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Hiring graduates with best degrees from top universities ‘could be discrimination against average students’ | Mail Online
Companies hiring graduates with top degrees could be discriminating against students with average grades, according to a Government-commissioned review. Jobs that require applicants to have a minimum qualification of a 2:1 degree may prevent firms meeting diversity targets, the report said. Many sought-after positions – particularly in the corporate sector – require a certain standard … Continue reading
Great Employee Qualities: Do You Have Them? | CAREEREALISM
Some great employee qualities bosses appreciate include: 1. Managing Yourself 2. Managing Your Boss 3. Managerial Attitude 4. Managing Your Time 5. Work to Get Results 6. Out-do Yourself 7. Can Do 8. Strive For Excellence 9. Enjoys Work 10. Contribute Positively 11. Work Relationships. Read More @: via Great Employee Qualities: Do You Have … Continue reading
Be on lookout for the unadvertised job opportunities – USATODAY.com
Job hunters hold up signs in bleachers and post notices on their T-shirts. Why not a bar? But I do know of hundreds of job hunters who sit down at their desks and computers every day and call up, email or send LinkedIn messages to people and say, “Hey I’m looking for a job. Do … Continue reading
Job Hunting in the Internet Age – IEEE Spectrum
Few things have changed as much as looking for a job. In a way, it’s all Google’s fault. We’ve gone from an information-scarce world, in which the hardest thing was finding jobs you might be right for, to an information-rich world in which the hardest thing is standing out from the hordes of people who … Continue reading
Using Social Media for Hiring Can Get you Sued | Reuters
In order to protect your business from lawsuits, remember these three things: 1. Know what you are entitled to know: You may learn information about a candidate from social media that you cannot ask about in a job interview. For instance, a posting on a candidate’s profile may reveal his religious beliefs. But beware – … Continue reading
How National Public Radio Uses Social Media to Recruit [Video Interview] | The Undercover Recruiter
We recently had a chat with Lars Schmidt who is the Director of Talent Acquisition at NPR (that’s National Public Radio), based in Washington, DC. In these changing times for recruiting, Lars, who is the founder of @NPRJobs and #pubjobs, believes in proactively driving social recruiting strategies. In this interview, Jorgen Sundberg, founder of Link Humans, found … Continue reading
Starting Your Career: Use Social Media for Job Interview Prep | CareerBliss.com
A few days before the interview, you should get copies of your resume together and start thinking about responses to common interview questions and questions of your own to ask the prospective employer. As you prepare for the big meeting, don’t overlook social media. These days, employers spend a lot of time looking at your social … Continue reading
Submit Resume – Talent hunt now simple and quick with Submit Resume
Search the ideal candidate for your vacancies, close job openings faster by registering with Submit Resume. It has the largest database of India-wide job seekers across various industries and locations. Finding the most suitable candidate for your vacancies is now faster, easier and cost effective than ever. Submit Resume, a job portal, has a massive … Continue reading
Where are Washington’s talent shortages? – The Washington Post
The hiring market is far from sunny, but there are still jobs employers in the Washington area have a hard time filling. Paul Villella, chief executive of the staffing services firm HireStrategy, said a couple themes connect them. First, whenever new technologies become popular, employers quickly need people to implement and manage them even if … Continue reading
Job Front: Matching military vets to employers is group’s goal
In Sacramento, a number of veterans groups and state and local employment agencies work to make local employers aware of job-ready veterans. Here are a few: • Sacramento Area Human Resource Association (www.sahra.org). • Sacramento Veterans Resource Center (www.vietvets.org/svrc.htm). • Employment Development Department (www.edd.ca.gov). • California Department of Veterans Affairs (www.cdva.ca.gov). • Sacramento Employment and … Continue reading
Solving the Inefficient Student Job Market
StudentJobsEverywhere.com launched its job matching service aimed at addressing the historical issues pertaining to hiring students. The service provides organizations access to the 16 to 26 year old market across Canada, in one convenient location. Jobs can be posted free of charge. The service matches the organization’s requirements such as skills, experience, location, with those … Continue reading
The You Behind Your Resume | Psychology Today
One of the key factors in determining emotional resiliency is what social psychologists call an “internal locus of control.” A locus of control, which can be either external or internal, is a belief about our power to effect change in our lives. Those with a dominant external locus of control believe their destiny lies beyond … Continue reading
The Top 3 Mistakes Job Seekers Will Make on Facebook Timeline
More than 18.4 million Americans have used Facebook to find a job. Facebook Timeline poses new obstacles for current adults looking for work. How can the Timeline mess up an existing job search? Here are three things job seekers should avoid doing on Facebook Timeline. It should be abundantly clear that Facebook Timeline is different, … Continue reading
The BLS Thinks These Jobs Will Grow a Lot. I Think They’re Wrong.
In a post at The Atlantic, Jordan Weissmann draws a couple interesting graphs using data from the BLS’s recently-released projections of job growth to 2020. Weissmann concentrates on those jobs that require only a high-school diploma or less, and points out the surprising stat that 63% of all US jobs created (12.8 million total) will be … Continue reading
Top 10 skills and competencies: teamwork : graduate jobs, careers, recruitment TARGETjobs
The message from employers is clear: academic qualifications alone are not enough to get you a graduate job. They want to see evidence of your employability skills – the competencies that will enable you to contribute well in the workplace. But what are these key skills, and how do you show you have them? To … Continue reading
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