Top Prospect Connects with LinkedIn to Turn Your Talented Friends into Cash The American labor market is as schizophrenic as I’ve ever seen it. While the bulk of the country struggles with 9% unemployment, in Silicon Valley the ease of starting a new company and huge hiring goals of companies like Google and Facebook have lead to a war for talent that’s driving up salaries and threatening the future of some smaller startups who just can’t find people. The latter may seem like a good problem to have, but it’s still a problem. And it’s one most Valley companies are happy to throw money at if someone can come up with a tailored solution. We’ve written about a few companies trying to solve this through networking or reputation. Eventually, Top Prospect will take a cut of that– probably a hefty cut of up to 40%. If a big ol’ payday isn’t enough incentive, Top Prospect also makes it easy. It takes all of five minutes to create an account and see a list of jobs, people you know who might be a fit and the bounty you’d get should they be hired.
Contract Killer When times get tough, it can often feel like there are no good people left in the world, only people who haven’t yet turned bad. These bad people will go back on their word, welch on a deal, put themselves first. You owe it to yourself to stay on top. But you’re a professional, right? You’re a good guy. Think again chump. Maybe you’re a gun for hire, a one man army with your back to the wall and nothing standing between you and the line at a soup kitchen but your wits. It was exactly ten years ago today that I first opened my doors for business. If signing a contract I didn’t fully understand made me a stupid son-of-a-bitch, not asking my customers to sign one just makes me plain dumb. Writing a killer contract If you are writing a contract between you and your customers it doesn’t have to conform to the seemingly standard format of jargon and complicated legalese. Your killer contract should cover: NB: The specific details of this killer contract work for me and my customers. Copyrights
Vente privee : l'actualité des ventes privées How To Get Promoted It would be safe to say that you would have probably entertained the question of how to get promoted even before you graduated or left school. In my chats with juniors from my industry, I am often asked this question which I gladly answer. However, I sense they simply want short cuts to the next level. These experiences pushed me to pen these 9 obvious but often not practiced tips on how to get promoted. Start internalizing these tips and make them part of your career plan. Before you know it, you would have moved up to the next level. One main reason for people to ignore these obvious practices on how to get promoted is because they seem very long term. PLAN1. Are there any weaknesses that you really need to correct before the next promotion is possible? 2. Now that you have written this down, how do you plan to get that promotion? ATTITUDE3. They believe in themselves and they believe in the bigger goals of their unit or department and company. 4. 5. ACTION6. 7. 8. 9.
Free copywriting contract - download now | John McGarvey - web copywriter When I started out, I didn’t have any kind of copywriting contract for my clients to sign. But after a few months of relying on informal, emailed proposals, I felt I needed something more official. Yes, contracts are boring, dull, tedious and generally unenjoyable. But they are important. They explain exactly what each party in a business relationship should expect – and what they have to do. Here’s my copywriting contract for free Most contracts I’ve encountered are written using lots of legalese and can be very confusing. This seemed like a great starting point, so I grabbed it and made some pretty substantial changes. I received a lot of really helpful feedback while working on this. What you need to know about my copywriting agreement Feel free to download my copywriting agreement and use it however you like. You can change it any way you want. Oh – and this is important: I’m not a legal professional, so get your legal eagles to examine it properly if you decide to use it. Scope creep.
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12 Ways to Use Quora For Your Job Search Looking for a job in social media or the tech space? You probably already have a LinkedIn account and maybe even Twitter. If you're really serious about personal branding, you might even have your own Facebook Page. Where else can you build your personal profile and showcase your expertise? Why not Quora, the online question and answer community? Here are 12 ways to use Quora as a platform to build your reputation, establish your expertise and get on the radar of recruiters and company execs for potential employment. 1. Quora provides plenty of places where you can summarize your expertise including your main bio and Topic Bios, based on your experiences around a particular topic. 2. When you join Quora, the site populates your account with some suggested followers to get you started, based partly on your own contacts if you access the site through Facebook, Twitter or e-mail. 3. Identify the key players connected with companies you've targeted as places where you'd like to work. 4. 5.
answering questions from your old employer after you’ve moved on A reader writes: I have submitted my two weeks notice and am wondering what I should do if after I have left, if they contact me for phone support? What if my peers call me? I’m thinking soon after I could be polite and offer some level of help but where do I draw the line and say “hey guys, I”m not getting paid for this. If they need my help, they can pay me for it.” The best thing that you can do is to spend that two weeks creating thorough documentation on the sorts of things that you suspect people might not know after you’re gone. Once you’re gone, it’s considered good form to be willing to answer a small number of inquiries — not actually doing further work, but answering a few questions like “what’s the password for X?” (Of course, you’re not under any formal obligation to do even this. Of course, all of this comes down to what you feel like doing, the terms you left on, and what kind of relationship you want to have with them in the future.
Extend your social media reach with TweetMyJOBS.com new integration with SmartSearch Join us for a 30-minute demo and learn how together, TweetMyJOBS and SmartSearch provide integrated job posting tools to promote your employment opportunities on virtually any social media site. Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST Register now SmartSearch invites you to take a look at new sourcing capabilities on popular social networking sites via the largest Twitter job board in the world. Guest speaker Rich Trombetta Business Development Manager, TweetMyJOBS With thousands of twitter accounts to choose from on TweetMyJOBS.com, SmartSearch integration enables recruiters to select a job category, geographic location, and other criteria to intelligently tweet job postings to a targeted audience of job seekers worldwide. • Post jobs on social networks • Build employment brand awareness • Drive traffic to your web site Space is limited.
7 Sites That Will Help You Get Hired When it comes to careers, who doesn't need a little help? It's not just the 14.6 million unemployed, but the millions of employed who are stuck in comatose companies or dead-end jobs. While there are plenty of websites that have useful information for job seekers today, many people still look to the web largely to find job openings. Here are seven sites that stand out for their intelligence, niche, data, or usefulness, rather than their job listings: Fistful of Talent: Reading the posts on this blog is like listening to a lunchroom full of human resources professionals, hiring managers, and recruiters talk about their likes, dislikes, and strategies. [See In Pictures: 11 great sites for job seekers.] Seeking Alpha: This website graciously transcribes public companies' earnings conference calls. Careers at Alltop: This aggregator of topical RSS feeds puts an army of well-known career bloggers (including U.S. [Bookmark the U.S. Facebook: OK, this is more of an app than a site.
Perfman HR Blog | Outline of an Approach Letter In our earlier post, we spoke about the importance of an approach letter. Today let us talk more about how to structure one! Writing an approach letter is no less a science than the art of knowing your own profession and the more well equipped you are to structure one, the easier it will be for you to get your foot into the cabin door of that influential person who migh just land you the job of your life! The letter, including the recipient’s name, title, address, and salutation and your own closing phrase and signature will be not more than a full page in its entirety. Each paragraph should be two or three sentences of ten to 20 words (four sentences at most), typically combined with a short sentence for emphasis and variety. Paragraph I: The Grabber To entice the reader to read the remainder of the letter Paragraph II: The Definer To indicate what the meeting is intended to accomplish and why it will be of mutual interest, while assuring that you are not presuming this to be an interview