Posts Tagged ‘hiring’

Wear your resume

April 8, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

Sounds like a piece of can-do advice from a job recruiter, but we mean it literally. Now you can print your resume on your tee-shirt. From damnIneedAjob.com: The shirt costs $25 (plus $3 shipping). Add three bucks if outside the continental United States. Upon submission of this form you will be directed to PayPals secure [...]

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Tweaking the ole resume

April 7, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

From the LearnVest blog: Making the Most of a Thin Resume. When you’re short on experience, play up your strengths. The Problem: Recession or not, you’re job hunting. Trouble is, aside from some internships and a few part-time gigs, the work experience section of your resume is, well, thin. You know that you could nail [...]

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Astrological job discrimination

March 31, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

From Pink Slips are the New Black, “the blog for unemployed people by unemployed people,” comes this post about a strange job-hunting experience that ended in an ugly case of astrological employment discrimination. A Job Interview that Made Me Go Hmmm… I went through the most bizarre experience this week. I applied for a job [...]

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Your personal brand

March 31, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Perhaps you didn’t know that the month of February included Personal Brand Week, launched by professional services and auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Personal Brand Week was created to help students develop their personal brand as a way to find employment. This e-book guides you through the entire week. From the introduction: In today’s competitive environment, students [...]

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Recruiter attitude

March 18, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

“I think recruiters are mostly people who couldn’t get real jobs doing valuable stuff like marketing, financing, and waxing stripper poles.” From the blog Acute Unemployment Syndrome, a post called Recruiters gone wild. The writer is an unemployed MBA. For those of you keeping score at home, I have now been on 10 job interviews [...]

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The DUI problem

March 18, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Another session with the Evil HR Lady finds her engaged in some straight talk with a job seeker in sales who is well-connected but has two DUIs on his record. Will my high level connections overcome a DUI? I have a friend pretty high up at a major company (in sales) who had recently talked [...]

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Interviewee, prepare thyself

March 5, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

From the blog PR and Unemployment, a list of dozens of questions you are likely to encounter on a job interview. Here are some of them: Who was your favorite manager and why? What kind of personality do you work best with and why? Why do you want this job? Where would you like to [...]

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Who’s hiring?

February 10, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

From the job search blog reCareered, a list of the top employers hiring this week: The hospitality, business services, retail, defense, health care, telecommunications, and banking verticals are the top industries currently hiring based on a survey of active job advertisements from the nations’ leading job boards… Total Job Openings by direct advertisers (recruiters & [...]

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The Pixar way

December 14, 2009Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

Pixar University‘s Randy Nelson speaks last year about the company’s corporate culture and what it looks for in a new hire. (Disclaimer If you’re an animated character looking for work, there is a different hiring process.) From Edutopia.

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