Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the July 3, 2006 issue of
QuintZine.
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler of CareerXroads have completed their personal examination of the staffing pages
of Fortune Magazine's annual list of America's 500 Largest Public Corporations. For the fifth year, Crispin and Mehler
evaluated the job candidate's experience on the Fortune 500 sites. Specifically, they reviewed the site's ability to target,
engage, inform, and respect the job seeker. "No sites instantly rose to the top of the ladder this year," notes Crispin, "however,
some new firms have edged out their colleagues to make our Best of the Best list."
The 25 members of the Fortune 500 that seem to best understand how to treat today's job-seekers are:
Feel like you're sending or zapping your resume into a black hole when you apply for a job?
Workforce Week Newsletter conducted a Resume Response Survey of 672 respondents,
who were asked, "What is your company's practice for acknowledging resumes?"
Here's what companies said:
35 percent: We acknowledge all the resumes that we receive.
13 percent: We acknowledge resumes that we believe come from serious applicants.
39 percent: We can't possibly acknowledge all the resumes we receive; we are inundated with resumes.
14 percent: None of the above.
Candidates referred to companies by individuals cost employers more (about $919 more) to source than
Internet candidates, but referred candidates are more likely to accept job offers, less likely to leave
voluntarily, less likely to be fired, and more likely to perform better than Internet candidates.
The stats come from one of the largest healthcare chains in the nation, which collected metrics
on the value of using referrals compared to other sources, as reported by Dr. John Sullivan
or Executive Recruiter Exchange.
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler of CareerXroads have completed their personal examination of the staffing pages
of Fortune Magazine's annual list of America's 500 Largest Public Corporations. For the fifth year, Crispin and Mehler
evaluated the job candidate's experience on the Fortune 500 sites. Specifically, they reviewed the site's ability to target,
engage, inform, and respect the job seeker. "No sites instantly rose to the top of the ladder this year," notes Crispin, "however,
some new firms have edged out their colleagues to make our Best of the Best list."
