Resume Blunders from Hell

I visited my buddy at Resume Hell today.

As usual, I was not disappointed.

Here's a clip from one of the resumes they recently received....and apparently, this person takes their hobby very seriously:

"Hobbies: I enjoy cooking Chinese and Italians"

Ok, this person either has a very sick sense of humor, or, they failed to contact Louise for some expert resume assistance.

Let's hope it's the latter.

Mood Rings, Pet Rocks, Streakers .... Blogs?

With all due respect to David Manaster, I couldn't help but post this pic.

Jim Durbin emailed me today asking if I'd ever posted this picture (I recently sent him a copy).

Honestly, I can't remember whether I've ever posted it or not, but it's just too good to pass up.

In light of our pending blogger's panel at the ERExpo in San Diego next month, I thought I'd share this picture with all the folks out there who think blogging is just a fad.

You know, a fad...like mood rings, pet rocks, and, well, streakers.

If you share this "blogging is a fad" philosophy, I hope you'll join us in San Diego.

We'd love to get your perspective. And, we'd love to get your questions (in fact, questions in advance would be terrific).

Send your blogging questions to us (Grimm, Hamilton, Durbin, Smith) in advance; we'll compile all questions and address them at the Expo.

Email your questions to: wirelessheadhunter@gmail.com.

By the way, I hear that this is already the largest attendance for an ERExpo event on record. And with this many people under one roof, I wouldn't be surprised to see a recruiter bolt across the stage in his birthday suit, just as Dr. Sullivan is presenting the Recruiter of the Year Award.

Oh dang. You know what they say about the power of suggestion.

Sorry 'bout that, Doc.

Pretend I never said that, Levy.


*** UPDATE ***

Just saw Manaster's post about offering ERExpo attendees free wireless in San Diego. Nice job, David.

Carnival of the Job Search ~ 2nd edition

Welcome to the March 30, 2007 edition of carnival of the job search!

We're featuring four blogs in our 2nd edition ~

John presents Why the Non-Resume Strategy Beats Out a Traditional Resume Every Time! posted at OhCash.com, saying, "What you really need is a non-resume strategy. That’s right. A job search approach that doesn’t require you to focus all your attention on preparing and distributing a resume."

Savitha presents It is all about adding value posted at IQI Strategic Management, Inc..

Andrea Dickson presents Earn More Money by Demanding It posted at Wise Bread - Living large on a small budget.

And finally, Ambition presents Top IT Jobs for the week... posted at recruit-ER.

That's the full spin on the ferris wheel, folks!

Submit your blog article to the next edition ofcarnival of the job search using our carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Be Visible, Be Ziki

I mentioned in this post yesterday about the necessity for job seekers to create a web profile and join a community.

If you haven't been to Ziki yet, check it out. In fact,

Check out my Ziki HERE.

Then use this link to accept my invitation and register for a FREE Ziki account.

Once you've created your Ziki profile, please join my network!

Dennis

5 Job Seeker Tips for Making Yourself Findable on the Web

ComputerWorld asked a great question this week and it reminded me of the tree-falling-in-the-forest question:

If someone searches for you on the Web and comes up empty-handed, do you exist?

Tim Bray, director of Web technologies at Sun Microsystems Inc, says,

In today’s job market, turning up missing on the Web may not be a fatal flaw, and it’s probably better than having a search result in a photo of you in a hula skirt. But over time, the lack of a Web presence — particularly for IT professionals — may well turn from a neutral to a negative.

Bray believes that senior-level candidates looking for jobs with core technology providers should have some type of presence on the web:

If someone came looking for a senior-level job and had left no mark on the Internet, I’d see that as a big negative ... most companies would rather have somebody who has demonstrated the propensity to contribute, and one [sign] of that is going out and getting involved, joining in the discussion.”

To that end, Mary Brandel (ComputerWorld) offers up 5 tips for making yourself more "findable" on the web:

1). Know where people look
Check out Google and Yahoo - what will googlers discover about you?

Be aware that many recruiters also use tools such as Technorati, Daypop, and Blogdigger (if you are a recruiter and aren't familiar with these sites, you should be).

2). Start a blog
Some companies sponsor corporate blogs and encourage employee participation (in fact, I just read on ERE that Cingular (the new at&t) is starting a recruiting blog (of course, I wait with much anticipation).

