Is It Smart to Dumb Down Your Resume?
If you’re an experienced worker, you might be considering dumbing down your resume to land an interview for a position for which you might seem overqualified. This strategy could include downplaying or omitting work experience, resume skills, degrees and other credentials. But is reworking your resume in this manner a wise thing to do? Employment experts weigh in with their advice.
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The past and future of automation—whats in store for the next 40 years?
As I prepared this article, I realized I’ve been involved in this profession for over 40 years. How time flies when you are having fun! I also began to realize how significant the changes have been in those 40 years. Who would have ever thought a computer in your pocket that you can talk on, without wires, powered by batteries, and no vacuum tubes?
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Greasing the Inside Track to a Job
Your friends and business contacts may feel extra motivated to help you find work nowadays as businesses boost employee incentives for successful referrals.
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21 Things Hiring Managers Wish You Knew
21 Things Hiring Managers Wish You Knew
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The Lost Art of Customer Service: Unreturned Phone Calls & Emails
I hear a lot of complaints from job-seekers. Obviously, when someone is out of work they encounter a lot of frustrating situations. It’s often said that looking for a job is itself a full-time job. The process of searching and interviewing for a job is actually a sales position. You are “selling” an intangible … yourself! You are selling your experience, your skills, your personality, your talent, and your potential to solve a potential employer’s problems. [Read “Why Job Hunting is a Consultative Sales Position” for more on that topic.]
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5 Ways You Bug Your Boss--and How to Stop
Even if you get your work done and generally get along with your coworkers, you may have habits that bug your boss. While these quirks may not necessarily get you fired, they can certainly keep you from climbing the corporate ladder.
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Emerson expands energy management solutions
Emerson Process Management is expanding its energy management portfolio with new technologies and services that help companies and municipalities convert low-cost waste and biomass into renewable energy more efficiently and reliably, with lower carbon emissions.
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Baumer introduces OADM 250 Laser Diustance sensor
Baumer introduced the OADM 250, an optical laser distance sensor specifically designed to accurately detect target objects, regardless of surface properties or color, at distances from 0.2 meters to 4 meters away. Based on time of flight technology, the compact OADM 250 offers response times of less than 10 ms, resolutions of 1.2 mm, and repeat accuracy of ± 5 mm, which delivers precise data even on moving targets.
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Global Cartridge Filter Mkt to Hit $13 Bil in 2012
The market for cartridges used to purify liquids climbed steadily from 2002 to 2008, reaching $13 billion, but demand has languished since, according to a report by McIlvaine Company. However, by 2012, McIlvaine predicts it will be back on track with forecasted revenues (at the manufacturer level) of $14 billion.
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Build Your Brand
Who makes your favorite shoes or outfits? What beverage calls your name when you need a pick-me-up? Whose movies won't you miss? Whose help do you seek when you want a project done right, at home or at work?
All of these questions involve your reactions to a particular brand -- a collection of assumptions about quality, appeal and reliability that you've made in response to repeated experience with a variety of possible products, people or services. Here's the important thing: Whether you like to think about it or not, right now there are people thinking about your very own brand of whatever you are and do, and they're deciding if they want to make it one of their favorites.
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Overqualified? 6 Tips to Shed the Label
In a tight job market midcareer professionals often consider openings that are less lucrative and less prestigious than their last job. Sometimes employers are glad to hire seasoned workers at a bargain, but others dismiss the candidate as "overqualified."
What's behind the overqualified label is an employer's fear that if you're hired, you'll be searching for a better job before you learn where the restrooms are. But if you really want the job, there are ways of countering the perception that you're too good for it.
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Asian Chip Mfgs to Drive Flow Control Demand
By 2015, semiconductor manufacturing will be concentrated in Asia, with 74 percent of the production and 70 percent of the revenues generated in this region, according to a report by The McIlvaine Company. As such, the report predicts 78 percent of the world's semiconductor equipment purchases will be for Asian chip fabrication facilities.
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Hydraulic Institute Announces 2010 Board of Directors and Officers
The Hydraulic Institute announced its 2010 Board of Directors and Officers during its 93rd Annual Meeting recently held on Marco Island, Florida. The new Board will be primarily responsible for providing organizational oversight to the Institute and guiding the direction of its strategic plan.
