “wow” factor [...]

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Wine Jobs Primer - Get Your Viticulture or Enology Degree

Landing a job in the wine industry often times starts with a wine education. Before you get too excited, a wine education does not mean a wine tasting (although it would nice if they did). Many careers in the wine industry require Bachelor’s degrees, associate degrees, or even a certificate of wine knowledge. Further, the [...]

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Getting a Job in Times of Recession

You can’t open a newspaper or switch on the news at the moment without hearing about the economic downturn that the whole of the western world is suffering from. Hardly any sectors are immune, and many companies are making redundancies in order to stay afloat. The worst part of this is that companies often slow [...]

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