LinkedIN IT IS WHO YOU KNOW

If you are not on linkedIN you should be! Look at these stats:
Networking is the way to find your next JOB!


Over 34 million users total

Growing by at least 300k+ each week

12.5% are senior management (C and VP level)

About 900,000 recruiters use LinkedIn to source candidates

50% Are Business Decision Makers in Their Companies

EVP/SVP/VP: 6.5%

Senior Management 16%

Middle Management 18%

Household Income: $109,703

College Grad/Post Grad: 80.1%

Classic Resume Quotes

Highlights of Qualifications
* I've fished my whole life.

Played basketball in 7 &8th grades

Salary Ranges by Occupation and Company

I came across a really cool website today. Indivduals post what their job title and salary is. They also may state the company that they do/did work for. I did a little reseach and it seems to be pretty accurate.

Their website is: http://www.glassdoor.com/

Top 10 dumb things to do at an interview

What is the most unusual thing a candidate has done in a job interview this year? Fall asleep? Disappear? Bring his or her mom? CareerBuilder.com released its annual survey of the most outrageous interview mistakes candidates have made, according to over 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals nationwide. This year's Top 10 List includes:

Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a "private" conversation.

Candidate told the interviewer he wouldn't be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died - and his uncle "wasn't looking too good."

Candidate asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

Candidate smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.

Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was "classified."

Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.

When applicant was offered food before the interview he declined, saying that he didn't want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.

A candidate for an accounting position said she was a "people person," not a "numbers person."

Candidate flushed the toilet while talking to the interviewer during a phone interview.

Candidate took out a hair brush and brushed her hair mid-interview

Spelling is important in a resume

dickhands I was doing a dickhand job .........(supposed to be Deck Hand)

Delta Coleage.......................(supposed to be College)

Theory, lavatory exploration .......... (One of those crappy college courses)

Giving estimates and biding of jobs, bying of metreals and supplyes, hireing and human resourse dutys. ...........(6 of 16 words spelled wrong, YIKES!)

Installed nomadic control piping & lubrication & distribution piping ...... (those darn nomadic pipes never stay in one spot) suppose to be pneumatic

Human Resources is the worst department to send a resume to

Human Resources primary job is the keep the people that are employed by their company happy. It is not finding new employees.

When ever possible find a contact any contact within your target company that does more or less what you are qualified for. The likelyhood of that person passing your resume on to a hiring manager is much greater that sending it to HR.

The poor HR folks are bombarded by resumes and they simply can not process them all. As a result find an inside contact and get your resume into their hands. Use the internet to find contacts, call the company and say, "I need to send a letter to your engineering manager, who should I address it to?"

Be creative, be persistent, be bold, but get your resume past the gate keepers.

Check out Hound

Hound is a really cool website that scans employers websites and brings back the jobs it finds. This is much better than Monster or the other major players because not everyone and their brother is competing for the same job.

There website is: http://www.hound.com/