The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) will host another “Ask Ted” (Type, Explore, Discover) online chat on Wednesday, May 30. The chat will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the GDOL website www.dol.state.ga.us.
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2012/5/18/226428/GDOL-Hosts-Online-Job-Search-Online.aspx
LOS ANGELES, CA — With a new service called MyJobHunter, you’ll be searching all top career sites at once & applying to all matching jobs with one click. Just enter your search criteria, review the matching jobs and select the ones you want. Then, click a single button and you’ll instantly apply to all selected jobs with your resume and cover letter – without having to log into each job site separately.
Click another button to automate the whole process! MyJobHunter remembers your search criteria, and automatically applies to new jobs matching your criteria — every day. Review jobs in advance or put searching & applying on auto-pilot. The choice is yours.
You’ll also get an application history report that makes follow-up a breeze! It shows the jobs you were applied to, full job descriptions, employer contact info, and application dates. You can even add personal notes to each job! This service is proven to reduce hours of job searching and resume submitting to just minutes. Simply upload your resume, enter your job search criteria and let MyJobHunter take it from there. For more information Click this link.
Few things have been influenced by the internet as much as employment. Those who are seeking employment no longer need to devote lots of time with newspapers or go through endless periodicals and classified listings when searching for their next jobs. The effective use of the internet has thoroughly transformed the way in which people hunt for careers. The same holds true for employers. They have never had a more effective “funneling” or qualifying tool. Candidates can be found with a simple search string, which will return dozens or hundreds of candidates meeting the parameters of the revised search. Adding a required qualification is as simple as changing the search string.
There are plenty of online job search internet sites, which aid both job seekers and employers in identifying what they are seeking. Web sites like these have dramatically changed the manner in which the employment market operates. The greatest thing about these web-based job search sites is that they have been organized to ensure that any organization desiring to employ someone will likely find appropriate candidates. The process is fast, efficient and can yield more prospective applicants than any using any other method.
In order to establish how effective these sites are, the following is research data provides definitive information: Job openings for those earning $60,000 that are published online have a 44% effectiveness rating. Online postings are the most effective means of discovering opportunities for individuals earning under $60,000. According to a new study commissioned by Microsoft, 79% of all employers now search for applicants in online job search sites and databases.
Most industry experts agree that online job postings can often generate an average of 300 job seekers for many openings. There are now as many as 4 million online job postings each month. Submitting 40-50 resumes to specific, targeted organizations is going to be much more successful than posting resumes blindly to every opening that shows up on job sites. Statistics reveal that only 1% of job hunters are actually successful when randomly submitting their resumes. If you are seeking a career opportunity within a specific discipline, all you need to do is register with a few of the more prominent online job sites. They will provide you with the most beneficial collections of job listings. Websites like these give you the platforms and resources to aid you in getting matched up with all the kinds of openings and listings you are interested in.
Opportunities are also often broken down by the industry or category you would like to work in. Another great advantage to online job search sites is that you can usually locate job interview and resume writing advice. You will also find many effective job search tips and advice too. Many sites will also provide career testing that can assist you figure out which jobs are going to be ideal for you; career planning assistance may also be available at many of the sites. Some of these web sites may also offer professional assistance with your resume, and all you need to do is keep your account open until you find the position you want. When you publish your resume on the web site, it is saved in their database along with any additional details you furnish them. Whenever a recruiter, HR person or employer performs a search for potential prospects or employees that are a match to your information, the database will show your name, key information and resume to the searcher. These sites will usually have many recruiters from all sorts of companies and in a variety of career areas taking a look at their database. The likelihood of you being approached by an interested company can be very high.
Author: Amy Johnson is the Content and Social Media Manager at Jobathon.com. When not spreading the good news about employment opportunities, she plans road trips, reads reviews on the latest smartphone release, and contributes her writing skills to blogs and outlets around the web….View full profile
Accounting student Anne Rose will already have a job waiting when she receives her degree next week. Psychology major Echo Presgraves won’t be so fortunate.
Rose, 22, credits her choice of major as paving her way. She signed a contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers before she even began her senior year at Villanova University’s School of Business in Pennsylvania, after completing an internship last summer with the audit and consulting firm.
“The major obviously has a huge role in it, compared to some of my friends that are marketing majors who still are struggling to find full-time employment right now,” said Rose, from Dallas.
As this year’s class enters the strongest job market for graduates since 2008, students with backgrounds in computer science, engineering and accounting are in high demand, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. While the group’s latest survey shows a 10.2 percent increase in hiring plans from 2011, the improvement isn’t benefiting all majors the same way, as in prerecession years, said Edwin Koc, who heads research at Bethlehem, Penn.-based NACE.
“It’s a much more split market,” Koc said, noting the pattern mirrors a 2011 survey of students’ job offers. Graduates “with certain skill sets are doing quite well,” while things are tougher for others, such as liberal arts, humanities and education majors.
Presgraves, 21, who is receiving her diploma this month from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, has had no luck with her half-dozen applications, including for the Teach For America program, which recruits college graduates to serve under-resourced public schools. She said she’ll spend the summer working for a neuroscience professor.
“I’m hoping to use this summer, especially since I will still be on campus, to keep researching” job prospects, she said.
The increase in hiring for college graduates that NACE predicts is one sign of a slowly improving labor market, said Jesse Rothstein, associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. “There’s a reasonable read of the evidence that things are improving, but not very quickly and not very much yet.”
