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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Nokia, Microsoft to Share ‘App Marketplace’ Revealed Microsoft’s Job Listing
Microsoft and Nokia's newly minted partnership is bound to shake up the mobile OS wars in a great way. A Microsoft job posting has been released that requests a developer to help create "the service software to power the shared application marketplace for Nokia and Microsoft alliance. [The job] will explore, prototype and design the integration between two marketplaces," reports TNW.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
This Is The Application That Got Me A Job Interview With Google
If you read about my nightmare interviews with Google, then you know I bombed them.
But two years later I ran into one of my interviewers. He recognized my name at a conference and said, "I remember your application. I've never seen anything like it."
Even though I buckled under the pressure, I had an application that got me remembered and got my foot in the door.
Depending on where you want to work, applications don't have to be traditional and boring. They need to stand out from clutter and showcase your skills, much like business cards.
If it helps, here is what worked for me.
This is the application cover I created for Google with things about myself (because Google says they really like diversity and personality):
And here's the cover letter I designed to match their marketing materials.
If you want to nail the Google inteview process, make sure you know how to answer these 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid >>
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This Is The Application That Got Me A Job Interview With Google
Monday, February 7, 2011
Why Facebook Could Be Hurting Your Job Hunt
With 500 Facebook Friends, 200 LinkedIn connections, and a slew of Twitter followers, you ought to be able to count on social networking to help you land the job you want. Isn’t that what friends are for? Even “friends”?
Sort of. A recently-released survey by Vault.com, a career-information site, asks recruiters and job candidates about their use of social media. And yes, an active online presence should boost your job search–but a minority of companies will absolutely torpedo your candidacy if you’re careless in your use of social media. The survey results, conducted this summer, includes responses from 150 companies and 3,500 job candidates.
First, some context:
- Only seven percent of employers admit to having rejected candidates based on information discovered using social media such as LinkedIn, FaceBook and Twitter. But one percent of companies aren’t shy at all about blackballing you based on your social media activity–they said they disqualify between 11 and 20 percent of candidates based on what they find out about them on social media sites.
- But a significant percentage–more than a third–say they do look at candidates’ social media profiles during recruiting. For a sliver of them–four percent–social media screening is an official part of the recruiting process. So even if company recruiters say they won’t reject you outright because of the pictures they found of your tasteless Halloween getup, it’s not going to go unnoticed, either. Hardly the best way to make a first impression.
“Recruiters may say they don’t look at Facebook, but they do,” says Connie Thanasoulis-Cerrachio, a career expert at Vault.com. “If you have digital dirt out there, it’s a bad judgment call on your part. Even if you think you’ve taken all the measures to make sure your profile and photos are private, this is the Internet and nothing is ever 100 percent private.”
LinkedIn Gets Top Marks
This is how recruiters are using social media, according to the survey.
- LinkedIn is by far the most popular social media tool, with 74% of recruiters saying they use it to find candidates.
- About half of recruiters use LinkedIn to check up on candidates’ professional backgrounds
- Some 21% of recruiters use LinkedIn to research candidates’ networks.
- Candidates like LinkedIn too. As one says, “The lack of photos of people puking or wearing dumb costumes at some Really Great Party helps keep the professionalism up.”
- Facebook is used by about 11% of recruiters to get a handle on candidates’ reputation
- Twitter is a distant third, with only 3% of recruiters saying they use it
Keep the Racy Photos and Posts Private
So how do you make your online profiles appealing to prospective employers? Recruiters recommend that you:
- Hide at least some personal photos, say 60% of recruiters
- Get rid of offensive wall posts, even if you didn’t write them, say 56% of recruiters
- Keep your wall private, advise 51% of employers
Employers themselves can offer you plenty of hints about their attitudes toward social media. Some 48% of employers said they had a social media policy in 2010, up from 36% in 2009. Another 27% are in the process of writing one.
Have you used social media to screen candidates? Have your social media postings helped–or hurt–your job hunting? Please let me know!
This post originally appeared on BNET.
