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Job Search / Free Resume Template for Microsoft Word
This free resume template is designed to help you prepare a resume using Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org. It doesn’t contain fancy colors or unique formatting styles that might identify your resume as having come from a resume template repository Continue reading
Job Search / The Hidden Job Market (video)
Why? Simply put, there are a lot of unadvertised jobs that you are overlooking everyday. If you do not know about these hidden jobs. its because you have been looking in the wrong places. Its time to do something different! In this video on job search strategy, Jim Stroud gives tips on how to prospect the hidden job market. Continue reading
Job Search / 4 Job Seeker’s Nightmares
Here are four potential job search disasters that will hopefully never happen to you Continue reading
Job Search / What job seekers can expect in today’s market
Here’s what job seekers can expect today. * It will take a long time. * You might need to send a lot of applications. * You’ll be lucky to get rejections. * You’ll mostly apply online. * It’s harder to get someone to take a chance on you. * Salaries and benefits are lower. * … Continue reading
CareerSonar / Job Search Through Your Friends’ Connections
A friend on social media is often more of a friendly acquaintance, but you can use that to your benefit when seeking out a new job. CareerSonar uses your connections to others to help you find work at companies where your contacts can assist. To start, you log into a social media account or five … Continue reading
Job Search / Criminal record may cut your chances of getting hired by half
It’s hard enough finding a job these days without having to explain a criminal record. According to a hiring discrimination study conducted by Princeton professor Devah Pager, having a criminal record may cut your chances of getting hired by half. When researchers sent 25 young men with similar levels of job experience and education to … Continue reading
BC / First Nations Job Search Sites
General Search Simply Hired – http://www.simplyhired.ca/a/jobs/list/q-aboriginal/pn-2 Aboriginal Canada – http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp.nsf Indeed – http://ca.indeed.com/jobs?q=aboriginal&gclid=CJmV5pm5g7MCFQSCQgodT0MAcA First Nations in British Columbia – http://fnbc.info/jobs First Nations Jobs Online- http://www.firstnationsjobsonline.com/
Job search / Going mobile
Companies that have embraced mobile job applications, such as McDonald’s, Macy’s and Frisch’s, say they can more quickly identify and match candidates to job openings. And job seekers, such as Teppe, say they can more conveniently search for jobs and decide which suit them best. “It used to be you had to strap on a … Continue reading
A Résumé / Interviewing Steven Spielberg (video)
As a kind of Résumé, Christopher Woodring made this fake video of him interviewing Steven Spielberg,
UK / Grads job search starting earlier than ever
Forty-one per cent of finalists said they made at least one job application to a graduate employer almost a year before graduation, according to a poll of more than 18,000 students at 30 UK universities by High Fliers Research, published on 13 June. That compares to the 37 per cent who applied early – in … Continue reading
How to find the right talent among 1734 applicants? by Heineken (video)
Standard questions. Prepared answers. If job interviews are all the same, how to find the right talent among 1734 applicants?
Job Search / Using LinkedIn’s 3 newest features
Job seekers, get ahead of the curve by taking advantage of these newest features. Why not take advantage before your competition does? 1. Maximize relationship building with LinkedIn Contacts. The recently launched LinkedIn Contacts tool’s biggest perk is that you can bolster your network list by automatically merging all of your contacts from all walks … Continue reading
LinkedIn / Profiles for the out of work
There are no good euphemisms for unemployment. Job seekers often suggest they are “in transition” or “looking for the next great opportunity,” but experts say such phrases don’t really sugarcoat things. This dilemma has become even more important since the advent of LinkedIn, which has turned resumes into public, living documents. Career coaches are divided … Continue reading
Mobile Job Search (Infographic)
In a recent survey from Glassdoor, 89% of employees who will look for a new job in the next year say their mobile device is an important tool and resource for their job search. Plus, they’re not just turning to their mobile devices to look for jobs – more than half (54 percent) read company … Continue reading
Job Search / A Jobs Site for ‘Beautiful People’
Exclusive social media site BeautifulPeople.com is now offering its 750,000 members a way to use their looks to find employment with its new recruitment service. The company, which launched more than 10 years ago, allows members to vote on the admission of potential members based on their looks. It is now allowing any company to … Continue reading
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