Job search technology
The Resume is Alive and Kickin’
This guest post from HireAbility, courtesy of Recruiting Blogswap, argues for a continuing role of the resume in a largely electronic job application process, using resume parsing technology to bring the resume into the 21st Century.
Insider Tips to Put Your Resume On Top
In this guest post, Cynthia Shapiro, career expert and author of the best seller Corporate Confidential:50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You To Know – And What To Do About Them, offers some insider tips for resumes.
He Really Needs a Job (Friday Humor)
I got an e-mail or blog comment from Larry — this guy who got a job a few years ago by putting a cover letter on the back of his T-shirt (with the logo you see here on the front, not the back). Now he sells them for $25 (your cover letter, not his).
Recent Growth of CareerBuilder Impressive
CareerBuilder is taking the lead in terms of unique monthly users, drawing more advertisers and making it an essential tool for online job searches. But job seekers still maximize their chances by supplementing their use of the major sites such as CareerBuilder with online searches elsewhere.
Two Ways to Network Smarter
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Article by Kevin Donlin, courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for [...]
Guess Which Blog Is #17 in the “Career 100 Global Ranking of Top English-language Career Blogs”?
I just discovered a new inbound link to this blog from a site call RiseSmart, a job search site that says it “brings the human touch to online search.”
The site explains that it uses a “proprietary search engine [that] crawls the universe of job boards and corporate sites to find opportunities that match your [...]
Background Checks and the Job Search
If you’re on a job search today and haven’t been on one in many years, particularly since before 9/11, you will likely encounter many important changes in the application and hiring process.
Prevalence of Background Checks
One such change is the extent to which employers now use various forms of background checks before hiring.
A 2004 [...]
Teens May Need to Look Hard for Summer Jobs
To all the parents who’ve been stopping by the blawg lately to read about family responsibilities discrimination: we’ve got some bad news for your teenage children. The Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University has predicted historic low teen employment rates for this summer, despite job growth for older adults.
The Problem
According to the [...]
Your computer can “testify” against you even when it’s in the landfill
I’ve written about electronic evidence before, in a post that will be featured in the upcoming 2007 edition of Blawgworld:
Electronic Evidence: Who Benefits the Most, Employers or Employees?
Now here’s a story that illustrates a major danger being exposed as the electronic evidence tsunami sweeps over the legal landscape:
“Spoliation” of evidence and the possibility [...]
George’s 15 minutes of fame — quoted in TIME Magazine on video resumes — with Friday video humor thrown in for good meaure
A few weeks ago, when I was in New York, I stayed at the Hudson Hotel, a cool place near the Time-Warner Building pictured at left (my photo). So did several other scintillating bloggers-blawgers.
Shortly after my return, I got an e-mail from a Time Magazine writer working in that very building, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen. [...]
Jobster to make Facebook tool for jobseekers
I’ve written much before about the potentially explosive combination of jobhunting and casual use of social network sites such as FaceBook and MySpace.
See these prior posts:
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part I
More on using facebook et al. in recruiting and hiring (Part II)
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part III
I’ve cautioned both employers [...]
Vertical Job Search Engine Developments
Joel Cheesman, at his blog Cheezhead, is keeping a close eye on some interesting developments in vertical job search.
This Blawg still has the top two hits in the google search “vertical job search,” proving again how much Google loves blogs.
Ah, but google hit no. 2 quotes Cheesman, proving again that sometimes the blogosphere is [...]
Study Reveals the Best Corporate Career Sites
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler of CareerXroads examined the corporate career sites of the Fortune 500 and found the 25 companies that seem to do the best job, in what is soon to become part of a larger paper.
Included are companies such as:
Niche Job Boards and Craigslist.com: Sneakin’ Up On All of Us
As you probably know, there are lots and lots of job boards, niche job boards, and all kinds of tools for Internet recruitment/job search. One of the more interesting niche job boards
is called craigslist.com.
Job Hunting in the 21st Century: A lot More Complicated Than It Used to Be (Part 1)
Well, by comparison, job hunting seemed much simpler twenty and thirty years ago. Before the advent of the Internet, the choices seemed fewer and the main advice was to have a good resume, a decent cover letter, and a good network. But, how about today, in the era of the Internet? How should you go [...]