But you can also establish your own through free blog hosting sites such as Blogger.com, (my personal home-away-from-home) LiveJournal.com, Blog-City.com,and Xanga.com.

3). Join the open-source code community (if you are truly a geek)

4). Build a Web page

5). Create a Web profile
I've created multiple web profiles - maybe I'm a bit overboard, but when it comes to recruiters in the wireless industry, I want to be found.

I have a Ziggs profile HERE (Ziggs was down so I couldn't get to my profile) ; a Jobster profile HERE; a Ziki profile HERE; a Naymz profile HERE; and of course, a LinkedIn profile HERE.

5.5). Join a Community
I'm adding my own personal touch to Mary's list - if you haven't joined a community related to your livelihood, you are missing out.

I recently created a Wireless-Jobs Community Group on Yahoo! HERE (you'll have to login to Yahoo to be directed to the Wireless-Jobs Community). Feel free to join and network with other recruiters engaged in the wireless community.

And......here's an open invitation to all job-seekers >>>>> please accept my invitation to join my Jobster community - just click HERE. Please add me as a "contact" and I'll reciprocate asap.

So, job seeker, let me ask you this... what are you doing to participate in the conversation?

*Read Brandel's complete ComputerWorld article HERE.

YouTube to Launch Mobile Site

Speaking of wireless ...

YouTube will launch its mobile website in June 2007 for U.S. users, according to a spokesperson. The mobile YouTube site will go live once the exclusivity clause on the company’s mobile video deal with Verizon Wireless expires.

YouTube has been already working closely with mobile carriers, and handset makers such as Nokia on the mobile version of their video service.

In response to my question if YouTube is developing a mobile client, the spokesperson said that the company had been talking about it, but had no information to share at this time.

Check out a preview of the blocked mobile site or this demo site, which you can see from some mobile phones.

source: GigaOM

Slugging through the War for Talent

Take heart job seekers!

The chips are stacked on your side of the table, and in the war for talent, employers think they know what you want.

But most are still found wanting.

According to a study released today by Development Dimensions International (DDI), and Monster^®, today's job market is increasingly in the hands of the candidate.

The study, titled “Slugging Through the War for Talent: Selection Forecast 2006-2007,” reveals that 73 percent of staffing directors report competition for talent has increased since 2005, while 79 percent expect it to further intensify in 2007.

“Candidates are in a very powerful position—organizations need to think about hiring as a competitive practice if they want to attract the best people,”

said Scott Erker, senior vice president of DDI’s Selection Solutions.

“Right now, there is a significant gap between what candidates want and what employers think they want. That’s dangerous for organizations, because many don’t understand the motivations of the candidate sitting right in front of them.”

This is DDI’s third study of hiring and recruiting practice since 1999, providing perspective on the changing shape of the hiring market over the last eight years.

The report, which reflects responses from staffing directors, hiring managers and job seekers across five global regions, examines recruitment, selection and retention practices and reveals that a tightening labor market has subsequently led to a power shift toward job seekers.

In order to lure top talent in this increasingly competitive environment, the
findings suggest that employers must identify, understand
and respond to job seekers’ motivations and desires.

The study also outlines the tactics and strategies organizations can implement to improve their hiring systems and better meet job seekers’ needs.

“The recruiting industry has acknowledged for several years that retiring Baby Boomers, coupled with a tightening labor market, would eventually bring about an acute labor shortage. However, the survey findings indicate that this eventuality is already upon us,”

said Neal Bruce, vice president of alliances, Monster. “

Select Survey Highlights

• It’s a buyer’s market.

• There is a gap between employer perceptions and candidate realities.

• Turnover is rapid.
  

• Interviews can be dealmakers or deal breakers.

The executive summary, "Selection Forecast 2006-2007" is is currently available online from DDI HERE and the Monster Intelligence web site, HERE.

Check out the complete article on PRWeb.com.

Motorola Bails - Helio, AirG, and Music Phone Sails

Last week Motorola CEO Ed Zander announced he would be bailing out on the wireless industry's annual trade show in Orlando, Fla. Turns out he had bigger issues on his mind--like slumping sales and profits.

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At CTIA, virtual carrier Helio, a joint venture of Earthlink and Korea's SK Telecom, will show off "Ocean," it's latest handset.

The phone, which slides two ways to reveal either a normal keypad or a full QWERTY keyboard, supports over-the-air music downloads in addition to other features like 2-gigabyte expansion capabilities for media storage, stereo speakers and video streaming.

