Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the March 17, 2003 issue of
QuintZine.
Timely Red Alert! In addition to all the limitations and problems with online job boards, now there is a possibly bigger
threat. Job-seekers are being advised to protect their identities when posting resumes on job boards -- not so their current employer
won't see their resume, but so identity thieves can't obtain personal information. Several job sites, including Monster.com,
acknowledge that identity thieves are posting bogus job listings to obtain such information as social security and credit-card numbers.
Some solutions? Don't ever give out critical information about your finances or your social security number. Legitimate employers will
eventually need your social security number, but only after you've been hired. Other suggestions include not including your address on
resumes you post online -- and being very particular about the sites where you do post your resume. Another suggestion is to not allow your
resume to be viewed when you post it, giving you total control about which employers are allowed access to it. Using job-search agents is
another suggestion.
Excerpted from an article by The Five O'Clock Club on Tips for Job Hunting in a Tight Market are the following two tips:
It takes an average of eight follow-up phone calls to get a meeting. After you have written to someone asking for a meeting,
do not leave messages for a person to call you back. Instead, keep on calling. If you're still unsuccessful, try
calling the company operator and ask to speak to the person's assistant or someone who sits near him or her.
A job hunter must have six to 10 job possibilities in the works concurrently. Five O'Clock Club research shows that five of those
will fall away through no fault of your own. For example, a company could decide to hire no one, hire a marketing person instead of
an accounting person, or hire someone's idiot brother-in-law instead of you. It's not your fault.
A recent "Source of Hire" survey revealed the impact the Internet is having on the practice of recruiting.
Top Sources of Hire in 2002:
All Internet Sources: 27 percent
Employee Referrals: 26.6 percent
Newspapers: 4.8 percent
Career Fairs: 3.2 percent
All other sources: 38.4 percent
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler's, authors of CareerXroads 2003 The World's leading Reference Guide to Job and Resume Sites on
the Web, have been monitoring the impact of the Internet on recruiting since its inception. For complete study results
and methodology, read more.
Timely Red Alert! In addition to all the limitations and problems with online job boards, now there is a possibly bigger
threat. Job-seekers are being advised to protect their identities when posting resumes on job boards -- not so their current employer
won't see their resume, but so identity thieves can't obtain personal information. Several job sites, including Monster.com,
acknowledge that identity thieves are posting bogus job listings to obtain such information as social security and credit-card numbers.
Some solutions? Don't ever give out critical information about your finances or your social security number. Legitimate employers will
eventually need your social security number, but only after you've been hired. Other suggestions include not including your address on
resumes you post online -- and being very particular about the sites where you do post your resume. Another suggestion is to not allow your
resume to be viewed when you post it, giving you total control about which employers are allowed access to it. Using job-search agents is
another suggestion.
