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They’re hiring!
These 22 Best Companies to Work For have at least 500 openings each, totaling more than 87,750 jobs. What are they looking for in a new hire? Before you apply, check out these excerpts from our interviews with HR professionals and others in the know.

2010 Best Companies rank: 2
Current openings: 631
Financial advisors and branch office administrators.

What are you looking for?
For financial advisors, we look for… self-starters who enjoy working with and helping other people. For branch office administrators… we look for energetic individuals who can take the initiative to anticipate client and financial advisor needs.

Any secrets to impressing your recruiter?
For financial advisors: Our recruiters approach each candidate from a career management standpoint, attempting to ensure each candidate has a solid understanding of the work, the emphasis on putting clients’ interests first and the appropriate commitment level to be successful.

For branch office administrators: Our recruiters are impressed with a candidate’s past work experience and stability or loyalty with past employers. We look for an affable personalityto meet and greet our clients. –Interview with Regina DeLuca-Imral, spokeswoman

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What Nonprofit Employers Are Looking for in Resumes Today


Courtesy Bridgestar

Looking for a job in a down economy is tough, but seeking a nonprofit position presents unique challenges. Some job seekers use a downturn as a time of self-reflection and discover that pursuing a transition to the nonprofit world might be right for them. At the same time, while many nonprofits are seeing an increase in demand for services, they are also tightening their belts to weather the uncertain economy. Read the rest of this entry »

Six Tips to Enlist Your Friends in Your Job Search

By Keith Ferrazzi, Monster Contributing Writer

If you’re laid off, resist the urge to curl up in a corner and lick your wounds — or to sit at your computer doing nothing but sifting through online ads and articles all day. Instead, reach out. The need to let others help — the central message of my book Who’s Got Your Back — is the single most overlooked insight when it comes to conventional wisdom about job searching. Read the rest of this entry »

Understand Recruitment Cycles to Give Your Job Search an Edge
By John Rossheim, Monster Senior Contributing Writer


When it comes to connecting with the right job opportunity, timing isn’t everything, but it’s certainly something. Tuning into industries’ and employers’ annual recruitment cycles just might give you a decisive edge.

That’s the consensus of recruiters and employers with fingers on the pulse of seasonal variations in hiring. Here’s a quarter-by-quarter summary of how these hiring dynamics play out. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven Sports Jobs and What They Pay
By Dona DeZube, Monster Finance Careers Expert


The end of your college sports team days doesn’t have to mean the end of playing your favorite game. You can take your love of nearly any sport into overtime by landing a job in a sports-related profession. A communications major who played baseball — just not well enough to land a spot on a professional team — will still head to the ball field everyday if he’s working in the publicity department for a pro team. A career in sports medicine will have science and pre-med majors working with athletes all day. And sporting-goods manufacturers can be excellent employers for jocks of all types.
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The Geographically Limited Job Search
By Peter Vogt, Monster Senior Contributing Writer


Job hunting becomes harder than usual when you have to confine your search geographically. But you can find a job under such constraints with the right strategy.

Start Sooner Rather Than Later, Especially If You’re Moving Read the rest of this entry »

Refresh Your Resume
By Kim Isaacs, Monster Resume Expert


A resume refresher doesn’t need to be painful. And your efforts could pay off with big dividends. Arm yourself with an updated, high-octane resume, and 2009 could be the year that you land a better job.

Now is a great time to reflect on your recent accomplishments and add them to your resume. Let these ideas guide you.
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Negotiating Salary in a Recession
By John Rossheim, Monster Senior Contributing Writer


It may be summer, but it’s cold out there: Thousands of companies of all sizes have frozen hiring and salaries, putting many workers’ earnings expectations on ice for the time being.

But many employers continue to make job offers even as they reduce overall headcount. More than 4 million hires were made in April 2009, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Read the rest of this entry »

Six Sloppy Speech Habits
By Diane Diresta, Monster Contributing Writer


You may look good on paper or in your suit, but if you’re looking to nail your big interview, looks aren’t everything. How you sound is often more important. But many job seekers let careless speech habits sink their chances of landing that plum job.
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Ten Excuses for Missing Work
By Michele Marrinan, Monster Contributing Writer


We’ve all been there. It’s a beautiful day, and you can’t bear the thought of going into work. So you call in with some excuse about feeling ill, but you know in your bones that your boss doesn’t buy it.
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