Digital job hunt: Video resumes, social media help applicants
Ann Back looks straight into the camera and pretends as if she is talking to a prospective employer. She highlights some qualities that make her a good job candidate, sharing words such as honest, tenacious, efficient and professional that ...
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Tulsa World
What your Facebook profile is telling prospective employers
Your Facebook profile says more about you than you may think, including how well you work. A new study by a professor at Northern Illinois University’s college of business and a team of researchers has found that even five to 10 minutes of browsing ...
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Globe and Mail
Reed.co.uk Advise Jobseekers to Harness Social Media
It's widely acknowledged social media is becoming a powerful employability tool for both jobseekers and prospective employers. According to Jobvite, a recruitment software website, 50% of job seekers, now working in sales jobs, in 2010 ...
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Yahoo Finance
Bill would protect employers who give negative, truthful job references
"Many companies are reluctant to offer prospective employers any information about current or former employees beyond what is sometimes termed as NRS -- name, rank and serial number," Janssen said. "Without job reference protections, employers rarely ...
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Lincoln Journal Star
Long-term unemployed face stigma from prospective employers
Craig Guerdat used to be a technical writer but hasn't been able to land a full-time job in his field for more than two years. He suspects one reason he's been passed over again and again is that employers don't want to hire someone who doesn't have a job.
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ScrippsNews
Veteran employment to be promoted - Metro Milwaukee's new initiative
Society of Human Resource Management’s local chapter Metro Milwaukee announced in a press release that it is will be organizing a seminar to engage prospective employers in an initiative to bolster the employability of veteran work force. The seminar ...
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Examiner
5 Reasons Why Every Job Searcher Needs a Smart Phone
Having a smart phone is the unspoken way of letting a prospective employer know that you are tech savvy and up with the times. Older workers in particular need to pay attention to what phone they carry. Prospective employers may even prompt you ...
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International Business Times
TSU students participate in reverse job fair
Students at Tennessee State University will need to have their job pitch ready Thursday afternoon. Prospective employers will put them on the spot at a reverse job fair from 2 to 4 p.m. at Kean Hall. Students will be set up at tables while ...
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msnbc.com
Top Ten Tips for a Great Marketing Design Portfolio
If you're searching for a new design job, your portfolio has to work hard for you and effectively demonstrate your skills to prospective employers. LONDON, ENGLAND, February 15, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/-- Recruitment specialist, Michael Page Design ...
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24-7PressRelease.com
Top tips for CV writing
We have worked with people who have forgotten that those very amusing but slightly risqué pictures of them on Facebook might send out the wrong signals to a prospective employer, and are easily picked up by the most perfunctory of searches.
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The Guardian
