Nielsen.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...
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...
Read MoreJob Seekers Strategy: Make the Hiring Manager Happy
Silicon Valley star Guy Kawasaki did not intend for his chapter “The Art of Driving Your Competition Crazy” in Reality Check to be job seeker’s advice; yet the main theme is vital for any job seeker’s success. The chapter outlines 8 steps to drive your competition crazy aimed at helping entrepreneurs and corporations understand how to win at the art of business.The most valuable theme and step is “Focus on the...
Read MoreCNN and Careerbuilder.com: “13 Companies Hiring This Year”
Good news does still happen. A very good article by CNN’s new partner CareerBuilder.com just came to my attention through my social media “broadcasting and research” tool Twitter.com. The CNN article is titled “13 companies hiring this year” by Careerbuilder.com’s Rachel Zupek. I am going to provide the highlights of what each company is looking for in human capital along with the list of the 13...
Read MoreJob Seekers: Utilize 6 Ingredients of Influence
A vital factor in any business from the one-off entrepreneur to the largest global corporations is the ability to influence people’s attitudes, perceptions, and ultimately their behavior. Before you can practice your abilities to influence people, you must understand the power of influence and persuasion. The first step in the process is to understand the definition of influence. The best definition is offered by one of the...
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