Click here to subscribe to The Hidden Job Report! … The Hidden Job Report for 10.29.10 Total jobs in the report: 2,893 Jobs revealed ( 2,670 Jobs in U.S.A. / 223 International Jobs ) If a company announces that they are planning to hire hundreds of people, why wait for the roles to hit the want-ads? Why not network with [...]

To be successful in the workplace, employees have to possess transferable skills. Knowing about these skills will help teens and adults prepare to be successful in the workplace. Transferable skills are a product of our talents, traits and knowledge. These skills determine how you respond to new activities, work situations or jobs. Transferable skills are non-job specific skills that you [...]

I recently co-founded a website called – The Hidden Job Report. Its primary purpose is to reveal job opportunities worldwide before they are advertised on job boards. Please review the sample report, download and pass on to every job seeker in your network. Thanks! The Hidden Job Report Related PostsHow to Prospect The Hidden Job marketHow to find unadvertised jobs [...]

I normally don’t do this, but.. what the heck! I’ve been beta testing a Facebook Recruiting app developed by “Work For Us” and have been very impressed by how easy it is to use and how effective its proven to be. So much so, that I have agreed to promote them on my websites. In the near future, I will [...]

Many thanks to Sanjeev Himachali for the great advice… ### Fresher in the Market – Reality Check So, you have already completed your graduation or post graduation and now looking for a job. What do you think that the corporate world is looking in you? Are you actually ready to market yourself and face pressure of expectations? Having interviewed several [...]

In Pietrylo v. Hillstone Restaurant Group d/b/a Houston’s, two non-managerial employees of a New Jersey restaurant created a password-protected MySpace page to air their grievances against their employer. They invited other current and former employees to join and talk about all the “crap/drama/and gossip occurring in our workplace, without hav[ing] to worry about outside eyes prying.” The MySpace page, with [...]

I don’t know where this concept began but I suspect it happened with television. Any show you watch today the characters have each other’s back and are more supportive than one’s own family. The reason is television shows don’t have a budget for additional actors so they try to write around the cast of the show. In real life no [...]

The First Steps To Your Next Adventure Losing your job to a “downsizing” feels like walking out to the garage and discovering your car’s been stolen. The vehicle that was taking you places is gone! Now how are you supposed to get where you’re going? (The difference, of course, is that if your car is stolen, you can get another [...]

I read a lot, perhaps more than I should sometimes, but I do. I was reading a very interesting article on ReadWriteWeb the other day called “Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record.” Here are a few highlights from that article: “(Google CEO says) …every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change [...]

Over the last one decade or so I have negotiated Compensation with several thousand of candidates and have found that on many occasions candidates give emotional reasoning rather than actual, logical and practical. Last week we negotiated Compensation with one of the candidates and although he felt comfortable with the amount that was offered to him but later on he [...]

Part – I Q: You rightfully written in your article…” And although we know indicators of “Professional Suicide”, yet we cannot do anything to stop people from doing this. Every day we will see people committing this professional sin but cannot help them because only they can help themselves. My query is “If the HR People could not counsel such [...]

If people are considered to be an organisations most important asset, then many UK employers are finding that their assets are ageing pretty quickly. In the UK the average working age has increased steadily over the last 30 years and is set to increase further in the future. This is an issue that is affecting virtually all of the western [...]

Although I hate taxes as much as the next guy, I have to appreciate some of what I get for my money. Case in point, how often do you check the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics? Okay, there was a time would I would have said “never” as well. However, I feel myself being pulled back to it from time [...]

Why hire in the first place? Any employer hires for the same reason, they have a problem which needs to be fixed. When hiring, the best manager looks at three following factors: if the person has the ability to do the role, if the person has motivation to do the role, and if the person fits well with the existing [...]