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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad (Good?) Wolf?
November 30, 2005 by Steven RothbergThe blogosphere is buzzing about Google’s plans to enter into on-line classifieds and scan every book in the world, copyrighted or not. See Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard.
Apparently Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, French President Jacques Chirac, and others see Google as both benevolent (they love its search engine) and evil (their publisher constituents are nervous that they might actually have to compete with the brains and capital at Google). CollegeRecruiter.com is impacted both as a publisher of books and as the seller of job postings, a type of on-line classified advertising. Are we nervous about Google’s forays into two of our business areas? Sure. Are we excited about the potential because we see the potential for working with their systems in such a way that we are able to help level the playing field against some of our larger indirect competitors that are able to buy advertising on the Superbowl? Absolutely. -
Google Base – Threat or Opportunity?
November 29, 2005 by Steven RothbergGoogle recently announced the release of Google Base, an on-line classified advertising system that allows employers, job boards, and other organizations to post job openings. The release has been quite the topic of conversation in the recruitment world. See, for example, Google Enters Job Listings Fray | workforce.com.
While some of the highest traffic job boards view the entry by Google into recruitment advertising as a threat and have refused to cooperate, Careerbuilder, CollegeRecruiter.com and others view Google’s move as an opportunity. Within weeks and certainly months, expect many and perhaps most premium job boards to follow our lead by crossposting some or all of their jobs to Google because doing so is good for the candidate, good for the employer, and therefore good for the job board. -
Avoid the Top Three Cover Letter Mistakes!
by jim stroud
By: Deborah Walker, CCMCAs a career coach and professional resume writer, IThe blackhole of resumes
November 28, 2005 by jim stroud
Agencies, especially the larger ones, are overwhelmed with resumes. Thousands of candidates submit their resume to agencies every day through the agency websites, making it nearly impossible for each submitted resume to be properly reviewed. Agencies have to implement a variety of complex methods that allow them to “weed out” inappropriate candidates just because of the sheer volume of resumes they receive. To demonstrate, let’s follow Johnny Q. Resume as he travels through agency-website cyberspace.Simply Fired!
November 23, 2005 by jim stroud
Do you have a funny, strange, but true story about being canned? If so, this is the website for you. If your story is chosen, you could win a video camcorder and an Apple iMac G5 multimedia system.
Explaining a Gap in Your Resume
by Steven RothbergQuestion from Candidate:
After 3.5 years working right after college, I decided to quit my job. Some people call it gap year, career break, sabbatical but I call it a sweet dream. In any sweet dream, one do have to wake up to reality. I was backpacking around Europe and also studied Chinese in China. But now, I have a problem trying to explain 3 years gap in my resume. Please help and give me some ideas how to…thanksDid you know Careerbuilder was blogging?
November 22, 2005 by jim stroud
Check out Careerbuilder’s blog as they have some interesting stuff there. (I guess I am on a Careerbuilder kick today- smile) Check this article out…***
Tired of sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic? Maybe you should look into a more commuter-friendly company.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently released its 2005 Best Workplaces for Commuters, an annual list of Fortune 500 companies with the best commuter benefits. The 90 companies named Best Workplaces for Commuters this year are credited with offering commuter benefits to nearly 600,000 employees, conserving nearly 30 million gallons of gasoline and saving more than $80 million annually, according to the Energy Information Administration.Listed below are the top 20 companies for 2005. If you are looking for a more commuter-friendly place to work, click through the links to see the jobs available at these companies today.1. Intel
2. (tie) QUALCOMM
2. (tie) Oracle
4. Sun Microsystems
5. MicrosoftCareerbuilder has a TV Station for Jobseekers!!!
by jim stroudHere is a neat resource brought to you by the good people over at Careerbuilder. Did you know that they have a TV STATION for jobseekers? Well, sort of… Click the screenshot below to see it for yourself.
A Significant Difference: Pride, Bullying, Confidence
November 20, 2005 by Yvonne LaRoseThere’s been a lot of buzz in my environment over the past several months. It has to do with pride. The pride that the community criticizes is that attributed to conceit, unmerited satisfaction and inflated status about something.
While the detractors scorn pride, they only recently stopped to consider the positive side of pride. This is being elated over doing something well and bringing positive credit to those who deserve it. Once reminded of this other aspect of being proud of something, the community admitted that there is the negative aspect of pride and the one that is positive. There are different dimensions to the one characteristic.
Now there is yet another perspective with regard to pride, or actually something we call self-confidence. It is possible to be confident, that is, have a belief in one’s own abilities or being certain, having assurance. That can be expressed in various ways that one goes about doing or saying things. However, let’s not get confidence mixed up with bullying.Fed Chairman-to-be Ben Bernanke Focused on Inflation and Jobs
November 16, 2005 by Steven RothbergGreat news out of the yesterday’s Senate confirmation hearings for Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman to-be. In prepared his prepared remarks Bernanke vowed to stay focused on both inflation and jobs as he understands that it is “low income people who suffer most from recession [and] low-income people who suffer most from a high level of inflation.”
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