Career Tip for the day! Refresh your resume – Don’t leave it hanging out there in cyber space

I want to let you know about the three job boards you should be posting on to get results. Recruiters only look at the last two days of postings. So you can’t forget to refresh your resumes every three days. What this means is that you need to go into your resume profiles on these sites and make changes to them and then save changes. This will refresh the resume and bring it to the top of the pile. My clients that do this have 3-4 interviews per week. People are getting hired everyday and there are a lot of jobs in the US despite what they say about unemployment. Hang in there and keep focused. Also, check out the job fairs at www.jobjournals.com.

You need to post on www.craigslist.com, www.monster.com, www.careerbuilder.com when looking for a job. Now if you are High Tech Professional you should post on www.dice.com and if you are in Bio Tech you should post on www.biospace.com.

Job Fairs – Are they Loser conventions?

I can’t tell you how many people get embarassed about attending job fairs. I had one of my clients in a two day training course call it a loser convention. I love job fairs and think they are a great way for job seekers/candidates meet hiring managers and human resource professionals and recruiters face to face. There are very good tips on how to work job fairs for example, you should always sign up before the event and get a full list of employers that are attending; do your research on the companies you want to target at the job fair so you sound prepared when you meet them; arrive 45 min early and make sure you are dressed like you are going to an interview.  Job Journals is a link that lists all the job fairs in the Greater Bay Area. www.jobjournals.com   Try out a couple you might find that you really like them and might get hired from one.   Employers are not at job fairs for their health or to skip out on work. They are looking for hot candidates to fill their positions.

Immediate job openings

•          Anticipated job openings

•          Contract/project work

•          Newly created positions

 

Employers attend job fairs primarily to:

•          Collect resumes -Source candidates

•          Interview candidates to potentially hire them (time varies)

•          Promote the company

 

 

 

 

 

Do your research on companies, hiring managers, etc. using linkedin.com

 I was working with a client tonight and talking to her about using linkedin.com for researching hiring managers and companies. I walked her through www.linkedin.com and told her that it was a warehouse of information. Try using it for research. You will be amazed at what you find out. See below one of the screen shots after you type in the company name.

LooptPlease enter a company name The company you entered is not in our database

30 total, 28 in your network

·                     Jane Doe, QA Manager

·                      San Francisco Bay Area

·                     John Doe, User Experience Designer

·                      San Francisco Bay Area

·                     Julie Yon, Senior Director, Consumer Marketing

·                      San Francisco Bay Area

·                     Gus Planes, Chief Privacy Officer; Vice President, Corporate Affairs

·                      San Francisco Bay Area

·                     George Young, VP, Engineering

·                      San Francisco Bay Area

New Hires

What’s this?

·                     Jane Doe,  QA Manager

·                      was Quality Assurance at Mobile Wireless – 6 months ago

·                     Julie Givens, Senior Systems Architect

·                      was Founder at Unix Software – last month

·                     Sean Pastor, Senior Mobile Software Engineer

·                      was Software Engineer at Omega Software- 2 months ago

Recent Promotions and Changes

What’s this?

·                     Peter Tom, Lead Server Developer

·                      was Software Engineer – 2 months ago

·                     Popular Profiles

·                      What’s this?

·                     Eve Youth, Senior Server Engineer

·                     Sam Jones, Mobile Developer

·                     Hilary Siemens, Senior Mobile Software Engineer

·                     Jan Temp, VP Location Technologies

·                     Robert Byrd, Web Front End Team Lead -

·                    Career path for Loopt employees

·                     before:

·                      Microsoft

·                      Motorola

·                    Loopt employees are most connected to

·                      AdMob

·                      VeriSign

·                      Stanford University

·                      Facebook

·                    Top Locations

·                      San Francisco Bay Area (29)

·                     Headquarters Address

·United States

	·                      Industry	·                      Computer Software
	·                      Type	·                      Privately Held
	·                      Company Size	·                      11-50 employees
·                      Top Schools		·                      Stanford Univ. ·                      23%

 

·                      Median Age

·                      31 years

 

·                      Gender

·                      Male ·                      77% ·                      Female ·                      23%

·                      Estimated based on LinkedIn Data

 

 

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Career tip for the day! Refresh, Refresh, Refresh…

Have you ever wondered why you don’t get a lot of phone calls after you post your resume on the job boards? Well the tip for the day is to remind you to refresh your resume every three to four days. If you leave your resume posted out in cyber space for more than a week, you will get lost in the black hole of cyber space. Recruiters, HR professionals, and Headhunters only look at the last two days of postings. So what this means is that you need to go into your monster.com and careerbuilder.com profiles and make a change to the resume section and then save changes and that will bring you to the top of the pile. For craigslist.com you will need to post a whole new resume. 

Believe me, you will be getting 2-4 telephone interviews and several emails per week if you are consistent with refreshing. Good luck and have fun.

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