According to research, one of the top 10 most popular New Year's resolutions is job-related. However, the craziness of January and February and than tax season can steer us away from our resolutions. While many of these goals are forgotten and never achieved here are the keys you need to open doors and take control of your career.

What new things will do in 2008? An expected big change in 2008 is employment. The employment rate is expected to increase by 15.6 million jobs during the 2006-16 decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Everywhere you go whether it is a mechanic's shop or a fast food restaurant, some form of technology and computers is being used. It may be a computerized cash register or the machine that cleans out your engine but it is a computer and everyone needs basic computer skills to function in today's job market.

It is that time of year again. A fresh start to leave last year's problems (hopefully) as a learned mistake and a time to set new resolutions. The problem with a nice long weekend or for the lucky ones a week long vacation is that we must all return to work. But only are returning to work we are returning to work in a new year.

Monster.com might be the biggest job website but is it a dinosaur? Job specific websites such as Indeed, Linked In and Peek Face are getting attention of career professionals who want to only look at career opportunities that are targeted to them and their industry. Specialized job sites do for career opportunity listings what Google does for search engine information – they list hundreds of listings from thousands of sites and create a free, searchable index that caters to one area or industry.

What happened to employees who believed in working hard, working smart and working business hours? There are so many bad example employers that we often forget that not all employers are 'rotten apples'. We also forget that not all employees are not 'rotten apples'. Here is the other side of the coin.

Earning a degree or a new degree requires enormous sacrifices to your financial, social, and sometimes even your emotional well-being. For some people additional training or new career education is exactly what they need to move forward in their life. However, some people go to college for the wrong reasons which can damage their chances for life success. What are your reasons to go to college?

For people who drive love to drive the daily commuting and traffic doesn’t bother them nearly as much as it frustrates us drivers. What kind of career exists for those who love to drive? It doesn’t occur to us drivers that a lot of the driving careers we see every day are those who would never consider a different career. Even with the frustrations they love their career behind the wheel. There are dozens of careers for those who love to drive and below is only a handful of the ones available.

"Keyword optimization? What's that?" Keyword optimization is the skill, and possibly the art, of choosing the best keywords to use in any piece of writing you plan on putting into the public sphere, online or otherwise. The purpose of keyword optimization is to create relevance within the scope of Internet search engines, drawing in the people you want to read your Web site -- or in this case, your resume.

Getting a job at any magazine company is really tough. They receive hundreds of submissions. Assistant jobs are more often than not being no more than a ‘go for’ type job. Internships are available but less than a handful of interns are lucky enough to receive an offer of employment afterwards. So how can you avoid the pitfalls of the magazine industry? You have to plan and be prepared.