Tips for library job applicants in a tight market | Information. Another semester of teaching at San Jose State’s SLIS program has ended. Many of my students are graduating and others are starting to think about applying for jobs so they’ll have one when they do graduate. For so many of them, the job search is going to be a struggle. It wasn’t an easy job market when I was applying more than five years ago (took me 9 months of looking to get my first job), and it’s only gotten worse in the past couple of years. I was blown away last year by the sheer number of applications we had for the distance learning librarian position we were hiring for; it was significantly more than we’d received for the same position just a year earlier.
In a tight market like this, having a good cover letter and resume can mean the difference between getting a phone interview and ending up in the round file. I have served on four search committees in my five years at Norwich and chaired two of them. DO’s DON’Ts. 8 Toxic personalities to avoid - Manage Your Life on Shine. Although we like to think that the people in our lives are well-adjusted, happy, healthy minded individuals, we sometimes realize that it just isn't so. Personally, I've had moments where I'll be skipping through my day, happy as can be, thinking life is grand and BAM, I'll be blindsided by someone who manages to knock the happy wind out of my sails. Sometimes it is easy to write it off and other times, not so much. Maybe you are a positive person, but when you are around a certain individual, you feel negative. Or, maybe you have an idealistic view of the world and when you are with certain people, you are made to feel silly, unrealistic or delusional.
Or, maybe you pride yourself in being completely independent and in control of your life, but when you are around a certain family member, you regress into a state of childhood. Some of these situations, and yes, these people, can have a tremendously negative impact on our lives. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Related Topics: Goodbye Google. Part 1 of 2 (here’s Part 2) Today is my last day at Google. I started working in-house at Google almost three years ago. I built a team from scratch. I was fortunate to hire a team of a very talented designers. We introduced Visual Design as a discipline to Google. And we produced amazing work together. Do I have something else lined up? When I joined Google as its first visual designer, the company was already seven years old. Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I can’t fault Google for this reliance on data.
I’m thankful for the opportunity I had to work at Google. Social Networking: Network More Effectively by Following Up. Hiring? Two New Apps Simplify Job Postings and Resume Review - R. Even with the economy in its current state, many companies are still hiring. ReadWriteWeb Jobwire is living proof of that. But when it comes to hiring in a down market, supply always exceeds demand, because there are always more people looking than jobs available. That can make it harder than ever for companies - especially small companies without a great deal of Human Resources infrastructure - to find that needle-in-the-haystack candidate they're seeking. Two new Web-based applicant management apps - Choosy and The Resumator - promise better management of job listings and candidate selection at a price that's affordable for any company. Choosy Choosy is designed to help get all of those applicants from various job sites into one place for team review.
Given that HR tools aren't usually where one looks for technical innovation, I was pleasantly surprised to see Choosy using Clickpass to establish its accounts. Once the account is set up, users can began adding job postings. If you fire people, don't be a jerk about it.