Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the June 6, 2005 issue of
QuintZine.
How would you like to have your job-search and career questions answered by Richard Nelson Bolles,
author of the world's best-selling job-hunting book, What Color Is Your Parachute?
Bolles is launching a new Web radio show, "Job Talk," and is seeking questions to answer about the
job search or career change. Each week several participants will be chosen to ask their questions
"live" over the phone. Every question will receive a response whether or not it is selected for the
live program. Please include a contact name, email address, and phone number in your email correspondence.
Email your questions to jobquestion@parachute.com.
Interviewed on networking techniques by HR.com, Lynne Waymon advised, "First of all, say the name back.
If you say, 'Hi. I'm Rich.' Then, I would say, 'Hi, Rich.'
Only about 25 percent of all the people that I have studied do that.
Ideally, you should hear someone's name three times.
The third time should be when I introduce you to somebody
else at that event. That should always be the goal, to
hang onto a name long enough to introduce that person
to one other person." Waymon, who is a professional speaker,
trainer, and co-author of Great Connections: Fireproof
Your Career and Make Your Connections Count, also recommends
looking directly at the person's nametag and not try to sneak
in a furtive glance when the person isn't looking.
More than 60 percent of employers now hire more than one-quarter of their new employees from Internet
job sites, reports The Herman Trend Alert. Still, 11 percent never post a job online, essentially ignoring the 166 million
Americans who use the Internet. These employers also miss the opportunity to hire qualified workers from abroad.
And 13 percent of employers post openings on only a single job board. Since no single job board can meet
every requirement, their results are often disappointing. The single job board approach does not seem to work.
Today, people are looking for jobs online more aggressively than employers are using the technology
to find qualified candidates. This balance will change in the months to come, as employers become more efficient
with their recruitment advertising budgets.
From "The Herman Trend Alert," by Roger Herman and Joyce
Gioia, Strategic Business Futurists. (800) 227-3566 or
The Herman
Trend Alert is a trademark of The Herman Group, Inc.
How would you like to have your job-search and career questions answered by Richard Nelson Bolles,
author of the world's best-selling job-hunting book, What Color Is Your Parachute?
