We’ve posted before on how to use Twitter to find jobs, but did you know it can actually help you polish your interview skills as well?
Those with Twitter accounts know the challenges and rewards of using the site. Limiting yourself to 140 characters can be difficult, yet it’s also freeing in a way–it forces you [...]

Attention Facebook users: check out our fun new career aptitude test, the Career-O-Rama, at: http://www.facebook.com/career-o-rama
Just answer a few simple questions by sliding a bar to the left or right to indicate how well each phrase describes you–the closer you move the bar, the more strongly you feel the description suits you.
When you’re done completing the [...]

…a depression is when you lose your job!
In these tough economic times, many individuals have described the current fiscal situation as a “recession.” But do these individuals understand what a recession really is?
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As an employer, being able to effectively communicate expectations for employees is key not only for their success, but to the success of your business as a whole, and the simplest way to achieve this is with thorough, accurate job descriptions.
Contrary to popular belief, job descriptions are not simply used as a part of the [...]

The Dot-Com Bubble of the mid-to-late-1990s, for those who don’t recall, was a period of soaring values for internet-based companies, where simply adding “.com” to the end of a business name could rocket a company to the top of its field.
Of course, as we all know, this failed spectacularly when investors began to realize that [...]

Mary Elaine Ramos of Good Recruits alerted us today of some funny job ads that are both clever and attention grabbing. She writes:
Personally, I consider “unique” job ads is a great way to actually attract applicants because it would certainly [catch] their eye and would make them interested in applying.
Take a look at some of [...]

This morning at Voolkan, we’re proud to announce a fifth partnership with job site CareerBuilder!
This exciting new development should bring us in thousands of more fresh, new job listings every day! Every website partnership is as valuable to us as it is to you as an applicant–the more we have, the more listings we’ll have, [...]

Today we tread on old territory once more to discuss another aspect of social networking and how it can affect you in the workplace: “friending” your boss online!
A large percentage of executives feel “uncomfortable” friending their employees, according to an analysis by Steve Bruce of HR Daily Advisor. And many employees may themselves feel uncomfortable [...]

As a follow-up to our recent post, Recent Grads Compete in a Crumbling Job Market, there is a new twist on one of the reasons that many American youths are finding it harder to find work after graduation.
According to a recent post on Consumerist by Laura Northrup, discussing the details of a Pew Research Center [...]

Voolkan is proud to announce a new partnership with employment search engine CareerJet, bringing the total number of official job search partners to four.
Since partnering with the four other jobs sites (Beyond.com, Indeed, SimplyHired, and now CareerJet), Voolkan now gets thousands of new job listings every day, to every region of every state across the [...]