5 Ways Social Media Is Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition. Sajjad Masud is co-founder & CEO of Simplicant, a cloud-based social recruiting platform transforming talent acquisition and making enterprise-level recruiting technology accessible to companies of all sizes. Connect with Sajjad and the Simplicant team on Twitter and Facebook. The way we communicate with each other has evolved rapidly over the last decade. Social media has further intensified the departure from traditional communication methods to redefine how people and businesses interact with each other. In fact, more than half of companies on social media fail to have a social media strategy and in doing so, risk ignoring an increasingly dynamic and expanding audience. Recent social media stats show that more than 60% of adults are connected to one or more social networks, while 23% of online time is spent entirely on social networking activities.
While social media has seen rapid growth at the consumer level, the gap between consumer and corporate adoption is widening. 1. 2. 3. 4. As Job Growth Slows, Will Republicans Double Down On Austerity? By Pat Garofalo on June 1, 2012 at 10:05 am "As Job Growth Slows, Will Republicans Double Down On Austerity? " The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported that the economy created a disappointing 69,000 jobs last month, and that the unemployment rate increased to 8.2 percent.
The job creation totals for March and April were both revised downward. At the same time, borrowing rates for the U.S. government have hit lows never before seen: Investors stampeded into U.S. government bonds Thursday, driving the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note as low as 1.54 percent, a record…The record low rate beat the previous mark of 1.55 percent, which was set in November 1945. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explained today, “When the private sector is frantically trying to pay down debt, the public sector should do the opposite, spending when the private sector can’t or won’t.
What Is Your Best Job Interview Question? Congratulations, graduates! All those early-morning classes and late-night cramming sessions and what's your reward? A lousy job market. Sure, we've seen a steady, albeit modest, drop in the unemployment rate over the past several months, but the job market remains anything but robust. Just ask the millions who are still desperately looking for work. Resumes, of course, still matter. Here's the good news. So what is the person on the other side of that desk really looking for? JJ Ramberg Host, MSNBC's Your Business and Co-Founder, GoodSearch "The Host" "Would you be willing to put together an IKEA bookshelf?
" Tom Szaky Founder, TerraCycle "The Eco-Capitalist" "What do you want out of this role and the company? Tate Chalk Founder and CEO, Nfinity "The Matador" "Why us? " Lawrence Gelburd Lecturer, The Wharton School "The Rock 'n' Roll Professor" "What are the three most important decisions you have made affecting your professional career? " 12 Ways to Optimize Your Resume for Applicant Tracking Systems. 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+.
You filled out the job application, updated your resume and clicked “Submit.” But as the days or weeks pass, you never receive a phone call or email from the employer. What happened? Unbeknownst to many job seekers, a whopping 72% of resumes are never seen by human eyes. Why? Well, employers large and small now use applicant tracking software to parse the information from your resume and map it into a database called an ATS (applicant tracking system). Wondering how you can optimize your resume and rank highly in the employer’s ATS? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Unless you know your highly stylized resume won’t be taking a trip through an ATS, it’s best to save your infographic resume for the in-person interview and upload a .doc or PDF instead. 70+ Events in Design, Social Media and Advertising. 6 Things on Your LinkedIn Profile That Shouldn't Be on Your Resume. Gerrit Hall is the CEO and co-founder of RezScore, a free web application that reads, analyzes and grades resumes instantly. Connect with Gerrit and RezScore on Facebook and Twitter. Many people think their LinkedIn profiles and their resumes are interchangeable, but you should not send your entire LinkedIn profile into a potential employer and expect to land an interview.
While there is the LinkedIn Resume Builder, all that does is reformat your existing profile into a resume — it's not tailored enough to show the value you could bring to the specific job you’re applying for. Sure, LinkedIn and your resume have a lot in common. They both include your professional summary, experience, skills, contact information, education and important links. 1. That job you held in high school is likely not applicable to your career path five years post-graduation, so don’t include it on your resume. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Your personal life is your personal life.
Social Media Job Listings Sr. Huntsy: A Dashboard for Your Job Search. Ask any job seeker, and he'll tell you that looking for a job is, in and of itself, a job. It's time-consuming to prep your cover letter, tweak your resume, follow up and plan your interview, especially when you're applying for multiple positions. Sure, you could make an intense, color-coded spreadsheet — but most of us aren't that Type A. That's where Huntsy comes in — it's like HootSuite for your job search. Huntsy's dashboard offer's a bird's eye view (hence the owl logo) of your job hunt, offering a bird's-eye view of your professional prospects.
"People are applying to many different places — Huntsy is our way to make it easy for them," says Cezary Pietrzak, Huntsy's director of marketing. Huntsy's cleaning it off with a slick UI and an organized and social approach to the intimidating job search. The bookmarklet in action Once you click "Add to Huntsy," the job will be added to your dashboard, which looks like this: The dashboard Image courtesy of iStockphoto, JulNichols.
The Job Interview Secret No One's Telling You. Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network. Home » The WEEN career center is a portal where members can search and apply for various jobs, volunteer and internship opportunities inside and outside of the entertainment industry. In addition to searching for jobs, members are also allowed to post positions in which they may be trying to fill in their own company, organization or private firm. If you'd like to submit a job to be posted, please send an email to jobs@weenonline.org. **WEEN is not responsible for forwarding or validating any resumes from this portal. Simply just reply to the contact information with the perspective job you are inquiring about and that party will respond to you personally.**** Design/animate/edit promos/gfx pckgs. Growing multimedia sports co. seeks experienced TV ad sales rep. Proactive, detail-oriented, creative, team player. 7+ yrs exp. with cable or BC sales team req'd.
Looking for a talented Executive Assistant to support the Pres of Syfy. . 10+ yrs exp. in TV prog/sched; Min 2 yrs @ Sr. An International Look at Women in Media Jobs - Women’s Presence in International Media It’s been said that America is the land of opportunity for everyone, regardless of gender, but it this true? And does gender equality apply in the media? Do other places in the world support equality for women with careers in the media? The answer to this question is more complex than you might think. By dividing the world into seven regions, contradictions are apparent not just across different sides of the ocean, but within regions as well. These regions are as follows: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Nordic Europe, the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa, and Asia and Oceana.
These seven regions are ranked by the number of women employed in upper management, from highest to lowest: Eastern Europe 48% Nordic Europe 43.4% Western Europe 43.20% Sub-Saharan Africa 41.7% The Americas 36.8% Middle East and North Africa 35.1% Asia and Oceana 20.7% Average Salaries of Women in Media Nordic Europe $109,230.20 Sources: IWMF.org. Mobile Jobseeking is Going Mainstream [INFOGRAPHIC] Have you checked your company's mobile job offerings recently? While there are many people already using mobile to find their dream jobs, don't be misunderstood — using a smartphone to check out job boards isn't just for early adopters or technophiles. In fact, it's quickly becoming a mainstream method of finding a lasting career. According to this infographic by mobile job search and recruiting company JIBE — based on research done by marketing research company Kelton Research — more than 4 out of 5 of surveyed smartphone users would use an iPhone, Android, Blackberry or Windows phone to search for jobs.
Of those, nearly half would actually apply to a job right from a smartphone. Given the number of American who own smartphones has surpassed 100 million mark, the level of jobseekers looking to potentially score a job right on their phones can be staggering. So what does it all mean? Infographic provided by JIBE. Every week we post a list of social media and web job opportunities. Job Description - Social Editor, Yahoo! Entertainment (1242741)