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Music-phone ownership almost quadrupled from January 2006 to January 2007 in the U.S., according to research firm M:Metrics.

And while only 17% of U.S. subscribers own music phones, they seem to like them: about one-third of those subscribers now use their phone as their primary music device.

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AirG, which provides social networking features for carriers like Boost Mobile and Sprint, says it's grown to about 12 million U.S. users--some 6% of the total U.S. mobile subscriber base.

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excerpt: Gadgets, Geeks, Gators (Fortune).

Recruiter Stereotypes

Unfortunately, some folks view recruiters in the same light as this car salesman.

It's about relationships, not the quick sale placement, right?

Original source, EricBack.com

Top 10 Teen Sites

My job doesn't require that I recruit within the teen sector.

However, if I were recruiting teens, I'd certainly be spending more time reaching out to them where they live (translation: where they spend all their time).

So, where do they spend all their time?

When I was a kid, (roughly, 1969, and not yet a teenager), each night at 10:00pm before the local newscast there was a creepy public service announcement that always gave me the willies:

"It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?"

Not sure why I hated this announcement, but if I was lucky enough to be awake at 10 o'clock, it always made me glad that I wasn't far from the family room.

If you are the parent of a teen in the year 2007, in answer to the question,

"It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your teens are?"

you'd most likely reply,

"Glued to myspace."

If you've been asleep at the parenting wheel for the past few years and haven't a clue what MySpace is, shame on you. Now, get a grip and check out the list below - Telegraph just posted the top 10 ten teen sites.

So here's the ten sites most likely to appear as "favorites" on your teen's computer:

MySpace
the biggest social networking site (SNS). Pretty much a household name.

Bebo
fast-growing SNS popular among younger teens

Facebook
started as a college SNS, but is spreading quickly to younger users.

YouTube
a site where users share home-made short videos. Around 100 million videos are watched each day on YouTube. Other video sites include Jumpcut, Grouper, Eyespot, Motionbox, vPod.tv, StupidVideos, Blip.tv and iFilm.

Vox
a popular place to blog, share videos and photos and keep in touch with friends.

Kazaa
a fashionable file-sharing program that lets you download music, games, and vids.

Last FM

the 'in' sociable music lovers' site. Other sites include YourSpins, ReverbNation, Mog and Rapspace.

Second Life
a 3-D virtual world game built and owned by its residents ("Avatars").

Launched in 2003, it is inhabited today by five million people. About to be targeted by greens, who estimate that each avatar has a carbon footprint larger than the average real-life Brazilian, thanks to the 4,000 servers and 12,500 PCs used to run the game. World of Warcraft is also popular

Piczo
a trendy photo-sharing site. Zorpia is big, too.

Wikipedia
free online encyclopedia, often used for downloading homework.

Now, just think of the teenage-conversation-starters you'll have at your disposal next time the clock strikes 10pm!

Brand YOU with a Blog

Our favorite conductor posted a nice reminder today for the soon-to-be college graduates, titled, Brand You with a Blog.

Side-note:
Has it really been 10 years since the infamous "Brand Called YOU" cover hit the front page of Fast Company? Wow.

So much has been said in the recent past about the negative impact on one's career with regard to inappropriate blog-material, it's easy to understand why our May grad's might be a bit blog-shy (even though I don't really think they are).

I'm in the process of writing an article about this topic that will be posted in a soon-to-be-announced recruiting newsletter (no, it's not my personal newsletter - but if you are a recruiter, you won't be able to miss it once it hits). But being passionate about this topic (Brand), I wanted to point all May-Grads to Sansone's post.

Like it or not, you've been building a brand for the last 4-6 years.

Now the question is whether that brand is going to help you land the job of your dreams.

Or not.

Ride the brand,

Dennis

Top 6 Reasons Recruiters are Irritating

Nick Roy (Employment Management Strategies for the 21st Century) posted earlier this month about the irritating things we do as recruiters.

Here's Nick's top 6 reasons for considering recruiters irritating human beings:

Posting in all caps

Marketing to companies

Pretending to have good candidates or pretending to know what the company does

Presenting candidates that are mined from job boards

Thinking that every contingency placement is worth 30%

Trying to bypass HR

C'mon Nick. LOTS OF PEOPLE POST IN ALL CAPS.

But, you're right...it's irritating.

I will take you to task on the marketing piece, however.

