After losing a job, anyone can lose all of his or her confidence. There are even times when questions start to linger on your mind: “Why me? Am I not good enough?” Not to mention the rejections you’ll face on your job search.

It’s no wonder a lot of people fail to find a new job immediately after losing their last one. They lack the necessary confidence to reassure employers of their abilities during interviews. More often than not, the loss of confidence affects everything about them in their interviews.

Fresh out of school, college graduates don’t have much to show a hiring manager, so it is important to cover all bases in giving information—especially your references. Your grades are important for any employer to evaluate how you’ll do with the job, but that alone will not be enough. Because of your inexperience, your references will be even more important because these people can give insight as to your abilities outside the four walls of a classroom.

In every decision, whether it be finding a new job or a career change, there is one important aspect that you need in order to be successful: motivation. It will keep you focused on doing what you need to do until you achieve your goal.

In a tough economy, finding yourself in a job search is not something that anyone wants, but you can learn to accept and even embrace it. As the saying goes, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”

Given the situation, feeling bad about yourself will not do you any good. Instead, take a look at the bright side. The job search gives you an opportunity to do things you can’t when you have a job.

In the age of modern technology, there are a lot of ways employers do interviews to find the most qualified candidates. However, even with all of the various ways they do interviews, there is one old-school method that is widely used among employers: phone interviews.

Phone interviews have been done for years for a variety of reasons, but here we will take a look at some of the most common reasons why employer use them.

After several years in your career, you don’t feel that this is the right field you should be in. With day after day of stress from work, you feel the need to make a change. If you are having second thoughts about the career change because you don’t know how or where to start, here are tips on how to have a successful career change.

You found a job posting that you really like, and you feel good about your chances. You prepared a resume that will impress and wrote the perfect cover letter for it. Now everything is set—all there is left to do is to send everything to the right person. You want your application to be seen by the person who calls the shots: the hiring manager. The problem is that you don't know how to reach him or her. Here are some tips on how you can find that person’s contact information:

If you’re a job seeker who has embraced the power of the Internet in conducting your search, you have probably realized that it’s overwhelming. The Internet is vast and has many places where you can find a job, so you will need to manage your search.

When searching for a job, you need all the help you can get. But how can your friends help you if they don’t think of you whenever they see a job opening? The people in your network meet people every day, and these people also meet other people who could possibly help you get a job. To get people to help you, there is no need to beg them to do it.

After graduation, the time will come when you will need to join the workforce. During that time, you will be in an uncharted territory, a place where you need to learn the ins and outs of what it means to be an employee. To help you ease into that transition, here are some things you can do for a better start in your career: