When The Job Ad Says Don't Call: Job search question of the week - Page 2

A reader wrote in, asking this question:

"I recently ran into a job posting that specifically asked that candidates not call. My gut tells me that I should call anyway. How else am I supposed to find out more about the job? Then again, by calling I'm showing right from the start I can't follow directions. Thoughts?”

This is a classic dilemma that places the candidate between a rock and a hard place. How can you differentiate yourself if you don’t get more information? But if you call about the job, you’re ignoring a request by the employer.

Should you listen?

Yes - you should listen ... you shouldn’t call about the job. Even if the company hadn’t specifically requested it, you shouldn’t call about the job.

In fact, you should never call to learn more about a job. Why would you want to? The job requirements often change, there could easily be pre-selected candidates for the job, and it might not even be a real job.

Instead, you could do yourself a favor, and instead of calling about the job ... why not call to learn more about the company? To learn more about company's problems, goals, roadblocks, or issues? Why not call to learn more about the hiring manager?

Since the ad is for a specific job, you can respect the employers request and not call about the job. The employer didn’t ask to refrain from calling to network, to learn more about the company, to offer leads or contacts to employees of the company. The ad merely asked that you refrain from calling about the job.

So if you’re not going to ask about the job, what should you ask about?

Find people outside of HR to talk to at the company, going through your contacts, your social networks and alumni databases - or use guerrilla job search tactics (see http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/guerrilla-job-search-tactics.html). Ask them about their own job, ask about how the company is responding to goals, industry issues, or to the moves of competitors. Ask questions to get below the surface, asking how each of these issues affects your contact’s department and them personally.

If the company is in cost cutting mode, find out what they are doing to cut costs. Cutting back on new programs, customer service, R & D, technology? Or is the company expanding technology to automate processes and reduce headcount further?

If the company is trying to expand revenues, what are they doing to accomplish this? Are they expanding sales forces, introducing new products, launching a new marketing/advertising campaign, selling into new categories, territories or channels? How will competitors react? How will these sales expansion strategies affect the department you’re trying to work within?

If the company is striving to increase profitability, are they pushing high margin products, playing down (or eliminating) low margin products? Is the company using BI strategies to learn more about customers, in an effort to identify additional needs or likely additional purchases? How will these profitability measures affect the department or hiring manager that you’re trying to reach?

Take the information you’ve gained, and stop looking for a job - instead look for problems that need to be solved ... that you already have great experience in solving (see http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/03/would-you-stop-looking-for-job-already.html).

In using this method, you’ll soon notice that you haven’t asked about the advertised job in any of these questions, so you’re still respecting the request in the ad.

It’s interesting that by respecting the employers ad and not asking about the job, you’re able to learn much more and make your resume even more appealing to a perspective employer.

You didn’t really want to ask about the job, did you?

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Who’s Hiring - Top employers week of 8-30-10 - Page 3

Job Openings Added This Week - 8/30/10:

The business service, banking, telecommunications, food products, retail, and health care verticals are the top industries with new job postings this week based on a survey of the nation’s leading job advertisements added during the past seven days for the week of 8/30/10.

Business service led new hiring advertisements this week as IBM, Booz Allen, ManTech and Deloitte were included in the top job advertisers this week. Telecommunications also added as AT&T and Verizon were in the top firms adding advertisements for new hires this week.

Banking companies were also hiring as Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase were in the top new advertisements this week. Food products companies joined the top new advertisements this week as Pepsi Bottling Group was recruiting. Retail was next as Macy’s, Lowe’s and CarQuest Auto Parts posted new ads this week.

Health care rounded out the list as HCR ManorCare, North Shore Medical Center, AlmostFamily, UnitedHealth, Genesis Healthcare, Bayada Nurses, Community Health Systems and Kindred Healthcare advertised for staff this week.

Job Openings added this week by direct advertisers - Week of 8/30/10 (Recruiters & Staffing Companies not included):

1. IBM
2. Bank Of America
3. AT&T
4. The Pepsi Bottling Group
5. Wells Fargo
6. Macy's
7. HCR ManorCare
8. Verizon Wireless
9. North Shore Medical Center
10. H&R Block
11. Northrop Grumman
12. Booz Allen Hamilton
13. Burger King
14. New York Marriott Marquis
15. ManTech
16. Almost Family Corporate
17. UnitedHealth Group
18. Sonic Drive-In
19. JPMorgan Chase
20. Applebee's
21. Deloitte
22. Friendly's
23. Chrysler - Mopar
24. Genesis Rehabilitation
25. HP
26. Bayada Nurses
27. Lowe's
28. Community Health Systems
29. Google
30. Advance America
31. Terminix
32. TruGreen
33. Columbia University
34. Hilton Hotels
35. CARQUEST Auto Parts
36. Kindred Healthcare
37. Snap-on Tools
38. Newell Rubbermaid
39. PDS Technical Services
40. IHG - InterContinental Hotels Group

Sources: CareerBuilder, Monster, Indeed, SimplyHired, HotJobs, Google. Excluded: Recruiters, Staffing firms, Training, Franchise, and Work-from-home opportunities.

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Who’s Hiring - Top employers week of 8-30-10 - Page 2

Total Job Openings week of 8/30/10:

Business Service firms led hiring companies as IBM, Booz Allen, Deloitte, and CSC were actively staffing. Hospitality companies remained top hiring firms as Pizza Hut, Marriott, Applebee’s, Cracker Barrel, Boston Market and Hilton continued heavy job advertisements.

Telecommunications was next with AT&T and Verizon still staffing actively. Banking stayed in the top employer list as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorganChase and Citi and were heavily hiring.

Health care continues in a strong recruiting mode as HCR ManorCare, Kaiser Permanente, North Shore Medical Center, Gentiva Healthcare, UnitedHealth, HCA Healthcare, Genesis Healthcare, Community Health Systems, DaVita and Amedisys were top job advertisers. Retail continues hiring growth as Sears, Kmart, Macy’s, Lowe’s, JCPenney, Murphy USA, Toys “R” Us and Pilot were in the top hiring firms.

