Top 5 questions about online job hunting…

“Top Frequently Asked Questions About Online Job Hunting”

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(A) national poll includes responses from 150 senior executives — including those from human resources, finance and marketing departments — with the nation’s 1,000 largest companies. It was conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Accountemps, a specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals.

Those surveyed were asked, “What is the most unusual thing you have seen or heard of a job candidate doing to ‘stand out from the crowd’?” Sample responses included:

“A job seeker sent a shoe with his resume and a note saying, ‘I just want to get my foot in the door.’”

“One candidate came in barefoot.”

“A job seeker included an 8-by-10 inch beauty-pageant photo of herself.”

“A candidate put confetti in the resume package, which made a huge mess.”

“One woman brought a poodle to the interview because she didn

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Yahoo is hiring!

Help Wanted! – Great Engineers and Scientists

Web search really is unique. It requires attacking many simultaneous world class technical problems. It has had a huge positive impact on how people work, play, and interact with computers while being provided as a free service. And it is a vastly successful business, generating the revenue needed to drive further investment and innovation. Our combined team has been working on search continuously since 1995 and we have many internet firsts to our names.

Right now we are focused on taking the state of the art in search engines to the next level. To do that we need to add folks to our team who are as excited about the search challenge as we are. If you have wrestled with really large challenging software problems, have a record of deployed commercial successes, work well in teams and are intrigued by the idea of working in a domain where we will need to invent the next generation of tools and techniques in our field simply to start our work, send us your resume!

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A monday funny… (New HR policy)

(NEW HR POLICY *Thank you bbidappa!)

Dear Staff !!!

Please be advised that there are NEW rules and regulations implemented to raise the efficiency of our firm.

Transportation:
It is advised that you come to work driving a car according to your salary. If we see you driving a Honda, we assume you are doing well financially and therefore you do not need a raise. If you drive a 10 year old car or public transportation, we assume you must have lots of savings therefore you do not need a raise. If you drive a Pickup, you are right where you need to be and therefore you do not need a raise.

Annual Leave:
Each employee will receive 52 Annual Leave days a year (Wooow!). They are called Sunday.

Lunch Break:
Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch as they need to eat more so that they can look healthy. Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to maintain their average figure. Fat people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that’s all the time needed to drink a Slim Fast and take diet pill.

Sick Days:
We will no longer accept a doctor Medical Cert as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

Toilet Usage:
Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilets. There is now a strict 3-minute time limit in the cubicles. At the end of three minutes, an alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the door will open and a picture will be taken. After your second offence, your picture will be posted on the company bulletin board under the “Chronic Offenders” category. Subsequent pictures will be sold at public auctions to raise money to pay your salary.

Surgery:
As long as you are an employee here, you need all your organs. You should not consider removing anything. We hired you intact. To have something removed constitutes a breach of employment.

Internet Usage:
All personal internet usage will be recorded and charges will be deducted from your bonus (if any) and if we decide not to give you any, charges will be deducted from your salary. Just for the record. 73% of the staff will not be entitled to any salary for the next 3 months as their internet charges have exceeded their 3 months salary. Thank you for your loyalty to our company. We are here to provide a positive employment experience. Therefore, all questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplation, consternation and input should be directed elsewhere.

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Here are a few reminders of what NOT to do on an interview. Sad (but true?) tales from the recruiter desk. (Thank you David Perry)

• See photo of interviewer’s family on desk, point, start laughing uncontrollably.
• Ask if there is only one emergency exit, grin and say; ‘Boy!, I bet this floor would be in trouble if someone barricaded that.’
• After detailing your greatest achievement, qualify with, ‘Of course I was totally hammered at the time.’
• Inquire on office policy of friends staying over.
• Over-emphasize your ability to use a copier.
• Ask if it’s O.K. that you sit on the floor.
• Allow that you would little impact on the overhead budget, because you swiped all the supplies from your other job.
• Mention your resume would have been stronger, but you didn’t feel like making anything else up.
• Walk into interviewer’s office because you are tired of waiting in the lobby.

Some people are dying to get to work. Literally!)

“If you want to reduce your chances of dying on the job, don’t drive on the highway in connection with your work in fields or forests.
Fatal work injuries from highway accidents accounted for the highest number of deaths in 2003: 1,350 out of a total of 5,559 job-related fatalities last year in the United States. The number of work-related deaths was highest in the construction trade: 1,126. But the fatality rate was greatest in the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting sector: 31.2 deaths for every 100,000 workers.”

READ: Some jobs are just killers, literally:

Do you know the real history behind “labor day?”

“Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country,” said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor. “All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day…is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.” Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

READ: The History of Labor Day

Thank you Tony Kinard for this template!

Here is a job search idea for you! Write a proposal to a company or government agency based on your expertise. Tell them how you can help them make money and you will get their attention. Prove you can make or save them money, and they will engage you. Your first step is to create an RFP. What’s that? Read the email I just received in my e-box and then thank Tony Kinard for availing such a valuable resource for FREE!!!

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Bad moods boost creativity?

While seemingly counterintuitive, researchers have found that employees with positive moods may sometimes be less creative at the workplace than those in negative moods. READ: Explore Rice