Entrepreneurs & Job Seekers Look to Hollywood for Answers
In the 1930′s, 1940′s, and 1950′s kids would flock to Hollywood, California in search of their dreams of stardom in the moving pictures aka the movies. These kids, like Norma Jean or John Wayne, would hit town and immediately begin the process of “being discovered.” The 4 steps they would often take can be equated to today’s job seeker or entrepreneur in their quest to find a job or “stardom” in their field. 1. Go to the Studio Future Starlet...
Read MoreNielsen.com: Age 65+ Fastest Growing Group of Visitors to Career Development Sites
“With the current unstable economy and rising unemployment rate, more people are heading online to search for jobs, and interestingly not just the unemployed. The career development category also grew 20 percent year-over-year among at work users, suggesting that many people are trying to build up their resumes and get a sense of the job market before the next potential layoff,” –Chuck Schilling, research director, agency & media, Nielsen Online. In what is surely a sign...
Read MoreCareerbuilder’s Applicant Explorer Tool: More Evidence Hiring Managers Are Looking Online
This week Susan and I spoke at a “Brown Bag” panel discussion at ProMatch in Sunnyvale. The subject of the discussion was blogging for job seekers. Before we could discuss blogging, we provided our posit (which is coming true each day) that we formulated in Q 2 of 2008: the role of the resume has changed, there is a paradigm shift and new trend in job search, and the role of the job seeker has changed. Your resume is no longer your #1 marketing tool in a job search, job search is...
Read MoreSocial Media and Web 2.0: Job Seekers Your Resume is No Longer Your Marketing Tool
“Hiring managers are using the Internet to get a more well-rounded view of job candidates in terms of their skills, accomplishments, and overall fit within the company”–Rosemary Haefner Vice President of Human Resource Careerbuilder.com Susan and I presented our workshop “Web 2.0′s Impact on Job Seekers: The Changing Roles of the Resume, Job Search, and Job Seeker” at CSIX this past Tuesday to a packed house of over 110 hopeful job seekers. As we settled...
Read MoreJob Seekers Heed Robert Scoble’s “If You Are Laid Off, Here’s How to Socially Network”
Robert Scoble is one of the most successful bloggers with his Scobleizer blog, technology evangelists, and well respected resources in Silicon Valley. His article “If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network” is a call to arms and a blue print for EVERY job seeker. Please heed his warning and take the steps Robert outlines. And by the way, many of these steps are steps we have already identified, written about, and continually evangelize in our Inner Architect...
Read MoreJob Search 25 Years Ago: Is This You Now?
I landed my first corporate, aka “real”, job out of college in early 1985. The company, Moore Business Forms the largest printing-forms provider in the world, was just finishing a hiring push for sales and business development talent. Please read this article; I have a question I would like you to ask yourself at the end of the piece. Here are some facts about my job search. State of Technology In 1985 there was no Internet, no fax machines, no cell phones in regular usage, and at...
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