All Entries in the "Managing Your Career" Category
2011 Layoff Trackers
Oh what a difference a few years of a recession make. Back in 2009, during the initial shock of the downturn, we first wrote about layoff trackers in the sense of “company going under, don’t bother to send your resumes.” Today, however, the unemployment landscape has changed. Parts of the economy – depending on geography [...]
MomsToWork Open Job Thread
photo credit: mollyollyoxenfree What kind of work are you searching for? On MomsToWork, we’ve written extensively about women and work – how to find a job, write a cover letter and resume, interviewing tips and more. But I’ve always hoped to take this a step further and to start connecting people with the jobs they [...]
NEW! MomsToWork Job Board
photo credit: carianoff Are you a mom who is thinking about going back to work? Are you looking for a new family friendly job? Or are you curious about career development? On MomsToWork, we write about women and work, and we realize that job boards are just one tool to be used during a job [...]
Working Mother’s 2011 Best Companies for Hourly Workers
photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives We talk a lot about women and work here, and we’re very much aware that working mothers are in all sorts of job functions and positions – including hourly work. Hourly workers are what make up our economy and according to the US Department of Labor, the 20 most prevalent [...]
Need Some Quick Resume Feedback? Grade It.
Everyone has gone through it. You’ve written…and rewritten…and yet again rewritten your resume. You’ve read our tips on resume writing. You’ve added action verbs, spell checked and grammar checked, but you need some quick feedback. Here’s where RezScore can help. RezScore is a recently launched service that scores your resume based on brevity, impact and [...]
Women still earn less despite other gains, says White House report
photo credit: imperiousimages The report, Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being, released yesterday, is said by the White House to be the most comprehensive report on the state of women in 50 years. There is nothing surprising really in the report. Most of us know the data. What is surprising, shocking and [...]
Are you a tiger mom or neutered pushover?
Image via Wikipedia The latest game among my group of friends? Rating each other on a scale of zero, a pushover, to Tiger Mom, a fierce mom like Amy Chua, who sprung to fame via The Wall Street Journal about her new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. “Oh yeah, she’s tough. She’s a [...]
Where do you turn when you feel like a bad parent?
Thanks to our virtual friends … What do you do when you and your kids go off the rails? It happens to me as regularly as the trains that run on those cliched rails, but I never seem to get the schedule ahead of time. Usually about every six months something goes badly wrong and [...]
This is your life? Crazy work-obsessed spouse?
Your crazy life with a work-obsessed spouse and loudmouth children could make your family the next Jon and Kate-style reality TV show stars! Read on … I just got this email, which made me laugh. My comments are in italics. Life-changing new docu-series (is that we call reality TV these days?) that empowers real families [...]
E-mail sign offs: What do you say? Tell us
How do you sign off an e-mail? Have you ever added a kiss or slurpy sign off to a professional e-mail by mistake? Have you ever signed off with the ubiquitous, “All The Best,” in a email to a friend and got the finger in return? photo © 2005 sophie & cie | more info(via: [...]
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