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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Top 5 Proactive and Unique Job Interview Strategies


 Top 5 Proactive and Unique Job Interview Strategies

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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT
Finding strategic ways to land job interviews is half the battle. The best proactive strategies are somewhat subtle in nature and flow with the rest.

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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 10:30 PM PDT
One of the challenges associated with creating a hospitality/restaurant resume is making sure it zeros in on the position you're applying for.

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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT
Tired of old-fashioned? There's something else you can be using in your job search to land your ideal position: a one-page job proposal.

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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 09:30 PM PDT
Have you struggled with putting your brand into your resume, writing a profile summary that looks great, but failing to get attention?

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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 09:15 PM PDT
CAREEREALISM TV is a social television network dedicated to providing job seekers with career advice for finding professional satisfaction.

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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 07:59 AM PDT
mobile hr, mobile human resources, mobile recruiting, mobile recruit, mobile jobs I’m pretty stoked to report that my upcoming webinar, “Mobile the Next Big Thing in HR & Recruiting” has just been approved for 1 HRCI Strategic credit.  Yes, you read correctly, the webinar has been approved for a strategic HRCI credit.  Our webinar focuses on mobile technologies for human resources, HR, recruiting, and employee engagement in the workplace.  The webinar is at no cost to you and is scheduled for September 15th at 11:00 AM CST.  You can learn more about the webinar below, and register here.
Learn all about Mobile and how it is being used in Human Resources, Recruitment, Employee Engagement. Our session leaders will discuss mobile basics and success stories from this new and emerging industry.  Learn the secrets to effectively using mobile, texting, and QR Codes in addition to your social media and engagement campaigns.
Our panelists include:
  • Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR (@blogging4jobs) is an author, HR consultant, new media strategist, and author who writes at Blogging4Jobs.com.  Her company, Xceptional HR offers social media strategies, human resources, and recruiting consulting with an eye on digital media.  Listed as the number 6th most influential recruiter online and as the 21st most influential woman on Twitter, she is a highly sought after speaker.
  • Ron Cariker (@roncariker) is the Founder and President of 7 Media Group, a marketing company specializing in mobile and online development. Concentrating on mobile marketing applied to customer development, 7 Media Group has created success for a variety of clients with a variety of marketing needs. Ron is a member of the Mobile Marketing Association and consults with dozens of businesses looking to enter the mobile space.
  • Rayanne Thorn (@ray_anne) is the North American Marketing Director for Broadbean Technology.  Broadbean provides online and social media, mobile, and  recruiting solutions for major employers, staffing agencies, and independent recruiters.  Rayanne is a former recruiter and long-time blogger who has used mobile & social media to recruit candidates from all industries.
You may remember that earlier this year we hosted a webinar “How to Connect with HR with Social Media” targeted human resources and talent service providers.  The feedback was fantastic, and we decided to take it up a notch which is why we’ve put together our mobile technology webinar.  Consider registering or read more about our topic and panels.
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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 05:01 AM PDT
mommy guilt, momminess, mom blogger, mommy blogger, working moms, moms at work, mommies at work, working parents As moms who return to work after our child is born, we often dream of the carefree life of a stay at home mom.  Little do we know that the life of a stay at home mom is not all sunshine and roses.  We live each day fighting a battle with our own selves.
As a mom who is experienced in her career long before I became a mom, I was not fully prepared for the feelings, thoughts, and emotions I would have when I returned to work.  I love working.  I have an important job that I love and people who depend and rely on me.  Just like being a mom, this is a job I have trained for, dreamed about, and worked towards my whole life.  Without it, I don't somehow feel whole.  I wouldn't be me.
I often feel guilty when I travel for work or even dropping her off at daycare which I do four days a week.  This phenomenon called mommy guilt is something that is often experienced throughout a child’s life.  Leaving my daughter as I head to the airport, there is a hole in my heart.  I love her, and I know she loves me.  The adrenaline sets in as I work navigating the conference calls, emails, faxes, direct messages, and texts I get when I'm working with a client or traveling to a conference or an event.  I'm an expert who's important and needed for more than the standard diaper changing, bandaid kissing, and magic momminess I possess.
One day not too long ago I realized that I could not be one without the other.  I'm a mom who loves to work and is better at both being a mother and working because I'm both.    These roles and responsibilities define me driving my creativity and time management.   We can do both, and I'm not apologizing for it any longer to myself or to others.  By accepting the reality, I believe I've become a better mom and business woman.  I'm learning to love and live with being a mom and professional setting aside my guilt and embracing what makes me special.  It’s a balance that finding and maintaining is not going to be easy, but I’m ready, willing, and able to be up for the challenge.
It’s okay to want to have it all.  Because of my daughter, I feel I’m a more focused business partner who makes time for work as well as play.  As parents, mentors, leaders, and bosses, we need to be prepared and understanding as our employees, friends, and peers face these daily struggles.  The guilt, the anxiety, and the questions are real.  And that’s okay.  I’m a better mother and business professional because I’m not perfect.  I’m not ashamed to admit it.
Are you?  How do you tackle your mommy guilt?  Does it work and will it really ever go away?
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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 04:33 AM PDT
Several years ago, I was hired at a technology start-up as the Manager of Recruitment.  The company had no internal hiring process in place other than listing a job on Craigslist and conducting an interview or two.  I was hired to create and establish a recruiting department that could hire 110 people within the eleven coming months.  It was ambitious, to say the least.  Especially given that there was no real capital behind the organization — this, I didn’t know until several months in.
I discovered the lack of available funds when the phone company came out to collect money, in person – or they were going to shut off services to our growing and phone-needy company.  This was the can of worms, the snowball, Pandora’s box…, the cat trying to get out of the proverbial bag.  I was hired by a CEO that professed ethics at every corner, that insisted ethics training was a must, that haunted our halls with biblical quotes and acts of goodness.  His ruse was sadly, but thankfully discovered before too many others were hurt or lost too much more money.
I look back on this experience with appreciation, for I learned to question and not just take things at face-value, I also learned to listen to and then follow my gut.  I have often thought about the hiring the I did, the fifty-four souls I lured into taking positions as grandiose as a VP of Finance and as modest as an admin assistant or as complicated as an organic chemist and as simple as a lab assistant hired to clean up spills and watch the time.  I can remember wishing that I could hire a new CEO, one to replace the shyster inhabiting the corner office – the one who didn’t pay our state income taxes but certainly deducted them from our pay.  A practice that was not discovered until several employees were laid off but unable to collect unemployment because the state had no record of them paying those taxes.
A successful and visionary CEO requires not only ability to manage and motivate, but also intelligence and experience in business and its ways, and a clear-cut character – one that has the courage to do what is right, to uphold ethical and judicial laws.  Should these desirable characteristics be a trade-off in order to hire someone with hard-core business competence?  Should character-less leaders be tolerated because they can supposedly lead an organization to financial success?
Interestingly enough, this same CEO, a leader to whom at one point I looked up, also sat me down during a frustrating hire, “Rayanne, I want us to hire for character – I can teach anyone a skill – you cannot teach character.”  Apparently, in his case, you can’t learn it either.  And while this particular CEO proved the point by his own actions, he also proved the statement.  Hire for character.
Warren Buffet has hired his share of employees and has done very well for himself.  He stated, “In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities:  integrity, intelligence, and energy.  But if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”  Great advice, I think I’ll take it.