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Why Facebook Could Be Hurting Your Job Hunt
Friday, December 10, 2010
Weekly News Roundup: More Good News than Bad in IT Job Pictures
A flurry of facts and figures describes an IT employment market that's either up, down or in-between, depending on how you look at the overall environment. Moody's Analytics says the U.S. economy has added 47,000 technology jobs so far this year amid resurgent demand for tech products in Asia and Latin America. That's 15 percent growth this year, though keep in mind more than 300,000 tech jobs have been lost since the start of the current economic downturn.
However, the TechServe Alliance, an IT industry group, ran its analysis of the BLS data and found that IT employment increased by only 600 jobs in November on a base of 3.9 million jobs. IT employment has increased by only 2.5 percent so far this year, the group says. Why so slow? The Hackett Group, a business advisory and consulting firm blames outsourcing and says that by 2014 there will be only 2 million back-office IT jobs in the U.S. and Europe, down from 4 million today.
One optimistic indicator: Eighty six percent of HR professionals planning to make hires in the next six months will do so in technology. That stat, which also comes from Technisource, is up 6 points since June. It goes nicely with a report that worldwide IT spending should rise 5.4 percent in 2011, to $1.6 trillion.
IT workers' luck may have something to do with where they live. The TechAmerica Foundation's Cybercities report shows that the New York metropolitan area - including counties from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania - led the nation in high-tech employment, with 317,000 tech workers in 2009. Washington, D.C., which includes counties from three states and the District of Columbia, ranked second.San Jose/Silicon Valley was third.
In Connecticut, 110 IBM IT staffers who were laid off due to outsourcing can collect benefits under the government's Trade Adjustment Assistance program. They can get government subsidized training for new jobs, income supplements, healthcare tax credits, and other benefits, a potentially precedent-setting move.
Finally, 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of all sorts of iconic moments. If you're of a certain age, you're sure to remember most of them. "Back to the Future," for example?
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Weekly News Roundup: More Good News than Bad in IT Job Pictures
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Comment on 12 Offbeat Resources for Landing a Tech Job by Brett Miller
I'd like to add the tip that candidates must take the time to customize an email introduction and resume (for the specific position they are applying for). They just can't send out the same email/resume and expect solid results:
http://www.customsoftwarebypreston.com/job-boards-resume-blasts
Comment on 12 Offbeat Resources for Landing a Tech Job by Brett Miller
Backlink: http://gigaom.com/2009/11/20/12-offbeat-resources-for-landing-a-tech-job/#comment-524209
Startup Idea: Twitter Job Board
It may seem crazy to some, but Twitter is fast becoming a very useful recruiting tool. Job offers can spread virally by tweets and be responded to. For many jobs, a Twitter profile, with a link to a personal website, gives you as good background on a person as a resume would.
So we think there's an opportunity to organize all that recruiting activity and build a startup around it.
One way to do it would be simply to aggregate all recruitment-related tweets and let people search that, and maybe sell ads against searches like job search engine Indeed.com does for regular job search (and Google does for everything else). That job wouldn't be as simple as it sounds as not all recruiting tweets are tagged as such, but maybe they could be gathered with a combination of grabbing specific keywords, user flagging and training users to use a specific hashtag, and maybe even Amazon Mechanical Turk.
A more elaborate model might involve offering companies to spread their offers on Twitter to people who are looking for work for a fee each time the company gets a qualified lead. This could work by asking people to retweet the offer and then split the fee with the person whose retweet got the lead. That would boost the job offers' virality. At the same time, it probably wouldn't turn into outright spam, as people would only retweet (and get a shot at the money) if they thought one of their followers was potentially interested. You could also ban people who abuse the system.
Of course other startups could build this. Indeed.com, as we mentioned, is the leader in job search on the web, and might build something like this for Twitter. Hashable, which already does professional networking on Twitter, might add recruiting functionality. And the Twitter-but-not-really-Twitter advertising startups like Ad.ly and TweetUp (now PostUp) might expand into recruiting.
Here are more reasons we think this could work:
- Recruiting is one of the best monetized verticals online. Companies are always willing to pay up to recruit the right people and for the right leads in recruiting. This makes recruiting a very attractive category for startups.
- This is one area where we don't think Twitter will crush a platform app. Twitter tends to either acquire or make irrelevant apps on its platform, but these are mostly apps that, in the words of Twitter board member Fred Wilson, "fill holes on Twitter." Recruiting is a significant and separate enough vertical that it's probably safe.
