Got caught up on some blogs I follow, and found the What’s the cost of being unemployed? post on Keppie Careers interesting.  Here are some excerpts from the post:
If you expect a $20,000 salary, your weekly salary is $384.61 and an 18 week job hunt will cost you $6,992.98.
If you are looking for a job [...]

Job Search Basics Overlooked, Part 3:  Three Oft-Overlooked Aspects of Your Resume
If you are in a current job search, you may be sick of hearing about the subject of resumes!  I don’t blame you, but there are two reasons we keep writing about the subject: 1) your resume is simply that important, and 2) we [...]

J. Michael Farr has a number of sound career advice books, and one that has been on my “to-read” list is his “Next-Day Job Interview: Prepare Tonight and Get the Job Tomorrow.”
Since I haven’t had a chance to read this book, I was delighted to find a review on Keppie Careers blog about it.  Sounds [...]

Job Search Basics Overlooked, Part 2: Staying Focused and Encouraged
Like many job seekers I talk to, when I was searching for a job, I found myself at the most unorganized and unfocused time in my life. After several weeks of accomplishing and doing nothing, and feeling more miserable and depressed about everything, [...]

For the next weeks, I am going to start exploring a few common mistakes and “turn-offs” we see happen in a job search. These are easy to avoid, yet are large enough to make the difference between your resume being reviewed – or a recruiter even considering talking to you.
Today’s starter: applying for positions [...]

Want to hear tips right from HR professionals? Check out Laurie Ruettimann’s blog Punk Rock HR. She is running a contest asking for people’s best job searching advice, and most of the comments (70+ at the time of my writing this post) are from HR people.
From encouraging to practical to downright humorous, the [...]

Next to a successful placement, the next favorite part of my job is talking to so many different people and what people say. Here are two of my favorite quotes from the last couple of weeks:
“I love that job!!! Do you have it in California?”, from an enthusiastic chemical engineer graduate.
“Have you ever seen [...]

Before I begin, just to reiterate: this is not a blog about politics, this is a blog that is focused on job seekers and professionals in manufacturing industries.
Whatever your political beliefs, most people will agree that it was something to see a current President of the United States on a late night talk show several [...]

Interesting thing happened to me yesterday. We have several great new manufacturing jobs in, and since they came in at the same time and all need to be hired for immediately, we do a quick job of getting the descriptions out to the database at large.
The employment market is flooded with talent right now [...]

This has been a busy week for us here at PRI… new client on board, candidates well into interviews, new searches (still need those Manufacturing and Electrical engineers in CA!) and keeping up with the growing number of candidates in contact with us. I’m heading into an equally busy weekend hosting a birthday party for [...]