Sep 14 2010
best practices, hiring, job seekers, recruiting

How to get a job at Google, interview questions, hiring process

Via Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing …

The Google hiring process is designed to hire the most talented, creative, and articulate people in the world who will be the best fit for Google. The Google culture is different. You notice it the moment you walk on campus. It isn’t for everyone, but it works amazingly well for Google. That is why cultural fit is so important. There is a lot of mystery and misinformation about the Google hiring process so I would like to give you my perspective on how it works, and more importantly, why it works.

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Jul 12 2010
hiring, job boards, job seekers, recruiting, Statistics

Job posting growth in all 12 industries: an Industry Employment Trends first

Via Indeed.com …

Our May Industry Employment Trends provide the strongest evidence yet of an improving job market. May 2010 shows year-over-year job posting growth in all 12 of the major industries we track. This is the first time we’ve seen positive growth in all sectors since launching Industry Employment Trends in February 2009.

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Jun 11 2010
SaaS, Statistics

Pew: Cloud Services Will Dominate By 2020

Via Data Center Knowledge …

By 2020, most people will access software applications online and access information through the use of cloud services hosted on remote server networks, according to a new Pew Internet & American life survey of 895 technology stakeholders and critics.

A solid majority of technology experts and stakeholders participating in the fourth Future of the Internet survey conducted by Pew Internet and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center agreed that the cloud will dominate, and desktop usage will diminish in the next 10 years.

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Jun 10 2010
hiring, How To, job seekers, recruiting

The Not-So-Harmless Simple Interview Question

Via Psychology Today …

Many interviews open with what I like to call “inkblot test” questions. Inkblot questions are those open, seemingly harmless questions which interviewers use as icebreakers to learn more about what’s important to someone.  I call them “inkblot” questions because, like the traditional Rorschach test, they ask candidates to express an opinion about a seemingly neutral item. As innocent as they seem, however, a poor or strange response from a candidate can end their chance of getting the job.

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Jun 03 2010
applicant tracking, job boards, job seekers

Facebook Does Job Searches (by way of SimplyHired)

Hirebridge clients already benefit from having their job postings automatically submitted to SimplyHired on a nightly basis (free of charge, mind you). Integration with Facebook is about get even better and more social.

Via ReadWriteWeb …

SimplyHired.com, a job search site that aggregates job board postings and makes them searchable via one interface, is launching a new feature: Facebook integration. With the added opt-in functionality, you can see if any of your Facebook friends work at a particular company and you can pull back a list of all the companies where your friends are employed.

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Apr 30 2010
employee retention, hiring

Happy Employees Make Thriving Companies

Via Entrepreneur.com …

Fifty years ago, if you said you wanted better work-life balance, most managers would have smiled and assumed that meant you wanted to work until the balance of your life was over. Fortunately, times have changed. The best employers strive to help workers strike the right balance between work and enjoying life away from the office so they are re-energized when they return each day.

Apr 16 2010
hiring, job seekers, recruiting, Statistics

Tech Sector in Hiring Drive

Via Wall Street Journal …

The technology industry, an engine of innovation and U.S. prosperity for more than half a century, is accelerating its recovery from the recession with surging earnings that have spurred companies to sharply ramp up their hiring.

The latest evidence for the rebound came Thursday, when Internet giant Google Inc. posted a 37% profit jump for the first quarter and chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. reported a 34% revenue increase to record levels. The results follow the strong showing of bellwether Intel Corp., which Tuesday announced quarterly profit that nearly quadrupled on a 44% jump in sales.

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Apr 07 2010
applicant tracking, SaaS

How Cloud Computing Can Help A Small Business Get Out of the Recession

Via Read Write Web …

Cloud computing creates enough disruptions for small businesses that it seems almost folly when we hear some of the stories we do.

We heard one story about an IT department that said that the company could not afford to have more people accessing the Internet. Yes, the Internet is too expensive for small business. Maybe it’s time to scrap the dial up?

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Apr 02 2010
compliance, hiring, job seekers, recruiting

Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say

Via NYTimes.com …

With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor.

Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials in Oregon, California and other states have begun investigations and fined employers. Last year, M. Patricia Smith, then New York’s labor commissioner, ordered investigations into several firms’ internships. Now, as the federal Labor Department’s top law enforcement official, she and the wage and hour division are stepping up enforcement nationwide.

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Mar 25 2010
hiring, job seekers, Statistics

Huge Growth Projected for Web Tech, Software, Systems Job Market

Via ReadWriteWeb …

Looking for a job? You’re probably about to find one. By the year 2018 there will be 1.4 million job openings for so-called “computer specialists” – that’s everyone from developers to database administrators – according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The non-hardware-related job market is expected to grow faster than almost any other sector in the country. For instance, jobs for systems and application software developers are expected to grow 30%-34%. The number of network systems and data communications jobs will explode by 53%.

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