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Startup Idea: Twitter Job Board
Saturday, November 20, 2010
DiceTV Update: 10 Trends That Will Impact Your Job Next Year
Verizon predicts 10 business technology trends will help companies strengthen their business next year, and observers say Florida's economic success requires a shift away from construction and real estate, to high-tech.
Verizon predicts 10 business technology trends will help companies strengthen their business next year. And they are:
- Ultra-wideband capacity, "super" data centers for the cloud, and smart devices for anywhere, personalized apps will spur long-term innovation.
- CIOs will install only the resources they need to power their business. They won't make large investments in capital equipment - or additional resources.
- IT will constantly monitor and tweak to safeguard an organization, and comply with increasingly strict government regulations.
- Smarter, more portable devices - combined with fourth-generation wireless networks, increased demand for mobility, and advanced mobile platforms will make business apps more popular.
- Video will take advantage of higher-capacity
wireless for face-to face and even face-to-machine interaction.
- More machines will initiate and respond to business matters on their own. Broken machines will call for service, inventory items will automatically be replenished, and mobile devices will be discoverable no matter where they are.
- Unified communications and collaboration will allow smaller businesses to adopt new technologies. Larger businesses will figure out how to bring UC&C into their enterprise.
- IPv4, Goodbye. Hello, IPv6.
- Imagine a virtual world where you only need user name and password. Next year, the infrastructure to support this will begin appear around the world.
- Finally, CIOs will start to rethink the way they deliver value to their businesses. Sounds squishy But the cloud, enhanced mobility and new ways of working, will inspire more strategic approaches to using technology. That's good news for developers.
Observers say Florida's economic success requires a shift away from construction and real estate, to high-tech. A report from TD Economics says the Sunshine State is well-positioned to make this transition. With help from supportive policies, its aerospace, medicine and IT sectors could breathe new life into the state's deflated economy. All by themselves, these sectors could account for 15 percent of the state's economic growth over the next five years. Two things already happening: Efforts to establish industrial clusters that create networks, lower costs and promote competition, and Florida's unique access to international trade markets.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Job Interviews Require Connecting the Dots
by Scot Herrick
Here on Dice, I've made a big deal about ensuring you tell (remarkable) stories about your work because hiring managers remember stories better than they remember a listing of facts. One must create the stories, practice the stories, and then offer the stories during the interview. You know you will probably get asked what your most important career accomplishment was, don't you? There's your place for a story.
How to Connect the Dots
You answer the interview question; perhaps you tell a hero's tale of overcoming adversity in the workplace to still deliver outstanding results to the business. The hiring manager is still staring at you with that "WIIFM?" acronym branded on his or her forehead. The one that says "What's In It For ME?" Because, seriously, that's what the hiring manager is hiring you for: to help meet his or her goals.
You answer the question or tell your story. Then you say "...and what that means for you is ____." This is the moment you connect the dots from your skill to your delivery to what's in it for the manager if he hires you. You, compared to everyone else. Everyone else rarely delivers a compelling story, much less connects the dots to show how that helps the hiring manager enough to hire you and throw out all the rest of the competition. You know, YOUR competition.
Use that Methodology Thingy and Ask 'Which Means...'
Getting to the benefit of something can usually gets done by asking "which means...." five times. You take your great story and ask yourself, "Why would that make me want to hire you?" And you answer (all to yourself while you are preparing). Then you take that answer and ask yourself, "Why would that make me want to hire you?"
When you get to the fifth answer, you should have a compelling reason to hire you based on the story you tell.
Hiring Managers Don't Connect the Dots
Hiring managers are people who have a million things going on. Your interview - important as it is to you - is simply another calendar entry of something that needs doing that day. It is probably an important something that needs doing that day, but it is also just another activity to complete before getting done with the day.
Great hiring managers connect the dots - but how many great hiring managers have you run into lately? If you don't connect the dots for the hiring manager, your compelling story will get remembered. But the compelling reason to hire you won't be there.
I've done hiring before - lots of it. But I didn't have job candidates who told me the job skill or experience or story and then connected the dots to say "...and what that means for you is ____." I may or may not have agreed with what it meant for me, but here, at least, was a candidate who not only told the compelling story, but provided me with a potential answer to what it meant if I hired them to help me reach my goals.
