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How to Stay Motivated While Job Hunting During the Holidays This Year

Success

Emphasize your transferable skills. On your résumé and during interviews, highlight transferable skills that will help you add value to an employer with potentially changing business objectives. Transferable skills typically fall into 1 of 3 categories: systems-oriented, people-oriented or self-oriented. See chaos as a ladder.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

With their technology skills and great social networking abilities, GenY ( born roughly between 1980-2003) previously have found employers willing to meet their expectations. Like the rest of job hunters, Generation Y has found jobs can be tough to come by, even with their skills. But are they going to be different?

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