Based on surveys of US job advertisements in the top job board aggregators, the following companies searched for the most job opeings as of 8/30/10:

Total Job Openings by direct advertisers (Recruiters & Staffing Companies not included):

1. IBM
2. Pizza Hut
3. AT&T
4. Bank of America
5. HCR ManorCare
6. Sears
7. Kmart
8. Kaiser Permanente
9. Wells Fargo
10. Verizon Wireless
11. General Dynamics
12. North Shore Medical Center
13. JPMorgan Chase
14. Citi
15. Gentiva Health Services
16. Macy's
17. Lowe's
18. Marriott International
19. Booz Allen Hamilton
20. Deloitte
21. UnitedHealth Group
22. Northrop Grumman
23. HP
24. JCPenney
25. HCA Healthcare
26. Genesis Healthcare
27. Community Health Systems
28. DaVita
29. Murphy USA
30. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
31. Toys "R" Us
32. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
33. Applebee's
34. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
35. Amedisys
36. Pilot Travel Centers
37. Boston Market
38. Chrysler - Mopar
39. U.S. Army
40. Hilton Hotels

( Continued ... Top job openings added this week )


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Who’s Firing - Layoffs week ended 8-27-10 - Page 2

Top Layoffs week ended 8-27:

Job cuts were way, way down this week as only 23 organizations announced layoffs of over 30 or more employees - this is down from 60-70 per week during most of 2010.

Even though Government topped the list, total government entities announcing layoffs were way down as only 4 announced job cuts (compared to as many as 30 in past weeks). Government layoffs were led by the City of Newark announcing layoff of 1,000 employees. Defense came in second as Northrup Grumman is trimming 642 employees.

Manufacturing was next as Whirlpool laid off between 600 - 1,000 workers. Retail company CVS/Caremark announced 400 job cuts.

Distribution wasn’t spared from layoffs as Professional Veterinary Products announced they would trim approximately 300 staff members.

Inclusion on this listing doesn’t mean the entire industry is down, as some from the same sectors appeared on the “Who’s Hiring” article published 8/23/10.

Job seekers: You might want to look in greener pastures than these companies.

Organizations announcing or rumored layoffs for the week ended 8/27/10:

• City of Newark NJ (1,000)
• Northrup Grumman, Pascagoula MS (642)
• Whirlpool, Ft. Smith AR (600 - 1,000)
• CVS Caremark, Birmingham AL (400)
• Professional Veterinary Products, Omaha NE (~ 300)
• Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul MN (200-250)
• HealthMarkets, North Richland Hills TX (180)
• St. John Knits, Irvine CA (129)
• USA Today, San Francisco CA (130)
• BAE Systems, Uniontown PA (124)
• Pfizer Pearl River Facility, Pearl River NY (115)
• Wells Fargo, Reading PA (92)
• Raytheon, Hampton VA (82)
• Aramark, St Louis MO (78)
• Meriter Health Services, Madison WI (57)
• ISS Facility Services, Springfield MO (50)
• American Snuff LLC, Memphis (45)
• Mirant Canal Generating Plant, Sandwich MA (< 45)
• Grand Traverse County, Traverse City MI (< 41)
• The City of Akron OH (40)
• The Seattle Department of Planning and Development, Seattle WA (< 40)
• Red Storm Entertainment, Cary NC and San Francisco CA (38)
• Sutter Medical Centers, Sacramento CA (30)

Source: Google, Twitter, AllPinkSlips.com, Telonu.com, TechCrunch.com, CoStar.com, Gawker, Screwedd.com, Recessionwire.com

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Where The Coolest Jobs Hide - Page 2

Where Are The Coolest Jobs Hiding?

Yes to each and every one of those possibilities of where cool jobs are. Sure, some jobs are hidden, but most are out there. Cool jobs are everywhere but take different strategies to find them, depending on where they are found.

The first question to consider is what’s a cool job? Is it cutting edge, flexible, telecommuting, career enhancing, educational opportunities, feel good, close to home, great benefits, great pay, great boss, socially conscious, environmentally conscious, stable, executive?

Everyone has a different definition on what a cool job is, because different employees have different needs. So before you can find a cool job, you have to define what your personal cool job looks like.

After you define it, recognize that your cool job could be found most anywhere. A balanced approach to find your cool job works best.

1. Job Boards: Consider using up to 5 job boards. SimplyHired is a terrific aggregator of job boards, scraping information from 7K boards, company websites, and submissions. SimplyHired will include jobs found on CareerBuilder, Monster, Dice, and Craig's list among many others. Regional job boards are a good place to focus in on only local jobs. Job boards from your industry association are more likely to have needs that your specific subject matter expertise can solve. Job boards covering your job function are other places that seek your expertise, and a good way to change industries. See ‘The Top 30 Job Boards For 2010‘ at http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/02/top-30-job-boards-for-2010.html for more details.


2. Social Networks: Network, Network, Network. Update your network that you’re in active networking mode and offer to help connect others. Don’t blast spam just to ask everyone for a job. Instead, pay it forward and offer to help. You’ll be amazed how many offer to help in return when you make your network ‘Strong like bull’ http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/07/make-your-network-links-strong-like.html.


3. In person networking: Work these, and not just the industry events. Most large cities have general networking events. Again, use a pay it forward approach to find ways to help others and build Emotional Equity. Read more about how to get many times the results over the way most people selfishly just ask ‘You know anyone who’s hiring?’ at http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/07/achieve-enlightenment-through.html.


4. Alumni networks: Call or email your alumni office. Get lists, get listed on job boards. Call and invite everyone for coffee. You’ll have a caffeine buzz for weeks. Don’t ask for a job, ask to learn more about what made someone a success at their company – people love to brag about themselves. Dig deeper to learn about goals, issues, roadblocks and problems at their company - problems that you can solve. Talk about how you are in networking mode, and ask how you can help…paying it forward works with alumni also. Read more about successful informational interview strategies at http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/bringing-your-resume-to-informational.html.


5. Recruiters: Work with the right recruiters. Work with a recruiter that is honest, who’s company has lots of listings in your field. Work with senior recruiters who know their stuff. Offer help to the recruiter, with the best recruiter currency you have. Knowledge, leads, jobs, networking, other candidates….these are all recruiter currency. To learn more about how to maximize a recruiters effectiveness for you, see http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/03/inside-track-on-recruiters-top-10-tips.html.

Cool jobs lie everywhere….

Readers, please share - Where are you looking for yours?

