A Day In The Life of Two Jobseekers. Unemployment can seem like one endless ocean of time. It seems to stretch on forever, and yet no matter how far you travel across it you always seem to be in the same place. Partly, this is because being unemployed for a long time tends to invite some less-than-healthy habits, that not only aren’t great [.] MORE >>

In the past 30 years, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed considerably. In 1979, the year the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking salary information by gender, women earned just 62 percent of what men did. Earlier this year, the BLS reported that, in the fourth quarter of 2011, that figure had risen nearly 20 percent. Pharmacists. MORE >>

There is a new trend in recruiting. Find out everything we can, and weed people out for jobs from there. That’s nothing new. That’s what we do. I’ve been to known to Google someone  everyone before I make a job offer. recruit on Facebook and Twitter. make assumptions about people based on what I see. I get it. I do it, too. MORE >>

120 seconds. That’s how long it takes for an interviewer to decide whether they want to hire you or not. First impressions set the tone for the interview and in the majority of cases, once that impression is set, it is not usually turned around. Here are some important tips you can use to ensure you make a great first impression. Energy level.  MORE >>

Working at Carousel Consultancy has been a great experience for me: I’ve been able to combine my love for social media with my passion for helping people (in this case, helping people who are looking for jobs). Why Pinterest? As I mentioned, due to the nature of the role, using social media to fill the vacancy is the ideal place to share the news. MORE >>