8 Reasons Why Summer Is a Great Time to Job Hunt. Patty Coffey is a Partner in the Information Technology Permanent division at at Winter, Wyman, the largest and one of the most recognized staffing organizations in the Northeast. Find out more on the Winter, Wyman blog or follow @WinterWyman on Twitter. It’s summertime — those carefree months when you put your sandal-clad feet up and sip a glass of lemonade in front of the ballgame. And it is certainly time to abandon that job search for a few months, right? Wrong. The perception that companies cut back on — or even stop — hiring in the summer is a myth. In fact, companies are filling positions at the same, if not an increased, pace during the hottest months of the year. Conducting a job search during the summer can be tricky though, and it is important to avoid the biggest hazards for job seekers during the summertime: timing and schedules. As a result, patience is key for summer job seeking. Summertime is actually an opportune time to start or continue a job search. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Managing Millennials: Why Gen Y Will Be Running the Country by 2020 [INFOGRAPHIC] In just eight short years, 46% of the U.S. workforce will be comprised of millennials. Whether you're frightened or excited by the prospect, the fact remains that young adults born between 1976 and 2001 will be running this country. UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and the YEC have teamed up to compile research and create this infographic, which details the who, how and why of managing millennials. SEE ALSO: How Gen Y Women Fare in Today’s Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC] Aside from their preference for engaging work environments, millennials value jobs that encourage social media activity. One-in-three indicated he would prioritize social media freedom, device flexibility and work mobility over salary when considering a job offer.
After all, millennials switch between devices and forms of media (i.e., laptops, smartphones, tablets and TV) an average of 27 times per hour. Today's companies would do well to harness that hyper-connected, multi-tasking energy. How Much Money Can You Make Working in Digital? [CHART] The world has gone digital.
At this point, most companies big and small have a website, Facebook Page and Twitter handle. With these new digital properties comes a slew of digital jobs — with that comes the demand for new staff members to create digital assets, design logos, manage a website and transform sketches on napkins into actual products. In the infographic below, produced by OnwardSearch, you can see how much dough you'd net for various jobs in the digital sector, from interactive design to front-end developers.
Do you work in these fields? Do the numbers stack up with what you've seen in the industry? Do you think these positions and the salaries make sense, given the rise of digital media? Do you want to move to a market that pays better? Infographic courtesy of Onward Search Every week we post a list of social media and web job opportunities. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, PashaIgnatov. [Infographie] Sites internet, réseaux sociaux, applications mobiles… Panorama du recrutement en ligne. Opensourcing , société de conseil spécialisée dans la chasse de candidats sur Internet, a souhaité en savoir plus sur l’utilisation d’Internet à la fois du coté des recruteurs et du coté des candidats.
Réalisée de février à avril 2012, l’enquête a permis d’interroger 556 candidats et 99 recruteurs dans toute la France et s’intéresse particulièrement aux sites d’emploi, aux sites gratuits, aux réseaux sociaux et aux applications mobiles. L’enquête donne un classement des sites dédiés à l’emploi. Parmi eux, Monster, Cadremploi et Pole emploi sont les plus utilisés par les candidats, tandis que l’Apec est utilisé par 88% des recruteurs devant Monster et Cadremploi. Sur ces mêmes sites, 74% des candidats y déposent leur CV et 66% des recruteurs consultent les CVthèques. Lorsqu’on demande aux recruteurs ce qu’ils pensent des CVthèques, 44% les trouvent compliquées à utiliser, 25% manquent de temps pour s’y rendre, 25% trouvent le service trop onéreux et 12% ne savent pas lesquelles choisir.
Smarterer : un outil qui annonce la mort du CV ? Smarterer permet aux recruteurs de sélectionner des candidats à partir de résultats obtenus en répondant à des tests chronométrés, plutôt qu’en se référant à leurs cvs. Si l’outil se démocratise, le cv pourrait devenir une antiquité. Le slogan de Smarterer est le suivant : « Plus de CV, des compétences uniquement ». L’idée est de permettre aux personnes à la recherche d’un emploi de prouver de quoi elles sont réellement capables. Le fonctionnement est le suivant : après vous être inscrit sur le site, vous avez accès à toute une série de compétences à évaluer, parmi lesquelles : niveau de langue (anglais, espagnol etc.), suite office, finance, programmation (php, mysql etc.).
