Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Job-hunting tips from the April 21, 2008, issue of
QuintZine.
Are you on Facebook? The CollegeRecruiter.com
Career Blog allows you to answer one or more career-related questions and have those questions
and a link to your answers automatically be posted to the pages of your Facebook friends through the news feed. Your friends can
then learn more about you and your career goals and answer the same or different questions about themselves.
Dozens of students, recent graduates and others are using the application to learn more about themselves and share
hat information with their friends. Join them by going to
http://apps.facebook.com/careerblog/ and clicking on the
big Add Application button in the upper right corner of your screen.
A poll by CollegeGrad.com reveals that for the third year in a row, Google has beat out Microsoft as the technology
employer of choice among entry-level job-seekers. Apple also finished ahead of Microsoft in this year's poll. Although
Microsoft has long had an edge in recruiting top entry-level talent, that edge is shifting among the millennial generation as they
search not only for stability, but entrepreneurial opportunities within established organizations.
While the takeover bid by Microsoft of Yahoo! dominates technology news, Google remains the most highly sought
after technology employer by college-grad job-seekers. Forty-five percent of poll respondents indicated they
would most like to work for Google. Apple finished at 25 percent,
Microsoft at 17 percent, Yahoo! at 7 percent and IBM at 6 percent.
The secret to job-search success for new college graduates
may be using their campus career center, according to a
study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and
Employers (NACE). NACE's 2007 Graduating Student Survey
found that 52 percent of students who reported securing full-time
jobs had applied for a job through a campus career center-sponsored
career fair, and 41 percent had posted their resumes through their
campus career center's web site. Interestingly, however, the study
found that the most effective methods weren't the most popular among
students. Nearly 71 percent of the 12,000+ students responding
to the survey indicated that they had applied for a job by sending
their resumes directly to an employer's web site. The next most
popular method, reported by 47 percent of students, was to mail
a resume directly to the employer. Applying at a career center-sponsored
job fair (44 percent) and posting a resume through the career center
web site (34 percent) trailed in popularity.
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