The United States Supreme Court ruled that public employers like police departments have the right to search text messages on company-issued devices as long as there’s a legitimate work purpose for doing so. The issue came to the Supreme Court after a California police officer sued because he thought his Fourth Amendment rights were violated […]
How will the job market evolve in the next decade? As we approach the Labor Day weekend, Fortune takes a look at some of the fastest growing professions in the U.S. Nurses The number of registered nurses is expected to swell to 3.2 million by 2018, accounting for approximately 581,500 new jobs, according to […]
As mom-and-pop businesses struggle to make ends meet, the latest attempt to help them has gotten mired in Washington politics. The debate began in October, when President Obama started pushing ways to get cheap capital to small businesses. It continued after his State of the Union address, in which he touted the proposal. But that […]
Washington is poised to launch its most direct attempt to revive small business lending since the financial crisis with a plan to invest up to $30 billion of federal money in small banks and give them incentives to re-lend that money to Main Street companies. The Small Business Lending Fund, outlined by President Obama in […]
Resumes & Cover Letters Courtesy of Monster.com Use Numbers to Highlight Your Accomplishments By Peter Vogt, MonsterTRAK Career Coach If you were an employer looking at a resume, which of the following entries would impress you more? Wrote news releases. Wrote 25 news releases in a three-week period under daily deadlines. Clearly, the second […]
360-Degree Evaluations By Ian Christie, Monster Contributing Writer To grow personally and professionally, we need an accurate picture of our strengths and weaknesses. But how well do any of us know ourselves? That’s when a well-implemented 360-degree evaluation can be constructive. In a “360,” four to eight individuals who work with you give you […]
Top 10 Job Search Tips Courtesy of CareerBuilder.com While the popularity of online job boards puts millions of jobs at one’s fingertips, it has also made the job applicant pool that much bigger. For this reason, national job search sites and the Internet as a whole have gotten a bad rap from some industry […]
