Recently a favorite of ours, Quick Sprout, posted the article, You’re the reason who you don’t have a job, by Neil Patel. Patel writes great blog posts on everything and anything that you could possibly need to know.

Although it can be very difficult and trying at times, to find a job [...]

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Sometimes when you’re in an interview you get thrown a question that truly requires that you bring out your trusty shovel and start digging. Although I’m not a proponent of telling people to fudge answers to questions, sometimes it’s absolutely necessary.

Glassdoor recently released its Top 25 Oddball Interview Questions of 2010 [...]

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I recently read an article by Sarah E. Needleman, Emily Maltby and Angus Loten that could, and should, be giving small and mid-sized business owners a ray of sunshine in what has been one of the toughest economic times in America.

The article states that companies have been helped by a loosening in the credit [...]

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Don’t Name Your Resume, “resume” & Nine Other Head-Smacking Tips for Job Seekers by guest blogger Don Fornes, CEO of ERP Software Advice.

At Software Advice, we’re hiring like mad, or at least trying to. You might think a growing company with interesting jobs, great pay, top-notch benefits and a cool office would [...]

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Getting Past the Phone Interview

On November 2, 2010 By

I recently read an article in the New York Times, I Assertd Myself and Got the Job, by Marat Gaziev, a twenty-something search engine optimization analyst living in California and similar to many job seakers out there; struggling to find a position. What sets Gaziev’s story apart from others is that he has [...]

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The Next Step: Work Force Re-Entry

On October 18, 2010 By

We have a lot of advice on our blog about interview tips, resume writing, and the job hunt in general for those of you in the reliability engineering and industrial maintenance fields.  But what about tips for after the interview? I read this great article recently, Making an Easy Re-Entry into [...]

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Every year, Uptime Magazine, in conjunction with reliabilityweb.com, announces one winner of best predictive maintenance program among mobile equipment fleets around the world.

This year, Arch Coal, Inc., of St. Louis, was awarded best predictive maintenance program. Arch Coal is the nation’s second largest coal  producer, employing 4,600 employees including certified maintenance engineers [...]

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The Skilled Trade Labor Shortage

On September 22, 2010 By

I just came across this brief article from Plant Services entitled “Report Warns that Global Skilled Trade Shortage Could Stall Future Economic Growth” that provides some highlights from Manpower’s recent study  “Strategic Migration — a Short-Term Solution to the Skilled Trades [...]

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Recent Study Shows Employers Favor those with State University Education

I recently came across an article in the Wall Street Journal that relates education with the specialized fields of reliability engineering and predictive maintenance.

Did you know that those of us in the predictive maintenance and reliability engineering fields have a better chance of [...]

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Blog.Indeed has reported that job postings online have reached their highest levels of 2010 in August. In their Industry Employment Trends report, which tests the climate of 12 major industries and their job postings, it is reported that year-over-year job posting growth occurred in all 12 industries in August.

 Manufacturing showed an upswing [...]

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