Archive for November, 2009
Resume writing services are bad for you!
A resume writing service on a job site is like a photo enhancement service on a matrimonial site!
Till about ten years ago, as an employer, I used to form a part of my opinion about candidates based on how they have presented themselves on the resume. I used to be able to get insights into [...]
Everybody is talking about social recruiting
If you have not already heard about social recruiting, don’t worry, it is not something dramatically new. I am sure you have always done it in some form or another.
Social recruiting is the new name for getting candidates through your network, with a little bit of additional help from social networking sites(SNS) such as myspace, [...]
Profile completion has just become real easy.
As you know, at JobsByRef.com, we are constantly striving to make your job search experience better and more fruitful. As part of this effort, using world class resume parsing technology, we have made completing your profile on JobsByRef.com real simple. You can now import your resume details from different sources including
MS-Word Documents
PDF files
RTF Files (Rich [...]
You are the brand.
Welcome to brand You. That’s right, how you want to be perceived is up to you. You could be a “James - magic show - call 1-800-MAGIK” painted hastily on walls and pavements or worse you could be “Call Carla for a good time” scratched inside toilets.
Alternately, you could be the exclusive Rolex, that only [...]
You are part of a highly exclusive network
For many companies, JobsByRef.com is the first option when looking for great candidates. And that is because we are a site exclusively for genuine, high-quality candidates such as you.
We would like to maintain this exclusivity and we require your support to do that.
Some ways in which you can help us are:
Build a healthy Credix Score [...]
Ten things that will help you in an interview
Here are the 10 things that will help you in an interview:
Show up for the interview. Arrive on time or even a little early for your interview. If you are late, the message is that you are not interested.
Inform the relevant person that you have arrived. Don’t hide in some corner trying to blend with [...]
Fakers are stealing your opportunities
We ran a survey recently on our site. According to the results:
68% believe that anywhere between 10% - 40% of the profiles on job sites are faked.
75% believe that the fakers are affecting the genuine candidate’s career prospects.
82% believe that getting their credentials pre-verified will help them stand out as genuine candidates.
Nearly 30% are willing [...]
Proliferation of your profile
Today your social profile is distributed and duplicated across multiple social networking sites - facebook, linkedin, myspace, twitter, orkut, xing,… the list is endless. I don’t think you will be able to keep them all synchronized and up to date. However, it is still only your social profile, so I guess it is not earth-shattering.
But [...]
Your dream job is within your reach
Over a period of time many of us, consciously or unconsciously, identify and shortlist a set of companies that we would like to work for. These are what we call “dream” companies. It could be because of the size of the company, the culture in the company, the work they do, the reputation they have [...]
The power of blogs and your online presence
In the new web 2.0 world, your resume is only one piece in your search for your dream career. More and more companies are ‘googling’ you and learning about you from all the social and professional networking sites you belong to, the formus and message boards you participate in, and, of course, your blog.
This can [...]