Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the July 5, 2004 issue of
QuintZine.
As more and more workers consider temping and other flexible forms of employment, the online-auction
arena is attracting many to its ranks. eBay says that 100,00 people make their living selling
products through the online auction site, as reported by Susan Strother
Clarke in the Orlando Sentinel in 2003.
Home-based business in general are on the rise as workers seek more flexibility. There is a
growing trend for budding entrepreneurs to turn their hobbies into successful home-based businesses.
Learn
more from the Boston Globe.
In a recent survey by Execunet of 952 executives, respondents ranked networking with personal and business
contacts as the most helpful strategy in job search, following by searching and responding to Internet ads
and networking with search firms.
41 percent of executives surveyed said they secured
their current or most recent job through their personal
or business network, compared to 26 percent who were
recruited by a search firm.
31 percent reported that networking was the single
largest source of their interviews.
20 percent reported their interviews came from
responding to Internet job postings, although only
9 percent of their jobs came from Internet postings.
As more and more workers consider temping and other flexible forms of employment, the online-auction
arena is attracting many to its ranks. eBay says that 100,00 people make their living selling
products through the online auction site, as reported by Susan Strother
Clarke in the Orlando Sentinel in 2003.
