March 21, 2018

Introducing Ask for a Referral: Making It Easier to Find Your Way In (LinkedIn)

LinkedIn: Introducing Ask for a Referral: Making It Easier to Find Your Way In. “If you’ve had your eye on a specific role or have always wanted to work for a particular company, referrals are one of the best ways to get your foot in the door. In fact, the #1 way that job seekers have reported first discovering a job, was through someone they knew. Not that surprising as nearly 50% of recruiters say referrals are the leading source of quality hires. And once you’ve asked for one and applied for the job, you’re 4X more likely to hear back from a recruiter at that company. Long story short – it’s important to know who in your network can help you find your next role – and how to reach out.”

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February 11, 2018

Gizmodo: How to Find a Job Using Social Media

Gizmodo: How to Find a Job Using Social Media. “Your social networks aren’t just there for arguing politics with your uncle or looking at your neighbor’s lunch—they’re also good for the serious business of finding your next place of employment. Here’s how to perfect your searching on each of the major networks to maximize your chances of landing your dream job, or something close to it.” I linked to an article with the same topic in mid-January, but this one is a deeper dive.

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January 22, 2018

MakeUseOf: 6 Google Docs Resume Templates for All Styles and Preferences

MakeUseOf: 6 Google Docs Resume Templates for All Styles and Preferences. “When it’s time to update or create a new resume, you want one that reflects you and looks professional at the same time. Starting with a template can help with the appearance as well as what you should include. We have many great options for Microsoft Word users, but what about those who need Google Docs resume templates instead?”

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January 13, 2018

Lifehacker: How to Look for a Job on Twitter and Facebook

Lifehacker: How to Look for a Job on Twitter and Facebook. “Job searches are already a complicated stress-maze of multiple sites, searches, and alerts, so you might think it’s bad news that you also need to expand your search to social media. But actually, Twitter and Facebook can be a relatively (relatively) pleasant part of the job search process.”

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November 15, 2017

Google Blog: New tools to make your job search simpler

Google Blog: New tools to make your job search simpler. “To help the millions of people who turn to Google to start their job search, we worked with leaders across the industry to introduce a new experience earlier this year. Since then, we’ve seen more than 60 percent of employers showing jobs in Search and connected tens of millions of people to new job opportunities. Now, based on feedback from job seekers, we’re introducing some new features to help make the process more efficient. Directly in Search, you can access salary information for job postings, improved location settings, job application choices, and in a couple of weeks, the ability to save individual jobs.”

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July 18, 2017

New-to-Me: Database of Inexpensive Places for Tattoo Removal

New-to-me: a database of inexpensive places to get tattoos removed. “For seven years, Mark Drevno has traversed America’s jails and prisons, talking to thousands of inmates about how to build a better life on the outside. Drevno is the CEO of Jails to Jobs, a Lafayette-based nonprofit that’s dedicated to helping those former inmates build job skills and find work. Drevno authored a how-to book that’s gained widespread praise as a template for formerly incarcerated people seeking work. But the group’s biggest hit, according to criminal justice experts, is the creation of a comprehensive database of places that offer cheap, accessible tattoo removal services.”

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July 18, 2017

TechCrunch: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

TechCrunch: Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit. “Google today announced the launch of Hire, a new service that helps businesses more effectively manage their internal recruiting process. Hire offers businesses a cohesive applicant tracking service that’s deeply integrated with G Suite to make it easier for businesses to communicate with their candidates and track their progress through the interview process.” Makes sense after the Google Jobs thing.

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July 11, 2017

Northern Ontario Business: Online database connects Indigenous skilled workers to jobs

Northern Ontario Business: Online database connects Indigenous skilled workers to jobs. “A national skills inventory for Indigenous workers that’s been a decade in the making is inching closer to being rolled out across Canada. Working Warriors is an online database that aims to catalogue Indigenous workers — along with their contact information, skills and certifications, experience and interests — to make it easier for them to be hired on projects across the country.”

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June 20, 2017

Google Blog: Connecting more Americans with jobs

Google Blog: Connecting more Americans with jobs. “Starting today in English on desktop and mobile, when you search for ‘jobs near me,’ ‘teaching jobs,’ or similar job-seeking queries, you’ll see in-depth results that allow you to explore jobs from across the web. For many people, a job needs to satisfy some key criteria, like commute time, job specialties they’ve honed or the hours they have available to work. For many jobs, you’ll also see reviews and ratings of the employer from trusted sites, right alongside the job description, and if you’re signed in, for some jobs you’ll even see how long it would take to commute to the job from home.”

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May 21, 2017

State of South Dakota Launches New Jobs Site

The state of South Dakota has launched a new jobs site. “The new software searches the internet to ‘scrape’ job listings from other South Dakota employer sites. We are no longer limited to data listed only by employers who use our system. The system also details both job titles and needed skills, allowing any user easily to identify skill supply and demand information in real-time. We can now view, at any given time, everything from the most in-demand skills for job listings to the education level of current job seekers to occupational wage data.”

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May 17, 2017

Fast Company: How To Mine The Internet For Hidden Clues About A Potential Job Offer

Fast Company: How To Mine The Internet For Hidden Clues About A Potential Job Offer. “To make sure you know what you are getting into before you start, you could simply log on to Glassdoor and ask around, or you could go full-on sleuth and employ some next-level investigation in your research. Ken Sawka, CEO and founder of corporate intelligence firm Fuld + Company, says that gathering and analyzing the right information can potentially save you from a bad job decision.” Nice overview.

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April 16, 2017

Move Over, LinkedIn: Google Working On Its Own Job Site Called Google Hire (Tech Times)

Tech Times: Move Over, LinkedIn: Google Working On Its Own Job Site Called Google Hire. “Google is apparently gearing up to give LinkedIn a run for its money, as the company is working on its own job platform called Google Hire. It looks like a platform for tracking job applications and it launched quietly, without any official announcement from Google. In fact, Google Hire seems to be still in the beta state, available only to a few technology companies on an invite-only basis.”

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March 23, 2017

Maine: America’s JobLink (AJL) Data Incident

From Maine.gov: America’s JobLink (AJL) Data Incident . “America’s JobLink (AJL), a multi-state web-based system that links job seekers with employers, has been the victim of a hacking incident from an outside source…. On March 21st, AJLA–TS confirmed that a malicious third party ‘hacker’ exploited a vulnerability in the AJL application code to view the names, Social Security Numbers, and dates of birth of job seekers in the AJL systems of up to ten states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Oklahoma, and Vermont.”

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