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Social Media Profile Picture
You, Your Social Media Presence, and Gosh Darn It…That Picture You Posted…
I’m looking at LinkedIn profiles this morning. I’m actually re-verifying a list of candidates, the organizations they work for and Hoover’s information. Good fun stuff early on a Friday. It’s actually pretty tedious. But as I’m clicking and cross referencing, gosh darn it if I don’t see your LinkedIn profile picture.
The job market may be improving, with more and more ads online
The job market may be improving, with more and more ads online.
Latest Seek figures show job ad numbers grew by more than 9 per cent last year, on the back of positive growth in 2010.
Seek New Zealand general manager Janet Faulding says Wellington and Canterbury were the stand out performers with the southern region recording 53 per cent growth.
Top 10 Tips for Candidates Working with Recruiters
Recruiters are paid to fill a job not find you a job. Try not to take it personally but do understand this is how they make a living.
Are you a good candidate? Recruiters do like to place good candidates with good companies. An old colleague of mine once said there is no such thing as a bad company or a bad candidate; you just have to match the two.
Building strong relationships with recruiters. Follow up once a week via a call and once a week via an email.
7 Things Highly Productive People Do
You have more important things to focus on than, um, focusing. Get back on track with these tips.
You probably don’t want to admit it but you love distractions. In fact, just like monkeys, you get a shot of dopamine every time something pulls you in another direction.
10 Things Job Applicants Should Know
Source: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/10-things-job-applicants-should-know/?ref=smallbusiness
While there clearly are not enough jobs to go around, some people are getting hired. Every day, every hour, thousands of people are selected from thousands more who are ready, willing and able to work. The question is, why is it that some people get hired and some don’t?
I have an unusual perspective on this. I read several résumés a week.
How being unhappy at work can be bad for your career
Many people are unhappy in their job, but don’t have the time, energy or resources to look for something else and so stay where they are. However, seeing as though you spend most of your adult life working it helps to have a job which you enjoy or, at the very least, a job which you don’t hate. If you find yourself doing a job which stresses you out and makes you miserable your health is likely to deteriorate as a result.