Category Archives: Career
What Recruiters See in your Resume
A few weeks ago The Ladders informed the public that recruiters spend only about 6 seconds on your resume. It has now released eye scan data captures of what recruiters are actually looking at to make their snap decisions. Recruiters … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 resume tips, linkedin, recruiters, resume, resume help, resume tips, the ladders
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Linkedin Job Posting Statistics
Linkedin has added a new feature that displays a public counter on job postings. You can see on many job postings you can see some examples of what to look for. Not all job postings can be applied to from … Continue reading
New webite helps people with jobs get better ones
As we’ve said before in this economy job seekers that have been laid off are generally not even considered for new jobs. Most hiring taking place by companies is of workers that are currently employed. The actual existence of this … Continue reading
Be Frugal After Hire
Landing a new job doesn’t mean what it used to. The American dream is no longer to have the big house, white picket fence with the spouse and 2 kids. The new American dream is to be able to afford … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Recession, what did the great recession teach us
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9.3 million workers stuck in Career Purgatory
There are at last count officially 12.8 million people looking for work and about 3.5 million job openings. That leaves about 9.3 million workers left in Career Purgatory waiting for someone to take a chance on them, or finding a … Continue reading
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Popular week to quit your job
Apparently this was the week to quit your job and cry to the world about it. Two high profile resignations have been making the rounds one from a now Ex-Googler James Whittaker and another from a Greg Smith a former … Continue reading
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Tagged ex-googler resignation letter, goldman sachs resignation letter, resignation letters
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Epic cover letter leads to employment blacklist
This is a great lesson for one person that was trying to make it in the banking industry. Surely a lesson that will make its way into the text book of your next human resources class, as a case study. … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Misery Loves Company
Tagged bad cover letter example, cover letter fail, epic cover letter, fail
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Great insight of the hiring process
Marc Cenedella the founder of job search site The Ladders recently posted a great insight into why the boss didn’t hire you for the job you applied for. In many regards the reasons are pretty obvious you didn’t get the … Continue reading
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Tagged getting the job, interview, interview tips, job application help, what does it take to get the job
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Don’t Friend These People on Facebook
With the news of Facebook going public in the next few days, and the concerns that teenagers are having with the sudden loss of privacy from their parents and family it seems right to point out that professionally there are … Continue reading
SimplyHired cuts 20% of Staff
In a terribly ironic twist the website simplyhired.com laid off about 20% of its staff. In either a brilliant marketing strategy or a strong hunch that employees would one day blog about being simply fired it turns out Simply Hired … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 layoff announcements, layoffs 2012, simply fired, simplyfired, simplyhired layoff
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