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Why Doesn’t HR (Recruiters & Hiring Managers) Follow Up? Job search question of the week - Page 2

Job seeker E.S. emailed me this question:

“I was recently in discussions with a recruiter about a consulting position and we went through the ‘the company's HR person is on vacation next week dance’. I sent the recruiter an email last week asking her to confirm my candidacy was a dead issue so I can move it from my active folder to ‘dead’ and I got no response. Why can't recruiters suck it up and be honest with candidates instead of just ignoring emails. A simple, yes you are right the company is not interested is all that is needed and would keep me from nagging the recruiter. It would also make me willing to help him or her in the future. Now this recruiter is in my ‘dead’ list. Can you explain the behavior?”

The answer is basic - Politeness to the candidate is an expense to the employer.

To you, the candidate, the task of an interviewer giving a response seems simple. It’s a courtesy that you’re used to, so when you stop receiving one, it seems rude. To the candidate it’s also inconvenient, because you’re left hanging, unsure if this opportunity is live or dead.

Companies used to treat post-interview follow up this way, both out of courtesy and to leave the rejected candidate with as positive an experience with the recruiter (or company) as possible.

Then the internet changed things. Web based job boards exploded the number of candidates a company received - by as many as 10 or 20 times pre-job board numbers. Recruiters see similar numbers.

Now think about the numbers involved when you multiply it all out.

A company (or recruiter) may have hundreds of positions that they are interviewing for at any single time, and may arrange hundreds of interviews per week. That 5 minute follow up is just for you - when you multiply it by hundreds of interviews or thousands of applicants, it turns into one or two full time positions.

HR and recruiting staffs have had headcount reductions also. The same with the hiring managers that you’ve interviewed with - that 5 minute phone call to each person interviewed could mean an extra hour per day ... when that manager is already tasked with doing more with less, having absorbed staff cuts thanks to the recession.

In many cases, there’s just not enough hours in the existing staff's day, so follow-up becomes an added expense. This can be solved with additional staff or automation - both of which require budgets. Or it can be blown off, which doesn’t require budget approval.

This hits recruiters also - when companies hire fewer people, recruiting firms cut their own staff. Remaining staff are managed to focus on new business, rather than politeness. Candidates are inventory to recruiters - the recruiter’s customer is the hiring manager that pays their fees, not the candidate.

It’s no longer about politeness, or common courtesy ... it’s about cost. Companies trying to stay afloat have cut costs in order to remain competitive and stay afloat themselves.

We don’t expect a follow up from the local gas station to make sure the gasoline we purchased worked as expected, nor from the grocery store to follow up on the quality of our recent food purchases. Why not? Because this follow up is expensive.

I asked the client who posed this same question this morning: ”What if you had to bear the cost? Would you be willing to pay extra for groceries, just so you could get a callback? What % increase would be worth it to you?”

She responded that she wouldn’t want to pay extra just to get a follow up call.

So why should employers?

Readers - What do you think? Would you pay more for consumer goods, so that you can get follow-up from employers?

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Bringing Your Resume To Informational Interviews - Page 3

How You Should Handle Asking For A Job At Informational Interviews

... Don’t.

Why would you ever want to ask for a job at an informational interview?

Chances are, the person you are meeting with isn’t the hiring manager for the position you are seeking. Even if they are, if you use an informational interview to ask for a job, you’re admitting deception about your intended purpose of the meeting. You didn’t tell the individual that you were trying to find the right way to ask them for a job ... you stated that you wanted to learn more about the company.

Yet, most candidates use informational interviews to ask for a job ...

Not only does this trash the candidates’ credibility, it also wastes a great opportunity to find out really useful information about the company. Here’s where you can discuss how the company is responding to competition, to industry opportunities/threats, what roadblocks the company is facing, and how these issues affect the department you are targeting.

You can find out about jobs from the company website or from HR - Why waste your meeting asking about jobs?

On the other hand, you can use an informational meeting to do more than just be an investigator - why not also learn how you can help the person you are meeting with? Why make it just you asking for favors, when you’ll find so much more help when you’ve first given help?

What kind of help can you give? Can you refer contacts that can help them in business, or potential candidates for their department? Can you refer clients ... even if the person you’re meeting with is not in sales, employees who generate business for their companies get recognized (or bonused in some companies).

Learn more about the other person’s interests. Charities are a great opportunity to help your contact - volunteering your help (or referring others who can help) to your contact’s pet charities is a big favor to them and a great potential bonding experience, in exchange for a few hours of your time.

By learning more about your contact and finding ways you can help, your conversation becomes one of mutual help ... and your contact should naturally want to learn what they can do to help you.

Then if you get to the golden moment where the person you’re meeting with asks you how they can help you ... would you ask them to pass along your resume?

No!

Instead, ask the more powerful question - ask to be introduced to the manager of the department you want to work in.

Can you see how that’s more impactful than giving a paper resume, asking them to pass it to a hiring manager (translates to HR)?

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Bringing Your Resume To Informational Interviews - Page 2

When You Should Present Your Resume At An Informational Interview:

... Never.

My client was shocked - maybe you are too. You should never present your resume at an informational interview. I tell my clients never to even bring a copy of their resume to an informational interview, so they aren’t tempted to present it.

Here’s a number of reasons why not:

1. It’s not a job interview: Informational interviews, by their definition, are to learn more about a company - not to ask for a job.


2. You’ve trashed your credibility: Bringing a resume ruins your credibility, demonstrating ulterior motives to the person you’ve met with. You pitched the meeting as an informational interview, but when you pull out a resume, you’ve turned it into an ambush job interview. Bad idea - see http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-candidates-should-avoid-ambush.html.


3. Your resume won’t contain information you learned at the informational interview: The whole point of an informational interview is to get information - info that you can use to customize your resume to fit specific company needs. After you’ve had the chance to learn this valuable info, why would you turn over a generic resume, when you could now give yourself much better odds? ... even if you ended up in ATS pre-screening.


4. Excuse for an additional company contact: If you don’t have your resume with you, you have to contact the manager again to email it, giving you the chance to customize it, and to continue to sell yourself.


5. Resumes go to HR: Giving your resume to a manager, who’s not the hiring manager, is usually an express ticket ... to HR. Chances are HR isn’t where you wanted your resume to go - you could have just sent it through the company’s website if you had the urge to get pre-screened by the ATS system.


6. Wasting your contact’s time: Your company contact just did you a big favor, giving you time out of their busy day to talk about internal issues at their company. Do you want to thank your contact for that favor by giving a piece of paper to send (not even email) to HR ... when you can easily do that yourself?


