December 1st, 2008 by Steve
ResumeSpider offers Career Seekers an alternative approach to getting noticed which leads to more activity; like phone calls, emails and interviews.
We are not claiming this is the silver bullet or some great new idea. However, ResumeSpider is a common-sense approach to networking and targeted list building. Both activities are crucial to a well rounded job search [...]
Tags: Job search, Resume Distribution, ResumeSpider
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November 26th, 2008 by John O'Connor
Now for a healthy outlook on your career path, I recommend you…
1. Accept Change. To open a door to a new career jobseekers must focus on accepting change as reality. So look at the ways you have learned and enjoy learning. Express this in achievements and keywords in your resume and career marketing materials. Be ready [...]
Tags: Career Path, Job search, Resume Writer, resumes, Worklife Mission
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November 21st, 2008 by John O'Connor
Stand out by writing and living your Work Life mission and learn the new rules for careers. It also might help your parents if you moved out of your old room or the basement.
Start with a new paradigm, a new mindset. Find organizations that support your worklife mission and fight to join them. Generations ago [...]
Tags: Career Path, Job search, New Graduates, resumes, Work Life Mission
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November 14th, 2008 by John O'Connor
The Jobseeker’s Situation and Dilemma:
Jane Harding, a top medical pharmaceutical sales representative, says that investing more in her personal brand could have gotten her hired faster. Here’s her story…
She interacted daily with regional medical health centers, gave educational presentations and felt strongly that her portfolio of drugs helped patients recover more quickly from surgery. She [...]
Tags: career, Job search, Jobs, Personal Branding, Six Figure Jobs
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November 10th, 2008 by John O'Connor
Check and Refine Your Existing Online Brand. Your personal life is part of your professional brand, so inventory every part of it – in person and online. “I realized that I was casually on MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook and even YouTube,” Jane Harding says. “I didn’t have anything embarrassing out there, but I wasn’t doing [...]
Tags: career, Job search, Jobs, Personal Branding, Six Figure Jobs
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August 15th, 2008 by Steve
Are you planning your job search or expecting to get lucky?
Here is an example of a good plan…
Get a calendar and journal, and start to document your daily activity. If you don’t track your activity, there is no way for you to make a good decision if you need to change something.
Make contact with AT [...]
Tags: Get lucky, Job search, Plan and Organize
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August 1st, 2008 by Steve
Many job boards and resume distribution services, require you to have a text version of your resume. A text or ASCII formatted resume can add tremendous value to your job search and here is why…
Text resumes have a higher chance of passing through a spam filter when embedded into an email and not used as [...]
Tags: ASCII Text resume, Resume formatting
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July 21st, 2008 by Steve
We recently received this question…
In today’s market, why would an employer want to pay recruiter fees with the supply of skilled people being so high?
Here was our answer…
Employers may be experts in their niche, but many are not experts at recruiting or finding great employees. Unemployment nationwide is around 5.5%, so it is still difficult [...]
Tags: finding great employers, Job search, Working with recruiters
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July 9th, 2008 by Steve
At Resume Spider, we hear the following statement often… “I don’t want to use recruiters in my job search!”
My question to you, the job seeker, is why?
It is like you are telling me, “I want to get to the finish line first, as long as I don’t have to run!”
I am not a recruiter, so [...]
Tags: career, Job search, Resume submission, Using recruiters
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June 13th, 2008 by Steve
The following article was written by Kimberly Schneiderman of City Career Services…
Working with recruiters often feels like a guessing game. It is nerve-wracking for job seekers to learn the process as they go. They wonder how to make time to scout, screen and interview recruiters during the workday. Perhaps you can relate. Sometimes it seems [...]
Tags: Interviewing, Job search, Working with recruiters
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