Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the May 29, 2000 issue of QuintZine.
Your e-mail address is a must on your resume, but what if
the e-mail name you've chosen (especially if you use a free, Web-based
service like Hotmail or Yahoo) doesn't sound too professional -- something
like SexyMama@domainname.com? Most experts agree you should change
your e-mail handle to something more professional for your resume.
Avoid expression like "Responsibilities included," "Duties included,"
and "Responsible for" on your resume. Why? Because describing your job
responsibilities is tantamount to reciting a job description, which in turn
tells the prospective employer that you did the bare minimum in the job.
"Duties" and "responsibilities" comprise job-description language, Instead,
focus on language that spotlights accomplishments and achievements.
How did you take initiative in the job? What did you do on the job
that was different or better than anyone else holding that job? It's
not always easy to describe the value you added for your former employers,
but doing so is a lot more effective than listing responsibilities and
duties.
If you're reading these words online, chances are you've
done some online job-hunting. And that's good because, according
to Logos Research, almost 80 percent of the world's top 500
companies now recruit new staff on their corporate Web sites,
up from 29 percent in 1998 and 60 percent last year.
Corporate Web sites are becoming the focus of Internet-driven
recruitment management systems for most large corporations.
The third annual "Global 500 Web Site Recruiting Survey" from iLogos
Research and recruitsoft.com shows that only 8 percent of major US
companies do not recruit on their Web sites.
About 73 percent of large European companies recruit on their own sites,
and 68 percent of Asia-Pacific companies do the same.
All of the high-tech companies in the Global 500 use their corporate
website to recruit staff in comparison with 89 percent of the retailers
and 73 percent of the financial services companies.
iLogos says that ALL of the Global 500 companies will recruit on their
websites by 2002.
The survey also shows that all of the 500 companies now have corporate
Web sites. In 1999, 9 percent did not have their own Web site and in
1998, 14 percent had no Web site. Read more at:
http://www.recruitsoft.com/iLogosSurvey/.
Your e-mail address is a must on your resume, but what if
the e-mail name you've chosen (especially if you use a free, Web-based
service like Hotmail or Yahoo) doesn't sound too professional -- something
like SexyMama@domainname.com? Most experts agree you should change
your e-mail handle to something more professional for your resume.
