Get Out Of Retail

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K Smith — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:34:27 +0000

Win money lamenting your job:

One-Day Job Search Tele-Summit March 21st

K Smith — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:54:05 +0000

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Saturday, March 21, 2009
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Learn more and register

FedEx Office is offering free resume printing March 10th

K Smith — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:45:50 +0000

On Tuesday, March 10, the FedEx Corp. subsidiary (formerly FedEx Kinko’s) will offer up to 25 free copies of resumes submitted and picked up inside a store for customers currently job hunting.

The resume can be submitted as a digital file or by hand during regular business hours to any of the more than 1,600 FedEx Office Print and Ship Centers in the U.S.

The resumes will be printed in black-and-white and on single-sided resume-quality paper.

Find more detailed info on FedEx Office locations here.

Source: Houston Business Journal

The FBI is hiring agents and support staff

K Smith — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:06:27 +0000

According to CNN, the FBI is hiring 850 new agents and 2100 support staff, including finance and accounting, security, intelligence analysis, training and education, nursing and counseling, physical surveillance, electrical engineering, physical and social sciences, and auto mechanics.

The present job postings expire on January 16, but a new, possibly smaller set of openings will be posted shortly thereafter, the agency said.

To find an FBI field office near you, check here.

Procedures for applying and a full listing of available positions are posted on the Web site fbijobs.gov.

Get the inside scoop on employers

K Smith — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:07:14 +0000

Check out www.glassdoor.com to get reviews and salaries on over 11,000 companies. Reviews and salaries are posted by employees. It’s free but requires registration.

With their “give-to-get” model, just give them your review of a current or former employer (your post is anonymous — you don’t even need to include your job title) and get full access to all reviews for all companies.

It’s a fairly new website. So far we like it.

I got out of retail

K Smith — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:00:22 +0000

After 13 years working in retail and fast food, I got out! Some people enjoy working retail – they enjoy working with the public and not being tied to a desk. Some retailers pay well and treat their employees with respect.

My employer and I fell into neither of those categories.

GetOutofRetail.com is under development

K Smith — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:32:12 +0000

GetOutofRetail.com is currently under development. In the mean time, get a free report titled, “Seven Disastrous Mistakes Job Seekers Make When Transitioning Out of Retail and How to Avoid Them.” Simply fill out the Free E-Book form on this page.

After requesting the free download, please take a moment to answer the 3-question survey to help me determine what you would like to see on the website.