Two IT Jobs for Non-Nerds

IT doesn't just need developers. Reportedly, they're having problems hiring enough salespeople and project managers.

Job clubs are great, says a division of the US Department of Labor who is promoting them.

Mistakes

There are some words that shouldn't be on your résumé .
Replace them with examples--prove what you did.

More interviewing no-nos: smelling like you've been smoking and long hair on men.

Online Presence

A company doing background checks for employers claims its software can find the real names of people using pseudonyms on the web.

Don't trust privacy settings to keep your secrets safe from inquiring employers.

You've deleted something an employer shouldn't see from the web. But you're worried Mama Google will still report a cached copy of the url.

You might look at Google's URL removal tool .

Another technique is to get so much positive stuff indexed about yourself, the questionable item disappears to page 34 of the results.


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