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by Steven Rothberg

Job Seekers Should Focus on Their Transferable Skills and Growth Industries
Joe Watson, career strategist and author of "Where the Jobs Are Now" tells Kelsey Hubbard job seekers should focus on transferable skills and growth industries such as health care when looking for work....

4 Tips for a Successful Targeted Email Campaign
Jason Bakker of Campus Media Group recently published a great blog article about how organizations should use targeted emails to reach college students: Leverage or build your brand name because name recognition matters. Stronger brands result in more of your...

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How to Create a Cell Phone Text Messaging Ad Campaign
There's a nice discussion on a component of mobile marketing going on at the American Express Open Forum as a result of an article about how small businesses can deliver successful targeted cell phone text messaging (SMS) campaigns to their...

Most and Least Admired Employers
I see a lot of "best of" lists out there. Best restaurants, ice cream, places to live, colleges, phone service, and places to work. Today a number of bloggers and other media outlets have re-published a list of the most...

Top 5 Unusual Ways to Impress Recruiters
Great tips provided by the Wall Street Journal for any job seekers who are even considering working with a recruiter: Have an accomplishment sheet Help the competition Be specific Use old-fashioned communication Be genuine and honest...

College Grads Prefer to Job Search Using Niche Job Boards, Not Social Media or General Job Boards
Anyone who is involved in the world of college recruiting will find it of no surprise that a recent survey found that graduating college students who are searching for a job rely heavily on their university career centers and prefer...

Yahoo CEO to Facebook: Show Me the Money
Carol Bartz, new CEO of Yahoo!, in addition to telling Washington to shut up, makes a snide remark about Facebook's lack of revenue. Let's re-visit this in a few years to see whether her confidence in her business model and...

TweetMyJOBS Generates "Only" 18,000 Clicks to 1,000 Postings
One of the interesting topics of discussion this week amongst those involved in the job board industry is a recent announcement by TweetMyJOBS that they generated 18,000 clicks in January to the web site of their client, InterContinental Hotels Group...

Survey Shows Improved Job Market for Recent College Grads
Hiring activity for new college graduates has picked up some, according to results of a monthly poll conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). NACE's latest poll, reported as an index, found that the overall hiring index...

7 Tips for Landing a Job Through On-line Networking
Here are seven great tips from the Wall Street Journal for job seekers who want to increase their chances of landing a new job through on-line networking: Have a robust on-line presence Engage in conversation Do favors Don't be afraid...

Boomers to Gen Y: How the Times Have Changed!
The first Baby Boomers turned 18 in 1963, which was the year John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and two decades before personal computers were introduced to a panting marketplace. The first Millennials are in the workplace and some are even...

3 Tips for How to Use Facebook to Find a New Job
Since Facebook launched six whopping years ago, I've read hundreds and perhaps thousands of articles advising college students, recent graduates, and other job seekers not to use the site or to be careful about how they use it because many...

No Need to Eat Crow
Everyone who knows me knows that I love hockey. I grew up in Winnipeg, Canada. If you've ever been there during the winter, you know that the only thing happening is hockey. Outdoor rinks every few blocks, road hockey, and...

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