Four tips for looking out for a job scam on Craigslist. Many job scams include work from home positions.

Ever wish you had a way of seeing what your career might be like in 20 years? Yeah, me too. However, since the DeLorean was our best effort at time travel and because most us are not willing to pay $40 an hour to have someone read our future from a foggy crystal ball, your best bet might be going with a medium of foretelling that’s a little more realistic. [More...]

While a having a career mentor may not seem like the most fantastical way of getting a glimpse of your future career, it’s certainly something that all young professional should deeply consider having for the many benefits and insights that a mentor can provide. The following five reasons will explain how you can gain insight, get helpful criticisms, build your professional network and make yourself an invaluable asset to any company — all by taking on a mentor.

When recent college grads first envisioned themselves graduating from college, they probably imagined tossing textbooks to the side and starting their new lives as decently paid working professionals. Few imagined they would be dealing with of a lack of available jobs and a nation in recession. As a result of the current financial crisis, however, many recent graduates are opting out of the job market for the time being, and deciding to go back to school.

The Post ran a story last week about a 27 year old recent college graduate who is suing her school, Monroe College, for $70K — her college tuition bill. She claims that the Bronx college didn’t do anything to help her obtain interviews from potential employers. While I sympathize with her situation, she’s not the only one reeling from a shoddy job market. According to a NACE survey, only 20% of 2009 graduates have found full-time work, and a projected 11% unemployment rate for the remainder of 2009 doesn’t look any more promising for upcoming graduates.

It’s 3pm on a Friday afternoon, and just when you think you can’t submit any more resumes or write anymore cover letters, the phone rings. It’s the company you’ve been waiting to hear from for weeks. They want to schedule an interview for Monday at 10am; you happily agree. You now have approximately two days to prepare for your big day. However, before you leave home on Monday morning you might want to take a few minutes to consider the things that you absolutely, under no circumstances, should ever do during an interview.

Between student loans and credit cards, its no wonder that we’re being dubbed ‘Generation Debt.’ If you’re under the age of 25, chances are you’re reading this in your sweats before heading to the kitchen table to clip coupons with mom for the weekly CostCo run.
With our debt swallowing up our salaries, is it really a bad move to move back home with our parents? Cutting back on rent alone could save you over a grand, not including the fact that your food costs will seriously decline. The idea of telling people that I moved back in with my parents makes me feel somewhat like a failure, but instead I keep hearing, “good for you.” It’s sort of like when we thought that spending the beginning of our college years at a community college was something to shy away from, until we saw how much tuition at those big four-year schools cost.

With summer on the upswing, New Yorkers are preparing themselves for weekends full of lazy outdoor afternoons, trips to the parks and beaches, intramural sports and hopefully some summer Fridays (crossed fingers). But the most important thing about summertime is that it’s the best season to save money since free things like outdoor concerts and street festivals pop up almost every weekend. Ah, New York in the summertime.

The Job Search Central is located in the lower level of the Science, Industry and Business Library on Madison and 34th Street. Job seekers can also get one-on-one job coaching and career counseling or small business consultations, all free of charge.

In my first five years of working in”the real world”, I held down five different jobs. One of these was part-time and held in conjunction with my day job. However, when friends or co-workers would ask me about job history, it would sometimes seem that I was older than I really was — because of the fact that at the ripe old age of 25, I’d already amassed a whole resume page full of relevant job titles.

It was then that I realized I was what the adults called a “job hopper”. With it’s adverse sound and generally negative connotation, I immediately jumped on defense — backing the countless responsibilities I’d been so lucky to nail down. But the fact was — and still is — that I am indeed a job hopper. And I’ve come to realize that there’s nothing wrong with that.

It’s no joke that tales of unemployment and rising debt have pushed many of us to our limits. Between student loans, credit card debt, and monthly bills, things can get really overwhelming pretty fast. If faced with a serious money dilemma, would you go to extremes in order to make ends meets?