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Inside CareerBuilder.com

Filed under: General, Jobs, Career coaching, CareerBuilders, Career change — Dr. Steve at 6:37 pm on Friday, August 11, 2006

CareerBuilder.com [link] (also found through the URL careerbuilders.com—with an “s”) claims to have more job postings than any other site. That’s a pretty big claim and hard to validate especially since there are one-stop job search sites such as Indeed.com that I discussed in the last post.

Regardless, careerbuilders.com is rich in resources and can be very helpful if you know how to use it. So in this post, I’ll give you some valuable time-saving tips. . . .

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Midlife career change help

Filed under: General, Jobs, Career coaching, Middlescence, CareerBuilders, Career change — Dr. Steve at 8:16 pm on Thursday, August 3, 2006

(Continued from previous post.)

You’re working hard in your current job and, at the same time, trying to plan your future. Maybe you’re thinking about a potential career change. Or maybe you have “layoff aversion” and would be comforted by having a sense of what the future might bring in your current occupation.

As I noted in the last post, regardless of where you are in your career or what experience and skills you have, there are market forces at work in the job arena that are beyond your control. And whether or not you’ve experienced a layoff yourself, we all know it’s not the most pleasant of experiences.

Your best insurance against the effects of market forces and/or a layoff is to be proactive in designing your future, rather than just waiting for it to show up.

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