Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Yesterday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the monthly jobs report for June, 2012. The BLS said private payrolls increased 84,000, while the government lost 4,000 jobs. Economists expected job growth of […]
“1.8 million holders of bachelor’s degrees find themselves in grim job market.” So begins an interview this morning on CNBC with R. William Holland, author of Cracking the New Job Market:The 7 Rules for Geting Hired in Any Economy. Holland is asked why the job market is new and responds, “It’s new because there’s a worldwide […]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Pretty much everyone knows that the U.S. is a service-based economy. Until I looked at the data, I never would have guessed how disparate the goods and service industry employment trends were.
Dave Fecak has been involved in technical recruiting since 1998. He has been writing monthly articles about job search strategy, interviews, résumés, salary negotiation, etc for several years. He has also scheduled thousands of software engineering interviews with hundreds of hiring managers at a wide array of companies and organizations. Fecak says, “I have learned […]
Our 31-May webinar covered how to create a WordPress resume. An online resume or CV is a very handy tool that we strongly recommend at #CareerGravity. But during the seminar, one of the viewers asked a great question: What if you’re looking to change careers? In that case, we suggested she may be better off […]
Companies looking to hire new employees know that job referrals lead to the cheapest, fastest and best quality hires. Zao, a new service making its official launch today, claims to “supercharges referrals by automating the process, integrating social networks, and managing rewards.” Six Degrees of Separation According to Wikipedia, “Six degrees of separation refers to […]
One of the ideas of #CareerGravity is that you should always be on a job search, whether you think you need to or not. Eric Proulx is a 15-year veteran of the advertising industry. In 2008, two days after being offered a raise and a promotion, his agency laid him off without ceremony. It turns out […]
Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. Tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever. – Ed Sabol, Founder NFL Films I read a story today in the Huffington Post titled Your Story is Your Brand. It’s a great illustration of the technique we […]
What do your job search and search engine optimization have in common? One word; keywords. As the world gets more and more automated, the less effective a “one size fits all” approach to anything will be. You don’t want merely to adapt to this automation. You want to learn how to take advantage of it. […]
OK, so you’ve taken all of the steps required to establish your online personal brand. You’ve created your online personal brand and created a WordPress resume. After all of this hard work, it’s time for the great unveiling. If you’ve used WordPress to build your website and followed the best practices for search engine optimization, you’ll […]