I mean, hey, marketing makes the world go 'round. And, really, Nick, if you'll just hire one more person from me in the next 24 hours, I'll include a set of 24 Ginsu knives. But you must act now!!! Operators are standing by...

Ok, no humor on this one:

30% is nothing compared to the value that one star employee can add to your bottomline in one calendar year.

That's the cold, hard truth.

I will agree with you on the candidates from the job boards scenario. It cracks me up, but it also makes me mad. Hey, it's happened to me too!

But somebody had to take the time to do the digging.

Here's reality....if they are the right candidate and they fit the compensation piece, and they are excited about the opportunity...it really doesn't matter how they landed in my lap.

Nick has some great thoughts....read his complete post HERE.

March 23, 2007 edition: carnival of the job search

Welcome to the March 23, 2007 edition (and actually, the first edition) of ...

... carnival of the job search.


Yep, we're one day early. Sue me.



I had three takers for the inaugural edition, so I'm givin' up the blog love for ...

Toby D, of Diggings fame, a blog about recruitment advertising, media, publising, HR, work, & technology.

Brad Pitt of Brad's Bits (jus' kiddin'), where the slacker can always find bits of Brad's corporate wisdom.

recruitER's Ambition, who offers up news and views from the IT grapevine.

In hindsight I realize that I must not have done a stand-up job of explaining the purpose of the "job-search carnival." Why? I carefully explained that this carnival would focus solely on "job postings" within the technology sector. Translation: if you want to post a technology-related job, submit the posting at the carnival of the job search.

However, I didn't receive a single job posting! Golly gee! I did, however, receive three articles "related" to job search, and they were all great!

So, hey, beggars can't be chooser, eh?! Moving forward, we'll be open to job-postings and articles focused on job search. How's that for simplification.

That said, here's the this week's carnival of the job search:

Toby Dayton of Diggings, presents Do Newspapers Need An Online Network for Job Ads?.

Brad presents Brad's Bits: tips for working with recruiters during a job search.

Ambition presents Are they really a minority? posted at recruitER.

That concludes this edition. Thanks for playing, fellers! You'll always hold a special place in my wireless heart!

Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of the job search using our carnival submission form.

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Sr. Manager, Engineering Systems (TDOA) T-Mobile USA - Chicago, IL

Here's my one job for Wednesday, March 21st:

Manager 3, Engineering Systems (TDOA) - Chicago, IL
Req 150090

The TDOA Manager must be a subject matter expert, exhibiting in-depth understanding of TDOA & GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks, RF theory, and telecommunication systems.

This manager will be required to lead, coach, and mentor engineers in the field. Within this role, the TDOA Manager will be required to approve or veto designs and decisions made by TDOA SMEs.

BS in Engineering, Engineering Technology or equivalent technical degree, plus 7 years wireless experience.

Please forward resumes to wirelessheadhunter@gmail.com, and include one paragraph describing your most significant accomplishment of 2007.

Dennis Smith
Sr. Manager, Recruiting
T-Mobile USA

The Ideal Career

Nice diagram from mengwong that brings clarity to the $64 question surrounding job search.

Ready.mobi Goes Gold

If you are in the wireless space, and particularly in the wireless development space, than you'll have an interest in dotMobi's latest post:

Ready.mobi Goes Gold.

Great info about the new developer guide announcement (Mobile Web Developer's Guide) and how they're moving Ready.mobi out of beta and in to 'gold' status. Translation: this version of the tool is complete and they've nailed down all the bugs so that it's hittin' on all cylinders with regard to stability and performance.

Here's a short version of what Ready.mobi (picture in the top left of this window) is used for:

The .mobi extension is about ensuring that the user is going to have a satisfactory experience when accessing a site w/ a mobile handset.

Ready.mobi simulates a real mobile device accessing the content of a .mobi site so that you can easily test the content and ensure it meets a range of basic criteria (.mobi compliance, adherence to W3C best practices, etc...). Ready.mobi even provides a 'mobi-readiness' score so you'll know exactly where your site stands.

Check out Jim's complete article @ dotMobi HERE.

Guiding Principles for a Corporate Executive Recruiting Program

Our organization is in the early stages of building an executive recruiting team, and I'm interested in soliciting feedback regarding three areas of interest:

1) The guiding principles that drive success in this kind of program

2) The key actions around diversity recruiting at the executive level

3) The key metrics to measure success of the executive recruiting team

Our desire is to develop a 1st class team that will focus on the complete executive recruitment process, beginning to end. I appreciate any feedback that will assist us in this process.

