Main Feature: The Era of Personalized Job Search and Recruiting: Extending the Conversation. A Quintessential Careers Annual Report 2011
Special Feature: Contrasting Good Job-Search to Weak Job-Search
Bonus Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Finding a New Job
Extra Feature: Tools and Resources to Maximize Your Personalized Job Search
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
Latest Additions: What's New on Quintessential Careers
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Editor's Note: About this Issue...
Happy Pi Day (3.14)! We've stuffed our QuintZine "pie" with tasty and nutritious filling!
We've produced nine "annual" reports on Internet job search since 2001 (the 2005 and 2008 reports
covered 18-month periods, so no reports for 2004 and 2007), and we're excited to bring you our latest,
which focuses on increasing personalization of both job search and recruiting. Two pieces accompany the
report: Jeff Dickey-Chasins' explanation of the .jobs controversy and a compilation of helpful tools and
resources published in the last year to aid your online job search.
Publisher Dr. Randall Hansen offers an eye-opening chart comparing effective and
ineffective job-search methods. He also continues our 15th-anniversary 15-tips series with 15 tips
for finding a job.
Speaking of the 15th anniversary of Quint Careers, see our announcement in this issue of the 15 Quintessential
Careers Career Masterminds helping us celebrate this landmark.
Please do enjoy at least a piece of the pie, if not the whole thing!
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy(at)quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Job-Hunting Annual Report
The Era of Personalized Job Search and Recruiting: Extending the Conversation. A Quintessential Careers Annual Report 2011
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
On the exact day that we published our 2010 Annual Report on Internet Job-Hunting, HR thought leader Dr. John Sullivan
was beginning to observe a trend that provides the framework for this year's report. Noting that "the practice of 1:1 or
personalized marketing is a well-established concept in customer relationship management circles, and is becoming more of a
mainstream practice thanks to many emerging technologies," Sullivan wrote in One-to-One Recruiting: The Importance of
Personalizing All Aspects of Recruiting: "Recruiting leaders need to examine every program and process to determine
how each can appear more personalized to candidates." The March 2010 article was the first of several he would
write between then and now on personalization in recruiting.
Some of that personalization relates to the depth with which employers and job-seekers can get to know each
other now. "Social media sites allow you to go beyond the traditional resume and gather information that can be beneficial
in accurate candidate assessment," Sullivan writes in another article. Sullivan's articles in the past year have been laced
with the concepts of "conversations" and "relationships" between candidates and hiring decision-makers -- enabled
by social media. "One of the most powerful capabilities of social media," he writes, for example, "is the fact that
it allows you to build close relationships and trust."
Against the backdrop of the personalized recruiting process and job search, we present the trends in Internet
job search over the last year in three major areas:
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We realize that some folks learn better by example than by reading a long article, so we thought we
would show the contrast between a good -- or effective -- job-search and a weak job-search. If you desire more
information about what makes something good or weak, follow the links and learn more.
As part of the celebration of Quintessential Careers's 15th anniversary this year, we're presenting
lists of 15 tips on some of the most essential topics in college, job search, and career.
Unless you are one of the lucky few who works in a high-demand career, finding a new job can be
a challenging and frustrating experience. You can make the job search a bit easier on yourself
if you use proactive strategies for finding a new job -- and the tips included in this piece apply
to all job-seekers, from those just starting out to experienced folks who need a quick refresher.
Find Your Career Future. Learn More About Yourself
Career Maze is designed to help every job seeker, at every level, make smarter
career choices. Individualized to reflect your unique personality and written in
"plain English," it is thorough and easy to complete.
Once completing the assessmemt, your 2-part report includes:
A specific, career-relevant discussion of your workplace personality
A list of job types compatible with your personality
Career Maze encourages you to think about tapping your full potential to find your future.
We are honoring our 15 favorite career gurus with the title of Quintessential Careers Career Mastermind.
In turn, they are honoring our readers in a number of ways throughout the rest of the year ... with articles,
tips, and a special feature in our 15th anniversary issue of QuintZine in November.
BranchOut is a mashup with Facebook gaining traction with users. "BranchOut empowers you to
create a professional presence on Facebook that is safe and easy to use," says the site. "By leveraging
Facebook's network of over 600 million users, BranchOut gives you inside connections to jobs and sales leads
that you can't find anywhere else."
The no-cost service enables job-seekers to discover connections at companies at which they're interested
in working for, and also offers job listings.
Find a Job, Post Your Resume -- on our Job Portal!
Even in a bad economy, there are still job postings and career opportunities!!
Go now to search for jobs, post your resume, build an online portfolio, receive career consultation,
and learn about continuing education opportunities.
