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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.