Career

Depending on whom you ask, today's college graduates will change careers an average of 4-6 times during their lives.

While a new class of college students navigates their first semester this fall, many members of the most recently graduated class are still looking for their first big opportunity.It seems easy enough.

Job satisfaction: We all want it, but we're not exactly sure how to secure it.Partially, that's because we believe our satisfaction is dependent on factors we don't control, like the work/life balance at our current organization, the way a manager chooses to motivate us, or the specific tasks our supervisors delegate to us.

For a wide range of organizations, data-driven decision-making is the key to success.

In the second part of this series, we looked at the differences between the summary sections of your resume and LinkedIn profile.

Inevitably, when I'm meeting with a new job seeker, I'll ask a question that makes them pretty uncomfortable.

Many companies hemorrhage money in ways they can't seem to control.

Warren Buffett once famously said, "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." While that may be true of public perceptions held by those outside of an organization, a leader's reputation within their company should be far more stable – as long as that person is working daily to build a reputation among team members as dependable and trustworthy, that is.Trust is contagious.

At ResumeSpice, we've seen a lot of resumes and counseled a lot of job seekers.

The average household income varies significantly by tax filing status, geographic location, age, and other factors.

It's about that time of year: open enrollment season, when employees get to choose or tweak their benefits options for the coming year.

Every year without fail, beloved Peanuts character Linus sits in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night to wait for the Great Pumpkin to appear.

The Internet is littered with salary tools – and most of them are pretty bad. Salary tools are often too broad.

This would be the ideal situation from a recruiter's point of view: They post a job ad and many talented people apply for the position.When you're looking for candidates to fill entry-level positions, this may be what actually happens.

Leadership effectiveness is a very hot topic today. A basic Google search for "leadership books" will return more than 250 million results.

Recruiting is a tough business.

The recruiting process doesn't stop when a new hire shows up on their first day of work.

There's a talent gap on the horizon for the insurance industry: Twenty-five percent of insurance professionals will retire by 2018, according to a study by McKinsey and Company.

We have good news, and we have bad news.The good news – for employers at least – is that baby boomers will probably hang on in the workplace longer than previous generations did, according to a survey from the Futurestep division of global advisory firm Korn Ferry.The bad news is they are hanging around in the workforce because many of them can't afford to retire.Thanks to the Great Recession, many baby boomers have had to adjust their retirement plans.

The job market is constantly changing, and the priorities of job seekers are changing along with it.