Turn a Setback into a Comeback: A Guide to Career Resilience

At some point in your career, you will face setbacks. These moments, while initially seeming like obstacles, are actually opportunities for growth and development. This guide, courtesy of NJJobMarket, offers you strategies to not only bounce back from these setbacks but to use them as a springboard for your career advancement. Embracing these challenges can

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5 Tips for Jumpstarting Your Career After High School

You’ve graduated high school, and you’re not planning to immediately enroll in college or trade school. Instead, you’re focused on landing a job and gaining experience first. NJJobMarket explains how to pursue entrepreneurship or apply for your very first job. Find Out Which Jobs Interest You With your high school diploma, you’ll be able to

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How to Put a Positive Spin on a Midlife Crisis

Most people experience a period of soul-searching when they reach middle age. As you look back on the past few decades, you may feel that you’ve left your best years behind, that your life turned out differently than you had envisioned, and that you have nothing to look forward to but the same old routine. You start to notice changes in your body and mind.

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2018 College Graduates: NJJobMarket.com Latest Find A Job Resources

Are you graduating in the next few months from college? As a college graduate in the state of New Jersey, its a daunting task to figure out how to find a job in NJ. Here are some resources from NJJobMarket.com for NJ job candidates fresh out of school that includes everything from your cover letter, CV / resume and networking to possibly starting our own business.

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Bad employees? Most managers admit making bad hires — Forever 39 Podcast

Let’s face it, we’ve all worked with someone that just wasn’t a good fit for the position they were hired for. And the plague of bad hires is a pretty big problem in the U.S. In a Robert Half survey released in March, 81 percent of small and midsize managers business owners said they’d made a bad hiring decision. And once the bad hire is made, it takes companies nearly 17 weeks to fix the mistake.

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