Via TheNextWeb.com … The online job marketplace Monster has just acquired HotJobs away from Yahoo for a stunning $225 million in cash. Part of this deal is a three-year “commercial traffic agreement,” which will begin on the closing of the deal. This seems to mean that Yahoo will shunt jobs related traffic to Monster for [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘job seekers’
January 8, 2010
More Employers Plan to Increase Hiring of College Graduates
Via WSJ Blogs … More employers plan to increase college graduate hiring than decrease it for the first time in more than a year. The National Association of Colleges and Employers‘ index for college hiring rose to 98.2, up from 87.2 in November. The index, based on the organization of career counselors’ survey of 122 [...]
December 30, 2009
Attention Career-Seekers: MyPath Taps Social Network to Plot Your Next Move
Via FastCompany.com … This morning I discovered after taking a 20-minute career assessment test on MyPath.com that, in addition to being a writer (a career I’ve built happily over more than a decade), I also possess the skills to be a teacher or a public speaker. It’s certainly not as far-fetched as the results of [...]
November 6, 2009
America’s Hot Jobs (and Not Jobs)
Via The Daily Beast … With unemployment over 10 percent for the first time in 26 years, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine the careers with the best—and worst—prospects. The results: the 10 high-growth and 10 worst-growth jobs out there. Read the rest of the article >>
September 1, 2009
Craft a scannable résumé
Via philly.com … For thirty years as an employment counselor I spent a lot of time getting jobseekers to write résumés that would capture the attention of a human reader. Occasionally, companies would assign initial résumé screening to trainee fresh out of college. I taught 1970s jobseekers to write catchy résumés with impressive bullet points [...]
August 20, 2009
Uncouth Facebook postings closing doors for job candidates
Via Ars Technica … More employers than ever are researching job candidates on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter in order to find out more about their activities and character. And, it turns out, many candidates are doing a great job of showing their potential bosses poor communication skills, inappropriate pictures, and even how many [...]
August 18, 2009
The Growing Talent Crisis: Challenges and Solutions
Via CareerBuilder.com … Employers throughout the world are increasingly struggling to keep pace with expanding hiring needs. A recent workforce planning study conducted by Aon Consulting for one of its clients showed that nearly 60 percent of its key knowledge workers and leaders would need to be replaced in the next five years. But, demand [...]
July 22, 2009
How to answer: ‘Why should I hire you?’
Via CNN / Careerbuilder.com … Recently, Stephanie Somogyi Miller was interviewing candidates for an entry-level public relations position at her company, Spread PR, a Miller/Hamilton company. Over the course of 20 candidates Miller quickly realized — much to her shock — that many job seekers were unprepared when she asked them, “Why should I hire [...]
July 19, 2009
Where, Oh Where, Has My Application Gone?
Via New York Times … GETTING a rejection letter is a painful part of job hunting, but at least it means you’ve been noticed. These days, I’ve been hearing about more job hunters who respond to online job postings, only to hear nothing back from the company. Ever. Was the position filled? Is the company [...]
June 19, 2009
Don’t Make Candidates Jump Through Hoops
Via CollegeRecruiter.com … There’s been an interesting discussion in the NACE JobPlace discussion list about the perception by many employers that students who do a more effective job of searching for employment opportunities will have a better chance of being hired. I agree but caution those who believe that the best candidates are those who [...]
