Most of this site is dedicated to helping you find a job. But what about setting up your own business? Heading into the Christmas period is the right time to look at starting a Christmas light installation business, think of it as your Christmas job.
In some parts of the country Christmas light installation is a high demand, luxury service. This means that you can demand top dollar for your services and you will find many of clients are willing to spend $3000… $6000… or even $10000 and many large commercial …

Are you frustrated with your lack of response from online job postings?

Getting The Right Job is EASIER! Competing for a job after applying the Six Amazing Job Seeking Success Secrets is a more natural and enjoyable thing to do.  Your obvious and specific passion and skills will shine through… making the choice obvious for your future employer.

While the Australian and US employment markets are very different they do share enough similarities for this article from US News to be a concern to everyone.
According to Adecco’s latest workplace survey, 54 percent are getting ready to start looking elsewhere. No surprise really that the itch to move on is highest among the youngest workers. Adecco reports 71 percent of 18-to-29 year olds plan to look for a new job in the recovery.
For job seekers it will mean if you are unemployed when the market picks up there might be …

Earlier in June specialist vertical search engine Classifind launched their new service the Classifind Job Index.
Each month we will publish information on National job listings as well as break them down by State, Capital Cities, and also show data for each of our 46 individual Sectors. This will be the most comprehensive source of data for job listings in Australia.
As of June 9 they had 107,993 jobs in their database so the figures should stand up even without data from Seek. Their first report shows a slight increase in jobs listed …

In early June Seek released their latest round of labour market statistics, showing some interesting trends. Firstly that the employment marketing might in fact be turning around. Second that the Australian Government’s prediction of 8.5% unemployment will prove wrong.

The evidence is clearest in new job ads registered with SEEK. Between August 2008 and March 2009 new job ads (seasonally adjusted) fell by 44.2%, at a monthly rate of 6.6%. While job ads continued to fall in April and May 2009, the rate of change has slowed significantly to only 1.9% in May.

Only time …

The job market is still soft the latest ABS figures show that in May 2009 unemployment climbed to 5.7%, an increase of 1.6% over the last 12 months.
This growth in unemployment means that many job seekers have to go the extra mile to land a new role.
For example take Doug Winfield.
Doug decided to take out a Facebook ad advertising his skills. But with one unique difference. He targeted a specific company, SHIFT. Using Facebook Ads Doug was able to narrow in on the specific organisation he wanted to work for. …

There is still a lot of doom and gloom around the markets, and while some things are looking up, you can even bet on unemployment, there are still people losing their jobs. 
To help people get through this difficult period CHOICE has pulled together some options for you, in their Find relief from debt article. The article looks at seeking help, bankruptcy, debt agreements and other tools to help you find relief from your debt.
The article also raises a couple of interesting statistics. Firstly about 75% of credit cards are not fully …

The Commonwealth Government provides a range of payments and service to help you while you are looking for work. These are mainly provided by Centrelink and, if you have never dealt with them before, it can seem a bit daunting and confusing.
Since you have worked for all these years and paid tax, you might as well get some support not that you are in need. So here is a high-level guide to some of the main benefits and services that Centrelink can offer you.
The main type of payment that you …

I was talking to a job seeker the other day who commented on they needed to know how to find employers who used certain software within their business operations. 
So my suggestion, conduct research on LinkedIn. (Note: I am excluding your existing network and job postings.)
Why?
Well you can see which companies to approach as part of a cold calling process but more importantly find a potential contact who can introduce you to the organisation. Remember many roles are filled through word of mouth.
Here’s how.
Let’s say the software in question was SAP.

Conduct …