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Using A Visual Medium To Enhance The Recruiting Process

Recruit CRM

Attract The Cream Candidates Clearly, the target of recruitment is to draw in the best applicants and given that individuals react preferably to visuals over composed text-based media, gone are those times where a simple blog was sufficient to work with.

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How to Find a Job Using Social Media

On The Job

I heard about the job when they promoted it on Twitter," she says. "I I asked for more details and then sent in my resume." I'm not wading through a bunch of cover letters where someone is describing how they're a 'people person' and ways they can transform our organization.

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Critical Steps in Your Career Transition

Job Advice Blog

This exercise will allow you to learn more about yourself and promote increased self awareness. Myers Briggs, DISC) to help you uncover and understand more about what your strengths, weaknesses, likes, and dislikes are. Research the industry. How do you even know what you think you are interested in is a real interest?

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

First, what you have been up to recently that is exciting, fun or new, why and what sort of job you are looking for, and your contact information and an online link to your resume or a social media profile (more on this later). The kind lady asked me what I did for work so I gave her my resume. She gave me her business card.

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Are You Being Naive -- and Just Plain Stupid -- About Your Online Reputation?

On The Job

And that, my friends, could be disastrous at a time like this when we should all be actively promoting ourselves in the marketplace. 1) We changed everything (resume, cover letters, online profiles, etc.) People will typically Google what is on the resume. Here's what we did. to "Joshua P. Deming", his full name.

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Answering Reader Mail: From Lawyer to Executive Assistant?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

“First of all I would like to say thank you for the wealth of incredibly useful and generous advice on your blog! Dear SH, Glad you enjoy my blog! Any recruiter who sees your resume and finds out you used to be a lawyer will silently wonder the following questions. If the fit isn’t close enough, they toss or file your resume.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

For any readers of my blog and my column , you’ll know I hail from Japan and also consider myself an Angeleno! That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road. Any recruiter who sees your resume will silently wonder the following questions.