Can you connect the dots?
Scot Herrick is the author of I've Landed My Dream Job -Now What? and owner of Cube Rules, LLC. CubeRules.com. provides online career management training for workers who typically work in a corporate cubicle. Scot has a long history of management and individual contribution in multiple Fortune 100 corporations.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
He Asserted Himself and Got the Job
A job seeker's commentary that I read recently made me think, "here's a person who's been doing much what we've been writing about, from surveying the Dice boards, pinpointing a job, researching the heck out of the company, and demonstrating how you fit.
Looking back, I see what I did wrong. I had an outdated way of thinking about the interview process. I didn't provide any detail, I didn't talk about how I saw the industry, and I didn't offer any tips on how they could improve their online presence. I was doing the minimum instead of trying to sell myself.
So he went back and reorganized his resume "to better focus on the job at hand" and formed a strategy of suggestions of what he would do once he was hired.
Although the interview is an opportunity to describe yourself, you never speak in the past tense. You pitch yourself by describing what you can do for them now. During interviews, Gaziev now suggests how a company can improve their search presence. After all, the interview is about the company, not the job seeker.
Gaziev did so well at applying this process, he was able to turn down a job because its pay was too low. It didn't matter. He'd broken the code.
"Like everything else in life, it was a process," he says. "I made an effort to think about each succeeding step and what might get me further."
--Dino Londis
Post originale: http://career-resources.dice.com/articles/content/entry/he_asserted_himself_and_got
Monday, November 1, 2010
Five Ways the Cloud Will Change Your Job
Datamation's Jeff Vance has insights about ways cloud computing will change businesses and careers. No matter how the cloud is defined, Vance suggests, it's the flexibility and relatively low cost of cloud-based implementations that promise to upend IT.
How many of Vance's predictions ring true to you?
Recovery or not, certain types of IT jobs will almost certainly disappear. If your e-mail is in the cloud, for instance, you don't need to keep an IT worker on staff whose sole task is keeping Exchange up and running. At the same time, IT automation and cloud computing are displacing low-level, mundane IT jobs.
2. Knowledge workers say goodbye to the cubicle.
A smartphone that can access a range of applications via the cloud becomes a mini-PC.
For security pros, these mini-PCs are a boon, much better than laptops and even netbooks.Workers will no longer be compelled to sit in the office in order to access key data and applications. Telecommuting, virtual offices and mobility will all trend upward on the cloud.
3. Social networking becomes business critical.
It's not only IT workers who must cope with social media, but pretty much every knowledge worker. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are all standard marketing and business-development tools.
4. Tech adoption spreads to the masses, and the masses much become tech savvy to compete.
The cloud has a democratizing effect. Technologies that were previously packaged as expensive on-premise solutions, and which only large enterprises could afford, are now available as on-demand, pay-as-you-go solutions that even SMBs can adopt.
5. The cloud threatens incumbents.
The cloud removes many of the barriers to entry for technology start-ups. You no longer need a heavy infrastructure investment. You no longer need lengthy development cycles. You no longer need to invest in expensive devices and software.
-- Don Willmott
Post originale: http://app5.gemini.dice.com:9311/articles/content/entry/five_ways_the_cloud_will
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Tough Times Create an Ethical Dilemma for Job Seekers
A job seeker on the Dice Discussions board asked if it's ethical to keep interviewing, even though he'd accepted a conditional job offer. After all, he'd be wasting the interviewer's time. In a vibrant economy, a well-intentioned job seeker would probably cancel upcoming interviews, because employers seldom reneged on an offer. But in this tepid economic environment, a struggling company may rescind an offer and it could take months for the job seeker to rebuild a pipeline of opportunities.
The bottom line is this: Keep interviewing until you feel reasonably secure in your new job. If you want to avoid damaging your reputation, let the manager know at the beginning of an interview that you've received a conditional offer. He or she may shorten the meeting, but sharing the news could actually work in your favor because the idea of competing for your services could pique his interest. Even if you end up accepting another offer, a manager will appreciate your honesty. In fact your candor may help you keep the door open in case you need to replenish your pipeline of opportunities.
