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Blog URL: http://reCareered.blogspot.com
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Blog Description: reCareered's blog publishes daily tips to help job seekers get noticed through Resume Search Optimization, and Web 2.0 tools. reCareered increases candidates' chances of getting noticed, getting an interview, and a job.
Blog Category: Career Blogs
Blog Owner: Phil Rosenberg
Blog Added: March 24, 2008 06:53:11 AM
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Live from the HR Tech Show in Chicago
HR Tech is a trade show where HR managers go to learn what's new. All they are talking about is Web 2.0, how to find candidates on LinkedIN, Facebook, even Twitter.I attended one of the sessions where the presenter asked the audience how many used LinkedIN - about 75% raised their hands. Then he asked how many used Facebook - about 25% raised ther hands. MySpace - 10%. Twitter - just me.
Then the presenter demonstrated how to use Facebook for recruiting, to find friends of friends, people with common interests, using interest groups to find recruits. Not a surprise to readers of my blog, but what was surprising was how many weren't using Facebook yet to recruit...though it seemed that most of the crowd had heard how powerful it could be.
Interesting side note....when asked, almost all of the audience of HR Managers read blogs, but almost none wrote blogs.
I'm off to a presentation on cool new HR Technologies, and will share comments and thoughts later today.
Back to the world of what's new in HR.
Announcing reCareered Teleseminars - and special offer for readers
Announcing reCareered's Second Teleseminar Series.Special offer for reCareered Teleseminars - Purchase by Wednesday 10/15/08, and take 33% off ? only $199
You're a reCareered reader, so I know you need help in your job search. Maybe the higher cost of individualized assistance was out of your budget? I wanted to do something to help, so I?m launching the first reCareered Teleseminars for career changers who want to learn how to get an unfair advantage in today?s job market, but at a lower price point.
I?m offering a 33% discount for a very limited time ? only $199 - and only to this special group of job seekers that I?ve communicated with before.
? How would it affect your job search and starting salary, if you could increase your resume response rate to 25-50%?
? Have you sent dozens, or even hundreds of resumes only to get just 1 or two interviews?
? Do you feel like your resume isn?t even being read?
? If you?re like most job seekers, you use a resume strategy that gets you less than a 5% response rate. No wonder you?re frustrated, that?s a lot of work to get an interview, and a LOT of unnecessary rejection.
The fact is, job search is broken, leaving candidates frustrated with poor results, lots of work, and little to show for it. Because of this dysfunction, the job market is frustrating and seems to take longer to land a good job than ever before. Throw in a looming recession, and it makes your job search just that much harder.
But there?s something you can do about it. There are unfair advantages in today?s hiring system, to the few who know the inside track.
If you?ve read my blog (http://reCareered.blogspot.com), the new reCareered newsletter, or articles I?ve published in Business Week, CIO or Fast Company, you?ll realize I take a different approach than most coaches or resume writers. Most give the same tired advice that may have worked 10 years ago when resumes were written on paper, and dinosaurs roamed the earth. It?s no surprise that these tactics don?t work in today?s digital job market.
The Teleseminars:
In order to help more people, reCareered is launching a series of 4 Teleseminars, covering topics including:
1) Resume Strategies ? 4 Audiences
2) Best Places to Search for jobs & Fishing vs Response resumes
3) Inside tips to use LinkedIN to accelerate your search
4) Gaming the interview
Exercises: Exercises will be included to make the Teleseminars more valuable and hands-on
Schedule:
Thursday 10/16/08, 8:00pm CST
Thursday 10/23/08, 8:00pm CST
Thursday 10/30/08, 8:00pm CST
Thursday 11/06/08, 8:00pm CST
Each class is 45 minutes long.
Can?t make a class? Recordings will be available to registered participants.
I?m offering a 33% discount to just blog & newsletter readers and people who I?ve talked to or emailed about job search. But this 33% discount is only available through Wednesday 10/15.
Purchase your seat in this innovative Teleseminar today for $199.00 through Wednesday 10/15/08. Purchases after Monday will be at full retail.
Hope to have you join this great Teleseminar series!
Would You Rather Do Your Taxes Than Write Your Resume?
I find that most people hate searching for a job, and especially hate writing their own resume. Even writers, marketers, and journalists who write for a living?hate writing a resume.I think it?s because the process is so foreign. All the rules have changed, so resume writing is a different skill with different strategies than just a few years ago. Add to that all of the conflicting advice a job seeker gets ? no wonder it?s more painful than a root canal without Novocain.