Slow improvement
There are more opportunities than two years ago, but not as many as five years ago, he said. “There’s still a very limited number of jobs and a lot of competition,” he said. “When the labor market recovers quite a bit more than it has, then there will be jobs for the nontechnical majors as well.”
At Virginia Tech’s career services office, it is mainly students with technical degrees who are benefiting from a 25 percent increase in job postings this year and employers coming earlier to recruit, said Jim Henderson. These students are receiving more offers than two or three years ago and are sought after by companies, he said.
“For the nontechnical jobs, it’s much more challenging,” said Henderson, associate director for employer relations at the Blacksburg school.
Graduates in those majors really have to “network and have a job-search strategy on how they’re going to find and connect with that employer.”
Samantha Goldman, 22, a communication major at the University of Maryland, started that strategy as early as September by sending dozens of resumes and networking in person and online. In March, she clinched a job as a marketing associate in Washington after hearing about the position through a friend.
“I had this sort of lull between November and February when I was sending out resume after resume after resume, and I hadn’t heard anything,” she said on the College Park campus where she was interning at a research center. “The majority of communication majors do not have jobs right now. It’s a tough market.”
Thirty-seven percent of students who graduated between 2006 and 2011 wished they had been more careful when choosing their major, according to a report this month by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Only 39 percent said they thought about job opportunities when picking a field of study. Half of the 444 students in the survey were employed full time. “I see the job market for young grads improving, albeit slowly,” said Jim John, chief operating officer of Beyond.com.
While the number of jobs posted on the career-network website rose 236 percent in the year through April, entry-level jobs increased only 21 percent, he said. Still, in an economy that has yet to recover 5 million of the 8.8 million jobs lost as the result of an 18-month recession that ended in June 2009, college graduates are in a better position to be hired. Among workers ages 20 to 24, the unemployment rate was 6.4 percent in April for those who held a bachelor’s degree, compared with 12.6 percent for all workers in that age bracket, according to the Labor Department. While the jobless rate for college graduates has fallen from its peak of 7.5 percent in 2010, it remains more than double the low of 3 percent in 2008.
A report on recruiting trends by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University in East Lansing shows employers are seeking engineering, computer science, selected science, accounting and finance majors. About a third of them are committed to recruiting from all majors.
“Competition will remain strong, however, because available positions for many majors fall short of the supply of graduates leaving college,” it said.
Benefiting from internships
NACE, a source of information about the employment of college graduates, estimates 1.7 million students will get their bachelor’s degrees this year. Chrysler, the Auburn Hills, Mich.-based automaker, is among companies planning on placing more graduates in entry-level jobs. It will take on about 400 interns this summer, half of them engineers, up from 250 last year, according to Georgette Borrego Dulworth, the company’s director of talent acquisition and diversity. With about 1,600 openings across the organization, its divisions are finding that the internship program is a great feeder for college grads into beginner-level jobs, she said. CEO Sergio Marchionne will address the group.
“The beauty of the intern program is that it does allow us to assess a candidate in the real-world experience prior to graduation,” Borrego Dulworth said.
Twenty-nine percent of students in the Rutgers survey said they wished they had done more internships or part-time work. Employers expect that students will have done at least one, maybe two, said Carl Martellino, the executive director at the University of Southern California’s career center in Los Angeles, who says he has seen increased hiring directly out of such programs. “Internships are really now the new interviews.”
For Rose, Villanova’s early emphasis on professional development, such as resume writing, networking and internships, helped put her on the path to the job offer. She got her start with PwC after she attended its leadership conference as a sophomore. PwC says it plans to hire 4,171 graduates this year, a 64 percent increase from two years ago and 279 more than in 2011.
“With the economy slowly coming back, it might not be as easy as it used to be,” said Rose, who has another major in management information systems. “But if you’re proactive about it and you’ve put time into your studies, I think that you can find employment opportunities.”
http://www.daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=491367
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, in response to recent federal legislation, developed a partnership with New Jersey’s 19 community colleges to assist the state’s long-term unemployed in their job search. As a result, the community colleges are now administering the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) Program, a three-hour workshop designed to provide job seekers with some additional tools so they can rethink and re-energize their efforts to find work.
During the workshop, participants receive information about career assessment tools, labor market data and how to access and fully utilize the state’s website: www.Jobs4Jersey.com. The community colleges also provide other meaningful training such as workplace ethics, resume development and interview skills.
The community colleges have just completed the second week of REA training. Our experience suggests that both the community colleges and the workshop participants have benefited from this initiative. Dislocated workers now have a better understanding of the tools available to them for their job search, and the community colleges, which have received outstanding feedback from the participants, are more aware of the many obstacles that the unemployed must overcome. Discussions have already begun regarding programs that we at the colleges could develop or modify to serve workshop participants more effectively.
The Department of Labor and Workforce Development and the community colleges have worked together for many years. Their long-term, positive relationship has supported the state’s workforce as well as its business community. This new partnership offers the community colleges an opportunity to serve the long-term unemployed, many of whom have never been to their community college. Hopefully, the REA Program will lead to some positive results for both the job seeker and our economy.
Patricia Moran is the director of The Institute at Middlesex County College. In this role, she provides training and consulting services for a multitude of companies and private organizations across the state. She holds a doctorate from Walden University. Visit the institute’s website atwww.middlesexcc.edu/institute.
