2000 Features
12/20/00 - Introducing the Career Planning Glossary
12/14/00 - Your Career as a Football Coach
12/05/00 - Somebody's Watching You
11/22/00 - Holiday Gift Guide
11/10/00 - Who Wants to Be a Success?
11/02/00 - Building a Career in Architecture
10/26/00 - Toward a More Civil Work Place
10/12/00 - Did You Get the Job?
10/04/00 - Career in Veterinary Medicine
09/25/00 - Careers in Cosmetology
09/13/00 - Back to School = Back to Work
08/30/00 - Career Transitions: Happy Endings
08/25/00 - Millionaire Careers
08/09/00 - Behavioral Interviews
08/02/00 - Careers in Physical Therapy
07/27/00 - Careers in Occupational Therapy
07/20/00 - Career Decisions: Self Assessment
07/12/00 - Career Transitions: Part Two
06/28/00 - How to Dress Professionally When You Have To
06/14/00 - Career Transitions: Charting a New Course
06/06/00 - Stay-At-Home Fathers
05/31/00 - Take This Job and...Never Mind
05/24/00 - Graduation/Spring Gift Guide
05/16/00 - Starting a New Job
05/02/00 - Flextime
04/18/00 - Surfing The Net on Your Boss's Time
04/04/00 - Inappropriate Dress and Conduct May Send the Wrong Message
03/21/00 - IT Professionals Needed
03/14/00 - Here Comes the... Wedding Consultant
03/8/00 - How to Use the Internet in Your Job Search
02/29/00 - How to Evaluate a Job Offer
02/16/00 - Your Network: How to Use It
02/08/00 - Should You Change Your Name?
02/01/00 - Does Gossip Have a Place at Work?
01/25/00 - Relocation: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
01/18/00 - How to Get Fired
01/10/00 - Jobs at Disney
01/02/00 - Do You Know How to Relax?
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As you become involved with career planning and job searching you'll come across some terms with which you may not be familiar. It's important for you to understand what these terms mean. Here are definitions to help you.
Football coaches spend their days teaching athletic skills and training athletes to perform in a competitive environment. This article tells you how to have a coaching career in an amateur or pro environment. Find out where to get more information.
The American Management Association (AMA) conducted a survey on workplace monitoring and surveillance. The results may make you reconsider your use of the telephone and computer at work. Find out what the respondents to this survey had to say.
Here is a list of career books to give as gifts. Whether it's for graduation, Christmas, Hannukah, Father's Day, or Mother's day, or no occasion at all, these books provide advice on job success, career choice, or any other career related issue.
Will you have a successful career? Take this quiz to find out if have what it takes to get the job you want and succeed at it. Test your expertise on subjects such as resume writing, job interviewing, salary negotiation, and workplace savvy.
What does it take to be an architect? Learn about job duties, educational and training requirements, and salaries. Find out about related careers with links to more information. There are also links to associations, publications, and education.
Offensive behavior by co-workers can do more than get on your nerves, it can cause you to quit your job. The result can be costly for employers and a nuisance for the employees that remain. Find out what behaviors are offensive so you can avoid them.
After your interview the prospective employer said you would hear something soon. Waiting to find whether you got the job is nerve wracking. Find out how to get through the time between your final interview and when you find out if you've been hired.
Are you passionate about animals? You may want to consider a career in veterinary medicine. Find out if this is the right choice for you. Here's information about duties, earnings, outlook, and required education. Additional resources tell you more.
Find out what it takes to have a career in cosmetology. If you want to be a hairstylist or manicurist, this article describes job duties, educational and training requirements, and tells you how much it pays. You'll get links to more resources.
Returning to work after raising a family brings with it many decisions for you to make. You must figure out an appropriate schedule and decide what to do on days your children don't go to school. You must determine what course your career will take.
This is the third and last installment in a series of interviews with five people going through career transitions. Find out what's happened during the last month. Join About.com's Job Searching - College Grads Guide and me as we track their progress.
Is it knowledge or survival skills that is the common thread that ties together the million dollar winners of Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Is it luck? Or maybe it has something to do with their chosen careers?
Behavioral interviews give you the opportunity to demonstrate competencies required for a particular job. Learn more about this type of interview, why employers use it, what questions you can expect to be asked, how to respond, and how to prepare.
Due to the growth in the number of people requiring therapy services, there will be a demand for Physical Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants and Aides. This article describes those jobs and provides resources to help you do further research.
Occupational Therapy jobs are growing faster than the average for all occupations. This article describes the job titles Occupational Therapist and Occupational Therapy Assistant and Aide and provides resources to help you do further research.
Self assessment is the process of gathering information about yourself in order to make an informed career decision. Learn about value, interest, and personality inventories, skill assessments, and computer-assisted career guidance assessments.
This is the second installment in a series of interviews with several people going through a career transition. Find out what progress the participants have made during the last month. Join About.com's Job Searching - College Grads Guide and I as we track their progress along the road to success.
When you normally dress casually for work, how do you rise to the occasion when you're asked to give a presentation or represent your company in a taped interview? Remember -- appearances count. Here's advice to help you look your professional best.
This is the first installment in a series of interviews with several people going through a career transition. Meet the participants and join About.com's Job Searching - College Grads Guide and I as we track their progress along the road to success.
The number of stay-at-home fathers has been on the rise. If you are a stay-at-home dad, find out how to make the most of your time at home in order to remain employable for the future. You will also find resources to help you feel less isolated.
Throughout your career you will at times be stuck in a job you dislike but can't leave due to circumstances beyond your control. Find out what you can do to make the best of the situation, fix what's broken, or learn to deal with what you can't fix.
Looking for the perfect gift for your favorite graduate? Or maybe you're looking for a Father's Day gift or a birthday present. Books make great gifts. Come check out the ones I've selected. They can be ordered directly from BarnesandNoble.com.
Starting a new job can be very stressful. You'll have to form new relationships, learn where everything is, and who you can trust, in addition to learning how to do your new job. It can be pretty overwhelming, but the advice you find here will help.
Flextime is one of several alternative work options. Employees may have a schedule that involves working four ten hour days or may work a staggered schedule.
Using your company's computer to access the Internet may be fast, but you may lose in the long run. Find out why.
Revealing clothing, bad language, and being too outspoken do not make a model employee.
There are more jobs available than there are people to fill
them. Find out about entering this field.
Find out about a career as a wedding consultant.
Learn to use the Internet for all aspects of your job search campaign.
How to evaluate a job offer, then accept or reject it properly.
Networking is vital to your career. Learn how to do it successfully.
Getting married? How to handle your name change.
Learn all about the office grapevine.
What to do when your job takes you elsewhere.
Do exactly the opposite of what this article tells you if you want to succeed on your job.
Interested in a "fantasy job"? See this article. Updated 1/14/2002.
Find out why it's important to relax and learn some techniques.
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