7. If you give a resume, it’s paper: HR departments aren’t set up to manage paper resume today - they manage digital documents, emails, and database records. By presenting a paper resume, you introduce an additional step in HR’s process - manual scanning. If your resume falls through the cracks (someone forgets to scan, the paper gets lost, buried, or the manager forgets to deliver it) how can you be considered for a job?

I’ll almost always get client pushback, with questions like “Won’t I look unprepared if I don’t bring a resume?”

Why would you look unprepared? This isn’t a job interview, so why would you bring a resume?

( Continued ... When You Should Present Your Resume At An Informational Interview )

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Avoiding The “Send Me Your Resume” Trap - Page 2

Why “Send Me Your Resume” Can Be A Trap:

We’ve all been taught to go to the highest person in the organization we can reach, with the idea that a hiring manager will grant an interview from their superior's referral. This works well if the superior specifically asks the hiring manager to set up an interview - but that’s rarely the case.

Most executives want the hiring manager to make their own decision, but help them by sending any resumes along that might be qualified. So I asked my client, do you think the president of this fast growing, high-profile company is personally interviewing for the type of position you are seeking ... or is the hiring manager one or two levels down? If the executive isn’t the hiring manager, they typically will send resumes to the department that handles resumes - HR.

So by sending a resume to the president, there's a big risk that it gets forwarded to HR ... just as if you applied online.

Sure there are exceptions - If the executive personally knows you well (or if you had a long enough conversation to make a huge impression) and wants to do you a favor, they may specifically request the hiring manager to set up an interview. Or if this position will report to the president or personally solve a big problem that impacts him personally. These are exceptions, not the rule - so don’t count on it. There are better ways to maximize the impact of your conversation, with higher odds of gaining an interview.

In most cases, your conversation with a company executive will not have covered enough detail to cause the executive to “pull rank” on the hiring manager. But, if the conversation was positive, it may invite a continuation or referral to someone else in the organization - This can be far more valuable.

The biggest problem with sending your resume immediately in response to an executive’s request is that the candidate rarely has taken the time to understand the company’s goals/problems/roadblocks. Without understanding these issues, you can’t customize your resume to demonstrate how you are the solution to one or more critical company issues.

If you can’t present yourself as a solution, you are left hoping that the words on your resume magically happen to match the key words that the company HR staff are searching for ...

... The odds stink.

Avoiding The “Send Me Your Resume” Trap:

However, if you can instead leverage your meeting into a continued discussion with the executive or to gain a referral to a relevant manager, you can explore potential problems and challenges. For instance, this company had gone through fast growth early in its existence. So the company is now under pressure to continue and beat their early growth - how will that effect your department? The company has purchased some competitors and some international companies in its space - How will they integrate these companies and what sorts of challenges does the manager anticipate? The company is facing many new competitors, some of which have gotten sizable outside funding - how will the company protect its market share and continue high growth in the face of increased competition?

The answer to these and similar questions are keys to understanding the company’s goals/problems/roadblocks that are likely to have a wide reaching impact - including the department and hiring manager that you are targeting. If you learn these issues and how they impact your target department, you can frame your experiences to show that you’ve already solved similar problems in the past.

... But how can you frame yourself as the solution to a problem you don’t understand?

It’s great to make executive contacts at your target companies. Squandering those contacts by immediately sending a resume without understanding underlying company issues is an express ticket to the HR black hole.

And why shouldn’t it be? You demonstrated that you’re a candidate that will blurt out a generic answer before understanding the company’s problems. Why would that compel an executive to decide they can’t live without you on their team?

What will make an executive decide they need you on their team, from meeting you at a seminar or event?

By showing that you’re able to dig to uncover underlying issues and draw upon your experiences to solve those problems, you demonstrate the thought processes that employers consider “must have” skills. By recognizing that meeting the president isn’t enough by itself to earn you an interview, instead using that meeting as a path to understanding underlying problems ... you give yourself the opportunity to differentiate yourself from hundreds of other applicants.

... Or you could take your chances in the HR black hole and send your resume immediately.



Which way do you think will increase your chances at getting an interview and making a great first impression?

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Who’s Hiring - Top employers week of 8-23-10 - Page 3

Job Openings Added This Week - 8/23/10:

The business service, telecommunications, banking, health care, insurance, defense and technology verticals are the top industries with new job postings this week based on a survey of the nation’s leading job advertisements added during the past seven days for the week of 8/23/10.

Business service led new hiring advertisements this week as IBM, Booz Allen, Deloitte, ManTech and SAIC were included in the top job advertisers this week. Telecommunications also added as AT&T and Verizon were in the top firms adding advertisements for new hires this week.

Banking companies were also hiring as Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citi and JPMorgan Chase were in the top new advertisements this week. Health care was next as HCR ManorCare, Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealth, Gentiva, Community Health Systems, Genesis Healthcare and Sibley Memorial Hospital advertised for staff this week.

Insurance company Wellpoint and defense companies Northrup Gumman, BAE and Raytheon were in the top companies adding advertisements for new hires this week. Technology rounded out the list as Microsoft advertised for talent this week.

Job Openings added this week by direct advertisers - Week of 8/23/10 (Recruiters & Staffing Companies not included):

1. IBM
2. AT&T
3. Wells Fargo
4. Booz Allen Hamilton
5. Bank of America
6. Citi
7. HCR ManorCare
8. Wellpoint
9. Northrop Grumman
10. Microsoft
11. Deloitte
12. Kaiser Permanente
13. Marriott
14. BAE Systems
15. SAIC
16. Verizon Wireless
17. Kmart
18. CA State Personnel Board
19. ManTech International
20. UnitedHealth Group
21. Sears
22. Gentiva
23. JPMorgan Chase
24. Lowe's
25. Murphy USA
26. Chrysler - Mopar
27. Macy's
28. HP
29. Community Health Systems
30. Genesis Healthcare
31. Sibley Memorial Hospital
32. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
33. TruGreen
34. Terminix
35. Advance America
36. Hilton Hotels
37. URS Corporation
38. Snap-on Tools
39. CARQUEST Auto Parts
40. Raytheon

Sources: CareerBuilder, Monster, Indeed, SimplyHired, HotJobs, Google. Excluded: Recruiters, Staffing firms, Training, Franchise, and Work-from-home opportunities.

