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Your resume is a critical career management tool and you should always have a current one at the ready for the next opportunity. In these days of decreasing employee loyalty, mismanagement and an organization’s indifference to its employee’s career needs, the resume is your calling card. Having a good one on hand enables you to respond quickly and professionally to a headhunter’s call, to a job posting you might see or to that dream job you hear about from somebody you know.  Read more here: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpposted/archive/2009/08/06/living-up-to-your-resume.aspx

On Craigslist this week, one job posting asked applicants to “e-mail your resume, online portfolio and the URL to your Facebook profile.” – Read more here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/25/BUAI18UIVQ.DTL

The D.C. metro area is just one place where high-wage employment is still on the rise. Media coverage of America’s best jobs usually focuses on blue-collar sectors, like manufacturing, or elite ones, such as finance or technology. But if you’re seeking high-wage employment, your best bet lies in the massive “business and professional services” sector. This unsung division of the economy is basically a mirror of any and all productive industry. It includes everything from human resources and administration to technical and scientific positions, as well as accounting, legal and architectural posts. – Read more here: http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/13/best-worst-cities-jobs-employment-opinions-columnists-high-paying.html

If you are a Physical Therapist Assistant, finding a job should be easier in Seattle, WA. If you are a Computer Systems Analyst looking for work, Dayton, OH is the place for you. A Landscaper? Try Killeen, TX. Employers advertise more than three million jobs each week, but locations with a demand for jobs are not always locations with a supply of qualified workers. This localized mis-match–more jobs and not enough workers, or more workers and not enough jobs–is one of the many reasons US unemployment is predicted to reach ten percent in the coming months. – Read more here: http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/best-places-look-work/

Some have found a silver lining amid the economic meltdown – Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn’t panic. He didn’t rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless “kind of settled nicely.” Week one: “I thought, ‘OK … I need to send out resumes, send some e-mails, need to do networking” Week two: “A little less.” – Read more here: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20090608/BIZ13/306089947/1031/BIZ

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The medical field still dominates the top, and the food service industry holds at the bottom.  It’s still better to be a doctor than a dicer. Food preparation and serving remains the nation’s lowest-paid line of work, while the medical field still offers the nine best-paid jobs in the U.S. – Read more here: http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/04/america-best-paying-leadership-careers-jobs.html

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Robert Loest doesn’t want to curry favour, and he’s not asking you to invest in his Integrity Growth and Income Fund, a no-load ethical fund which, since its inception in 1995, has consistently outperformed the S&P 500 index and the Lipper Multi-Cap Core Index.  No, let me take that back. Loest, senior portfolio manager, would love to have you to invest in his fund, but it is not possible for foreigners to invest in U.S mutual funds. – Read more here: http://www.financialpost.com/personal-finance/story.html?id=1554762

The social media phenomenon that is Twitter continues to attract third-party developers with the London-based WorkDigital developing TwitterJobSearch, a job search engine for the microblogging service now available online (in beta, of course).  TwitterJobSearch.com claims to be the “social media job search engine” and allows people to search for jobs in twitter feeds simply by entering keywords in the search engine.  More than 42,000 new jobs have been indexed by the search engine in the last week, according to WorkDigital.  Using social networks for recruitment is nothing new, with LinkedIn and Craigslist both popular portals for headhunting, but with so much activity now around Twitter it was only a matter of time before people started using it for job advertising.  “Until now, search engines for social media sites merely looked for words. We’re looking at context,” according to WorkDigital. – http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/163391/new_twitter_app_helps_with_job_search.html