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Are your dreams meeting with your reality?

(Originally posted on ImSoCorporate.com)

When I was a little kid, I dreamed of climbing the corporate ladder in my pinstripe suit and stiletto heels. I wanted nothing more than to be toughest, no nonsense attorney in a top law firm and live in a high rise apartment in Manhattan with my CEO husband and our glamorous life of jet setting weekends to Europe and dinner parties with the other fabulous people.

Well, at least that is who I wanted to play on TV. You see,… Continue

Added by Sarah White on October 15, 2009 at 11:40am — 7 Comments

Latest Jobcasts on Jobs in Pods

Recruiting with New Media is still in its infancy but here are some hip employers who are doing just that and reaping the rewards. Jobs in Pods features over the phone interviews with your employees about what its like to work there.

* Nestle Purina’s Human Resources Management Trainee Program

*… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on October 15, 2009 at 10:50am — No Comments

$#IT Happens

I write a lot from the Recruiter point of view, but I had one of those weeks, which changed my mindset for a while.

I've had to make a number of calls to unsuccessful candidates. As a job to do... that sucks.. but you know what?.. I'm sure it doesn't suck as much as taking the call.

Going for a job is a brave thing to do. You're putting yourself out there to be judged by others. Baring your soul, putting your future in someone else's hands to decide on. Like those people… Continue

Added by Dan Nuroo on October 15, 2009 at 9:54am — 7 Comments

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Added by Edward Jackson on October 15, 2009 at 9:29am — No Comments

Find Job-Seeking MBAs from Top Business Schools on Twitter

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are extremely valuable hiring tools with today’s growing desire for instant information and dependency on networking. Facebook and LinkedIn fulfill the networking dependency. Twitter is better for delivering instant information.

Twitter has grown over 1000% in the last year – mainly b/c of the celebrity presence. But this doesn’t mean it can’t be used as an effective… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on October 14, 2009 at 3:51pm — No Comments

Find Jobs on Twitter: List of Employer/Recruiter Twitter URLs

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are extremely valuable job-search tools with today’s growing desire for instant information and dependency on networking. Facebook and LinkedIn fulfill the networking dependency. Twitter is better for delivering instant information.

Twitter has grown over 1000% in the last year – mainly b/c of the celebrity presence. But this doesn’t mean it can’t be used as an effective… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on October 14, 2009 at 3:48pm — No Comments

Recruit MBA Interns to be Future Hires

Hiring MBA interns is a cost-effective and essential way to build your leadership talent pipeline regardless of business cycles. Smart firms have learned from past mistakes and realize they cannot afford to fall behind in leadership recruiting again. And despite the economic downturn, internship offerings increased in 2009 by 2.0% over 2008.

Firms like Kaplan, SAP, Amazon.com, Citi, and Deutsche… Continue

Added by Ryan Pratt on October 14, 2009 at 11:25am — No Comments

Learn to Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty!

If you’ve been reading much on this site or reading virtually any other job search advice, you know that networking is critical to landing a new job. However, most people only begin building a network once they are unemployed. Better late than never. Networking can be far more effective, though, if you have an extensive address book of professional contacts that you’ve been building over time.

Begin building your network as soon as you realize it’s value, but don’t stop once you get… Continue

Added by Harry Urschel on October 14, 2009 at 11:10am — 1 Comment

Good news before morning coffee

I love waking up to an inbox that says you now own 20 new great domain names. Good old @milesJ

Added by Slouch on October 14, 2009 at 10:42am — 2 Comments

Free online resource videos for career advisers & professionals. CareerTV syndicates free online video content for your community. Become a partner today.

(Stockholm, August 4th) – For all job or employer related sites and career advisers of academic institutions looking for research tools for its users or student community, CareerTV is the leading provider of employer and career-related videos on the internet.

With more than 2,000 videos, CareerTV’s library includes premium videos about the Fortune 500, career advice and graduate programs, including shows on subjects that matter for the talent and recruitment market, e.g. diversity,… Continue

Added by Jonas Barck on October 14, 2009 at 2:53am — No Comments

Resume Search with Unlimited Job Postings for first 100 Respondents!

MedDeviceJobs.com is a niche job board specializing in the medical device industry, which could save you both time and money searching other sites for qualified candidates.