-- Leslie Stevens-Huffman
Post originale: http://career-resources.dice.com:80/articles/content/entry/tough_times_create_an_ethical
DiceTV Update: Trends to Help You Plan Your Job Search
The top trends to keep an eye on in 2011- How IT people feel about the economy - Hey, kids, wake up: Employers don't like the way you act in the office.
Trends to keep an eye on. From Forrester Research:
- Business intelligence will combine real-time access with agility and self-service.
- Business rules will move to the mainstream.
- Software as a Service and cloud platforms will become standard.
- System management will enable continued virtualization.
- And collaboration platforms will become people-centric.
- Cloud computing
- Mobile apps and media tablets
- Next-generation analytics
- Social analytics
- Social communication and collaboration
Now a question for you: Are you positioned to take advantage of these?
More than half of the tech professionals surveyed say there are fewer jobs available. Forty three percent are confident of finding a new job. This is from a survey by Technisource, which found 38 percent of IT workers are likely to search for job opportunities in the next 12 months. That's up a point from the second quarter, and the highest since the fourth quarter of 2009. Only 20 percent think the economy is getting stronger; 47 percent say its staying the same. That's not surprising with all the headlines lately. But still, most feel good about their job security, and their ability to find a new job if they want to - or have to.
Researchers at York College of Pennsylvania say students need to improve their attitude. More than a third of the employers they surveyed say less than half of new graduates act like professionals at work. Nearly 25 percent say that professionalism has decreased.
Only 15 percent of respondents said it had increased. Where can you improve? Internet etiquette, taking responsibility, and getting used to constructive criticism - All things employers say are important.
-- Mark Feffer
Post originale: http://career-resources.dice.com:80/articles/content/entry/dicetv_update_trends_to_help
How to Overcome the Catch-22 of Finding a Job with No Experience
I got an e-mail the other day about the tech job market. I'll let it speak for itself:
I am unemployed, and the state of Nevada (15% unemployment!!!) sent me to school. I studied and passed my A+ certification, but have given up on ever passing the Network + test. You see, to the person WITHOUT actual job experience, there is no way to pass 25% of questions on the CompTIA test(s).
FURTHER MORE, there has not yet been so much as one job listing that welcomes people who have just passed their tests and want to break into the IT field. It sounds like a classic case of 'catch 22' to me. Any positive suggestions???
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Ask the Headhunter: How Do I Create a Job For Myself?
By Nick Corcodilos
A Reader Asks:
What is your advice on approaching the president of my company to create a job that does not exist? My department is being downsized and I may be on the street in a few months. I have an idea for a position that would set up our company to compete more effectively in our market. How should I approach this subject with the president?
Nick's Advice:
Prepare. No kidding - your success will depend entirely on how well you prepare to show your president a way to boost the business to higher levels of success.
Start by creating a carefully laid-out business plan as though you were starting a new company. Here's how to psych yourself up for this in the right way: Pretend the company you're starting will contract its services to one client: the president of your current company.
You must demonstrate compellingly that you can produce profit, lower costs or boost revenue, and address critical obstacles and opportunities that will arise on the 1- 3 year horizon.
There's nothing simple or easy about this. But if that job you want is worth it, so is the work that's required to put this plan together. Your boss isn't going to "fund" your "new business" (the job you want) unless you can clearly show that what you're suggesting is feasible and that it will pay off.
Perhaps you should approach not just the president, but the chief financial officer and even the board of directors. But I like what you're doing. This is the future of work, and it's the solution to downsizings and layoffs. To survive, you must prove your value and show how you will create a positive impact for your company. Or, I'm afraid, you're not worth keeping around.
Just remember that at the level of the president and the board, the bottom line is profit. To succeed, you must address it. Given the looming downsizing, it would have been nice if you could have started on this last year, so don't wait. Get to work!
What would you do to save your job or to create a new one, if your company were downsizing?
Copyright © 2010 Nick Corcodilos. All rights reserved. Ask The Headhunter® is a registered trademark. Nick Corcodilos is president of North Bridge Group, Inc. and the author of two new e-books, How to Work with Headhunters and How Can I Change Careers? He shares his contrarian advice and hopes to learn a lot from you, too. Got questions or comments? Please join the discussion!
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