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Jan 13, 2012, 3:06 pm
IKEA has a well defined brand, so most people get this cartoon about Interviewing at IKEA:The recruiting geniuses at IKEA Australia and their agency The Monkeys, Australia came up with a cheap, simple and effective method of publicizing their need to mass-hire for a new store. Check out this video f... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2012, 1:21 am
A story in yesterday’s WaPo sheds some interesting light on which type of college grads suffer more from unemployment:
Recent college graduates with bachelor’s degrees in the arts, humanities and architecture experienced significantly higher rates of joblessness, according to a study being rele... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 2011, 11:31 pm
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 38 trips to carry that many people.
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Dec 19, 2011, 2:48 am
Somehow, your humble author missed this posting on Brenden Wright’s blog when it came out in 2009. But, since you know that the NotJobs motto is “Better Late than Never”, we’re pleased to offer this excerpt from Brenden’s work. The title is “How to Sabotage Your Recruiting Efforts in Six... Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2011, 1:10 am
Beth Smith at A-List Interviews has an intriguing blog. A-List Interviews is the name of Beth’s company; she offers a systematic interviewing process to assist with selection and other recruiting services. It looks like a good model.
Blogger Beth has several things going for her – for one, she... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 2:33 am
Ronnie Dunn (formerly of the country duo Brooks and Dunn) released his “Cost of Livin’” in June, and it has been getting some airplay again in Denver. The song is one side of an interview – the candidate, an out-of-work Army veteran, is applying for a job. Dunn has captured something that se... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2011, 3:54 am
Business Insider has a feature on “10 Real Job Ads That Made Us Laugh Out Loud.” The BI editors have picked some good examples of the kind of creativity that gets noticed.
Hiring Bus Drivers:
Hiring Computer Engineers:
Not all their examples are of genius work. One ad shows how narrow the lin... Comment - Like
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May 27, 2011, 2:10 am
From the Armstrong and Miller Show:
Interview question: “Where you see yourself in fifty moons time?”
Interview answer: “Hunting… maybe gathering.”
It going to be long day people!
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May 25, 2011, 12:39 am
Over at the Being Veruca blog, healthcare professional/respiratory therapist Mommy A has a description of how a desperate job seeker interrupted her lifesaving work to ask pointless questions.This leads to her posting on How Not to Get a Job.
First, let her set the scene:
It is 3 AM. I have been b... Comment - Like
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May 4, 2011, 2:10 am
Suzanna Lucas, The Evil HR Lady, is one of my favorites. Earlier, she wrote the perfect takedown of an applicant with an entitlement attitude: I’m Clearly the Best Candidate–So Why Am I Not Getting the Job?
To start the discussion, the applicant ponders:
I heard that 85% of the time it’s not... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2011, 2:42 am
If you had $73,000 of taxpayer money to spend on helping the jobless, would you spend it on superhero capes and an evil villain? Workforce Central Florida (WFCF) tried it, and watched the program blow up on them. Yahoo News had the details:
Job center blasted for giving
capes to unemployed
ORLAND... Comment - Like
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Apr 23, 2011, 2:29 pm
The most popular post on this blog is one from 2008 about how candidates fail the Receptionist Test. The Receptionist Test is an unexpected assessment of how the candidate deals with ordinary staff during the interview. It is effective because it is unexpected. The key point to remember about the Re... Comment - Like
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Apr 15, 2011, 2:08 am
The blogger known as Mardlion’s Girl mostly comments on political topics, but earlier this year she posted a great article “On Being Overqualified”:
Being overqualified isn’t always a disqualifying offense, but thinking of yourself as above the job you’re applying for is just shooting you... Comment - Like
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Apr 10, 2011, 2:38 am
“Chris – What would you say if a guy walks in for an interview without a shirt, and I hired him… What would you say?”
“He must have had on some really nice pants.”
Here’s a great interview scene from “The Pursuit Of Happyness“, a mostly biographical movie about broker Chris Gardn... Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2011, 4:47 pm
The folks at LinkedIn are having a whee of a time for April Fool’s Day. Here are the “People You May Know” connection suggestions that came up for me today:
I love the subhead on Professor Heisenberg’s profile! One notices that half of these suggestions are British, two are German and two... Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2011, 4:34 pm
From the CTRN mailing list comes this personal description from a candidate resume:
Tall handsome German-American Baccalaureate looking for a good time with a computer company. Just getting out of a 1099 v dash relationship with Microsoft and looking for a serious relationship that will nurture my ... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2011, 5:09 am
Washington Post Staff Writer Michelle Singletary has a NotJobs worthy article titled, “Job candidates who made a strong impression, but the wrong impression.” Singletary’s article details the results of nationwide survey of hiring managers conducted by CareerBuilder. The article definitely pro... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2011, 1:04 am
Save the date!