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10 Resume Red Flags
Searching for a job is not always easy, no matter what state the economy is in. And when you're on the hunt, your best weapon is your resume. This document must emphasize the best of your experience, education and skills and sell you to your future employer. It's a lot to ask, but it is possible to get your CV into fighting shape. Don't let your effort go to waste by having these glaring red flags on your resume.
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New Flygt Jet Mixers with Dry-Installed N-Technology
ITT Water & Wastewater announces the launch of advanced Flygt jet mixers. Specially designed for demanding wastewater and sludge applications, these powerful new Flygt jet mixers combine the patented Flygt N-technology with an innovative ejector assembly.
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How Many Ways Can You Say Goodbye to a Job?
As talk of a thaw in hiring freezes rises above a whisper, many people are already planning to look for a new position when the job market picks up.
Some 60% of workers say they intend to leave their jobs when the economy improves, according to a survey by Right Management, a talent and career-management consulting firm in Philadelphia. It might be tempting to give the boss an earful if you land a new job in the coming months. But the way you quit can have a long term impact on your career. How to resign on good terms:
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Why Did You Leave Your Last Job?
There are many reasons you might have left your last job, and not all of them are rosy. Perhaps you worked for a toxic boss or you met obstacles on your way up the ladder. Or maybe you were just plain bored with your work.
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World Air Filters Mkt. to Hit $6.6 Bil. in 2010
The market for filters to purify air in commercial buildings, residences and industrial working environments will be up by $200 million reaching $6.6 billion worldwide in 2010, according to a report by McIlvaine Company.
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FSA Appoints Edward Marchese as Vice President of Board of Directors
The Fluid Sealing Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Edward Marchese as Vice President of its Board of Directors.
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Interview Myths That Keep You From Landing the Job
With so few jobs currently available and so many people currently hoping to fill those jobs, standing out in an interview is of utmost importance. While jobs themselves are scarce, job advice is overly abundant. And with an influx of information comes an influx of confusion. What career counsel do you take, and what do you ignore?
There are a number of common misconceptions related to interview best practices, experts say. Kera Greene of the Career Counselors Consortium and executive coach Barbara Frankel offer tips below that can help you stand out from other interview subjects, avoid frequent pitfalls, and secure the job.
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Companies Cautiously Prepare to Raise Salaries
As the economy begins to recover, salary increases should do the same.
In the past few years, employers have raised workers' salaries by about 4 percent per year -- except for 2009, when the figure dropped to a historically low 2.1 percent, according to a survey of employers by global human resources association WorldatWork. About one-third of companies froze raises altogether.
For 2010, WorldatWork's survey projects an average salary increase budget of 2.7 percent, a figure that shows how the situation has improved but also that the job market is still weak. Between 10 percent and 15 percent of companies said they would freeze raises -- far fewer than in 2009, but still more than in most years.
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ABB wins power transmission order worth $550 million from Irish grid operator
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $550 million to connect the Irish and U.K. power grids using technology that will strengthen the reliability and security of electricity supplies in each country, and enable Ireland to expand its wind power capacity
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Top 10 Questions to Ask in an Interview
At some point in every interview the employer will ask, "Do you have any questions?" A top manager at Cingular Wireless, who has hired numerous employees, shared this insight: "I judge candidates by the questions they ask. That's what's most revealing to me. I want someone focused on succeeding in the job and not just centered around how much money I will pay them."By Robin Ryan, Career Coach
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Hiring Pros Share Insights About Social Networking Sites
Are you using social networking sites as part of your recruiting -- either for finding and/or vetting candidates? What are your observations and tips about how candidates can use these sites effectively as part of a job search?
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Phone Interview Tips
Phone interviews can be tough. With the lack of visual communication, you must be able to rely on auditory feedback and be disciplined enough to keep focus. We have compiled this handy guide on phone interview preparation to help ease your fears.
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Tsurumi Calls In the “Puddle Suckers” for Record-Breaking Tunnel Project in Turkey
Tsurumi has placed 90 pumps, including 40 of its LSC series (known as the “Puddle Suckers”), on the construction of Europe’s first ever intercontinental underwater rail link.
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GRS Interviewing Handbook
Going on an interview? The GRS Interviewing Handbook covers everything that you will experience during both a telephone and face-to-face interview.
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