Let’s say you get fired, or laid off, or you quit because after two weeks you know you’re at the worst company on the planet. In all of those cases, you will face the interview question: What happened at your last job?

Here’s the answer you should always give: “I left to do x.” And you fill in for x.

Which brings me to what you should be really focusing on when you are unemployed: Learning and growing. Because this is what you are going to talk about in job interviews.

Check the rest out here: Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist.

Being in the sales industry requires a worker to be effective and knowledgeable in the world of business and sales in particular. Salesmen should impress their future bosses with their capability to carry on responsibilities and activities involving selling. The most common qualification that companies look for in a potential salesman is his capability to increase the viability of the product.

They should take part in the participation of consumers for the company’s products and services. Potential salesman should have the experience on the field and assure his employers that he could be a great asset for the company. Applying for a position in sales must not just involve a competent professional history. You should also concentrate on the sales cover letters if you want a breakthrough. You should be accounted for a presentable cover letter by your employers.

Read the rest of Mark Mattey’s article here: Keeping Sales Career on Track by Using Cover Letter Samples.

I won’t lie to you.

We’re a damn tricky generation. We’ve got Facebook, web-enabled cell phones, blogs, LiveJournals, Twitter accounts, and MySpace. It’s hard to know what’s business friendly and what’s just goofing off.

In a 2009 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consultancy, 61% of chief executives say they have trouble recruiting and integrating younger employees.

Worse than that, we have this sort of… superiority complex. Or so we’ve been told. And we’re sure you’ve heard it, too. Bunk. Pure drivel. What we -do- have is access to almost unlimited amounts of experience and information at our fingertips. Give us a week and we’ll be experts in anything.

Oh, right, and we’ve got doting parents, too… who carted us from one soccer match to the next while we graciously and gratefully grabbed up our trophies for participation and good sportsmanship. We’re apparently very dumb, you know, what with having the highest SAT scores in decades. We’re also drugged out on any number of legal or illegal prescriptions, to compensate for our rampant A.D.D.

Do you really believe all that crap? Neither do I.

Psychotic Resumes.