Not exact matches
«Recruiters,
employers, and prospective clients will all
run searches for your name, so you'll want to find out what the internet says about you.
Lars Schmidt, a former HR practitioner who now
runs Amplify, an
employer branding and
search consultancy, points out that while the field has evolved significantly over the past few decades — becoming more strategic and aligned with business, as well as more automated and data - driven — the practice of employee relations, or how workplace grievances are handled, has hardly changed.
I'm trying to refrain from early angst because Jensen brought up an excellent point just last week — a bad attitude about your job
search will send potential
employers running for the hills.
Says Neal D. Mollen, an attorney with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, «I think it's unlikely
employers are going to learn a good deal of job - related information from a Facebook page they won't learn in the context of a well -
run interview, so the potential benefit of doing this sort of
search is outweighed by the potential risk.»
Also,
run a Google
search on your name, as it appears on your resume, to see what information
employers will find when they
search for you.
Run a quick
search for Twitter accounts with the terms» Jobs» or» Careers» and you'll find a long list of potential
employers who are sharing job leads and information about their organization and industry.
While confidence is certainly an important aspect of a successful job
search, too much of it is certain to have
employers running in the opposite direction.
Banking and investment
employers actively
search for talented graduates to take the business forward and
run graduate recruitment schemes to which you can apply directly.
The social media train is
running at full speed and when
employers are
searching for candidates, one of the first place they look to is LinkedIN.
That's why, for your job
search sanity, it's better to proactively clobber any negative preconceptions a potential
employer might have about your resume before you're knocked out of the
running.
Currently
running his own executive
search firm, CV Jedi founder Ben Stokes has an in - depth knowledge of local
employers in Brisbane.
Currently
running his own executive
search firm, CV Jedi founder Ben Stokes has an in - depth knowledge of local
employers in Sydney.
Clearly, there is a lot of information on how LinkedIn has helped job seekers make connections with professional contacts and prospective
employers, but when it comes to Twitter, it's not as clear — how can a tweet
running 140 - character or less help your job
search?
Running a quick background check on the blind date you've been set up with might be a good way (or not, remember it's going to be a database
search) to use the latest mobile background screening apps, but the FTC fears
employers might be using these apps for employment screening purposes — and that could very easily violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Today, many
employers run the resumes they receive through a
search, looking for particular keywords that apply to the position.
With LinkedIn's Recruiter tool, you can
run targeted
searches based on everything from headlines, past and present
employers, job titles, skills possessed, universities attended, and much more.
It is now common practice for
employers to
run Internet
searches on potential job candidates.
• Make sure your resume is internet and
search engine friendly:
Employers often
run resumes through automated software to check for relevance.