Via SmartMoney.com …
GOOGLE THE PHRASES JOB HUNT and black hole and you’ll turn up 55,700 results. The reason for this confluence of terms, as any job hunter will tell you, is that applying for a position increasingly involves two phases.
Step one: Use the employer’s online application center to submit your carefully crafted résumé and cover [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Did You Get My Resume?
Posted in applicant tracking, hiring, job seekers, recruiting on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jump to a New Career with a Killer Resume and Plan
Posted in How To, hiring, job seekers, recruiting on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Lifehacker …
Whether you’re suddenly unemployed or just looking to change up, starting out in a new career is daunting. Take our advice on how to write—and plan—your way into a new field.
Why switch careers?
Blogger, career writer, and Brazen Careerist founder Penelope Trunk knows from jumping ship. From her own ups and downs at work, [...]
Indeed’s New Industry Trends Point To Where The Jobs Are
Posted in applicant tracking, best practices, hiring, job boards, job seekers, recruiting, resources, sourcing on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Techcrunch …
Tech layoffs may have hit 300,000 since the financial crisis began, but there are at least 395,629 job openings in information technology, enough to re-employ all of those now out of work. Job search engine Indeed this morning launched a new Industry Trends page filled with stats on job openings in the U.S. [...]
Think before you fire: The cost of replacing IT talent
Posted in best practices, employee retention, hiring on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via ZDnet.com …
There’s currently a certain sense of déjà-vu within the IT community, as companies look at shaving even more cost out of a function that has been battered since the 2001 dot-com bust. However, when we look at the lessons of the past, you do have to question companies which decide to sharpen their [...]
PreCheck and Hirebridge Announce Partnership to Provide Seamless Integration, Linking Background Screening and Applicant Tracking System
Posted in applicant tracking, best practices, compliance, hirebridge, hiring, productivity, recruiting, screening on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Houston, TX – PreCheck, Inc.™ and Hirebridge LLC, today announced the integration between PreCheck’s background screening service and Hirebridge’s applicant tracking and hiring management system. Through these system integrations, both companies are able to offer clients the five core integration components and as a result abridge the hiring processes for their clients.
“We saw this as a favorable [...]
Who Hired All the People Getting Laid Off?
Posted in hiring, job seekers, recruiting on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via TIME.com …
Some of the companies that need to let people go have lost such a large portion of their sales that they have virtually no choice but to cut staff. That certainly holds true for GM (GM) and United Airlines (UAUA).
There are a number of firms which are looking at 2009 and making prophylactic [...]
Put Your Best Digital Footprint Forward: Career Expert Offers Seven Tips for Managing Online Reputation in the Job Hunt
Posted in How To, best practices, hiring, job seekers, recruiting on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — In a competitive job market, a polished professional reputation can make or break someone’s chances of landing a coveted position. And since the word google became a verb, that reputation includes information that can be found online. This is particularly true for IT professionals who are evaluated on their technical [...]
Job Search Online Fastest Growing Category
Posted in Statistics, applicant tracking, hiring, job boards, job seekers, recruiting on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via MediaPost Blogs …
comScore, Inc., in a study of Americans’ usage of the job search category, the fastest growing content site category in 2008, found that the category has seen the number of visitors grow 51% to 18.8 million visitors, as millions of Americans find themselves seeking new job opportunities. The final months of the [...]
Writing a resume for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Posted in How To, applicant tracking, best practices, job seekers on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Denver Jobs Examiner …
Many of my clients have expressed the frustration of not being considered for a position that they felt fit their experience and expertise.
One unfortunate truth is that in today’s world, often your resume is actually never even considered by a human being, but by a sophisticated, turbo-charged database called the Applicant Tracking [...]