So job seekers have a task that they rarely do, feel they?re not very good at, the rules have dramatically changed in the past few years, everyone has a different opinion (usually conflicting), and it?s a task you feel guilty about not being comfortable with ? because it?s writing about yourself!
So what do you do? Of course you could hire someone to write it for you, but you?ll still need something to start with. Here?s some help:
1) Schedule a day to write. Plan nothing else that day, so you?ll have time to procrastinate, and still get the job done. Choose someplace quiet ? get a babysitter if you have to and go someplace else. Exercise first, to get the blood flowing, and the endorphins humming. And have a fresh pot of coffee. If you don?t have a laptop, arrange out of house activities for the kids, so you?ll have the house to yourself.
2) Use a template to start. There are resume templates everywhere, from the major job boards to alumni sites, or just Google resume template. Don?t sweat it which template to use. This will be a draft, and you?ll change it many times.
3) Don?t try to write a final copy when you are starting. Your resume is an iterative process. Even for a draft, you?ll want to have a process of writing then reviewing?.a few times. You?re bound to find things to change for at least 3 review, minimum.
4) Take a break. After you?ve done a first draft, take a break. Go for a walk, or a run, or just get away from your resume. Take an hour, clear your head, and come back fresh to do a critical read and edit.
5) Have others review. It?s next to impossible to write a good resume without a third party reviewer. The reviewer will read it from a readers? perspective, a difficult viewpoint for the subject of the resume?you.
6) Don?t worry about conflicting information. Plan on it, you?ll get conflicting advice ? it?s going to happen. When you get conflicting information on your resume, I suggest you thank the person for their input, and make your choice of who?s advice makes sense for you. After all, it?s your resume at the end of the day.
7) Spelling, grammar, format, tabs, margins, fonts all matter. You only get two chances to be perfect in your life ? when you?re born, and on your resume. You?ll be competing with hundreds, or thousands of other applicants for a single opening. Why would a HR reviewer or hiring manager choose an imperfect resume, when they see almost limitless numbers of perfect ones?
8) Don?t settle. Don?t settle for ok, good, or good enough for your resume. With the amount of competition you?ll face, your resume has to be stellar, exemplary?.because your competition is. Hiring managers see only the top 2-3 % of resumes. So good enough just isn?t good enough anymore.
9) Stop procrastinating. I know you dread this?everyone does. I feel your pain. Now gut up and start.
So?what are you waiting for? Get typing!
If you?d like more information, a free 30 minute resume consultation, or some advice about your career transition, just email your resume to reCareered at phil.recareered@gmail.com, and we'll schedule a time to talk.
What I Learned at SHRM
This week, I was the SHRMinator, running all around McCormick Place in Chicago getting great interviews, which I?ll publish over the coming weeks.
I learned SHRM is a big deal and big money. 15K attendees were there, over 700 vendors, and some massive parties. Vendors were throwing a lot of money around, with prizes giveaways, stuffed animals, food, and of course lots of writing instruments.
While I didn?t win an iPod, I did learn a lot of details about job boards, from interviewing CEOs, VPs, and Directors from 9 of the top 10 job boards. I interviewed CareerBuilder, Monster, HotJobs, Dice, Beyond, SimplyHired, TheLadders, Indeed, Jobing, and Jobfox. The only top job board not in attendance was Jobster.
The most important thing I learned, was something I already knew, but was surprised to hear from the job boards. Nearly every top job board admitted that cover letters are not searchable by the job board databases. So to all you who still try to tailor your experience through the cover letter?.you strategy doesn?t work well.
Every job board said the best thing you can do to get your resume seen is to customize it to fit the job description.
What?s interesting is that each approaches the job seeker in a different way. From Careerbuilder that uses its massive size, Beyond produces 15K niche sites, SimplyHired that has great analytics and search filters, Jobing that specializes in local search in 18 markets, Monster has great content and user experience, and Jobfox has a matching survey that?s like the eHarmony of job boards.
Over the next few weeks I?ll give the details when I publish the actual interviews I had with the Execs and managers of these top job boards. I?ll also try to get a meaningful comparison between each, but most aren?t true head to head competitors. For instance Jobing is the best for local search, but they can?t list all jobs within a local marketplace. SimplyHired covers 5K job boards and websites, but they might not have many jobs dealing with your profession or industry. If you?re looking for job content, there are sites that have a great many articles on career search.
There?s no one size fits all in the job board biz.
I?ll also review Payscale.com a great salary tool, will publish an interview with USIS about the prevalence of lying on resumes (and how easily you?ll be caught), a cool way to use printed materials to stand out, and the .jobs domain name and why you may not have heard much about it.
Finally, I learned that the worst job on the planet is owned by the hairy guy who dressed in the pink fairy suit to be a booth babe for PeopleClick. They can?t pay this poor guy enough?.As for an update on my dog Tuanis, she?s still gainfully unemployed, snoozing away. While I learned how I could get her a job, I didn?t learn anything about writing a great doggie resume.
If you?d like more information, a free 30 minute resume consultation, or some advice about your career transition, just email your resume to reCareered at phil.recareered@gmail.com, and we'll schedule a time to talk.
How SHRM Helped Me Get My Dog a Job
My dog Tuanis (Costa Rican for ?The Good Life?) is the sweetest, smartest dog I?ve ever owned. She lives to have her belly or ears scratched, is a wonderful doorbell, and protects my home against unwanted junk mail. But mostly, she sleeps.All that?s about to change, because it?s time for Tuanis to pull her weight around here, and start bringing home some bacon. So, sweet Tuanis, it?s time for you to get a job.
Fortunately, I met with SimplyHired?s team at SHRM today, because they have just the tools to help me get my dog a job. If I was looking, they have some great tools for me also, reviewed at The Secret to Getting SimplyHired. But this is about Tuanis, not me.
SimplyHired has a special search for dog friendly companies. For instance, if I wanted to get Tuanis a job as (let?s say) a recruiter within walking distance (she doesn?t drive), I?d search under recruit, enter my zip code, and check the box for ?Choose only dog friendly companies?.
There were two listed in my zip code. Tuanis could recruit for an animal hospital chain, or be an inside sales manager for a national recruiting firm.
Now if she gave me lots of kisses, and brought me my slippers to convince me to drive her and not be so controlling about her career choice, there are 89 new jobs in the Chicago area at dog friendly companies. Of course, many of those career choices would require me to transport her, and help her with the day to day duties, since I?m the one with opposable thumbs.
SimplyHired has other special search tools also:
Mom-friendly jobs (Don?t worry Mom, just because I?m putting the dog to work, doesn?t mean you have to ditch retirement)
Age 50+ friendly jobs
Eco-Friendly jobs (Wear your green tie!)
GLBT jobs
I got so much detail about SimplyHired?s site and search tools, that I?ll have to cover in later articles, but you can check them out yourself at SimplyHired Special Searches.
Mom, that nursing home is getting expensive?.there?s 6 Mom friendly jobs, and 556 age 50+ jobs in your little home town.
Maybe you can commute with Tuanis!
If you?d like more information, a free 30 minute resume consultation, or some advice about your career transition, just email your resume to reCareered at phil.recareered@gmail.com, and we'll schedule a time to talk.
Live from Chicago, It's SHRM!!
The SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) Conference in Chicago, Illinois is the country's largest HR conference, with over 700 exhibitors, 15,000 attendees, and hundreds of classes for HR professionals.So why should job seekers care about a room full of headhunters?
I?m attending Sunday ? Tuesday to get the inside scoop on candidate job boards strategies and new tools for candidates.
I'm finding some incredible information that I'll be passing to you over the coming days that will give great inside tips on your career search. I've got some overall demographic information, new tools for job seekers, and interviews with representatives from all the major job boards about how to use their boards more effectively.
Yesterday was the kickoff, led by a talk by SHRM's management. SHRM has some great research for job seekers, and is doing some interesting things in the HR marketplace.
Sue Meisinger, outgoing CEO of SHRM talked about SHRM's lobbying efforts to make discrimination against sexual orientation illegal, researching the state of diversity, and the best small companies to work for in America.
Steve Williams, Director of Research of SHRM, discussed that people are leaving jobs due to long commutes and gas prices. SHRM finds that companies are reacting by offering 4 day work weeks (40%), flexible schedules (25%), and telecommuting options (20%). 1/3 of the companies surveyed offered part time telecommuting options. Steve also shared that relocation fees & benefits were among the most popular job benefits offered today, as the mortgage crisis has made relocating more difficult for families.
Stay tuned for live updates as I interview USIS about prevalence of lying on resumes, Payscale.com about their new tools to compare salaries to the marketplace, Careerbuilder about how cover letters are not included in search databases, Monster & Yahoo Hotjobs about inside tips on getting your resume noticed, Dice about their new format and new ways to use their service, all the cool new tools from SimplyHired, and many other vendors from SHRM this week.
Stay tuned!
If you?d like more information, a free 30 minute resume consultation, or some advice about your career transition, just email your resume to reCareered at phil.recareered@gmail.com, and we'll schedule a time to talk.
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