Posts Tagged ‘resumes’

Indeed Resume: Great News for Job Seekers & Employers

September 19th, 2011 by Susan P. Joyce

 The world’s # 1 online job search destination just became even more important!

On Sept. 14, in response to requests from job seekers (and probably employers), Indeed.com announced the launch of Indeed Resume, a new function that will help both job seekers and employers, and could be the next must-do for job seekers.

As of September 14, Indeed now provides:

  • Resume posting for job seekers (free, of course) with many different resume formats accepted, including PDF.
  • And, free resume searching for employers, although a cost to employers will probably be coming. 
  • A personal URL for the job seeker (customizable by the job seeker) to use for their Indeed Resume.

I’m happy to say that Indeed is a Job-Hunt Sponsor, but I see this as an important new development benefiting both job seekers and employers regardless of that relationship.

How Indeed Resume Works

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Don’t Send Me (or Anyone Else) Your Resume!

August 15th, 2011 by Susan P. Joyce

“Spray and pray” resume distribution (sending it to every email address you can find or posting it in every job board you can find) is a waste of time, and makes you look desperate and dumb.  Don’t do it yourself, and don’t hire a resume distribution “service” to do it for you.  

Not only do you look desperate, spray-and-pray may send your resume into the wrong hands, for example, to:

  • Your current boss, if you are employed, or someone else you work with, which can result in loss of the job you have.
  • Someone who will use your information for their own purposes completely unrelated to job search – selling your contact information to mass marketers, for example.  Need more spam, junk phone calls, or junk mail?
  • Someone intent on identity theft or other nasty action.

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5 Ways You Look Out-of-Date in Your Job Search

February 12th, 2011 by Susan P. Joyce

For most of us, a job search, fortunately, is NOT something we do often enough to be really proficient.  So, when the time comes to job search, we must look at what is effective now – not what we did when we last hunted for a job 2, 5, or 15 years ago.

Effective job search methods have changed a great deal since 2007 because recruiting methods have changed dramatically with the widespread use of the Internet and search engines and, particularly in the last 2 years, with the growth of social media.

If job seekers don’t understand how “the new system” works, they can look out-of-date and less desirable as potential employees.  These are the 5 major ways that job seekers can look out of date. (more…)

New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

November 14th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Career Spotlight: Are you very good at coordinating a lot of things simultaneously? Do you enjoy meeting with and working with new people in new locations? You might excell at being a Convention Planner.  Convention Planners earn an average of $44.000 a year and, according to the US Department of Labor, the expected 10-year job growth is 22%. Over 65% of Convention Planners hold a bachelor’s degree. For more information about this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide to Careers

Quote of the Week:

This one comes from one of my favorite sources, Mike Folsom Tweeting as @Silixell:

“You have not failed until you quit trying.” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

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New Job-Hunt Articles + Career Spotlight

September 24th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce

Career Spotlight:   Did you enjoy college enough to work there? I worked in HR in a large university, and it was very interesting, a tightly-knit community within the larger world with different standards than most other industries.  College Administrators, on average, now earn $81,000 year (much more than I earned!), with an expected 10-year job growth of 14%. Over 8o% hold at least a bachelor’s degree. More about this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide to Careers.

Quote of the Week:  The most RT’ed quote of the week is from the amazing @2MorrowKnight who was RT’ing a quote by PBS’s Tavis Smiley (@tavismiley) -

Failing does not make you a failure.

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