In fact, I'll create a special post for the most interesting answers/comments and will publish on the blog.

Look forward to receiving your input!

Dennis

Carnival of the Job Search

I'm really not a fan of the carnival. Guess I get a little freaked out by the sideshow acts. I just can't figure giving my hard-earned money to see a woman with lots of facial hair.

Howevuh...I've been diggin' the idea of the blog carnival lately. I got my first invite a few months back to participate in a blog carnival by our good buddy Jason Alba at JibberJobber.

Of course, I was too lazy to participate (or I forgot), but I liked the idea nonetheless.

So, I decided it was time to do a "Carnival of the Job Search."

Two reasons why I like this idea:

1) It has the opportunity of connecting me with other people I might never have the chance to meet. Yep, this is really the only reason.

2) It's a lot easier than asking people to write a post. All that's required is that they send me a job posting that they'd like me to reference in my weekly "carnival of the job search" post.

So, what is the carnival of the job search? It's simply a weekly post on WirelessJobs.com that includes job postings and links from various recruiters around the planet. Well, at least those who decide to participate in the carnival.

The important stuff:

So, how do you, Recruiter, participate? Simply submit a job posting via the "Submit an Article Form" no later than Thursday @ 3:00PM CT of each week.

I will compile each of the job postings and submit in one posting on Friday afternoon of each week.

I will post at least one job from each requester, depending on the total number of submissions for that week's carnival.

Job Posting Format:

Job Posting should be in this format (no job descriptions!):

Manager, RF Engineering - Atlanta, GA,

T-Mobile USA

For more information, please email Dennis @ wirelessheadhunter@gmail.com

Note: the link to the job description is in the job title.

If the job is already posted on a blog or career site, please provide the link so that I can reference within the post.

I will preface each job posting by naming the person that submitted the job, and will reference appropriate links to their blog - company - agency - etc.

Our goal is to provide a carnival of jobs focused within the technology sector - you know, I/T, Engineering, Wireless, Web 2.0 kinda stuff.

Here's the biggie:

I will provide additional love and accolades for all requests that are heavily laden with humor. Yes, yes, we've got to keep it professional.

If you've managed to miss the previous links that will take you to the carnival of the job search, click HERE.

So, it's time to get your blog on, Recruiters.

I look forward to the carnival.

Dennis

The most important word in job search is ...

I recently posted this question on LinkedIn,

"The most important word in job search is..."

I received great responses from all over the world, and had a difficult time doling out the "best response" rating.

When it comes to recruiting, however, I'm a "relationship-kind-of-guy," so I had to side with Homula for the best answer: relationships.

Including Mike's answer, here's a few of the other answers I really liked:

Michael Homula (Bearing Fruit Consulting Group) - Relationships

Susie Wyshak (SuperViva Life Lists/SuperViva Blog)- LinkedIn

Dean Tracy (DeanTracyJobs.com) - Networking

Anthony Timmons (Cox Communications) - Persistence

Greg Saukulak (ExecuSearch) - Vision

Mark Scrimshire (EKIVE / WebServicesJournal) - Networking and Relationships

Amitabh Thard (Strategic America) - Strategy

David Mortimer (F10 Recruitment) - Honesty

Tom Vongbandith - Integrity

Rich Kolikof (Winthrop Research Group) - Preparation

Kristina Runyeon-Odeberg (Obigo) - Open-Minded

Bryan Burgmaier (T-Mobile USA) - Timing

Kieran Hawe (Vertrue, Inc / What's most important) Adaptability

Julie Martino (Project 1.27) - Search (yourself, goals, growth, opportunity, org's, contacts)

Jacob Bonenberger (Bristol-Myers Squibb) - Nepotism ;)

Peter Nguyen (Talentelle) - Free

Alfredo Ascanio (Universidad Simon Bolivar /Blog /Askain) - Expert!

Alex Dragomirescu (Enviroshake /ZoomInfo) Nerve!

Joe Slevin - Work!

Eduardo Marx Silva (Synthean) Imagination

Mike Schwinn - (Focus on Performance) - Resilient

Robert Mueller (Remote Technologies Group) - Friends

Jason Alba (JibberJobber.com) - Knowledge

Gautam Ghosh (The Imagence Partners) - The role

Mhirra Yung (TMP Worldwide) - Best!

