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SHRM Adds HR Resume Database
Posted by Jason
Last week SHRM announced a 6 week pilot of their HR Jobs Resume Database, making it searchable by employers.
During this time SHRM’s HR Jobs will allow you to make your resume available for employers to search and contact you directly regarding employment opportunities.
In the announcement, SHRM encouraged job seekers to sign up - by stating that employers know that their job seekers are the most certified, educated and experienced HR professionals on the Internet.
Add your Resume, or follow SHRM’s HR Jobs on twitter for updates.
Top 10 Job Search & Job Seeker iPhone Apps
Posted by Jason
Over 2 billion apps downloaded on the App Store and counting…
And as you can probably guess, yeah, there’s and app for that (anything you can imagine related to a job search including, researching companies, developing or beaming your Resume, prepping for an interview, searching for jobs, and career counseling).
Don’t waste your time or money more than you need to. After testing and researching most of the apps available in this space, I have identified the 10 best (and most helpful) job seeker apps and job seeker tools as of 11/1/09.
COMPANY RESEARCH:
CareerBliss (Free)
Powered by CareerBliss.com, this app contains helpful information on company reviews, salaries, job searching, interview tips, and more from current and former employees.
ORGANIZE:
Good Job ($2.99)
Keep your job search organized with all activities related to your job search! With the Good Job app, you can track jobs from multiple sites, contacts, tasks, interview schedules, and more.
Introducing JobTitled Career Analytics
Posted by JasonBy @jjbuss.
Brendan Mullins was finishing up his MBA and thinking about what to do with his career, finding himself at a fork in the road. He had been in software development prior to college and really enjoyed it. After thinking about his possibilities and potential career paths he attempted to do additional research on the internet with little success. Afterwards, JobTitled was born.
I recently had the chance to connect with Brendan, and was intrigued by both his story, and the free tools available on JobTitled.
Resumes, Resumes, Resumes
Posted by JasonLike many job searchers in the social media field, I have more than one resume. I have the one that highlights who I am in the social media and online spaces. I have one that highlights my technical skills. I have one that shows every job I have held since 1991.
I recently went to a job fair that offered resume advice. I decided to test out what they would do with a resume like mine. I had three goals:
- To see if they had any ideas on how to create a resume set that showed both the technical and non-technical sides of my career.
- To see if there was any way to shorten the resume other than going to a font size smaller than 9.
- To see if they knew of any new ideas in creating resumes for today’s online world.
The first thing the woman said when I sat down was “You do design work don’t you?” I don’t really. I mean, I do PPT for a living. But design? Nope, I am a technician – not a designer. What caused her to ask then? My resume looked different than any she had seen:
Beautiful design, isn’t it? I can’t take credit for it. I started from the “Professional Resume (Streamlined Layout)” from Word 2007’s template set. Yes, I played around with it. But not much. And the changes I made were minor enough that you could do it too.
Ok… So that is the first lesson learned:
Create something from a start that no one else has thought to use yet.
Question 1: Creating a multifaceted resume set
I know that I need different resumes for different jobs. I get that - really - I do. But… that doesn’t really work for what I need. When I send in a resume that has been targeted for one or the other of my career foci, If I get a response, it asks, “What about all these gaps? What did you do then?” Or (worse yet), “You know about the software creation process? How come? You don’t show anything about that in your resume!” Not a solution at all… So, I asked the expert.
Her response? Along the lines of “Well… you could take out some of the details, but I wouldn’t want you to take out these, or these, or these, or…”, all the while pointing to the smallest sections in the resume.
Not much help there. But the conversation led to…
Shortening my resume
Here, we did come up with an idea that I liked. She suggested that I make the front page more of a “landing site” style. She thought that a business card with the URL for my social media landing site and my blog on it would do the trick. As I walked around the room, I tried it. Being a good business owner, I always have business cards on them. Most of that info was already on the card. The result? “Do you have one of your resumes with you as well?”
I think that the problem at that job fair was that people weren’t looking for people who do what I do. I got some interest, but no strong leads. I have gotten more responses from this online. I have created a version of my resume that follows the look above, but adds my online stuff before the job details. That section looks like this:
But that gives us the first second learned:
Rearrange your information. Put the interesting stuff on top. Even if you are doing a chronological resume.
As for new ideas…
I was really looking for some new way to make my resume stand out and sparkle. She didn’t know any or any ways to make the resume submission process any faster.
I wouldn’t have even gone to the job fair if it weren’t for a good friend who wanted company on the drive across town. Once there, I learned that I am further ahead of the game than many - I have a resume that works. I can get people enthused about connecting with online communities. I need to be patient until the right job comes along.
What’s more…
My connections online and offline will come through for me. Like the friend who encouraged me to join her at the job fair, other friends make sure I am motivated and keep chugging. Even with all the hassles of doing an online job search, connections will keep you smiling and chugging and trying. After all…
Thanks to a set of connections on Twitter, I found The Talent Buzz and learned that there (finally) several recruiters on Twitter. Guess it is time to pull out the old 160 character job search tweet and repost it.
And… Thanks to Jane Chin, who I know via Plurk, I checked out VisualCV.com. I like the idea of a non-traditional resume style. It was work to get my information in there right, but hopefully it will get noticed.
So that is the third lesson learned:
Connections help!
Submitted by Kathy Jacobs for the August 2008 Talent Buzz blog contest.
By Jason Buss.
Online Job Board Offers Job Seekers FREE Listing and FREE Video Resume Posting Until Jan. 1, 2009.
One day there is talk about the drawbacks of video resume’s. The next, a new job board, FutureResume.com opens shop.
The site is scheduled to go live for employer job listings in August. During that time, job seeker resumes will be made available to the exclusive group of corporate partners of FutureResume.com as well as to the company’s network of job recruiters. In August, employers can list their available jobs on the site at a cost of $299.00 per month, a reduced fee over most job boards.
Most Recruiters I have talked to struggle with the concept, given there are already existing issues with mining databases and the number of candidates. There has also been a lot of discussion on blogs with regards to overall concerns regarding the additional investment of time.
Other conversations in the blogosphere:
And, be sure to check out this video resume submission.
About FutureResume.com
FutureResume.com was founded in June 2008 by two brothers from Southern Calif., Greg and Theo Rokos, with years of experience in executive search and sales management. Their concept was to bring together ideas that had been around the edges of the hiring experience for a while — specifically video and video conferencing — and make them central to a new job board to enable the best companies to find the best people. Job seekers make one- to two-minute video introductions that they post with their resumes on the job board site, thus going the extra mile to showcase themselves and demonstrate commitment. In addition, companies can produce a two-minute video showcasing the benefits of their workplace to improve their recruiting efforts. Hiring managers save time and money finding the right candidates for the job by reviewing the videos. Then they can push a button to schedule a video conference. No matter how many places a job seeker may be searching for a job, FutureResume.com is the one place where they can stand out from the crowd.
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