You may want to take a gap year, but worry that while you’re away from your regular studies you might lose your edge. If you’re away from school for long enough, perhaps you’ll need so much time to get back into the educational groove that you’ll fall behind. But there may be a way around this, by engaging in some sort of study while you’re taking the year off. You can feed your soul, learning things that focus on your own interests and desires, yet be fully ready to be a formal student again once you return home. There are multitudes of possibilities, some of Read more
January 5th, 2010
Job Seeker Tools
No Comments, Education, by admin .The median time a job seeker spends looking for a job has increased from 3.6 months to 4.4 months from the second to third quarter of 2008. In fact, it’s not unusual to hear of perfectly qualified individuals remaining out-of-work for six months. Additionally, in the third quarter of 2008, 13.4% of job seekers relocated to find work (which is up from 8.9% in the first quarter). Despite these grim statistics, one recruiter reminds us that “All too often, job seekers allow themselves to get mired in the doom and gloom of a failing job market. However, if they can remember to Read more