Après avoir choisi l’une de ces compétences, vous devez répondre à un QCM de quatre réponses au choix, et chronométré avec un temps imparti de soixante secondes au total. A la fin du test, vous êtes alors labellisé en tant que « débutant », « familier », « compétent », « expert » ou « maître ». How Employers Really Feel About Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] There's been plenty of talk about how social media has become a successful vehicle for recruiters and job seekers alike, but what about employers? According to this infographic, researched and developed by PayScale, the higher-ups are really not too keen on the social media movement at large, especially when it involves giving social media freedom to employees within the company. And the fear of negative information keeps employers running for a tight leash. Only half of companies have a formal social media policy, and 42% of companies surveyed nix all forms of social media activity at work.
In the employers' eyes, social media should be exclusively reserved for carefully managed brand promotion and professionally handled social recruiting. Check out the infographic below, which also features a comprehensive breakdown of industries that encourage more social media activities and ones that ban it. What is your company's social media policy? Infographic provided by Payscale. Workstateofmind_041312.jpg (Image JPEG, 972x2860 pixels) - Redimensionnée (27. Les 4 challenges des entreprises dans un monde digital - MediasSociaux.fr MediasSociaux.fr. Internet fait bouger les frontières et oblige les entreprises à penser à leur digitalisation. Internet, nous y passons, en tant que consommateurs de plus en plus de temps, que ce soit pour s’informer, communiquer, partager, témoigner… Internet nous accompagne tous les jours, si bien que certains se sentent perdus dès qu’il n’ont pas leur téléphone avec eux 24/24h (“maladie” appelée la nomophobie : Nomophobie : les jeunes plus accros à leur PC qu’à leur téléphone… selon Microsoft) et que les objets connectés prennent de plus en plus de places dans nos vies réelles.
L’entreprise, quelque soit son secteur d’activité et la cible finale visée doit s’adapter et prendre en compte cette contrainte. J’avais déjà développé, dans le cadre d’une tribune pour le site DocNews cette notion de digitalisation inéluctable de l’entreprise : Révolution digitale : s’adapter ou mourir ! Si les usages des internautes changent, les entreprises doivent suivre cette même tendance.
How to Stay Focused in a World of Distractions. Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conferences, which bring together staff from Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga along with wisdom teachers to explore living mindfully and wisely in our modern age. You can follow him at @SorenG. In our connected world, it is easy to think that the more information we have the better our chances of success.
While more information can be helpful for, say, logical problem-solving, it is often useless when it comes to innovation. It’s not how a game-changing device like Apple's iPhone is born. In Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late technology mogul, Jobs said, “I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and logical analysis.” SEE ALSO: 5 Things That Waste Your Time at Work [INFOGRAPHIC] Certainly external information matters, but it’s this inner intelligence that is the most vital element for any creative person or company.
Pay Attention The Impact of Mindfulness. 5 Things to Consider Before Applying for a Job. Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate.com, a job application tool that tailors and optimizes your resume for a specific job. You can find Mona and Resunate on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Your skills and experience certainly lend themselves to certain types of jobs, but they aren’t the only things you should consider when applying for a new position. Your satisfaction in a new job goes beyond simply being able to utilize your skills each day — you also need to consider who you’ll be working with, what the company is like and if you’ll be happy in the job, should you land it.
So what else is important, you ask? 1. Think back to what worked and what did not work in your last position. 2. Another aspect of the culture is the leadership. 3. 4. 5. Additionally, it pays to research the industry in order to figure out if it's healthy. Are there other things job seekers need to consider before applying for a new position? Image courtesy of iStockphoto, JulNichols.