Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the July 18, 2005 issue of
QuintZine.
In our recent Internet Job-Hunting Annual Report,
we reported on the CareerXroads TOP 25 Highest Rated Companies for 2004. Now the 2005 list is out. CareerXroads'
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler personally examined the staffing pages of Fortune Magazine's annual list of America's 500
Largest Public Corporations in search of the job-seeker experience.
Crispin, CareerXroads co-founder, states that:
The most qualified job-seekers will always have a choice.
Their experience of a company will influence their choice.
The corporate Web site, increasingly, IS the job-seeker's experience of [the] company.
The 25 members of the Fortune 500 that seem to best understand this new recruiting reality are:
It wasn't being late, or even lacking company knowledge that was the biggest complaint, reports
Robin Ryan. "The number one turn-off for hiring managers was poor communication skills, according to a recent survey
published in Staffing Management, a journal of the Society of Human Resource Management. Noted as particularly
displeasing were inarticulate answers to interview questions, and vague accounts of past experience," says Ryan,
a well-known career counselor.
"Ironically, a candidate can and should have the answers to interview questions mastered long before
they ever walk into the hiring manager's office," Ryan continues. Whether it's an interview for a new job or
an internal promotion (Internal hiring is up! 53 percent of management jobs are filled from within the company
ranks) you can stand out as a well-qualified candidate by
following the guidelines found here.
In our recent 