Employment in the Payments Industry

Cardgigs Shares Industry Employment Insights for 2010

2010-01-13T15:50:00.000-08:00

While many wonder what 2010’s job market will look like, a survey conducted by Cardgigs can shed some light on the payments industry’s current job climate and what’s in store for 2010. Cardgigs recently approached payments industry companies that use its job board in order to assess the payments industry’s employment outlook and to approximate the expected hiring trends for

Top 5 reasons to be employed in the payments industry.

2009-12-04T12:07:00.000-08:00

It can be said that the electronic payments industry officially kicked off in 1871 when Western Union started utilizing its telegraph wire lines in order to “wire” money across the U.S. This transaction method was primarily in the hands of companies and financial institutions that utilized telegraph wires to predominantly transfer money rather than just payment transactions

Creating a Personal Brand – What does it mean?

2009-11-10T21:45:00.000-08:00

We at Cardgigs have seen the that personal branding has promoted by other sites as a popular technique in the job market. Since the turn of the millennium, probably fueled by the dot-com boom that was in full swing at the time, the concept of branding yourself became a trend for those entering the high-tech job market. This eventually spilled over into other industries, including bankcard. But

Is staying too long at one job hurting you?

2009-11-04T18:58:00.000-08:00

Twenty years ago eyebrows were raised when anyone changed jobs more than twice in a career. And it has only been since the early 90's when anyone who left a job with less than a four-year tenure was considered a "job-hopper." In the bankcard industry today, like a lot of industries in America, the average person remains in a job approximately 34 months. These days,

10 Tough Job Interview Questions and How to Respond.

2009-10-29T18:57:00.000-07:00

I think that all of us can relate to this; you’re in a job interview when the interviewer asks you a question that gets your adrenaline going. In your mind you may panic a bit; you wonder how to respond but want to avoid being perceived as critical, non-specific, dodging the answer or missing the point of the question altogether. My partner at Cardgigs, Rick Slifka, a

Techniques most candidates fail to use when interviewing for a job.

2009-10-26T09:23:00.000-07:00

My partners at Cardgigs are payments industry recruiters with more than 45 years of combined experience. We often discuss the hiring process in general because we always look to improve the workflow of Cardgigs.com. One of our recent conversations pertained to why some candidate excel in job interviews while others fail miserably. It was explained to me

Five Reasons to Subscribe to the Cardgigs RSS Feed.

2009-10-21T19:40:00.000-07:00

RSS? What the $%&#@ is RSS? These days you may have seen the RSS logo (shown on the left) on various sites, but probably paid no attention to it. Some of you may subscribe to RSS feeds – I know I do! RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication, a very easy method to keep up to speed on new announcements and news articles without having to always go to a specific website to stay

The Missing Link; Finally a Job Board for our Industry.

2009-10-19T21:31:00.001-07:00

Since the inception of the World Wide Web, several job boards have securely established themselves on the Internet. Most job seekers have heard of, or used, CareerBuilder and Monster.com. These two sites certainly play a role for many job seekers who search for work regardless of industry sector. However, these job boards were never intended to serve a specific market and thus aren’t specialized