DIA Job Fair on Monday, February 14, 2011.
Denver Workforce Center and DIA Employer Services are hosting a Job Fair at Denver International Airport on Monday February 14th, 2011.
YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER AND BRING YOUR COMPLETED 2-PAGE REGISTRATION FORM IN ORDER TO ATTEND!
Registrati... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2011, 11:26 pm
Just a quick note: A sure way NOT to get a job is poor communication hygiene. What is communication hygiene? Simply put, it is making yourself easy and pleasant to contact.
Here’s how to build a communication hygiene strategy that pays:
If you are job hunting, make it a job. You wouldn’t go te... Comment - Like
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Nov 7, 2010, 2:41 am
This blog has quoted Evil HR Lady Susan Lucas a few times. Recently, she posted more great wisdom about the job searching process. She has observed that some people are (dare we say it?) less than polite:
I got an e-mail today asking a generic question about why the writer could get interviews, but... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2010, 11:49 pm
From the Denver Post:
A job fair will be held Oct. 12 to find employees for a “green” parking option set to open this year near Denver International Airport.
Canopy Airport Parking plans more than 90 jobs, including bus drivers, valet parkers, cashiers, dispatchers, maintenance workers and ... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2010, 8:43 am
From our friends at Denver’s Office of Economic Development:
Greetings,
Please share this information to interested job seekers:
Airport Concessions, Inc. is hosting a Job Fair for Sales Associates at their corporate office on Friday, September 24, 2010 from 9am – 1pm at their corporate offic... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2010, 2:16 am
One of the secrets of writing is developing a good hook. Kirk Baumann has a great post with a great hook, and some pretty good advice for the job seeker. Here’s an excerpt:
It’s the Boy Scouts motto. It’s what your teachers, your mom and dad have been telling you all your life. But, are you r... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2010, 2:04 am
On Execunet, Robyn Greenspan has a great article about the NotHire side: what happens when the company takes action to blow up the interview. Not every interview is a professional, and not every professional is an interviewer. Greenspan shares three of the worst:
At a dinner meeting with the CEO an... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2010, 10:54 pm
Clare Cady at Little Bear, Big Sky has post about How Not to Get a Job. First, she lists her credentials:
i can’t put a number on the amount of interviews i’ve done in these 9 years, but i’d wager its well into the high hundreds.
Cady then lists some wisdom based on some of her interview enc... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2010, 12:21 am
The folks at the Do You Be Hiring? blog offer some tips based on a recent encounter with an applicant:
Tip #1: When filling out your application and you get to the the math section, do not use the restaurant’s table as your scratch paper.
Tip #2: If you do, don’t use permanent marker.
Tip #3... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2010, 10:22 pm
The Scout Handbook in use when I joined was the eighth edition from 1972. I think this is the infamous “rat bite” book from the seventies. Not much was good in the seventies. I shared the requirements for the Computer Merit Badge with a excellent software engineer who holds a MS in Computer Scie... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2010, 12:39 am
“It’s a back-scratchy type of thing.”
Simon Lewis has a great post on his OnlyMarketingJobs blog about a recent experience with a job hunter.
On Tuesday afternoon I was sent an email by a disgruntled jobseeker that, in light of recent job applications, was frustrated by the lack of response ... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2010, 2:47 am
Wired Magazine has a list of possible space jobs that might be opening in the near future. These would be fun to recruit for.
LEO pilot (eventually, lunar transfer pilot)
Space-travel ticket broker
Spaceport traffic control (also, on-orbit traffic control, Earth and lunar)
Human-rated spacecraft ma... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2010, 1:27 am
One of the house editorials from today’s (7 April) Wall Street Journal:
War on Interns
Making it illegal to work for free.
The labor market is still in recession, but for younger workers it feels more like a depression. In the last year, the unemployment rate among workers age 20 to 24 has... Comment - Like
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