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Who’s Hiring - Top employers week of 8-23-10 - Page 2

Total Job Openings week of 8/23/10:

Business Service firms led hiring companies as IBM, Deloitte, Booz Allen and CSC were actively staffing. Hospitality companies remained top hiring firms as Pizza Hut, Marriott, Applebee’s, Cracker Barrel, Boston Market and Hilton continued heavy job advertisements.

Telecommunication was next with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile still staffing actively. Banking stayed in the top employer list as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorganChase and Citi were heavily hiring.

Health care continues in a strong recruiting mode as HCR ManorCare, Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealth, Gentiva Healthcare, Genesis Healthcare, Community Health Systems, HCA Healthcare, DaVita and Amedisys were top job advertisers. Retail continues hiring growth as Sears, Kmart, Blockbuster, Lowe’s, Macy’s, JCPenney, Murphy USA, Toys “R” Us and Pilot were in the top hiring firms.

Based on surveys of US job advertisements in the top job board aggregators, the following companies searched for the most job openings:

Total Job Openings by direct advertisers (Recruiters & Staffing Companies not included):

1. IBM
2. Pizza Hut
3. AT&T
4. Bank of America
5. Wells Fargo
6. HCR ManorCare
7. Sears
8. Kaiser Permanente
9. Kmart
10. Verizon Wireless
11. General Dynamics
12. Booz Allen Hamilton
13. Wellpoint
14. Deloitte
15. Blockbuster
16. Lowe's
17. Macy's
18. UnitedHealth Group
19. JPMorgan Chase
20. Marriott International
21. Gentiva
22. T-Mobile
23. HP
24. JCPenney
25. Genesis Healthcare
26. Community Health Systems
27. HCA Healthcare
28. DaVita
29. Citi
30. Murphy USA
31. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
32. Toys "R" Us
33. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
34. Applebee's
35. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
36. Pilot Travel Centers
37. Amedisys
38. Boston Market
39. U.S. Army
40. Hilton Hotels

( Continued ... Top job openings added this week )


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Who’s Firing - Layoffs week ended 8-20-10 - Page 3

Top Layoffs week ended 8-20-10 - Continued

• American Airlines, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco CA (208)
• Angelica Textile Services, Turlock CA, Stockton CA (194)
• Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, Ponoma CA (160)
• RJ American, Brooklyn NY (157)
• ImClone Systems, Branchburg NJ (140)
• Mosaic South Fort Meade Mine, Manatee FL (140)
• Trane, Ft. Smith AR (131)
• Ingersoll Rand, Athena PA (131)
• Assurant Health, Milwaukee WI and Plymouth MN (130)
• Pratt & Whitney, Cheshire CT (129)
• McDonough Holland & Allen PC, Oakland CA, Sacramento CA (127)
• Netflix, Santa Ana CA (125)
• Citi Commerce Solutions, Layton UT (120)
• New Process Gear, Dewitt NY (107)
• Apex Tool Group, Sparks MD (106)
• FEDEX Smartpost, Pottstown PA (106)
• State of Pennsylvania, Various PA (100)
• Northeast Hospital Corp, Gloucester MA, Lynn MA, Danvers MA, Ipswich MA (100)
• New Jersey Legal Services, Various NJ (100)
• Correction Corp, California City CA (100)
• Storer School And Contract Service, Stockton CA (97)
• Perfect Fit Industries, Loogootee IN (95)
• The Boeing Co, Huntington Beach CA, El Segundo CA (88)
• The Masonite Mill, Laurel MS (83)
• Furniture Homestores of Southern California, Fountain Valley CA, Fullerton CA, Yorba Linda CA (80)
• Cessna Aircraft Co, Independence KS (75)
• Community Education Partners, Philadelphia PA (74)
• UPS Teleservices, Santa Maria CA (74)
• Teva Pharmaceuticals, Irvine CA (70)
• Swissport USA, Orlando FL (< 67)
• Keystone Food Products, Easton PA (60)
• Whole Foods Market, Sherman Oaks CA (59)
• Oregon Youth Authority, Various OR (55)
• Verizon Mission Hills Remittance Processing Center, Mission Hills CA (50)
• HealthAlliance Hospital, Leominster MA (50)
• Lehigh County, Allentown PA (< 50)
• Coca-Cola North America, Mount Shasta CA (49)
• Harman Consumer, Northridge CA (48)
• IAP World Services, Fort Irwin CA (48)
• Domtar Paper Co, Cerritos CA (47)
• Golden State Mutual Life Insurance, Los Angeles CA (46)
• Cleveland Schools, Cleveland OH (46)
• Grand Traverse County, Traverse City MI (40)
• City of Chillicothe, OH (36)
• Hines Nurseries, Irvine CA (34)
• Townsend and Townsend and Crew, Palo Alto CA, San Diego CA, San Fransisco CA, Walnut Creek CA (34)
• SPX Heat Transfer, Tulsa OK (33)
• Benefit Cosmetics, Oakland CA (32)
• Professional Veterinary Products, York PA (31)
• Visual Concepts, San Rephael CA (30)

Source: Google, Twitter, AllPinkSlips.com, Telonu.com, TechCrunch.com, CoStar.com, Gawker, Screwedd.com, Recessionwire.com

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Who’s Firing - Layoffs week ended 8-20-10 - Page 2

Top Layoffs week ended 8-20:

Even though Government topped the list, total government entities announcing layoffs were way down as only 9 announced job cuts (compared to as many as 30 in past weeks). Government layoffs were led by the State of Utah announcing cuts affecting 2,000 employees, and the City of Trenton NJ who laid off 1,200 workers. Retail came in second as the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A & P stores) is trimming approximately 2,000 employees.

A number of companies in the aerospace and airline industries announced layoffs including Honeywell Aerospace, American Airlines, Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, and Cessna. Manufacturing firm Simpson Dura-Vent announced 262 job cuts.

Health care wasn’t spared from layoffs as Pomona Valley Hospital announced they would trim 160 staff members.

Inclusion on this listing doesn’t mean the entire industry is down, as some from the same sectors appeared on the “Who’s Hiring” article published 8/16/10.

Job seekers: You might want to look in greener pastures than these companies.

