Archive for July, 2010

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

July 31st, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Career Spotlight: Do you keep track of your personal monthly spending, by category (food, movies, rent/mortgage, etc.), and plan and allocate your income accordingly?  Do you have experience – or interest in – keeping the same kinds of records and making the same kinds of plans for a business or other large organization?  You might enjoy being a Budget Analyst and Administrator.  The average salary is $65,000/year.  Seventy-eight percent have college degrees, and the predicted 10-year job growth is expected to be 7%.  More information on this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

We also introduced four new articles this week:

Meet all of Job-Hunt’s  Job Search Experts.

Good luck with your job search!

Introducing Chandlee Bryan

July 30th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

This week we are very pleased to welcome Chandlee Bryan to the roster of career and job search professionals who are our  Job-Hunt Experts.  These knowledgeable and helpful people contribute monthly articles to Job-Hunt in their areas of expertise.  Chandlee will be helping job seekers address the issues of finding that first job after college as the New Grads’ Job Search Expert.

Chandlee’s first article was posted this week, New Jobs, Rocket Science, and Lessons Learned, and in it Chandlee shared her background, including her first jobs and the take-away’s from those experiences.

Chandlee has a passion for helping new grads getting off to great starts in their careers, appropriate for someone with such a strong background in working with new grads, including several years working as a career counselor or Director of Career Services at the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College.

Currently, Chandlee is the President and Founder of Best Fit Forward, a Manhattan based boutique consulting firm providing career management services to individuals and organizations. She is also one of the co-authors of the Twitter Job Search Guide (JIST 2010) and has over a dozen years of experience in connecting job seekers and entry-level employees.

Meet all of Job-Hunt’s  Job Search Experts.

Networking for the Networking-Phobic

July 27th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Career Collective post: Once every month or so, a group of career professionals blog on a subject topical and timely for a job seeker. We post our thoughts on our own blogs, and link to the posts of our colleagues on the same topic.

This month’s topic: “Networking.” Responses from others contributors are linked at the end.  For updates, follow our hashtag #CareerCollective on Twitter. (A new window will open.)

“We get by with a little help from our friends…”

That’s what the Beatles told us in 1967, and many times that line has run through my mind when yet another good thing has happened for me as the result of the actions of one of my friends.  Or when I help a friend out with something.

On the other hand, when I talk with job seekers, I often hear comments like:

  • “I hate networking!”
  • “Networking is just another name for using people!”
  • “Networking doesn’t work for me.  Going to an event.  Collecting business cards.  What’s the point?  It just doesn’t work.”

Those are comments I hear often from people who are struggling in their job search.  Because if you aren’t doing well in your networking, your job search will be harder and longer.

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Getting Lucky in Your Job Search

July 25th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

When you were a kid, did you cross your fingers “for luck” when  you were really, REALLY hoping something good would happen –  maybe as you were about to ride your bike for the first time in front of your friends or as the teacher/professor was handing out the final exams?

And sometimes - perhaps often - it seemed to work.

But, then you “grew up,” and you stopped believing in crossed fingers because you knew that superstitions are dumb or, worse, useless. (And, anyway, crossed fingers are SO obvious!)

Scientific Research Shows That Crossed Fingers Work!

Well, it turns out there’s a reason for that positive outcome, and the reason many of us are – at least a little bit – superstitious:  IT WORKS! (more…)

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

July 24th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
  • Career Spotlight:  Are you naturally snoopy?  Love putting puzzles together, particularly complex, 1000+ piece puzzles?  Enjoy studying people and what motivates them?  You might enjoy being a Detective.  The average salary is $61,000/year.  Fifty-four percent have college degrees, and the predicted 10-year job growth is expected to be 17%. More information on this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

We also introduced four new articles this week:

Good luck with your job search!

Welcome GL Hoffman! New Job Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

July 18th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Welcome GL Hoffman!  Job-Hunt’s only Expert-at-Large

This week, we very proudly welcome our newest Job Hunt Expert, GL Hoffman Job-Hunt’s “Expert at Large.”

GL is a serial entrepreneur and mentor, having founded two companies that “went public” providing excellent learning experiences for GL. Currently, he is chairman of JobDig which operates Job-Hunt Sponsor LinkUp, one of the fastest-growing job-search engines. His blog can be found at WhatWouldDadSay.com.  His latest book is StartUp, 100 Tips to Get Your Business Going, available in print at www.startup100tips.com or ebook at www.wiseandwiser.com. GL also blogs for US News & World Reports and FastCompany.

GL’s first Job-Hunt article, Staying Positive at a Tough Time, is a very important one because maintaining a positive attitude is such a difficult aspect of job hunting, yet so important for success in job search.

We also introduced four other new articles this week:

Career Spotlight: If you are knowledgeable about construction and the building trades and comfortable poking around inside buildings, you may want to consider a job as a Building Inspector.  The average salary is $50,000/year; 23% have college degrees; andexpected 10-year job growth is 18%. More information on this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

July 11th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Career Spotlight: Like to study and manipulate numbers?  Interested in what motivates people and companies? You might enjoy being a Salary & Benefits Specialist.  The average salary is $54,000/year, 56% have college degrees, and the expected 10-year job growth is 18%. More information on this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Three new articles were published:

Good luck with your job search!

Finding the Jobs Hidden in .jobs Sites

July 8th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Just a quick note on a way to leverage Google for your job search using a couple of Google’s cool, but less well-known, functions, combined with the dot-jobs top level domain.

Dot-Jobs Top Level Domain?
The primary “top level domain” (“TLD”) we’re all most familiar with is the famous .com (dot-com). A new TLD category was created specifically for job postings in 2005, named (not surprisingly) .jobs (dot-jobs).

Registration of dot-jobs domain names has been limited to employers for use posting jobs.  This TLD should be a treasure trove of jobs that are relatively easy to find with Google. 

Dot-jobs sites should also be relatively scam-free.  Should be!  No guarantees, unfortunately.

I haven’t been able to find any numbers on how many dot-jobs domains have been registered in the last 5 years, and how many of those registered are actually in use.  Testing it today, using Google’s site search delimiter as described below, proved that many employers are using the dot-jobs TLD, and job seekers can find job postings with it.

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