CollegeProwler --
where college-bound students can find insider comments and reviews of colleges and universities
across the U.S. -- with comments written by actual college students and recent grads. Company's aim
is to be most accurate, complete, and honest resource on colleges and universities across the United States.
Parts of sites are free; guidebooks fee-based.
HigherEdJobs -- a leading job board for
jobs in higher education, where university
and college faculty and administrators seeking new positions can search or browse job listings
(by job category, location, school type), post your resume or CV, and create job-search agents.
Also includes higher education career resources. No cost to job-seekers.
Jobrap.com --
where job search-engine meets social networking . This site not only allows you to search for job listings, but more importantly you can have conversations
about the job with other job-seekers, current employees, hiring managers and HR folk. It's about leveraging the knowledge and expertise of other site users
when deciding to apply to a job post. No cost to job-seekers.
New Media Hire Jobs -- where
job-seekers can find listings for social media jobs, new media jobs, and digital media jobs.
You can search (by keyword, location, job type) or browse recent job listings, as well as
register for job alerts. No cost to job-seekers.
Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
Latest Additions section.
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Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Ford Myers of Career Potential recently published Tips for a Successful Job Search by Amy Dinning,
a huge list of helpful bullet points for job-seekers.
Here are just a few of her tips:
Create and utilize a career transition binder.
Have a "Personal Board of Directors."
Create a networking newsletter to e-mail quarterly, if not more often.
Attend different networking meetings and events, and continually add new ones to your schedule.
Treat every event you go to or participate in as networking.
Create a Linked-In profile -- ask people to submit recommendations for your work; answer questions; update your status.
Compile and continually update a Target Company List.
JobHuntChat, which recently celebrated its first anniversary, has generated more
than 250,000 tweets. Every Monday night at 10 pm EST, Jessica Miller Merrell and Rich DeMatteo tweet six questions
submitted by job-seekers and call on the Twitter community to help answer their questions.
With Job Hunt Chat, known under the hash tag as #jobhuntchat
job-seekers can meet other job seekers, potential employers, and HR recruiters
to help them network and answer pertinent questions they may have about their job search.
If you're uncomfortable with the idea of an Elevator Speech for networking, you will
appreciate a new approach that career expert Mary Jeanne Vincent wrote about recently.
The technique, developed by a colleague of Vincent's, is a "networking brief," a sheet with
a set of talking points for structuring a networking conversation or information interview.
Common categories in the brief, "include a profile or summary of qualifications, positions of interest,
types of target organizations, key achievements, experience, education and, of course, your
contact information," Vincent writes.
Quintessential Careers Press Announces Our Latest Book: The Quintessential Guide to
Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media.
The
Quintessential Guide to Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media,
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., provides six chapters to guide you
through the next revolution in online job search. Since job boards, vestiges of the first
revolution in online job search, should still be part of the job-seeker's toolkit, this
book helps you navigate those while also considering the future of job boards. The book
looks at building your personal brand, teaches you to make the most of social-media venues
in the job search, guides you in creating a digital presence, suggests you consider blogging,
and discusses ways to integrate multimedia elements into your job search.
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming issues of QuintZine:
* Warning Signs You Won't Like Your Next Employer
* Contrasting Good Job-Search to Weak Job-Search Techniques
* 15 Quick Tips for Landing a Job at Graduation
* College Grad Career Preparedness Final Exam
* New Grads: Roadmap to Work and Play
* Working Night Shifts/Odd Shifts
* De-Stressing Before an Interview
* 15 Quick Tips for Acing the Job Interview
* Cover Letter "Rules" 2.0: Reframing Cover-Letter Guidelines for Today’s Job Search
* 15 Quick Tips for a Winning Resume
* More Cover-Letter Components
* Crafting Transferable Skills Stories
* 15 Quick Tips for Fighting Age Discrimination and the Overqualified Label
* Older Workers Struggling at Job-Search: Is It Age Discrimination?
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* How to Stay Motivated at Work
* 15 Quick Tips for Gaining Valuable Experience in College
* Major Stress: Quiz for Choosing a Major/Career
* 15 Quick Tips for Excelling at Work
* 15 Quick Tips for Obtaining Your Next Promotion
* 15 Quick Tips for Getting Accepted into College
* Another Option After High School: Vocational/Trade Schools
* Fourth Annual Job Action Day
* 15 Quick Tips for Career Branding Success
* Career Branding Checklist
* Special Quint Careers 15th Anniversary Issue
* 15 Career Gurus
* 15 Indispensable Career Books
* 15 tips, samples, tools, and more.
* 15 Quick Tips Strengthening Your Career Network
* 15 Quick Tips for Working with Headhunters
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more...