Stop wasting time, we allow you to put in filters to weed out anyone that doesn’t match your candidate criteria. Our specialty niche includes medical device sales, device engineering, project management or anything medical device related.

Focus on opportunity; you can post unlimited jobs on our site for… Continue

Added by Zoe Jones on October 13, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Keeping up with the Kardashians during the job hunt

He completely lost me at “sir”.

It was his first chance to make a lasting impression and he totally blew it.

Clearly stated in the job description was “accurate, detail oriented, excellent communicator…” and “please contact Heather Gardner direct for immediate consideration."

Had he taken the time to look me up, he would have known…. Oh "Bing" or "Google" me please!

It’s so easy to lose out on an… Continue

Added by Heather Gardner on October 13, 2009 at 4:30pm — 3 Comments

Love Your Employees or Watch Them Leave

In 2009, we witnessed a year of mass layoffs. In 2010, be prepared for another wave. Yet, this wave will be different. This wave will be voluntary . . . a mass exodus of employees who have lost faith in their employer.

A recent survey of American workers conducted by Harris Interactive revealed:

* 77% are not satisfied with the strategy and vision of the company and its leadership.

* 48% of workers are not satisfied with the relationship they have with their… Continue

Added by Safari Solutions on October 13, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

When will Applicant Tracking Software Get the Message?

"We were not able to identify your contact e-mail address. Your login e-mail address will be used as your contact e-mail address instead. Please be aware that this contact e-mail address will be used to contact you."

The message above was sent to a prospective candidate from an applicant tracking system -not ours. This system is managing a fortune 500 company’s careers site. Yikes! It can hardly be debated that… Continue

Added by Joel Passen on October 13, 2009 at 2:49pm — No Comments

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Added by Holly Pellum on October 13, 2009 at 12:24pm — No Comments

The Big Recruitment Debate???

I spent time this morning reading a blog on a British based site leadingemployersblog.com. It was titled "The Big Recruitment Debate". It was a debate with only one view being represented, which does not make a debate.

The poster named “Admin” asked the question;

‘Is it time to review the way that recruitment works?

- if a business was really committed to recruiting the absolute best, the absolute most suitable would they really put their recruitment in the hands of a third… Continue

Added by Fran Hogan on October 13, 2009 at 12:04pm — No Comments

Season For Good Health

Prevention remains the most effective way to stay healthy. The H1N1 flu (swine) is still occurring throughout the United States and it is likely we will continue to see more cases during the upcoming flu season in the fall and winter. It is important to take actions to prevent illness and t to make plans in the event that you or your loved ones become ill.

It is not known how severe this disease may become. As I write to you, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently… Continue

Added by Lynn E Mauk on October 13, 2009 at 11:05am — No Comments

What would Batman do?

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What would Batman do?

Gotham City just had a major layoff. Batman is now unemployed and actively looking for his next gig. Superman and Spiderman got their pink slip a week earlier.

Because Batman is an “out of the box” thinker he knows that he needs to try something different in order to find employment during these extraordinary times.

Personal (Professional) Branding: This… Continue

Added by Heather Gardner on October 13, 2009 at 10:40am — 3 Comments

Want to see a grown man cry??? Take away his iPhone.

September 30th I attended MoMo Boston held at the Boston Harbor Hotel where there was the usual meet and greet of some of the finest minds in America but also a great panel discussion regarding mobile advertising, mobile platforms, the best types of phones, etc. Needless to say, out of a room of 200, there were probably 11 women. Oh well – it meant more white wine for me. And NO! I do not JUST go for the open bar – Jeez.

My reason for attending was compounded by the fact that one of… Continue

Added by Kelly Moeller on October 13, 2009 at 10:03am — 2 Comments

The dangers (and benefits) of backfilling job listings

Once upon a time, if you visited a job board, you knew what you would get: whatever jobs the board had on that day. These were jobs that the board’s sales force had convinced employers to post, on that job board. If you clicked on a job, you went straight to that job posting. And if you applied for it, you did so through that particular job board.

Well, those days are long gone. Since the advent of job board aggregators such as Indeed and Simply Hired, it’s become so easy for a job… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on October 13, 2009 at 9:04am — No Comments