Career Quotes

If you’re charging $35 an hour for tutoring but it takes you 30 minutes each way to get to your pupil’s house, you’re really making $17.50 an hour, not including the bus fare. Other time-consuming tasks for which you won’t earn a cent include looking for new clients, bidding on projects, and financial housekeeping. [2021] - Erica Alini

Job-hopping works best when the economy is strong and there are plenty of job vacancies employers need to fill. That isn’t to say you can’t hop your way to better pay in an economic downturn. But, generally speaking, you’re likely to have less negotiating power in a job market with high unemployment and few openings. Software developers and staff accountants who’d never quit turned out to earn 10 percent less than the job-hoppers in their field. But operations managers and administrative assistants who had stayed put were earning around 20 percent more than new hires. For nurses, there wasn’t much of a difference between job switchers and job stayers. [2021] - Erica Alini

You’d think sites that connect freelancers with paying customers would be a slam dunk for making some extra cash fast. Often, though, you’ll be wading into a “saturated market.” If there are lots of people out there offering the same services you’re trying to sell, you may find yourself competing against talented folks in places like India or Ukraine — or a small town in Middle America — who have 500 five-star reviews and seem to be able to somehow survive by charging ridiculously low fees. It may take you a while to break in, and even when you do, you may not bring in the kind of money you were hoping for. [2021] - Erica Alini

It takes a month of job searching for every $10,000 of income you are trying to replace. So, if you're trying to find a $70,000 job, plan on being out of work seven months. It may even take more time to find a job in this New Economy. The average worker who is laid off can expect a 25% to 40% cut in pay when s/he does go back to work. [2016] - Dan Quillen

Reference USA is a premier source of business information that is well designed to be easily data mined. Currently there is information on over 43 million businesses in the USA alone. There is also information on nearly two million Canadian companies. Two golden nuggets: 1. Management Directory. 2. Competitor Report. [2016] - Dan Quillen

Use Times New Roman as resume font and 24 point size for your name. Use single spacing between the name and contact information. Apart from cell phone and email, include a link to your LinkedIn profile instead of your address. The point size here should be 11 or 12 and the line is a 3-point line. If you are using Word, use the draw function to draw the line. The word "Summary" is bold, Times New Roman, 14 point and obviously underlined. If it has been five years or longer since you graduated, leave the year of graduation off your resume. [2016] - Dan Quillen

You can have Google and other search engines search specifically for company careers pages using resume readers. One of the most popular reading apps is the Oracle product Taleo, which seems to be the industry standard. There are others such as Talent Cloud, G2Crowd, KNXA, iCiMS and others. Examples: (1) site:taleo.net intitle:careers aircraft Denver (2) site: G2Crowd.com intitle:careers human resources [2016] - Dan Quillen

The longer any of us is out of work, the less willing some employers are to hire us. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

If you know what your talent is, I guarantee some employer is looking for you. You have to keep going. Some employers do want you. Your job is to find them. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

When hiring is tight, you will want to concentrate on small firms, and newer small firms. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

Write a thank-you note after the interview--not only to them, but to the receptionist, secretary, and whoever else you interacted with, there--by name. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

The Personnel Manager or Human Resources office is the employer's friend, not yours. Their basic function is to screen you out, so avoid them if possible. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

You are gonna need only half the information you initially thought you would need about the job-market, but twice the amount of information you initially thought you would need about yourself. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

Often you can put together a new career just using what you already know and what you already can do--with just a bit of training or retraining. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

When you negotiate salary, you want the bottom of your range to be near the top of theirs. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

Money does buy happiness. But only up to a point. That point was found to be around $75,000 annual income (at the end of 2011, median household income was $51,413). If people made more money than $75,000, it of course further improved their satisfaction with how their life was going, but it did not increase their happiness. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

The way anyone cures themselves of shyness is through enthusiasm. If you're talking with someone, and you are enthusiastic about the topic under discussion, you will forget that you are shy, in your excitement. Only go after a job you feel really enthusiastic about. Seek information only about a curiosity that you feel enthusiastic about the prospect of learning the answers to. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

If you would be unique, you must combine, as much as you can, two or three fields: that's what can make you unique, with very little competition from others. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

Every professional specialty has one or more shadow professions, which require much less training. For example, instead of becoming a doctor, you can go into paramedical work; instead of becoming a lawyer, you can go into paralegal work; instead of becoming a licensed career counselor, you can become a career coach. There is always a way to get close, at least, to what you dream of. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles

See if the local chamber of commerce publishes a business directory; often it will list not only small companies but also local divisions of larger companies, with names of department heads; sometimes they will even include the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, which is useful if you want to search by the code of your chosen field. [2013] - Richard N. Bolles