Posts Tagged ‘Job Search’

Career Jump Start for College Students

January 9th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Start your online professional networking now, while you’re still a student, and you’ll be ahead of the job search game for a very long time!

Yes, I know you have a very active Facebook account, and you have all your friends around you in class or the dorm and everywhere you are at school. But, you’ll be leaving them all soon, when you graduate. You’ll want to find a job, and you’ll want to help your friends find jobs, too.

So, Start NOW While You’re Still Seeing Everyone Regularly!

Even if you don’t graduate for 6 months or 2 years, lay the foundation for your life-long network and your job search using LinkedIn in ways that Facebook and Twitter can’t do for you. LinkedIn is the favorite place of recruiters right now, and is apt to be for several years into the future.

LinkedIn is more important to your career and to your job search right now than Monster or CareerBuilder. (more…)

Top 6 Online Employer/Recruiter Magnets

January 3rd, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

These days, the most effective way to find a job is to attract employers to you.  How can you do that?  By creating and maintaining public profiles on these 6 powerful Websites.  The payoff for you will be substantial and long-term.

The good news is that these sites are free for you to use, currently.  The bad news is that this will take some time and work to create and to manage.  Not a lot because much of what you create for one site (LinkedIn, for example) can be used with minor modifications on other sites.

In addition, these effort will pay off for you when you have captured the interest of a recruiter or potential employer who researches you to see what information is available about you on the Web because they will find these sites, often at the top of the first page of search results. (more…)

18 Minutes a Day Job Hunting – REALLY?

December 30th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Apparently, the US Department of Labor came out with a very interesting and controversial data point recently -

The average job seeker spends 18 minutes a day looking for a job.

And that datapoint has created an uproar online about the ignorant people who are dumb enough to think that 18 minutes a day is a sufficient and/or appropriate amount of time to find a job.

So, with visions of my hard-earned tax dollars helping some lazy bums take  paid vacations at my expense, I decided to look into it. (more…)

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight of the Week

December 8th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Three great new articles were added to Job-Hunt this week: Beverly Harvey, Job-Hunt’s Executive Job Search Expert, Susan Guarneri, Job-Hunt’s Career Assessments Expert, and Erin Kennedy, Job-Hunt’s Marketing and Sales Job Search Expert.  In addition, a new blog post about developing green industry expertise was posted.

Career of the Week:

Occupational Therapy Providers – $30.00/hour average wage, expected 10-year job growth is 23%. More about other Careers.

Build Green Industry Expertise for Your Next Job

December 5th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Looking to the future, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the growing emphasis on “being green” will be increasingly critical – in our homes, in our work and play, in education and industry, and in our governments.

Add to the growing need for “green-ness” the scarcity of experienced experts in the various “green” fields, and we find *OPPORTUNITY* for YOU!

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New Job-Hunt Articles + Career of the Week

December 5th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

This week, we introduce Job-Hunt’s NEW Social Media & Job Search Expert, Marci Reynolds. Marci is CEO of J2B Marketing (Job Seeker to Business),  a Boston based Internet Marketing and Copywriting firm for job seekers.

Three great new articles were added to Job-Hunt this week: Marci Reynold’s first article on LinkedIn SEO for job seekers, Meg Guiseppi, Job-Hunt’s Personal Branding Expert, and Barbara Safani, Job-Hunt’s Finance Industry Job Search Expert.  In addition, a new blog post about Job-Hunt’s very popular Twitter Lists was posted.

Career of the Week:

Dental Hygiene Technician – $31.21/hour average wage, expected 10-year job growth is 30%. More about other Careers.

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career of the Week

November 25th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Three great new articles were added to Job-Hunt this week, written by 3 of  Job-Hunt Experts: Phyllis Mufson for Boomer Job Search, Camille Carboneau-Roberts for Federal Job Search, and Randi Bussin for Career Change:

Career of the Week: Career of the Week: Clinical Counselors – $32.76/hour average wage, expected 10-year job growth is 16%. More about other Careers.

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career of the Week

November 9th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Three great new articles were added to Job-Hunt this week, written by 3 of  Job-Hunt Experts: Laura DeCarlo for Job Interviewing, Jeff Lipschultz for Working with Recruiters, and Parmelee Eastman  for Company Research:

Career of the Week: Clothing Designer – $63,000 average annual income, expected 10-year job growth is 5%. More about other Careers…

Job Search Short Cuts

October 10th, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

Here are 4 things you can do which will speed up your job search by making your job search more effective.

Conducting a more effective job search will shorten the time it takes you to find a job, so these time savers will be short cuts for you.

Biggest Job Search Time Savers:

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LinkedIn Groups Replacing Job Boards?

September 2nd, 2009 by Susan P. Joyce

This is another phase in the evolution of online job search, and, if you were paying attention, you knew it was coming. It has arrived!

Candidate “Sourcing”

Monday, I took “social media sourcing” class.  ”Sourcing” is a phrase that’s been using in the online recruiting world for a few years. Basically, it means searching for good job candidates using many different tactics, rather than posting jobs.  Sourcing as a recruiting speciality developed for 2 simple reasons:

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