Organizations announcing or rumored layoffs for the week ended 8/20/10:

• State of Utah, Various UT (2,000)
• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, Various US (< 2,000) 
• City of Trenton, NJ (1,200) 
• Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix AZ (280) 
• Simpson Dura-Vent Co, Vacaville CA (262)  

( Continued ... See the rest of this week's top layoffs )

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The Secret To Getting Simply Hired - Page 2

Why Is SimplyHired Such A Great Job Board?

SimplyHired’s mission is to be the biggest job board on the planet. Even though SimplyHired started behind CareerBuilder and Monster, they’ve leapfrogged to be the top job site on the net, listing over 7M jobs. SimplyHired does this by crawling and gaining submissions from over 10,000 other job boards and corporate websites…so SimplyHired is the aggregator of aggregators. SimplyHired not only crawls the majors, but it gives promotion to companies and smaller boards, by taking their feeds and listing their jobs.

These guys have a sense of humor. Let’s face it, most people would rather do their taxes than search for a new job. SimplyHired realizes this and tries to make the process a little less painful, by making a very easy to use interface. SimplyHired claims they build “…solutions that make sense to your mom, your uncle, your teenager, and even your dog…” Wow - smart doggie!

In addition to a single source for jobs, SimplyHired also offers some of the best job tools on the planet. SimplyHired interfaces with Linkedin and Facebook, allowing you to see if your old drinking buddy from your first job 20 years ago might be your boss at the firm you’re targeting. You know how Linkedin has a tool that allows you to superimpose your contacts (out to a 3rd degree of Kevin Bacon) over CareerBuilder and Monster ads…they expanded this to SimplyHired – and simply hired has many times more jobs listed than either of the other two. I used this tool and found the guy who first hired me from undergrad – who’s now the CFO of a fast growing, midsized public company. SimplyHired recently launched similar capabilities for Facebook also (see http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/06/facebook-becomes-job-search-engine.html).

You know when you click on the jobs tab of Linkedin? Guess who’s job board they connect to? You guessed it…SimplyHired. Facebook connects to SimplyHired also.

Other Job Search 2.0 tools include candidate ratings of jobs. Imagine that! The job you think is your dream job is rated a dog by 95 other candidates. Maybe you’re more excited about the little start up given a high ranking by 6 people.

SimplyHired gives you lots of ways to slice and dice their job database. You can filter by Job Type, Education level, Experience Level, Company size, or ranking (Fortune 500, Working Mother 100, Forbes 100, Minority rankings, etc.). For more information on searching for jobs using SimplyHired’s specialty search (Over 50, mom-friendly, GLBT, dog-friendly and others, see http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-get-your-dog-job.html.

SimplyHired has some brilliant add on functions, that give amazing market insight. EmploymentTrends allows you to graph the % of total jobs on SimplyHired by keyword combination over the past 6 months. Check out Ditch Your Crystal Ball for the detailed review of EmploymentTrends at http://recareered.blogspot.com/2008/04/ditch-your-crystal-ball-try-hiring.html.

SimplySalary allows you to compare your salary to averages of jobs listing the same keywords, with salary information provided by PayScale.com. You can use this in career planning to determine skills you want, or in salary negotiations to determine if your salary demands are in line with the market.

LocalJobs give local search tools that go beyond just job listings by city or zip. With LocalJobs, you can actually map where jobs are located on Google Maps. This great mashup tool is invaluable in helping job seekers figure out their commute, or how close a prospective job is to their house, daycare, or kids school.

LocalJobs pulls information from Wikipedia and other sources to give economic and demographic information right there on your job board, so you don’t have to search Google only to find out that Cleveland is about the same size as Mesa AZ and ½ the size of Motown. LocalJobs lists the largest cities by population, but also Highest Job Growth (Casa Grande, AZ), Lowest Unemployment Rate (Bismark, ND), Highest Average Income (Holmdel, NJ), Lowest Average Home Cost (New Haven, IN), Most Racially Diverse (Motown), and best towns for singles (Hermosa Beach, CA). Now you’re not just searching for a job, you’re practicing for Trivial Pursuit!

SimplyHired gives company research tools, just like most major job boards. But they also have forums…discussion boards where job seekers can exchange information, experiences, hints, and even find ex (or current) employees of the target company.

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How Do I Verify Spelling Of The Interviewer’s Name? Job search question of the week - Page 2

J.W. shared a question about his job search, asking:

“I just had a phone interview with a recruiter and I think it went well.

I want to send the Recruiter a thank you letter. However, I am not sure of the spelling of the Recruiter's name.

How do candidates handle this situation? Can you provide any advice on this?”

Here are 6 ways to verify the spelling of the interviewer’s name:

1. Get a business card: Don’t leave the interview without a business card. Even if you’ve written the interviewer’s name down - get their card.


2. Google them: Google is a great dictionary. Google the name of the firm and the person’s first name (or part of their name). Many recruiters post job ads with their email as the contact - Google may turn these up.


3. Check the company website: Some companies (esp. recruiters) will have a full directory of employees on their site.


4. Search on Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter: Especially effective for recruiters, as most use social networks and have profiles so candidates can find them.


5. Search other online directories and social networks: Try Plaxo, ZoomInfo, Spoke, Jigsaw, Ning and others.


6. Call: Call the main number, and get to a live person if an automated attendant answers. Tell the truth, that you interviewed and are trying to send thank you notes to people you spoke with - and you just need to confirm spelling of a name. Here are some hints at getting past an automated attendant: http://recareered.blogspot.com/2008/04/get-out-of-voicemail-hell.html.

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Ten Things to Do After You’ve Told All Your Friends - Page 2

What To Do After Telling All Your Friends

1. Email your LinkedIN & Facebook network, but do it the right way. Give before you ask….what can you give? Tell your network that you have great news! You are actively networking - Ask your network how you can help each of them….what opportunities you can be on the lookout for them in your networking journeys?


2. Don’t ask for a job, instead ask how you can help. But definitely attach your resume – people are pretty intelligent and will figure out if you attach your resume, you might just be looking for a job. Make it personal. Make your email an update like a Holiday Letter, including family details, even pictures.


3. Build your LinkedIN and Facebook networks. These articles can show you how to build broad networks FAST!
   Now That I’m LinkedIN, Who Do I Link TO? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-that-im-linked-who-do-i-link-to.html)
   Who Else Wants to Add More Facebook Friends? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-else-wants-to-add-more-facebook.html)


4. Send your active networking, family introduction letter to all new contacts, and people you meet at networking events, with resume attached. Let your new contacts meet you and your family. People help others that they like…be likable.


