The ICT Job Hunter Blog

MAKE YOUR MARK WITH YOUR OWN CAREER BRAND

When the going gets tough, the tough get…creative.  With over 11 million people in the country now out of work and the unemployment rate up to over 9%, competition in the job market is getting hotter than ever.    Gone are the days when waiting for job advertisements to come up or visiting your local employment [...]

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Resume Writing – What not to include – GOOFS, GAFFES AND BLUNDERS!

goofs, gaffes and blunders – what not to include in your resume     We all think we know how important our resume is, but with more than 30,000,000 of the things out there in circulation every month in the US alone, getting it right is more important than ever.   Recruiters are busy people.  Faced with hundreds, sometimes thousands, [...]

What do you think? Jobaphiles site. People bidding on jobs

I guess times are really changing.  It is so tough to find work right now – the old fashioned way, that a group of college grads created a site that promotes job seekers vying for positions in bid wars to see who will work for the lowest salary.  If you have not already, check out the [...]

Mixing business with pleasure – Ditching the dirt on social networking sites

Recruiters have been using search engines such as Google and Yahoo! to conduct background checks on job candidates for a number of years now, their justification being that it helps to give them a better overall view of a potential employee. More recently, however, between 20 and 30% of employers now confess to using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to provide them with a different kind of ‘insider view’ - and some are finding out things that they are only too pleased to know up front!