Tips to Help You Network Effectively

There may be times when college students and recent graduates encounter networking opportunities. The people they meet at professional events and other social gatherings may serve as potential contacts in their searches for internships and entry level jobs. So, how should job candidates approach these opportunities? Here are some tips to help them network effectively.

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Resume Advice: Avoid Gimmickry In A Job Search

By Ramon Greenwood
There is a strong temptation in today’s highly competitive job market to go for gimmicks to make one’s resume stand out from the crowded field. The temptation is particularly strong after a number of rejections.
Avoid gimmickry like the plague.

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Job Search: Craft Your Resume To Get An Interview

By Ramon Greenwood
Your resume is the all-important first step in your search for a job, but don’t expect it to close the deal.
Instead, craft it with a single objective in your mind: Get invited in for an interview where you can elaborate on and sell your qualifications in face-to-face communications with one or more decision makers.

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Facebook CEO Discusses New Privacy Settings

Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Job Boards?

Many of my fellow job board owners are like ostriches with their heads in the sand. They don’t want to admit that social media is having and will have more of an impact on our businesses. Unfortunately, those owners fail to realize that while some of the effect is and will continue to be negative, some is and will continue to be positive.
More and more employers are not just talking about building candidate communities but they’re actually doing it and social media is integral to the success of those groups. Job boards can also play a large role, but not the only role. But go to the conferences and listen — really listen — to the thought leaders in corporate recruiting and you’ll hear loud and clear that the day of spending the lion’s share of their recruitment budget on job postings and resume searching is gone and never coming back. Few will say they won’t spend anything and even those who do will agree that they will spend on niche sites but whether they’re spending none or just less there can be no doubt that job boards which continue to offer the same tools as we offered in the 1990′s will perish.

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Did Twitter Just Kill TweetMyJobs, TweetaJob, TwitterJobSearch, TwitJobSearch?

Twitter just announced that it is clamping down on third party sites and networks which use Twitter’s application programming interface (API) to distribute ads to Twitter subscribers. The new rules won’t impact those who manually post paid ads to their Twitter accounts but will certainly effect the most popular Twitter job board sites such as TweetMyJobs, TweetaJob, TwitterJobSearch, and TwitJobSearch.
“We will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API,” wrote Twitter’s Chief Operating Officer, Dick Costolo, in a blog posting.

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How to Improve Your Job Search Success Rate

Many college students and recent graduates may find it challenging to find entry level jobs. That’s why it’s important for them to enhance their job searches, in order to hopefully find opportunities more quickly. Here are some tips that should help improve their searches.

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Mentors Can Be Nightmares

When mentoring goes well, it can be of great benefit to young managers. But when it goes wrong, it can have lasting negative effects for both mentors and their prot√©g√©s. Stacey Delo talks with Dawn Chandler of Cal Poly’s Orfalea College of Business in San Luis Obispo for some advise on how to keep mentoring relationships from going bad:

Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Jobs in the 21st Century

Recently, I read a magazine article that focused on job opportunities in two life sciences: biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Both fields offer various positions and are expected to grow in the future, and may lead to advancement in the workplace. With the right education, training, and job search method, you can have a chance to secure an entry level job in either of these fields.

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