employment

How can Twitter Lists help Job Seekers? Top 400 job posters on Twitter

Learn how to find and use lists of top job posters, top recruiters, top hiring managers, and get listed as a top job seeker on Twitter.READ»

reCareered: Who’s Hiring in Health Care - November 2009

Hospitals, Federal Government, Nursing Homes, Home Health, Clinics, and Outsourced Health Services top Health Care hiring during November 2009, based on job advertisements open for 30 days from the top job boards.READ»

Step Out of Your Comfort Zone - Why are job seekers are afraid to change?

How can candidates break free from the vicious cycle of fear of change?READ»

reCareered: Whos Hiring – Top Employers week of 11-2-09

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity for the week of 11/2/09.READ»

Toss Your Resume in the Trash and Tell Employers Your Story

How do you craft a resume that tells a compelling story? Don't even try it. Throw away your resume and focus on creating a narrative.READ»

Set the Employment Blender to 'Liquify'

That sucking sound is your resume going into the vortex.READ»

Googling for Headhunters... and Finding Fakes

Who you gonna call to find headhunters when Google fakes it?READ»

• Ask The Headhunter

Who’s Hiring? Week of 9/25/09

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity. Not only is this 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. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding. READ»

Infographic of the Day: Job Voyager

An interactive chart tracks trends in the U.S. labor force since 1850.READ»

Author Jenny MacKay Explains the Business of Hiring Freelance Writers

Cambridge Who’s Who member Jenna Mackay is a writer whose informative article explains the benefits to hiring freelance writers.READ»

Why It May Be Wiser To Hire People Without Meeting Them

When the economy finally turns around, you'll start hiring people again. You'll sift through dozens of impressive-sounding résumés -- who knew there were so many VPs in the world? -- and bring in the standouts for the ...READ»

• Talk Is Cheap

10 reasons your company should be jobcasting

Podcasts are a great way to connect and engage with potential candidates. READ»

Napp Canada Jobfair - Mississauga, Hamilton, Ottawa, Toronto

NAPP Canada 2009 jobfair - COME AND MEET plenty of hiring companies - see partial previous list of companies here http://www.nappcanada.com/previous_jobfair_companies.htm. We are connecting you to jobs. 5 different dates, 4 ...READ»

Traditional 'keyword' search founded by the first generation job sites is broken.

It is a frustrating experience for both employer and job seeker. First generation job sites continue to focus on generic employment requirements offering no differentiation to users and yield below 11%! Americans are growing ...READ»

What's plaguing US innovation engine?

There is a fundamental problem plaguing US innovation engine. It's the employment practices and behavior adopted ever since the recession in 2000.Employment in US has become a risk-averse practice similar to the practice of medicine. ...READ»

Five Tips on Finding a New Job

This U.S. News & World Report article (Five Tips on Finding a New Job) appeared February 26, 2008, and provides a great overview of how to be successful in today’s job search market. The article talks about the importance of ...READ»

Opportunity of a Lifetime

I’m quoting this blog entry by Seth Godin, author of a dozen brilliant marketing books and Seth Godin’s Blog. Seth’s comments are simple, yet remarkable. Incredibly encouraging and powerful. Our greatest opportunities are borne ...READ»

FaceBook Strategies (1)– The Power of FaceBook Groups

Want to communicate your subject matter expertise to a targeted audience, or would a scatter shot approach be more effective? If you want a tightly targeted audience, that will have a high likelihood of facing problems that you are ...READ»

How to Take Control of the Interview

Ever get all excited for an interview, only to be frustrated that it didn’t go as well as planned? Maybe your experience wasn’t portrayed in its best light, or your many accomplishments weren’t valued. How can you avoid this ...READ»

Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Job seekers

So what’s all the fuss over Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker? Because Web 2.0 gives every job seeker the opportunity to promote subject matter ...READ»

Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Job seekers

So what’s all the fuss over Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker? Because Web 2.0 gives every job seeker the opportunity to promote subject matter ...READ»

LinkedIN strategies – Tight vs Broad Network

There’s been a controversy going on within the LinkedIN crowd for years. Is it more effective for your job search to build a LinkedIN network of close personal connections? Or instead, build a network with a broad reach, but weak ...READ»

What to Wear? Acing the Interview

A client of mine feels like he always comes in second in interviews. He does well, but he wants to do more than just do well. He wants to Ace the interview. So how do you Ace the interview? How do you communicate that you're ...READ»

LinkedIN Strategies: Recommendations

One of LinkedIN’s more powerful features for job seekers is their recommendations feature. LinkedIN allows users to ask for recommendations from past managers, co workers, business partners and service providers. Some on LinkedIN ...READ»

LinkedIN Strategies: Recommendations

One of LinkedIN’s more powerful features for job seekers is their recommendations feature. LinkedIN allows users to ask for recommendations from past managers, co workers, business partners and service providers. Some on LinkedIN ...READ»