Tag: JOBHUNTING

The economy may be showing signs of improvement, but it's still hard out there for job seekers. If you're going to get hired in today, you'll have to get noticed first. Inventive job hunters, then, are turning to the Web and dreaming up some rather innovative techniques to make their resumes stand out. The good people at the Huffington Post (or HuffPo, to its friends) have assembled a slide ...

Share Employees and job seekers are learning, slowly it seems, that anything they post online is fair game for employers. We don't need the recent survey commissioned by Microsoft to tell us that managers and recruiters are turning to social networks to review applicants, but a little reinforcement of the point doesn't hurt. Rather than exercising some well-advised self-censorship, though, new ...

Netizens, when will you learn to be more careful about what you post online? We've published enough stories about Facebook and other social networking sites costing people jobs and relationships -- why would you be so careless with Twitter? A Twitter user known as 'theconnor' -- who's clearly about as sharp as a bowling ball -- posted a message that read, "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have ...

The current economic climate, which has witnessed record numbers of workers filing unemployment claims, has forced job hunters to market themselves by using creative new methods. Those working in print media face larger obstacles than most, as numerous newspapers are projected to either shut down completely or appear solely on the Web in the near future. To combat these negative trends, some ...