Glassdoor.com Company Rating and Review Site: Can You Trust Anonymous Information?
Tweet Courtesy Glassdoor.com Job seekers looking for another source of information and advantage in performing their due diligence on a potential employer should review Glassdoor.com. Glassdoor.com bills itself with the tag line “see what employees are say.” They further describe their site as a “free inside look at over 21,000 companies.” Essentially Glassdoor.com is a site where employees can...
Read MoreNielsen.com: Age 65+ Fastest Growing Group of Visitors to Career Development Sites
Tweet “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,...
Read MoreCareerbuilder’s Applicant Explorer Tool: More Evidence Hiring Managers Are Looking Online
Tweet 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...
Read MoreTop 25 Social Media “Networks”: Entrepreneurs and Job Seekers’ Resource
Tweet If you are an entrepreneur or job seeker one of the best ways to network, market, and gain audience for your product or service(s) is to leverage the power of social media networks. The following is a list of the top 25 social media “networks” as ranked by traffic (visits per month) in a great retrospective article by Andy Kazeniac of Compete.com “Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over the Top Spot, Twitter Climbs.” This is a...
Read MoreJob Seekers Heed Robert Scoble’s “If You Are Laid Off, Here’s How to Socially Network”
Tweet 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...
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