Career Articles

Whether you seek help with a job search or tips on climbing the corporate ladder, this archive of articles will help you manage your career at every level.

• The Best Jobs for Telecommuting
  By Sara Eckel, PayScale.com • 16 Mar 10

  Whether you're trying to navigate kids' school schedules or avoid soul-crushing rush-hour traffic, finding a flextime job or a job that allows telecommuting can...

• 5 Tips for Successful Telecommuting
  Margaret Steen, for Yahoo! HotJobs • 16 Mar 10

  Facing challenges ranging from the threat of pandemics to the recent snowstorms on the East Coast, employers and employees are taking another look at telecommuting...

• How to Have That Impossible Conversation at Work
  Susan Adams, Forbes.com • 16 Mar 10

  A manager can't figure out how to tell her colleague to stop staring at her chest when they talk. An employee is afraid to ask her supervisor not to yell at her...

• March Madness in the Workplace
  Charles Purdy, Yahoo! HotJobs • 16 Mar 10

  So, has Chris in Accounts Receivable given you your March Madness bracket yet? It's that time of year again: spring, when an employee's fancy turns away from profit-and-loss...

• The Best and Worst Cities for Jobs This Spring
  Helen Coster, Forbes.com • 15 Mar 10

  Cities with colleges, military bases, and a wide range of industries have the strongest outlook for hiring in the second quarter of 2010, according to a recent survey...

• Breaking Out of Long-Term Unemployment
  Larry Buhl, for Yahoo! HotJobs • 15 Mar 10

  Long-term unemployment can wreak havoc on a person's sense of self-worth and well-being. Worse, big resume gaps, or current unemployment, may also mark a job seeker...

• The da Vinci Cover Letter
  Maria Hanson, LiveCareer • 12 Mar 10

  Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate Renaissance man--a genius by anyone's standards. The Italian polymath excelled as a painter, a sculptor, an inventor, an engineer,...

• How to Prep to Ask for a Raise
  Lydia Dishman, PayScale.com • 11 Mar 10

  Even though the recession has been responsible for the loss of 8 million jobs and the lowest pay raises in over thirty years, there is a light at the end of the...

• Best-Paying Degrees in 2010
  Charles Purdy, Yahoo! HotJobs • 11 Mar 10

  Engineering majors dominate a new list of the top 10 highest-earning and most in-demand bachelor's degrees, according to a new report from the National Association...

• Next-Generation Job: Mobile-Application Developer
  Brooke Sopelsa, CNBC.com • 11 Mar 10

  Joe Hankin was on the fast track to law school. The 25-year-old Maryland native graduated early from Brown University and soon landed a paralegal job at a corporate...