Low-risk ways to get a better job without jumping ship

Wow, you ladies are tough!

In my opinion the article is insightful and accurate. I have used the technique of volunteering to build experience, skills, and valuable relationships. At one of the organizations I volunteer at the program manager who I work with knew of my interest in non-profit operations, and setup a meeting for me to have an informational meeting with the Director. Mind you, I did not have to ask for this meeting it was offered to me because I show up on my scheduled days ready to work and giving every task 100% effort.

Great post!

sheeesh
who did the author know to get her job
what a waste of time

this article is BS. How do you get an informational interview?

I agree- I have never heard of informational interview and would not really have time to meet with someone who wanted one, i would rather you come to me looking for a job and be upfront then, trying to hide alterior motives.
just look for jobs you like better and apply- then if you go on the interview you will be more confident and not as desperate- don't waste the new employers time or you may burn the bridge.

Is this post meant to help if you need to find a new job or make you feel better about your current one? Many employers understand discretion while searching for a new job and aren't going to do anything with your resume and your currently employer unless you agree to it. Just send your resume confidentially.

To Tete Weston: How to build your credit score starts with you proving you are trustworthy with a debt, so to do that save a thousand dollars, then go to that bank where your thousand dollars is saved, and tell the loan officer you want to borrow a thousand dollars because you are trying to build a credit record. IF you can't get credit cards you are lucky because they will suck your blood. But a good credit record is essential to buying a home, so start there and pay off the loan month by month without ever being late. It will cost you a little money in the interest on the loan but it is worth the cost. Anyway interest rates are very low now and probably will be for some time. Just make sure when you get the loan, that you take out only a loan with a Fixed Rate of interest. That means your interest will not go up before you finish paying off the loan, which is the safest way to borrow money. Good luck!

for those of us that got downsized, and took a survival job to ride out the economy, I wish someone would publish REAL info on how to get back to a level somewhere near where you came from. I have been trying to network...unsuccessfully....with those at the level where I was....trying to get a job back in the level where I was, but if you took a HUGE pay cut, then somehow employers feel that is the only value you have and dismiss you as not of anything more than that realm. Not to mention if you have late payments because you were doing the best your were able to do with HALF a salary. It is a catch 22 for many of us in the older age bracket. We have diminished our savings, we have tried to be creative with doing with less, but to make less than you did just out of college at this age with no real hope for the future it is just really frightening. So many of my friends are so close to losing everything, and yet there doesn't seem to be CONCRETE help out there for us.

Honestly, writers should quit with articles like this one. For example if everyone looking for a new job starts pestering for "informational interviews", pretty soon no employment managers will be willing to do that any more for anyone seriously interested.

what should i do to build some credit my score are fair but i dont have any crdit cards and its hard for me to get appoved for credit lines