5. Revise your LinkedIN profile to reflect highlights of your resume. Include keywords and industry jargon to be searchable. Your LinkedIN profile should reflect your primary Subject Matter Expertise. See Build a LinkedIN Profile You Can Be Proud Of! (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/build-linkedin-profile-that-you-can-be.html).


6. strategy to LinkedIN, but consider these also:
   
   • Hide or erase all potentially embarrassing Facebook apps
   • Review your pictures and videos for potentially embarrassing content
   • Change your privacy controls to require approval of any picture or video that tags you to be included on your profile


7. If you’re on MySpace, you’ll probably have LOTS of work to do to clean up your profile and main page. Assume an employer will look up your MySpace page. Make sure there’s nothing that would prevent you from being hired. You’ll likely have to be more careful if you’re going or a job in banking, and less careful if you’re looking for a bartender gig.


8. Google yourself. Search until you find yourself. Write the page number where you’re first displayed. Do the same with a Yahoo search. Make sure you identify if there are any results that you don’t want employers to see that are revealed in your search.


9. Investigate Networking events and groups. Many job seekers just look at one or two industry groups and thing they’re hard-core networkers. There are general networking breakfasts, lunches, and events in most cities. In large urban markets there are networking events most every weeknight, that can give you the opportunity to meet the person who can will connect you to your next job.


10. Contact your Alumni organization. List your resume with them. Find out about networking events your Alumni office or Alumni club sponsors. Get a list of Alumni in your town (Inviting them to LinkedIN and Facebook would be nice!). Inquire about job postings your Alumni office has, and get a login to their job board.

What will you do next, after you’ve told all your friends?

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Ten Things to Do After You’ve Told All Your Friends - Page 2

What To Do After Telling All Your Friends

1. Email your LinkedIN & Facebook network, but do it the right way. Give before you ask….what can you give? Tell your network that you have great news! You are actively networking - Ask your network how you can help each of them….what opportunities you can be on the lookout for them in your networking journeys?


2. Don’t ask for a job, instead ask how you can help. But definitely attach your resume – people are pretty intelligent and will figure out if you attach your resume, you might just be looking for a job. Make it personal. Make your email an update like a Holiday Letter, including family details, even pictures.


3. Build your LinkedIN and Facebook networks. These articles can show you how to build broad networks FAST!
   Now That I’m LinkedIN, Who Do I Link TO? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-that-im-linked-who-do-i-link-to.html)
   Who Else Wants to Add More Facebook Friends? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-else-wants-to-add-more-facebook.html)


4. Send your active networking, family introduction letter to all new contacts, and people you meet at networking events, with resume attached. Let your new contacts meet you and your family. People help others that they like…be likable.


5. Revise your LinkedIN profile to reflect highlights of your resume. Include keywords and industry jargon to be searchable. Your LinkedIN profile should reflect your primary Subject Matter Expertise. See Build a LinkedIN Profile You Can Be Proud Of! (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/build-linkedin-profile-that-you-can-be.html).


6. strategy to LinkedIN, but consider these also:
   
   • Hide or erase all potentially embarrassing Facebook apps
   • Review your pictures and videos for potentially embarrassing content
   • Change your privacy controls to require approval of any picture or video that tags you to be included on your profile


7. If you’re on MySpace, you’ll probably have LOTS of work to do to clean up your profile and main page. Assume an employer will look up your MySpace page. Make sure there’s nothing that would prevent you from being hired. You’ll likely have to be more careful if you’re going or a job in banking, and less careful if you’re looking for a bartender gig.


8. Google yourself. Search until you find yourself. Write the page number where you’re first displayed. Do the same with a Yahoo search. Make sure you identify if there are any results that you don’t want employers to see that are revealed in your search.


9. Investigate Networking events and groups. Many job seekers just look at one or two industry groups and thing they’re hard-core networkers. There are general networking breakfasts, lunches, and events in most cities. In large urban markets there are networking events most every weeknight, that can give you the opportunity to meet the person who can will connect you to your next job.


10. Contact your Alumni organization. List your resume with them. Find out about networking events your Alumni office or Alumni club sponsors. Get a list of Alumni in your town (Inviting them to LinkedIN and Facebook would be nice!). Inquire about job postings your Alumni office has, and get a login to their job board.

What will you do next, after you’ve told all your friends?

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Ten Things to Do After You’ve Told All Your Friends - Page 2

What To Do After Telling All Your Friends

1. Email your LinkedIN & Facebook network, but do it the right way. Give before you ask….what can you give? Tell your network that you have great news! You are actively networking - Ask your network how you can help each of them….what opportunities you can be on the lookout for them in your networking journeys?


2. Don’t ask for a job, instead ask how you can help. But definitely attach your resume – people are pretty intelligent and will figure out if you attach your resume, you might just be looking for a job. Make it personal. Make your email an update like a Holiday Letter, including family details, even pictures.


3. Build your LinkedIN and Facebook networks. These articles can show you how to build broad networks FAST!
   Now That I’m LinkedIN, Who Do I Link TO? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-that-im-linked-who-do-i-link-to.html)
   Who Else Wants to Add More Facebook Friends? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-else-wants-to-add-more-facebook.html)


4. Send your active networking, family introduction letter to all new contacts, and people you meet at networking events, with resume attached. Let your new contacts meet you and your family. People help others that they like…be likable.


5. Revise your LinkedIN profile to reflect highlights of your resume. Include keywords and industry jargon to be searchable. Your LinkedIN profile should reflect your primary Subject Matter Expertise. See Build a LinkedIN Profile You Can Be Proud Of! (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/build-linkedin-profile-that-you-can-be.html).


6. strategy to LinkedIN, but consider these also:
   
   • Hide or erase all potentially embarrassing Facebook apps
   • Review your pictures and videos for potentially embarrassing content
   • Change your privacy controls to require approval of any picture or video that tags you to be included on your profile


7. If you’re on MySpace, you’ll probably have LOTS of work to do to clean up your profile and main page. Assume an employer will look up your MySpace page. Make sure there’s nothing that would prevent you from being hired. You’ll likely have to be more careful if you’re going or a job in banking, and less careful if you’re looking for a bartender gig.


8. Google yourself. Search until you find yourself. Write the page number where you’re first displayed. Do the same with a Yahoo search. Make sure you identify if there are any results that you don’t want employers to see that are revealed in your search.


