Topic: Job Searching

How to Mend Your Parachute

Like many things, the notion of career planning and job hunting has changed dramatically since September 11. Here, acclaimed author Richard Bolles offers five strategies for finding meaningful work in the face of an economic recession and a national crisis.READ»

Getting Paid for a Job Interview

Employers know the problem with great job candidates is that they usually have jobs and aren't actively seeking another one. And why should they? It's a hassle to send out resumes, shake the trees on a social network or chat-up ...READ»

Impersonal Personnel

A reader emailed this unique customer service issue to my attention: The reader's first complaint was, after spending innumerable hours writing, editing, and tweaking their resume (I am referring to the paper or electronic ...READ»

Is The Best Way To Find A Job Not To Look?

In the recruiting world, the holy grail is to find passive candidates instead of active candidates.  Passive candidates are people who are successful working in their job of successful with a long track record.  Whereas ...READ»

Job Seekers, Beware!: Why Job Board Resumes Are Seen As Re-circulatory Garbage

Take a good look at the attached image and you'll begin to understand the analogy between Job Board resumes and Re-circulatory Garbage . . .  Take another look at let it sink in a little bit.  Many candidates I speak with ...READ»

Job Seekers, Beware!: Why Job Board Resumes Are Often Seen As "Re-circulatory Garbage"

Take a good look at the attached image and you'll begin to understand the analogy between Job Board resumes and the notion of "Re-circulatory Garbage" . . .  Take another look at let it sink in a little bit.  The ...READ»

Googling for Headhunters... and Finding Fakes

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

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How to "rig" CareerBuilder and other job boards

Is it helpful to your job search to rank highly in a resume search? It should be, since only about 2-3% of resumes sent through job boards are actually read by humans. It's frustrating, isn't it? Many take it personally, ...READ»

A 12-Step Program for Job-Seekers

I joined the ranks of the so many people this past year when I gave up a very good position in a small health system in Ohio to pursue some new career interests.  My wife graduated with her second master's degree and was pursuing ...READ»

Unfair Advantage

If you discovered an Unfair Advantage to stand out over 97% of your competition, would you use it? Who wouldn't, right? In today's job search, the name of the game today is to get noticed…and 97% of the resumes out there ...READ»

Subject Matter Experts Rule!

Today's employers hire Subject Matter Experts to solve problems. Managers and executives might not like this, but the day of the Generalist is over. Now that it's easy to completely customize and individualize a resume to ...READ»

How to “rig” Your Resume for Careerbuilder and other job boards

Is it helpful to your job search to rank highly in a resume search? It should be, since only about 2-3% of resumes sent through job boards are actually read by humans. It's frustrating, isn't it? Many take it ...READ»

Re: reCareered - The Duel

I checked out Phil Rosenberg's post yesterday afternoon about the pros/cons of using LinkedIn and Facebook for your career search. As a recent job searcher attempting to relocate to a new area,  I have to admit that I feel both ...READ»

Job Seekers Beware: Don’t Use A Recruiter!

This is going to seem backwards, a recruiter telling you not to send your resume to recruiters, but bear with me.  I should probably start at the top.  When a company hires a recruiting firm to find people for them, the contract ...READ»

Resume Format: 3 in 4 Hiring Managers Recommend...

If you're aiming to please a hiring manager in your job search (and who isn't?), then format your resume chronologically.In a recent Accountemps survey, 75% of hiring managers prefer a chronological resume that lists the most recent ...READ»

Getting Hired in a Web 2.0 World Webinar

Learn Job Seeking Techniques From Recruiters! Join our CEO Jason Gorham for Getting Hired in a Web 2.0 World webinar series. Stop sending your resume into the blackhole and start getting connected. Social networking is ...READ»

Daring Job Hunters Go for Broke

With the job market tighter than it's been in many years, some job seekers are taking the hunt to a new level with daring, creative, and expensive tactics.READ»

Blogs: The Other Job Board

Job sites are continually trying to find ways to get in front of passive candidates. Ya' know, the most desirable prospects who already have a job. Doing so helps job boards become more desirable to employers (their ...READ»

Top Jobs 2008: Courting Your Career

Careers expert and author of Courting Your Career, Shawn Graham, tells FastCompany.com how dating and job hunting have more in common than one might think. READ»

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• The Top 8 Jobs of 2008

Top Jobs 2008: A Guide to Layoff Survival

FastCompany.com offers you a guide to layoff survival and the job search. From the practical to the philosophical, get expert tips on how to survive the fall, and get back in the game. READ»

• Top Jobs of 2008
• Courting Your Career
• The Top 8 Jobs of 2008

Your Next Job Interview – Via Webcam?

Ray Sweger is a 25-year-old operations manager with a mid-market financial firm who landed the job he wanted 2,000 miles from home, not by flying out for an interview but by answering employment questions over a webcam. Although ...READ»

Careers: Job Listings - A Sign of the Times

The exodus of job listings from print to online highlights an inexorable trend that bodes well for job seekers and employers but is moving newspapers to the endangered species list. Searching for jobs, rather than browsing them, is ...READ»

Careers: Do Jobs Spread Virally Across Social Networks?

When the scientific study hit the wires recently establishing that obesity spreads virally across large "social networks," I figured that science was simply appropriating a popular cyberspace term. After all, if obesity could spread ...READ»

Careers: 4 Keys to Successful Career Fairs

Have you ever been to, or participated in, large-scale career fairs? On the company side, it’s all about glitz, glam, and making the sale. Whatever happened to job seekers being attracted to great jobs with great companies? Do we ...READ»

Careers: Why a Job Interview is Like a First Date

Have you noticed any similarities between your dating experiences and your job searches? What these two puzzle parts have in common is a quest for better relationships. Granted, for some of us, both of these personal quests are ...READ»