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Weekly Roundup: 5-Aug [Career Development Newsletter]
Chart of the Week: Employment Impact of Recent U.S. Olympic Games For this week’s chart, #CareerGravity Co-founder Jon DiPietro explored data on employment spikes associated with the most recent Olympic games to occur in the United States: the 1992 games, which took place in Atlanta, and the 2002 games, which were in Salt Lake City. […]
Employment Impact of Recent U.S. Olympic Games [Chart of the Week]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. This week, I thought I would investigate the employment impact of the most recent Olympic games in the U.S. This chart shows employment spike that occurred during the 1992 Atlanta summer games and […]
Whither the Traditional Resume…
A growing cacophony of voices in recruiting and professions related insists that the resume is gasping for its last breath, grasping for its last lifeline. The bar of proof is set high today for proponents of the traditional resume. Many grope about for some reason, any reason, to prove that the centerpiece of the job […]
Web Startup Supports Your Stealth Job Search
Web startup poachee insists that 80% of employees are unhappy with their job situation. According to them, “The reasons vary from small salary, an annoying boss, no opportunity for a promotion or many more. But most of them are not doing anything about it. They are employed, receive a monthly salary, have no ‘real’ pressure. On the […]
Surprising Day Jobs of 12 Olympians
The SavvySugar blog posted a slideshow of the Surprising Day Jobs of 12 Olympians. We’ve summarized them here: Chas Betts Country: USA Sport: Wrestling Age: 25 Job status: Betts is a motions designer, which is a specialized field in graphics that deals with animations. Check out his work on his design website. Chi Yip Cheung […]
Dear Start-ups: Your Employees, Your Employer Brand
An organization has two brands: an employer brand and a consumer brand. And the two converge today effortlessly, as a matter of course. That’s because of social media generally and the web, period. For established organizations, especially large enterprises, the new dynamics are a potential liability; gently persuading all those employees’ voices to communicate a […]
Entrepreneurs Need Gravity, Too
If you’re a start-up and you don’t have a sophisticated and teeming presence online, you don’t exist. Yes, yes, you exist, but you’re invisible. You’re kind of like a tree falling in the forest, with nobody there: You might as well not exist. Perhaps you don’t want to seem to exist. That’s a legitimate strategy, and […]
Online Personal Branding With Google Authorship
Google Authorship allows you to link your Google+ profile to the content you create. It’s a powerful online personal branding tool that allows you to explicitly tell the search engines that a web page is your content. This helps your branding in two ways. First, you get “credit” from Google for all of the content you […]
Weekly Roundup: 29-July [Career Development Newsletter]
Each Sunday, #CareerGravity sends our heaviest articles of the week to our newsletter subscribers. Here’s our newsletter for the week of 29-July: Most Common Resume Mistakes (Chart of the Week) Typos top the list. Doh! Your resume should have no mistakes whatsoever, let alone typos. It’s a competitive job market, more so than in the […]
Creative Commons: Finding and Attributing Images Online
Your image is important. So are your images, and to generate #CareerGravity, your online image, you need images. Say It With Content and know that your written content is rarely enough. Your content needs images—high-quality images whose copyrights, ideally, come with no fee. Fortunately, for images that aren’t you, you don’t need to be a skilled […]