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What HR managers want

I just love it when HR people divulge the secrets to getting hired. Check out this interview with Libby Sartain, Chief People @ Yahoo!

Most interesting in the post are these two nuggests of advice:

Question: What makes a cover email and re… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on February 9, 2010 at 10:07am — No Comments

Do you look for a job like in the 70s?

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Do you still use a Cover letter and a CV (or Resume)? Do

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Added by Laurent Brouat on February 9, 2010 at 5:04am — No Comments

Who’s Hiring from Forbes Most Trustworthy Companies List – Vol II

Reposted from CareerAlley handshake

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999 Now… Continue

Added by Joey on February 9, 2010 at 4:00am — No Comments

What can a jobseeker give?

I write often about the importance of putting on an attitude of giving (rather than of desperation) for your job search. Well I will make this post short and sweet because I could not say it better than @JasonAlba says in his late… Continue

Added by Joe Lavelle on February 8, 2010 at 8:45am — No Comments

5 ways to help an out-of-work friend

Thom Singer (www.thomsinger.com) is a networking and personal branding expert. Over the years, he has coached many friends through layoffs and corporate downsizing. A popular author, speaker and business development consultant in Austin, Texas, Singer says being laid off or in the midst of a career crisis, even with all the press coverage about the economy, can make someone feel very alone. When it happens to someone close to you, knowing how to help can… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on February 8, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Biggest Mistakes Job Seekers Make #1

By Dick Lerner: Author of the book and workshop, “Dress Like The Big Fish”,Publisher of Bel Air Fashions Press and Co-owner of Bel Air Fashions www.dr

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Added by Chris Russell on February 6, 2010 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Confessions of a Job Search Fanatic

Reposted from CareerAlley target

Okay, so I admit it - I'm a fanatic with job search (and, therefore, this blog). When I'm looking for a job I'm obsessed. A victim of the financial services implossion last year (yes, I admit it), I found myself without a job on October 30 -… Continue

Added by Joey on February 6, 2010 at 4:00am — No Comments

Add Simply Hired and Social Media to your job search

Is it really surprising to see the lines between job boards and social media continue to blur? Web-savvy job seekers have turned social applications like Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and blogs into professional job hunting tools that expand their professional connections to increase their online presence.

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Added by John Walker on February 5, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

The jobs are coming

So we are one month into 2010 and I can say for certain that job growth is happening. I offer the following proof: 1. Eric Shannon of Latpro wrote yesterday about the increase of job board activity by employers. Read it here. 2. The folks at LinkUp, a job search engine that indexes jobs from over 20,000 company websites throughout the U.S., reported tha… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on February 4, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

Who’s Hiring for Entry Level Jobs & College Grads Vol 5

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"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." - George Bush You are at y… Continue

Added by Joey on February 3, 2010 at 4:00am — No Comments

Job board activity rising

February's online recruiting news roundup is live. I'd say the biggest news this time is not in print. The big news is that job boards are getting busier and our revenue is stable or growing. Usually, we have a better sense for where the economy is going than the economists, so I'd say look for positive news coming out in the next couple months. Continue

Added by Eric Shannon on February 2, 2010 at 7:38pm — No Comments

I disagree with Lions: Networking is quality

www.laurentbrouat.com Do you still send Linkedin (or viadeo) invitations without personal message? So you get it wrong! Networking and social networking is all about quality and not quantity. In their brilliant article, Networking Reconsidered (hbr)… Continue

Added by Laurent Brouat on February 2, 2010 at 4:59am — No Comments

How to Cold Call Employers (podcast)

How to Cold Call Employers: Debra Feldman, the Job Whiz discusses the effects and strategies of cold calling to find your next job. DOWNLOAD MP3 (17min)

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Added by Chris Russell on February 1, 2010 at 10:05am — 1 Comment

Summary Sunday

Summary Sunday is a collection of posts from my reader and tweets. There really is no rhyme or reason for their being selected...they just caught my eye. There is a lot of good advice out there.

Alternative Personal Branding Books from Brand-Yourself.com

If you are looking for a good book to read on Personal Branding, this post has picked the top 5 (they

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Added by Hannah Morgan on January 31, 2010 at 5:34am — No Comments

Registering on Career Sites - Are There Benefits?

Reposted from CareerAlley Saling Ship

"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock." - Arthur Goldberg Happy Columbus Day! If you are lucky, you… Continue

Added by Joey on January 31, 2010 at 4:00am — No Comments

Odd-Ball Interview Questions

Have you ever wondered what odd-ball questions big firms like Yahoo, Microsoft, Best Buy ask candidates? Curiosity got the best of Glassdoor.com, and recently the site set out to find the top 25 odd-ball questions asked by interviewers. And unless you're applying for a job as a Forest Ranger or holiday food critic, would you be ready to answer questions on Central Park, Mount Fuji and eggnog?… Continue

Added by amyeandrews on January 30, 2010 at 7:21pm — No Comments

Career Advice: Conquer Fear Of Mistakes To Make Career Progress

People losing their jobs; survivors being asked to take on more duties, often with fewer resources; businesses going bankrupt; mortgages being called. These conditions translate in to more tension and apprehension in the workplace. "People are feeling anxious, so they're being short- tempered, passive and unproductive," says Martin Yate, a career adviser at GoSavant.com> In this environment people tend to hunker down. They spend a lot of time looking over their shoulders, afraid to take cha… Continue

Added by Ramon Greenwood on January 30, 2010 at 5:28pm — No Comments

Ignore the dates on job postings when applying

One of the issues that's been bugging me lately is the job seeker's hesitancy to apply to jobs more than a week or two old. If a job is not "fresh" to them they tend to stop applying. What they don't realize however is that a company's hiring process is typically a long drawn out process. It may take them weeks before they even start interviewing. Just because a job listing is two weeks old DOES NOT mean the employer received all the resumes they needed. In fact, just the opposite may h… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on January 29, 2010 at 10:28am — No Comments

Why do we comment on Blogs!!!

This morning I was going through this post, an Amazing post by Robert Bravery – http://is.gd/7cx5x Robert had asked a question, why we comment on Blogs!! It seems an easy question, with may be simple, yet complex answers. But it’s a very important question. Why? Well, this is my version of the answer. As far as I am concerned, I comment on blogs on topics of my interest. That includes anything written about Twitter, Facebook and majorly about So… Continue

Added by Kunjal Kamdar on January 29, 2010 at 5:11am — No Comments

Why "just waiting for them to make me an offer" is the wrong thing to do

You searched and searched and searched, and finally feel pretty sure that a company is going to make you an offer. The interviews have gone well, maybe they’re even checking references. You run out to get a nice bottle of bubbly and wait for the good news. Only, it doesn’t come. Within the past 2 weeks alone, I’ve had this happen to my clients and even met someone who was offered a job, but had the offer rescinded before they started. The unfortunate thing is that all of these people put off m… Continue

Added by Melanie Szlucha on January 28, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments