Can Facebook Help Your Job Search?
Can Facebook and other social media sites like Linkedin and Twitter help your job search? Absolutely! See the Infographic below on how Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin are helping people’s job search efforts today. Key statistics from the infographics include 1 in 6 workers use social media to get hired 9 in 10 job seekers has [...]
Can’t Find a Job After College – 6 Ideas
Knowing how to find a job after college in today’s economy requires you to do much more than just send out resumes. As even experienced people are accepting lower pay jobs to survive, the college graduates are facing a even larger challenge with limited experience or ways to differentiate themselves. Recently, I received an email [...]
When and How to Use a Headhunter
When and how to use a headhunter are common questions and good ones to ask early in your career. Before we can talk about when and how to use a headhunter, it is important to understand what are headhunters and the different types that exist What are headhunters? Headhunters (aka recruiters) are independent recruiting professionals [...]
Work for Free – Who Should do it and Why?
I came across this question on Quora – Should anyone work for free for good exposure and at what stage do you stop doing free, but awesome work? 1. Should anyone work for free? Yes, everyone should at least consider to work for free as an option. I think it’s important to realize that wasting time also [...]
Employment discrimination or job market reality?
Yesterday, CNN Money published this article online – Out-of-work job applicants told unemployed need not apply. The gist of the article is increasingly recruiters and companies are dismissing blankly any applicant who is currently unemployed. Is this employment discrimination? what should you do if you are currently out of work?
Job Search Tips: Never rule out a second chance
Just because you got turned down by a company for a job, it does not mean it has to be the end of the story. A friend interviewed at a company for a Paid Search Marketing position. He went for several rounds and everyone liked him but they turned him down saying they wanted someone [...]
Re-discover Alumni Career Services
The job market is tough. We can use all the help we can get. It’s time to re-discover your alumni career services as they are usually pretty good and the best part is most services are free. Being a career advice blogger, I try to attend some of these job search seminars to keep current. [...]
Great article on Job Search tips
A friend recommended a great article in the New York Times on how to improve your job search efforts. It’s called Still Looking for a Job? It’s Time to Refocus written in March 2008. I agree with every word and have been talking about it throughout this blog. I really like the way they summarized [...]
Use Social Media for Job Search
I want to share this good article on business week which gives some great tips on how to use social media (linked in, facebook, twitter, and blog) to find jobs instead of using job board. I couldn’t agree more. Happy reading and good luck out there! – Lei
Job Search is Your Job
“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job”. — Slappy White Job search is the job you have when you are between jobs. Like any other jobs, It needs to be a full time effort (30-40 hours a week consistently) if you want to achieve [...]
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