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Power Your Job Search With Email On Overdrive
I had the opportunity to speak with T.A. McCann, CEO of Gist.com, to discuss how Gist’s free service can help job seekers. Gist.com is a plug-in for major email applications and web based email, that mashes-up your contact list with information from Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Google to give job seekers better information about the people they communicate with. I started experimenting with Gist before I spoke with T.A., discovering that Gist can deliver tons of useful information... |
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Who’s Firing - Layoffs weeks ended 7-2-10 and 7-9-10
Who's Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the weeks ended 7-2-10 and 7-9-10. For the past week banking, retail, health care, aerospace, government and transportation employers announced the largest layoffs. This information is intended for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting. The information can be valuable... |
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6 Ways To Tell If You’re The Right Candidate For A Start-up
Would you make a good employee for a start-up? Is a start-up a good fit for you? In today’s tougher job market, more candidates consider start-ups than ever before. However, not all candidates are a good matches for start-ups. Here’s 6 ways to tell if a start-up company would be a good fit for you. ( Continued ... 6 Ways To Tell If Working For A Start-up Is Right For You ) Page: <1> <2> Like this article? Subscribe here and have daily tips delivered to your email.... |
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June 2010 Employment Trends Show Mixed Results
At the end of June 2010, the major job sites released hiring data and analysis for the month, indicating mixed results. Today's article summarizes job reports from Indeed.com, SimplyHired.com and CareerBuilder.com. Not only is this data 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. The drop in June’s unemployment rate... |
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Who’s Hiring - Top employers week of 7-6-10
Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 7/6/10. The business service, hospitality, health care, telecommunications, retail and banking are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others... |
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Achieve Enlightenment Through Networking Karma: Best of reCareered
Do you want to build a network that works for you? Who wouldn’t? In past articles, I’ve talked about mass network strategies, about how to build a large database of names through social networks. But I’ve also said that I use a dual approach of large and small networks. In addition to spending time building a network of size, I work with a subset to build a network of quality. ( Continued ... How I Use Networking Karma ) Page: <1> <2> <3> Like this article? Subscribe... |
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Happy 4th Of July
Readers - Have a Happy and safe 4th of July weekend! |
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Stop Writing Cover Letters and You’ll Get MORE Interviews: Best of reCareered
Most people have been taught paper-based resume strategies, that encourage writing a static resume and customizing with a cover letter. But this strategy doesn’t work well in today’s world of digital resumes. That’s right, if you stop writing cover letters, you’ll get more interviews. Most people’s first response is ... Huh? ( Continued ... Why Ditch Your Cover Letter? ) Page: <1> <2> <3> Like this article? Subscribe here and have daily tips... |
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Job Search Question Of The Week: How Did I Do?
Often candidates feel they performed better than they actually did. How can you tell what the interviewer really thought? As a candidate, it’s easy to have a skewed sense of reality - after being told no (or ignored) hundreds of times, it’s human nature to hang onto a thread of good news. Congratulating yourself on the awesome interview you just nailed may be great for the ego - if the interviewer felt otherwise, it’s terrible for your job search to hang onto hope for a next... |
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Managing Your Job References
Most job seekers leave their recommendations up to chance - when careful planning can help you tell the most important parts of your story to a potential employer. The extent of most candidates reference planning stops at asking prior bosses, peers and clients to give a reference. While it’s polite to ask your reference first, it’s just not enough. Do you know exactly what the reference is going to say to a potential employer? Since this is something you can control, why leave... |
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Who’s Hiring - Top employers week of 6-28-10
Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 6/28/10. The hospitality, business service, retail, telecommunications, health care and banking are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others... |
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Who’s Firing - Layoffs week ended 6-25-10
Who's Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the week ended 6-25-10. For the past week government, telecommunications, technology, energy, and manufacturing employers announced the largest layoffs. This information is intended for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting. The information can be valuable to job... |
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Do You Recognize These Early Warning Signs of an Egocentric Resume? Best of reCareered
Do you have an egocentric resume? What’s an egocentric resume, you ask? Based on Wikipedia’s definition, an egocentric resume is a resume you’ve written for yourself as the audience. It makes you feel good. It should – you’ve written an autobiography, talking about things that are most important to you, that you’re proudest of and probably summed it up in a page or two. Egocentrism – defined by Wikipedia as a) the incomplete differentiation of the self and the world,... |
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How Do You Eat An Elephant?
This was a question posed by my running coach, and it’s so applicable to job search as well. My readers who know me know that I train for marathons and triathlons and run to raise money for the American Cancer Society. My running coaches are the great Jenny Hadfield and Mike Norman, co-founders of Chicago Endurance Sports. Coach Jenny often talks and writes about eating elephants. There are so many parallels between job search and marathons ... ( Continued ... Why is job search... |
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10 Reasons You Didn’t Get The Job
You just got the call (or email) - the company chose another candidate. Why didn’t you get the job? Here’s 10 reasons ... Before we get to the list, let’s discuss a few things. The obvious reason you didn’t get the job is because the company’s first choice (or second, or third) accepted. So the real question is ... why weren’t you ranked first? ( Continued ... Reasons # 1 - # 5 You Didn’t Get The Job ) Page: <1> <2> <3> Like this article? Subscribe... |
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Who’s Hiring - Top employers week of 6-21-10
Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 6/21/10. The hospitality, business service, retail, telecommunications, health care and banking are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are... |
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Who’s Firing - Layoffs week ended 6-18-10
Who's Firing summarizes weekly research of companies announcing and rumoring layoffs for the week ended 6-18-10. For the past week government, colleges, health care, business services, and hospitality employers announced the largest layoffs. This information is intended for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting. The information can be valuable to job... |
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See How Easily You can Master Non-Verbal Interviewing: Best of reCareered
In Interview in a Snap (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2008/04/interview-in-snap.html), I discussed research that found hiring decisions are made within the first 30 seconds of an interview … perhaps as short as just 2 seconds. The rest of the interview just served to justify the hiring manager’s initial impression. Is that shocking to you? It’s shocking to me - So shocking, that it led me to wonder how a job seeker can influence the first few seconds of an interview... |
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Resume vs Profile: Which should job seekers send?
I see many candidates who send a link to their Linkedin profile, instead of their resume. Do you realize each one has a different and separate purpose? A profile and resume are not equal. There are times when sending a link to your profile is more effective, and others when sending your resume will work better. Often candidates send a Linkedin profile, when a resume would be more effective to meet their goals - or send a resume, when their Linkedin profile would help them... |
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Job Seekers - Who’s Your Competition?
Job seekers - Would you like to see how you stack up against the competition? While there is much information about employers, there was little information available to candidates about their competitors ... until last week. Last week, CareerBuilder released its hireINSIDER tool, to help candidates see how they compare to others applying for the same job. Read more ... This article describes how this tool can help you find a job, what you can learn from it, and how you can use the... |