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Is Your Job Busier During the Holidays?
Now that Thanksgiving is almost here, it’s official — the holidays have begun. Whether you plan to take advantage of Black Friday deals and start your shopping now or you tend to wait until the last minute, your post-work schedule is bound to ramp up for the next several weeks.
But, what about your work life?
Want to Work Less? Try Sharing Your Job
We all know that it’s important to maintain a happy work-life balance, but sometimes that’s easier said than done. Over the past decade, more and more employees, most of them women, have turned to job sharing to strike that balance. Job sharing allows you to essentially split a job (and its title, responsibilities, and salary) with another person, meaning you both work part-time.
Can You Guess the Least Stressful Job?
Money magazine took a survey of 35,000 employees on their overall job satisfaction, and came up with some interesting results. In addition to the highest paid jobs in the country and the overall 10 best jobs, the survey yielded a list of the 10 least stressful jobs, based on what percentage of employees rated their position as low stress. The results may surprise you; see if you can guess which jobs rated lowest on the stress meter.
10 Resources For a Complete Job Search
When job hunting is your full-time job, you've got to do everything in your power to get an interview. That means using your open-ended days to exhaust all of your resources. Get out of your job-hunting rut and find more opportunities by tapping into these 10 places.
Ask Savvy: How Do I Follow Up on a Job I Want?
Dear Savvy,
I have a question about a job I applied for earlier this month (Oct. 4). I got a reply the following morning because my resume didn't download, and I replied with an apology and another attachment a few hours later.
Study Measures Health Risks of Stress From Potential Job Loss
Stress is the cause of so many illnesses, and new research shows you're more likely to have health issues because of worrying about losing your job than someone who's unemployed and stressing about finding a job. Sociologist Sarah Burgard commented, "It may seem surprising that chronically high job insecurity is more strongly linked with health declines than actual job loss or unemployment."
Researchers analyzed data on 1,700 adults and studies conducted between 1986 and 1989 and from 1995 and 2005.
You're Fired! Are You Prepared?
We're taught to keep a first-aid kit in our car's glove box and jugs of water in our cabinets in case of emergencies, but preparing for a job loss isn't something that's a given when thinking about disaster prevention. Unlike buying canned items in bulk, there isn't anything that we can pick up at the store when we're setting ourselves up for success after potential job loss.
Even the most realistic person may find themselves uncharacteristically optimistic when reviewing their work situation because getting fired is just not something any of us like to think about.
Use JobCompass Mobile to Find a Job On the Go
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but the unemployment rate in the US is still rising. So if you are among those unfortunate masses that will have to take to the classifieds, start multitasking — there's a new way to search jobs and pound the pavement at the same time.
JobCompass is a mobile web service that lets you search for jobs in your area, so you can look for that perfect job even while on the go.
Experienced MIT Alumni Goes to Job Hunting Extremes
It's a numbing employment situation when each week a different investment bank reduces their workforce by 10 percent. While some workers who have made their names and fortunes in finance are having trouble keeping their heads up in the down market, experienced banker and MIT degree holder Joshua Persky hasn't let a discouraging reality get under his skin.
An unproductive six-month job search triggered a more creative mindset that led to Persky standing on Wall Street wearing a sandwich board while handing out résumés.
Big Job Hunting Boards Aren't Where It's at Anymore
There's no time to waste on your job search. While you might become frustrated by time-consuming tactics, the quality of those strategies are much more likely to get you somewhere. According to The Wall Street Journal and several human resource experts, today's job search has to go beyond the job boards.
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