Career Management

Archive: 01-2012

• Resume formatting: Word or PDF?

  Toni Bowers outlines some issues with resumes formatted in Microsoft Word and those converted to PDFs.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 31, 2012, 7:24 AM PST

• Ban the Box seeks to prohibit companies from asking about criminal records on applications

  Proponents of Ban the Box want to prohibit employers from asking job candidates about their criminal history on an application.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 31, 2012, 3:22 AM PST

• Top tech companies investigated for employee-poaching ban

  This week, a federal judge ordered Google, Apple, and five other high-tech companies to court.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 30, 2012, 5:17 AM PST

• Grade your job results: Help Desk

  This week we’re showing the results of our poll Grade Your Job: Help Desk.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 30, 2012, 4:07 AM PST

• Friday rant: Social media, leave me alone

  In this Friday rant, Toni Bowers talks about why she is sick and tired of social media.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 27, 2012, 6:15 AM PST

• Infographic: Cost of a bad hire

  Careerbuilder.com sponsored a survey on the cost of a bad hire, and Mindflash created this graphic based on those results.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 27, 2012, 4:05 AM PST

• Should women act like men to get ahead?

  Author Vickie Milazzo says women need to extol their accomplishments more in order to succeed in the business world.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 25, 2012, 8:58 AM PST

• 2012: Developers focusing on mobile development and the cloud

  Developers are moving into mobile development and the cloud in a big way. Here’s what a new report from Zend Technologies had to say.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 25, 2012, 5:44 AM PST

• The case of anonymity in social media

  Social media expert Jason Falls weighs in on the pros and cons of anonymity on the web.

  Posted by Jason Falls | January 24, 2012, 4:49 AM PST

• Grade your job results: IT project manager

  The results are in for our grade-your-job polls. This week: IT project manager.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | January 23, 2012, 4:24 AM PST