Account Executive (ad sales ) for WESTERN MASS WOMEN MAGAZINE

This can be a part time position or full time position. We are looking for experienced sales people to sell advertising for the new updated women's publication in the Western Mass Region.

We are looking for someone who is energetic, committed to follow through and excited to build a profitable client base for you and the magazine. Must be able to develop new business and have their own transportation. You must be a strong communicator, and be a self starter. Someone who will pay attention to detail and can develop solid working relationships with potential clients.

This person will be responsible for developing new accounts and be able to present sales presentations, media kits, and think on their feet. This person will also be responsible for presenting new sales strategies and ideas to the Publisher & Editor-in-Chief. As a Senior Account Executive you may have the possiblity to grow this position into a Sales Manager position in the future, with a staff.

If you think this is you then please E-mail your resume and cover letter to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Attn: Publisher. We will be reviewing resumes over the next week. We will then contact you if we are interested in setting up an interview with you. Serious candidates only need apply!

How to make your job search fun

If you're not having much fun in your job search, you might want to change that. While I can't promise to make your job search as much fun as a trip to Disney World, there are ways to make job hunting more enjoyable by making it more like a game. In fact, here are a few ways to do it:

1.  Use a Scoreboard: Start keeping score of your vital job-search activities, such as networking calls and jobs you've applied for. Think baseball here. Score every voicemail as a single, a phone call as a double, a meeting as a triple, and a job interview -- that's a home run.

2.  Become Your Own Agent: Have some fun with promotion and salary negotiation. Join Toastmasters where you'll meet local movers and shakers with connections to hiring managers.

3.  Join a Team: Inject some teamwork into your job search by getting on the phone and start "drafting" like-minded people to join your team.

4.  Start Competing: Every game is a competition -- that's part of the fun! Who among your friends has an excellent blog or attractive resume, and think about how you could set about beating their efforts, one step at a time.

How to beat the competition and land a job faster

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What should be done to create more jobs?

By -Biz Beat (Career News)

The economy's fire needs more kindling. When I was growing up in the Bronx, I didn't know much about starting campfires. I learned how to do that at summer camp, where there were trees, broken limbs and available wood. To start a campfire: You take small, thin pieces of kindling wood and light them. Then you hope the bigger chunks of wood stacked above the kindling eventually catch fire.

Essentially, that's how an economic stimulus during a recession should work. The federal government is supposed to create demand since businesses and consumers are not spending. The government provides the kindling. Only in this economic mess the wood above the kindling has been too damp to catch fire. Businesses and consumers are paying down debt and unwilling to spend excess cash. That might be the right strategy for them individually, but it means demand will remain weak. And unemployment will remain strong. What should we do?

There are two choices. The first is to wait for the sun to bake the bigger pieces of wood so they can catch fire. All business cycles eventually end and then start anew. The second option is for the government to add significantly more kindling, sometime after the November election when it might be more doable. The first round of stimulus was not enough to do the job. Much of the money went to state and local governments to forestall layoffs. The argument for another stimulus is to reduce the pain being inflicted on real people.

The sunny side of the summer job market

staff writer – Career News

Current studies and surveys are saying that employers and executives want to hire in the next few months. The surveys put out by the Society for Human Resource Management and Robert Half International say to look on the sunny side of summer: that professional services and tech jobs will be in higher demand in the next three months.

About 35 percent of employers are expected to add jobs this summer, more than double the employers who created jobs last year. However salaries are still lying low, according to the SHRM study. If you're looking for a pay increase, the financial and health care sectors are most likely to get raises this year. Financial sector employees will see an overall pay increase of about 2.7 percent, while health care workers will see a 2.2 percent pay raise.

The Robert Half study showed: Eighty-five percent of 4,000 executives surveyed across the U.S. expressed confidence in their company's growth prospects in the third quarter, up from 82 percent the previous quarter. The legal field is expected to see the strongest hiring activity. Other bright spots were advertising and marketing and information technology. Forty-two percent of respondents said it's challenging to find skilled professionals, up five percent from the previous quarter.