Career Advice by Randy

It’s no surprise to learn, all job boards and career classifieds - are not created equal. From the standpoint of the employer, who’s looking to find top notch talent among their prospective new hires, a job board must proactively seek to register active and passive candidates who are the best of the best. When you’re a job seeker, or considering the possibilities for your next planned career move, it’s important to take a serious look at exactly what a job board or career network, can do for YOU.

If you’re considering registering as a job seeker with a recruiting agency, job board, or even submitting your resume to an employer, directly, here’s some important information you must consider.

1. Job boards should offer job seeker services to enhance and expedite the employment placement process.
2. For the job seeker, who must make an immediate change, the career board should offer a low cost, premium “representation” service, to ensure the active seeker is being consistently presented for positions that match the candidate’s target job.
3. Is your resume posted to a job board that contracts more than 5000 staffing specialists, who work on creating your perfect employment match? If not, it’s time to greatly increase your odds of quality job offers, by joining a network that does.
4. Does your job network offer employment opportunities with 100K and up salaries, as well as entry level positions, across all industries? Are they bringing on new employment opportunities daily? When you work with a progressive job network, you can expect to receive a great deal of interaction through email and telephone, from the referrals of employer partners. Word of mouth, and personal recommendations go a long way in developing successful business relationships.
5. A quality job board offers jo Read the rest of this entry »

Today, I look at young boys and girls and wonder what they’re thinking. Is their Career or future livelihood even a figment of their imagination? Does it cross their mind in the course of a day? Where is their “head” or brain when it comes to decisions about making a living or where they will live?

Personally, I wonder! Interesting is the fact that my Mom and Dad had the same questions about me. Hard to believe but true.

Everyone seems to think the current generation is on the way to failure. Most make an excellent contribution to society. It’s encouraging to know that’s the case. Sadly, some do fall through the cracks and end up in jail, on the streets, or worse…. dead! Freedom is often too costly for some to handle.

As Parents, most of us do, want the best for our children. However, one of the worst things we can do is make fun of the decisions our kids make or put them down rather than building their self-esteem. Dream for your children but be happy with the choices they make in their career path. We have to accept them for who they are, whatever ability God gives them as their gift to society.

All I ever wanted for our children is for them to be their very best. It has not been my goal to direct any of them into the same mold or career path as we’ve enjoyed. Life is about living with integrity and good character regardless of where we are.

Success is not about making money or being rich. Yes, it’s nice to have the means to provide well for your family, but in society today it’s possible in most occupations for us to be successful and responsible.

None of us have to cheat our way, or take advantage of others in order to provide for our family. Not everyone is a business guru who can make tons of money without fail. There are risks involved in working for the business owner as well as having your Read the rest of this entry »