As a Recruiter and Career Tips Blogger, I am often asked to give advice about resumes and cover letters.  A reader recently asked me if cover letters are still needed.  She explained to me that a recruiter she was working with told her that cover letters were not important and not to include it during the resume submittable process. Let me say this, Cover letters are still VERY important.  When I emailed...

Christmas is less than 40 days away.  Have you decided what to get your clients yet for gifts?  This year I have decided to give prepaid credit cards as holiday gifts to my top clients and business partners.  Every year I struggle with coming up with the perfect gift and I always fall short.  This year I think I discovered a great solution.  Who wouldn’t want a prepaid card to buy anything they wanted,...

Even in poor economic times, making a career change is possible with the right preparation and dedication. After all, who wants to be stuck in a job with little chance or advancement or that just doesn’t make you happy at the end of the day? For many, a career change can be a risk well worth taking. Here are some tips to help make the transition a little easier for those hoping to go in a new career direction....

In the last post I mentioned that focusing on activity is a great tactic to help you get through these rough times.  The second tip is: Do not complain- I understand that thing are really hard right now and chances are you are doing more work for less money these days.  Your stress level is through the roof and your boss is riding you like a drill sergeant.  Here is a warning: Do NOT Complain to anyone,...

I received several emails this week from job seekers asking me for advice on breaking into the green jobs industry or asking if it made sense for them to look into a green career.  My answer is YES!  In fact, I believe that green jobs will be the fast growing segment of job opportunities in the next decade.  In the stimulus bill that signed earlier his week, the President set aside over 70 billion for green...

I wanted to let you all know that I started a new project this week.  I just launched Career List , Career List is a directory of the best websites and blogs in the career niche.  The benefits are two fold.  First, for the job seeker they will be able to search various categories like, resume writers, career consultants, niche job boards, etc.  All of the company websites will be categorized and easy to...

Just wanted to make a quick announcement that I have recently made my blog   “do follow. ”  For those of you who are not Internet marketing gurus you may not know what this means.  Basically, it means that if somebody make a comment on the blog, the search engines (google) will follow that link.  This in turn helps pass along some love to the commenter and ultimately will help them rank higher...

Finding a job is hard work these days.  If you are unemployed, I am sure I don’t have to tell you that.  Finding a job for a teenager is nearly impossible these days.  The main reason is that “traditional” teen jobs are now being filled by adult workers and even seniors who have re-entered the job scene.  For all the teens that are reading this, don’t get discouraged, there are still...

I know a lot of career professionals, job board owners and Internet marketers read my blog and I thought this would be the perfect place to highlight some of my job and career related domain names that I have for sales.  They are listed on Sedo, but you can contact me directly if interested at info@careercopilot.com PS.  I may also be interested in trades… Here they are:   SalesAgentJobs.com CommissionBasedJobs.com RepSales.com CommissionSalesAgents.com CommissionOnlySalesJobs.com ManufacturersRepJobs.com JobsinSummer.net .INFO ResumeForm.info SalesResume.info CareerExploration.info CareerDescriptions.info   Click...

We are hearing a lot about green jobs these days.  In fact, I even wrote a post about green jobs a couple of days ago.  When I was doing my research, I was surprised to learn that solar and wind were not the fastest growing segment of the green jobs industry.  Jobs in Biofuels represent that fastest growing niche of the green jobs market.  The niche is growing at an over 60% clip right now compared with...