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Posted on Last week, Career Pro Inc., John O’Connor, and a few key clients of ours were selected by WRAL’s Here to Help segment to spotlight tips and tricks of submitting your resume through online applications. Brian Shrader, a veteran reporter of the Raleigh area interviewed Jill Jordan and John Domalavage who have both tackled the online [...]
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Posted on Sometimes at difficult times it’s hard to think differently. But those who do work to change their though process often will win the right opportunity in this work life. Realize Values Are the Heart of the Matter – In order to think clearly and creatively about your career options you need to find out what [...]
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Posted on Many indicators point to hiring in general picking up but one of the leading indicators proves that executives hires now look very strong now. Not only has the US Department of Labor backed up these statistics but many leading indicators prove executive hiring is climbing at a healthy rate. Any rate of advancement seems good [...]
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Posted on Have you ever hired someone? Sometimes the fictional stories don’t even come close to what happens in the “real world” of hiring. In 20+ years as a career adviser many stories stand out. In an effort to capture some of those ideas we recently filmed Rick, our fictional and very troublesome candidate. Stay tuned for [...]
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Posted on Most people try to add names to their lists and attempt to “add” to their circle of friends and business connections. Unfortunately numbers don’t add up to quality connections. Core mistakes that should be avoided include these comment thought process problems. What can you do to make your networking successful in 2012? 1. Big Events [...]
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Posted on What are you doing to ensure a positive attitude and productive job search activity as we enter the holiday season? To me the holidays can make or break your attitude. Depending on your personal situation, investing time with family and familiar surroundings can be heartening or disappointing. It’s usually a bit of both, right? Well [...]
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Posted on Employed? Unemployed? Underemployed? To progress in your career you must think differently then the average person. You don’t really have to love your job but you better be passionate about what you want in a job (whether you are looking for a new job or not). Evaluate your role at current organization. Evaluate your future [...]
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Posted on Career Pro Inc. supports all initiatives for veterans. Here is key information available through Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS). The Gold Card provides unemployed post-9/11 era veterans with the intensive and follow-up services they need to succeed in today’s job market. The Gold Card initiative is [...]
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Posted on As the aging of the workforce goes up and many of the baby boomers reaching retirement, the complaints about age discrimination have increased. Stephenie Overman in Fortune suggests that it may only be getting harder to prove you have been wronged. In 1965, Baby Boomers made up 40% of the population. Today they make up [...]
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Posted on What’s the good news? Simply put Jeff Davidson outlines a number of fundamental steps to find out if you have a work life balance in one of our latest podcasts entitled – Personal Balance Identifiers (to hear the podcast click here). Most of us think we have a work life balance but most of us [...]
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