Of course, the answer is on CNN and it is online.
I don’t know how much I agree with some of these. Making your college degree choice based on what the job market is doing today and ignoring your personal traits and skills (not even considering whether you would enjoy it or not) is asking for failure. And that’s only helping the massive failure rates of institutions of higher learning in general (at the undergraduate level of course). Churning out college grads with no real world experience, no hard skill sets and essentially worthless degrees is asking for failure too but on a much more depressing and wide scale.
Advice on keeping your desk clean is well taken but not always applicable. My bosses desk is about the same level of cleanliness as mine. The whole advice section on starting a new job isn’t that great either.
Besides that though, I think it is a pretty good article. Job seekers should check it out.
Also, I forgot the source of the second part of this post so my apologies. If I find it, I’ll credit it.
December is a GREAT time to network with hiring managers and recruiters. They are typically less busy during this time of year and are more receptive to networking opportunities. I have found this to be true in my professional experience. Granted I am trying to tie up loose ends this time of year, I also don’t mind networking. It gets me out of the office and being stuck in the office from dark to dark can get really old.
