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Employer Value Statements Make Your Resume Sizzle
Do you want to be perceived as the perfect candidate for the job? Who wouldn't, right? When I talk to hiring managers, I often ask if they have ever seen the resume of a perfect candidate - one who was born to do the job. The typical answer is not often ... but yes. The interesting thing, is how hiring managers typically answer this question - they usually go into a story about the candidate and usually raise the pitch of their voice, giving a very emotional response. The typical reaction... |
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Who's Hiring - Top employers week of 3-8-10
tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Share var _sfbAux = {} sfb.init("http://sociable.s3.amazonaws.com/sociable-for-blogger/sfb2code.js"); Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 3/8/10. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies... |
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Who's Hiring - Top employers week of 3-1-10
Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 3/1/10. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding. Read more ... Total Job Openings:The business services, telecommunications, banking, retail, health care, and... |
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Whos Firing - Layoffs week ended 2-26-10 and 3-5-10
tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Share var _sfbAux = {} sfb.init("http://sociable.s3.amazonaws.com/sociable-for-blogger/sfb2code.js"); Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ended 2/26/10 and 3/5/10. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting. Read more ... Top... |
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Who's Firing – Layoffs week ended 2-19-10
Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ended 2/19/10. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting. Read more ... Top layoffs announced and rumored this week were in the Pharmaceuticals, Government, Retail, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Education sectors. Inclusion... |
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5 Ways Social Media Gives Job Seekers An Advantage In A Recession: Best of reCareered
tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Share var _sfbAux = {} sfb.init("http://sociable.s3.amazonaws.com/sociable-for-blogger/sfb2code.js"); This is a republication of an article I wrote for NewMediaHire. In today’s hyper-competitive, recessionary job market, job seekers are finding more barriers than good news. Creative social media use gives job seekers a way to beat the odds. When government figures list unemployment as 6 times greater than job openings, you’ve got to try something different... |
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Age Discrimination - Job search question of the week
tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';Share var _sfbAux = {}sfb.init("http://sociable.s3.amazonaws.com/sociable-for-blogger/sfb2code.js"); On Fridays, I'm posting a job search question from one of our readers. This was a question posted in response to my posting on Linkedin Answers “Candidates - What's your most difficult job search question?” K.T. shared a question she had about her own job search, and asked: "Age discrimination is my biggest problem. Being a face reader I can tell immediately... |
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Safe Is The Risky Path For Candidates
Two days ago, I posted an article suggesting that job seekers take responsibility for their own search, rather than blame others, blame the economy, blame anyone but themselves (see: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/03/job-seekers-its-not-just-economy-its.html). Sadly, I got many responses that just contained more whining, more blaming others, with not very many taking responsibility for their own job search. I'm not alone in this observation. Seth Godin, one of the great marketing minds... |
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Employment Turnaround? Indeed!
Indeed just published some interesting employment trends for February, showing some encouraging news.As the winter of our discontent is ending, Indeed's recent employment trends show that the recession may be easing. I don't know that I'd justify buying a new Porsche based on this report, but it's a step in the right direction. What does this bright ray of sunshine tell us? Read more ... Indeed measured year over year growth by industries, and they've reported two good months of growth in... |
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Job Seekers - It's Not Just The Economy, It's You
What happens when the going gets tough? In sports, when a team is about to face a tougher opponent, when they are expected to lose, do their coaches have them prepare in the same way? When you're up against a tough business problem, up against a difficult challenge, do you go prepare the same way as for something easy? Successful teams, competitors, and business people attack difficult challenges differently than the easy stuff. They prepare differently, they train harder, they push themselves,... |
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Why Didn't I Get The Job Offer? - Job search question of the week
On Fridays, I'm posting a job search question from one of our readers. This was a question posted in response to my posting on Linkedin Answers “Candidates - What's your most difficult job search question?” J.S. shared a question he had about his own job search, and asked: "What did or didn't I say or do that lost it for me? Why didn't I get the offer for the job?" This situation has happened to all of us - it's happened to me in my career, and it's happened to every one of you. We felt... |
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Job Seekers - 20 Ways To Brand Yourself On Linkedin
Hiring managers, recruiters and HR departments use more than just your resume to find and learn about candidates. That's good news for candidates who have additional ways to market themselves, and ways to differentiate from their competition. Companies often look first to Linkedin when going beyond a candidate's resume, and often search Linkedin for candidates. Read more ... Facebook may be much larger in size, but Linkedin is a business focused social network, plus it doesn't have all the... |
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How Long Will My Job Search Take?
There is one definitive answer for this question - Longer than you think. It's interesting that when I talk to candidates, most have such an unrealistic view of how long their job search will take. I think this reaction is driven by: Past Experience - Chances are, your past experience in looking for a job was in a better job market than today, unless it was in the 1930's Need - If a candidate is driven by the need to save their home and put food on the table, they are more likely to figure something... |
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What Font Type And Size Should I Use For My Resume? Job search question of the week
On Fridays, I'm posting a job search question from one of our readers. This was a question posted in response to my posting on Linkedin Answers “Candidates - What's your most difficult job search question?” F.P. shared a question he had about his own job search, and asked: “What font type and size should I use for my resume?” Interestingly enough, people worry about fonts more than most issues on a resume, yet more get it wrong than just about anything else I see. Read more ... In... |
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Are You Planning To Fail In Your Job Search, Or Failing To Plan?
How many of you have a project plan for your job search? I’m not talking about a marketing plan, or a list of target companies, or an opportunity pipeline tracking spreadsheet. I’m not talking about a to-do list, or a plan somewhere in your head. I’m asking about a real, honest–to-goodness job search project plan. Read more ... A real job search project plan is written, complete with a timeline, metrics, daily activities, includes a marketing plan, list of target companies, pipeline... |
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Who's Hiring – Top employers week of 2-22-10
Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 2/22/10. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding. Read more ... Total Job Openings: The business services, hospitality, telecommunications, retail, banking,... |
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Interview Road Kill - “I Haven’t Done It, But I Can Learn”: Best of reCareered
Ever respond to an interview question, by saying "I haven't done it, but I can learn"? OUCH … I can feel your pain. Your interview ended with those words. The fat lady sang. Read more ... Employers realize you can learn if you've been in the workforce for a while, or if you've graduated college. Of course you can learn. It's even a bad answer for an entry-level job candidate. But today, unless you're entry level, employers don't want someone who can learn, they want fast solutions to problems.... |
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5 Ways To Get Lucky In Your Job Search
In job search, it’s better to be lucky than to be smart. Unfortunately, most candidates play by an outdated set of rules that makes them unlucky. Employers today use very similar procedures to pick which employees to interview and hire. These procedures are vastly different than the tactics that most candidates use (see: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/10/are-you-buying-mac-cheese-of-job-search.html). Read more ... I suggest to candidates that they will need 3 times the number of... |
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Who's Firing – Layoffs week ended 2-12-10
Who's Firing is a weekly survey of organizations announcing (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ended 2/12/10. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting. Read more ... Top layoffs announced and rumored this week were in the Manufacturing, Biotech, Government, Transportation, and Education sectors. Inclusion on this... |
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The Top 30 Job Boards For 2010
It's like the Oscars for job boards. Weddles.com recently published its 2010 User's Choice Awards, based on year long surveys of recruiters and candidates. Read more ... “We believe customers count most,” says Weddle’s Publisher and CEO, Peter Weddle. “While pundits can make their own picks, it’s the people who use the sites who really know which are most helpful.” When considering these top sites, it’s especially relevant to remember that job boards are just over a dozen years... |