Robert Etheridge (GetTheJob.com) - Caution

Thanks to all "LinkedIn Answers" participants!


Now, jobseekers, what is your "most important word" in job search?

Dennis

T-Mobile's Hot Jobs for Friday

Here's a few of our hot jobs to peruse while you're killin' time this weekend:

Manager 3, Engineering - PM (Chicago, IL) #150341

Manager 4, Engineering - RF (Concord, CA) #149121

Manager 4, Engineering - Dev (Concord, CA) #149132

Director, Engineering - Development (Parsippany, NJ) #144327

Check out our career site @ T-Mobile.com.

Send me an email @ wirelessheadhunter@gmail.com

Will Google Go Wireless?

There's been rampant speculation about this for weeks. However, jet fuel was recently poured on the fire when a Boston-area VC claimed inside knowledge of a major initiative that was afoot.

The speculation is focused on Google, Samsung, and Andy Rubin, co-founder of Danger, Inc., the maker of mobile devices.

Reading articles like this and this, lead me to believe it's just a matter of time.

T-Mobile Brings Jobs to Augusta, GA

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and company officials announced at a press conference today that T-Mobile USA Inc. will establish a new customer service center in Augusta.

The new location will create more than 750 jobs.

Go Dogs!

source: allamericanpatriots.com

Checkout Las Vegas jobs at NVJobSearch.

Married to Wireless

A new study by the EIAA reports that 37% of European wireless users regularly visit social networking sites - no shocker there. In fact I expected that number to be higher.

The study also gives us a clear picture of how this wireless addiction impacts our workstyle:

83% of this user group regularly use news websites (ditto for me)

79% use banking and finance sites (yep, me too)

70% use technology sites (si')

39% visit recruitment sites or look into jobs online (the horror...)

The research highlights that their total weekly internet use reaches 17 hours or 10% of their week.

Wow, when you look at it that way it gives you a whole different perspective. They are wed to wireless for 10% of their week, and you've got to consider that a large percentage of their hours during that same week are spent in sleep!

Yikes ... wonder where my % would land?

So, what are you doing with wireless?

source: cellular-news.com

*** Update:
According to mP, social networks now account for 6.5 percent of all Internet visits. Yep, a big chunk of those 17 hourse (mentioned earlier), are obviously spent on MySpace. By the way, MySpace is still the Big Daddy, and they still have 8x the market share of their closest competitor - Facebook.

ERE Expo 2007: Everything You Need to Know

The biggest ERE Expo of them all is almost here: The 2007 Spring event is officially the largest ERE Expo ever, and will have a record number of attendees, exhibitors, and speakers.

I'll be joining Jim Durbin (President, Durbin Media Group), Heather Hamilton (Staffing Mgr, Marketing - Microsoft) and Joe Grimm (Recruiting and Development Director, Detroit Free Press) for the "Ask the Bloggers" Blogging Panel on Day 2.

I promise you, there will be no way you can sleep through this thing.

Bring your questions and let's talk blogging.

Before you decide to pass on the biggest expo ever, check out Jeremy Eskenazi's post today on ERE. He gives the complete lowdown on the expo - everything you need to know and more.

See you in San Diego,

Dennis

Sr. Manager, Engineering - Development, T-Mobile Nashville, TN

At T-Mobile, we're looking for the next big idea. Yours.

Our job search is on, and we're looking for an extraordinary leader to join us in Nashville, TN as a Senior Manager of Engineering Development (click title for extended job description).

Check out the link, or send me an email expressing your interest.

Geeked-out-slamdunkin-engineering folks only need apply.

Dennis Smith
Sr. Manager, Recruiting
wirelessheadhunter@gmail.com
T-Mobile USA
WirelessJobs.com (Blog)

Social Media Websites in Illustrated Form

Social Media Websites in Illustrated Form

READ THE ARTICLE AT DRIVL.COM

Good is not almost as good as great

Advice from Godin:

"Fire half your sales force."

Because good sales people are not almost as good as great sales people.

I wonder if the same applies to recruiters?

Me thinks so.

Click HERE for the slightly longer version from the purple cow.

The Resume Experiment @ JibberJobber

Just how important is a resume? Well, we're about to find out.

Jason @ JibberJobber has launched a full-scale experiment to help us get to the bottom of this.

