Advice for job hunters from URI's Ed Mazze

• January 2007: Returning to employment requires hard work

• January 2007 Labor market report: Coming year looks tough for state and nation

• The rules of the interview

• Advice for job hunters

• The job market, September

• What kind of jobs do casinos create?

• The job market, August

• The job market, July

• The job market, June

• The job market, May

• The job market, April

• About Edward M. Mazze

• Your Turn: Ask Professor Mazze your own question

Interviews

• The job interview: Helpful hints
Preparing for a job interview. Find recent articles on the industry and market of the employer to help kick-start a conversation with the interviewer.

• Be an interview standout
It could be the most important hour of your career.

• Break through the post-interview silence
One of the most frustrating experiences job seekers say they run into is trying to follow up with potential employers after an interview.

Résumés

• On a résumé, learn to sell yourself
An applicant used to be competing with about 250 résumés, now it's 1,000, says the president of a Web service that helps job seekers.

• Reinvent yourself: Find new uses for old job skills
The key, says George Lowe, who "graduated" from Ford in May 2000 when he took an early retirement deal, was finding new uses for the skills he had learned as a Ford manager. "I was thinking about what I wanted to do next well before the time came to depart Ford."

• The other you: What's on your 'invisible' résumé?
Having an up-to-date résumé is a must. But there's another kind of résumé you might find extremely useful: the "invisible" résumé.

• To get ahead, people will put just about anything on their résumé
David Edmondson, chief executive officer at RadioShack for less than a year, resigned in shame recently after a newspaper revealed he had lied on his résumé about having two college degrees when in fact he had none.

The search

• Organize your job search
One of the major barriers for job seekers is their own disorganization. To become effective in a job hunt, one must become disciplined and structured.

• Protect your image: How to maintain an online profile, and your professionalism
Online profiles might help you get dates, but could they keep you from getting a job?