by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video at 30 pictures per second should be worth 30 times its length in seconds. But it’s not, at least in the world of video resumés. Just as you will see good and bad pictures, you can send employers a “Hire Me” video that will help or hurt your chances of landing the job.
And when a video hurts, it hurts a whole lot harder. But how can you not consider the medium? Today “video ads are booming. News sites are adding more video inventory to keep pace with the demands of advertisers,” writes Brian Stelter in the New York Times. So why not put the power of video behind your self promotion? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: employment, Job Hunting, job search, resume, video
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting, book review
Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview?: A Crash Course in Finding, Landing, and Keeping Your First Real Job by Ellen Gordon Reeves.
Its very clever title promises that this paperback will answer frankly the more unconventional questions that tend to discourage and even stump entry-level job searchers. As the Introduction explains, “Nose Ring” is not about nose rings or tongue rings but about how complex hunting for a job can be today. Overall it should help its readers understand why we all need to be more innovative in our job searches. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Ellen Gordon Reeves, employment, resume
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
If there were a job waiting for each of us, a job search would involve nothing more than finding it. A job search, then, could accurately be called a job search. Today, with six of us scrambling for every one available job (15.5 million job seekers v. 2.4 million jobs), we need a new name for what we do every day.
Job race, job wars, employment scrum? It’s more like a melée for positions out here. While the ratio shows signs of improving, we can’t just wait for the day when there are six jobs for every job seeker—the day when our biggest headache is figuring out which combination of salaries, bonuses, perks, and benefits suits us best.
The obvious strategy for standing out from the other six has most of us working to improve every angle of our search—resumés, networking, interviewing skills, cover letters, follow-up calls. Since this is the obvious strategy, most of the other five looking at our target job are doing the same. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: employment, freelance writing, odd jobs, school bus, unemployment
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
I don’t know about you, but when I’m not working or job hunting, I write songs. School bus driving is my day job. Freelance writing is my other day job. But it’s the songwriting that’s going to make me rich.
It could happen. As a matter of fact, not too long ago I wrote a song about how I see it happening. It’s called Make Some Money. Writing songs does not replace my job search or making money, but it fills in the gaps. Employed or not, a lot of us are filling gaps these days. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: employment, job search, time use, unemployment
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