He's provided the resume, as well as the experts to help us probe the depths of this $64 question!

Check out the lineup of resume' pro's he's assembled and see if you can match the name to the face:

Alison Doyle, Barbara Safani, Billie Sucher, Carl Chapman, Liz Handlin, Louise Kursmark, and Wendy Terwelp!

I guess it's pretty easy to identify Carl, eh? As he's the only one with the 5 o'clock shadow :)


Nonetheless, this is a great experiment and can teach all of us (especially the active jobseeker!) a thing or two about resume development.

Here's the post for Day 1.

Here's the post for Day 2.

Do yourself a favor, job seeker. Dive in and learn from the experts - it could possibly mean the difference between a job offer and, well, you know.

Tune in tomorrow (same bat time, same bat station), for Day 3 of Jason's Resume Experiment.

Yep, Wireless is Fun

Hey Dan! I absolutely had you in mind when I was writing this post - and I knew you wouldn't disappoint.

Thanks for your comment.

And, yes, I do plan on taking your offer on my next trip to Romania!

Dennis

Cheezhead the Magnificent

Cheezhead: Datester.

Ed McMahon: Datester?

(Cheezhead rips the envelope open and removes the card)

Cheezhead (reading): The name of the new company once IAC buys Facebook and throws Jobster in the mix for fun.

Yep, IAC owns Match.com, the world's biggest online dating and personals property. See, I told you Cheezhead had a sense of humor.

But I didn't realize he was so Carnacesque?

If you don't believe me? Check out his latest post: writing on wall for vertical job search engines?

Jobseeker Warning:
If you visit WirelessJobs.com because you are interested in a new job, don't follow the link. Although this is ridiculously interesting stuff, chances are you might not find it nearly as intriguing as some of my other posts.

If, however, you make your living in the recruiting industry, chances are you've already been to Carnac's Cheezhead's site. If not, beat a quick path - now. I hear that, in the fashion of the great, departed Carnac, he's placing curses on all recruiters who fail to post a job on his job board read his latest post.

Word on the street blog is that the curse is a hideous hex in the likes of,

"May a diseased yak squat in your hot tub."

For the sake of your hot tub, delay no longer.

Recruiting is marketing. Try jobcasting.

GotZapp (mobile social network)

Wireless Duniya posted today about a new mobile social network site called GotZapp.

GotZapp lets users create mini-websites with the "Ziranda" mobile content creator. The "Zapps" (images, text, music) can then be rated, commented on and downloaded by other users.

Cool stuff.

Maybe we'll see some mini job search sites pop up soon.

Recruiting is marketing. Try jobcasting.

Top Ten Job Hunting Myths

Kiplinger's Erin Burt posted these 10 job hunting myths over 2 years ago, and I just found them posted by Clipmark's skwirlinator.

However, many of these ideas have aged well over the past two years and I believe they are relevant for today's college grads.

My commentary is the italicized text below Erin's words of wisdom:

1. Finding a job after college will be quick and easy.
Stevie-baby's been saying this for a long time and nothing has changed.

2. The Internet is the best place to look for a job.
NetworkNetworkNetwork!

3. I'll make at least $40,000 at my first job out of college.
Maybe, but don't pre-spend assuming it to be so. In fact, don't pre-spend period (esp if it's for a car!). Get over it - call Dave Ramsey if you need a good financial slap in the face.

4. There's no room for negotiation with an entry-level salary.
There's no better time to start honing your salary-negotiation-skills.

5. The person who gets hired is the one who can do the job best.
The person who gets hired is just the one who got the offer - plain 'n simple.

6. A well-designed resume' will boost my chances of getting noticed.
There may be some truth to this but I'd still rather take my chances with a well-designed resume. Just ask Louise.

7. What I think of an employer doesn't matter as much as what s/he thinks of me.
When it comes to employer-employee match, it's certainly better if one's heart and head are in sync.

8. If I plaster the Web with my resume', I'll receive more interviews. NETWORKNETWORKNETWORK.

9. If a company isn't currently hiring, I can't get an interview.
If I'm the right person for the job, it matters not whether the company has a current job opening.

10. If I don't know what I want to do after graduation, I should go to graduate school.
Chances are, you'll finish grad school and still not have a clue. But there's many grad schools willing to take your hard-earned $$.

Check out the entire Kiplinger article (with Erin's commentary on each bullet) HERE.