Bonus Track!Rayanne Thorn, @ray_anne is the Marketing Director for the online recruiting software company, Broadbean Technology.  She is also a proud mother of four residing in Laguna Beach, California, and a contributor for Blogging4Jobs.  Connect with her on LinkedIn.
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Monday, August 29, 2011

‘The Social Media Symphony’



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Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:36 AM PDT
It's what everyone is talking about, everywhere. Social media this, social networking that, Facebook here, Twitter there. You cannot get away from it. For people using social media personally, it is not only fun, it's also a great way to connect to friends and family to see what's happening in their worlds.
"Social Media is critical to business," Magolnick wrote in his book 'The Social Media Symphony'. "There is no way around it. Whether your business is in it or not, it is in it.
In his book 'The Social Media Symphony', social marketing expert Mike Magolnick talks about why is it such a critical tool for businesses. "Social Media is a great communication tool by definition but it is so much more than that. Social Media is a complete shift in the paradigm for communication, marketing and personal/professional interaction," said Magolnick. "We've all heard the concept of a positive customer experience being shared with a few people, while a negative experience is shared with many.
Besides Social Media for Business, Magolnick also points out that there's personal Social Media to consider. "Let's say you run a small personal business, like in direct sales or network marketing; you can use Social Media to build leads and generate sales. How? It's simple.
Social Media not only changes that game, it puts it in a whole different league. I'm talking about a five year old tee ball game versus game seven in the World Series different! Instead of being shared with an average of five to ten people, a negative experience now gets tweeted to hundreds, if not thousands of people. It gets posted on Facebook; and the amplification of one message on Facebook equals 130 times the number of connections the person has (the average Facebook user has 130 friends).
Mike Magolnick has implemented the "symphony" himself, creating a social network with more than 25 million connections. His blog at www.Magolnick.com offers social media information, advice and tips and entertains an average of 10,000 visitors every day.
Magolnick has found personal success within social media as his blog site at www.magolnick.com entertains more than 10,000 visitors every day and his social universe has more than twenty-five million people. He used his own personal social network to promote the book -www.socialmediasymphony.com on Amazon.
Magolnick has found personal success within social media as his blog sitewhere he entertains more than 10,000 visitors a day.
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