9. Investigate Networking events and groups. Many job seekers just look at one or two industry groups and thing they’re hard-core networkers. There are general networking breakfasts, lunches, and events in most cities. In large urban markets there are networking events most every weeknight, that can give you the opportunity to meet the person who can will connect you to your next job.


10. Contact your Alumni organization. List your resume with them. Find out about networking events your Alumni office or Alumni club sponsors. Get a list of Alumni in your town (Inviting them to LinkedIN and Facebook would be nice!). Inquire about job postings your Alumni office has, and get a login to their job board.

What will you do next, after you’ve told all your friends?

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What To Do After Telling All Your Friends

1. Email your LinkedIN & Facebook network, but do it the right way. Give before you ask….what can you give? Tell your network that you have great news! You are actively networking - Ask your network how you can help each of them….what opportunities you can be on the lookout for them in your networking journeys?


2. Don’t ask for a job, instead ask how you can help. But definitely attach your resume – people are pretty intelligent and will figure out if you attach your resume, you might just be looking for a job. Make it personal. Make your email an update like a Holiday Letter, including family details, even pictures.


3. Build your LinkedIN and Facebook networks. These articles can show you how to build broad networks FAST!
   Now That I’m LinkedIN, Who Do I Link TO? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-that-im-linked-who-do-i-link-to.html)
   Who Else Wants to Add More Facebook Friends? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-else-wants-to-add-more-facebook.html)


4. Send your active networking, family introduction letter to all new contacts, and people you meet at networking events, with resume attached. Let your new contacts meet you and your family. People help others that they like…be likable.


5. Revise your LinkedIN profile to reflect highlights of your resume. Include keywords and industry jargon to be searchable. Your LinkedIN profile should reflect your primary Subject Matter Expertise. See Build a LinkedIN Profile You Can Be Proud Of! (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/build-linkedin-profile-that-you-can-be.html).


6. strategy to LinkedIN, but consider these also:
   
   • Hide or erase all potentially embarrassing Facebook apps
   • Review your pictures and videos for potentially embarrassing content
   • Change your privacy controls to require approval of any picture or video that tags you to be included on your profile


7. If you’re on MySpace, you’ll probably have LOTS of work to do to clean up your profile and main page. Assume an employer will look up your MySpace page. Make sure there’s nothing that would prevent you from being hired. You’ll likely have to be more careful if you’re going or a job in banking, and less careful if you’re looking for a bartender gig.


8. Google yourself. Search until you find yourself. Write the page number where you’re first displayed. Do the same with a Yahoo search. Make sure you identify if there are any results that you don’t want employers to see that are revealed in your search.


9. Investigate Networking events and groups. Many job seekers just look at one or two industry groups and thing they’re hard-core networkers. There are general networking breakfasts, lunches, and events in most cities. In large urban markets there are networking events most every weeknight, that can give you the opportunity to meet the person who can will connect you to your next job.


10. Contact your Alumni organization. List your resume with them. Find out about networking events your Alumni office or Alumni club sponsors. Get a list of Alumni in your town (Inviting them to LinkedIN and Facebook would be nice!). Inquire about job postings your Alumni office has, and get a login to their job board.

What will you do next, after you’ve told all your friends?

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Source: http://reCareered.blogspot.com

Ten Things to Do After You’ve Told All Your Friends

What To Do After Telling All Your Friends

1. Email your LinkedIN & Facebook network, but do it the right way. Give before you ask….what can you give? Tell your network that you have great news! You are actively networking - Ask your network how you can help each of them….what opportunities you can be on the lookout for them in your networking journeys?



2. Don’t ask for a job, instead ask how you can help. But definitely attach your resume – people are pretty intelligent and will figure out if you attach your resume, you might just be looking for a job. Make it personal. Make your email an update like a Holiday Letter, including family details, even pictures.



3. Build your LinkedIN and Facebook networks. These articles can show you how to build broad networks FAST!
   Now That I’m LinkedIN, Who Do I Link TO? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-that-im-linked-who-do-i-link-to.html)
   Who Else Wants to Add More Facebook Friends? (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-else-wants-to-add-more-facebook.html)



4. Send your active networking, family introduction letter to all new contacts, and people you meet at networking events, with resume attached. Let your new contacts meet you and your family. People help others that they like…be likable.



5. Revise your LinkedIN profile to reflect highlights of your resume. Include keywords and industry jargon to be searchable. Your LinkedIN profile should reflect your primary Subject Matter Expertise. See Build a LinkedIN Profile You Can Be Proud Of! (http://recareered.blogspot.com/2010/08/build-linkedin-profile-that-you-can-be.html).



6. strategy to LinkedIN, but consider these also:
   
   • Hide or erase all potentially embarrassing Facebook apps
   • Review your pictures and videos for potentially embarrassing content
   • Change your privacy controls to require approval of any picture or video that tags you to be included on your profile



7. If you’re on MySpace, you’ll probably have LOTS of work to do to clean up your profile and main page. Assume an employer will look up your MySpace page. Make sure there’s nothing that would prevent you from being hired. You’ll likely have to be more careful if you’re going or a job in banking, and less careful if you’re looking for a bartender gig.



8. Google yourself. Search until you find yourself. Write the page number where you’re first displayed. Do the same with a Yahoo search. Make sure you identify if there are any results that you don’t want employers to see that are revealed in your search.



9. Investigate Networking events and groups. Many job seekers just look at one or two industry groups and thing they’re hard-core networkers. There are general networking breakfasts, lunches, and events in most cities. In large urban markets there are networking events most every weeknight, that can give you the opportunity to meet the person who can will connect you to your next job.



10. Contact your Alumni organization. List your resume with them. Find out about networking events your Alumni office or Alumni club sponsors. Get a list of Alumni in your town (Inviting them to LinkedIN and Facebook would be nice!). Inquire about job postings your Alumni office has, and get a login to their job board.

What will you do next, after you’ve told all your friends?

Page: <1> <2>

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Join Career Change Central on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1800872

Related Articles:
Question Of The Week - How should I let my network know that I'm looking for work?
30 Things You Can Control In Your Job Search

Email your request to phil.reCareered@gmail.com to enroll in a free group teleseminar "Accelerate Your Job Search - tools you can use".

Source: http://reCareered.blogspot.com