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Google's in the Top 5 (4th to be exact) on Fortune's Best Companies to Work For, and if you're salivating at theh chance to work with this tech giant that provides free gourmet meals, throw away your "Interviewing for Dummies" book and check out the 15 Google interview questions that will make you feel…See More

Unemployed or underemployed? Either way, you've probably got more time in your day than the 8 to 5'er who spends 12 hours of their day working and commuting.If you've followed the tips of many career counselors who've said, "take time out for yourself," you may have found that despite your loathe of the gym, you've become a regular just as a means to get out of the house.Well, if you hate the gym as much as I do, you need a playlist to motivate you while you're on the treadmill to…See More

Standing out from the crowd is the theme for the "Great Recession." Outside renting a billboard or standing on street corners, which have yielded lukewarm results, the resume remains your ticket to an interview and hopefully a job thereafter.So how do you turn a bulleted lists of accomplishments into a standout resume? Good, creative design can give you an edge in a sea of plain, Jane resumes. A professional resume writer can help you with content, which is a must, but forgoing good design, can…See More

Have you ever wondered what odd-ball questions big firms like Yahoo, Microsoft, Best Buy ask candidates? Curiosity got the best of Glassdoor.com, and recently the site set out to find the top 25 odd-ball questions asked by interviewers. And unless you're applying for a job as a Forest Ranger or holiday food critic, would you be ready to answer questions on Central Park, Mount Fuji and eggnog?…See More

If you're a part of Secrets of the Job Hunt network, you're headed in the right direction for finding your next job. You've recognized that there's more out there than Monster and Careerbuilder, and you need to be "social" to get a job. I've said it many times, but today's electronic job boards are akin to the want ads in the 80's. In this…See More

2009 has been the year of the "tweet." However the question still remains on how Twitter will impact the job search process? Is it possible to get a job on Twitter or is Twitter strictly for building your network?Applying for a job via Twitter may still be too early to predict for the masses, but for at least one candidate, they tweeted their way to a new job. See how this guy did it, here.See More

Outside the traditional, family, friends and health of Thanksgiving blessings, it can be easy to overlook career blessings when we’re out of work. But lest we forget, unemployment has its own blessings.1) Time – Working a 40 hour week, commuting to and fro can leave us strapped for time to do those things that fuel our soul. This may be volunteering for a cause near to your heart or finally getting around to organizing your family photo albums. Whatever your passion, unemployment gives us time…See More