LinkedIn, Referrals, Social Recruiting and Job Boards Effectiveness

How important is LinkedIn, other social networks, referrals, and company career web pages to your successful job search and how dismal are job boards?

The “New 2013 Social Recruiting Survey” by Jobvite as well as CarreerXRoads 2013 Source of Hire survey strongly supports the job search advice from Transition to Hired: network, get referrals, get insiders to refer you, have a social presence online that boosts your professional image, focus on LinkedIn, and if applying to jobs apply through the employers’ career pages and forget the job boards. Continue Reading →

How to change the conversation with yourself, take action and get hired?

In my work as a job search trainer I see first-hand how people come up with reason after reason to justify their passive approach to job search, which usually is characterized by sending out resume after resume and hoping their resume is the one that gets picked rather than taking an active approach to uncovering hidden jobs through networking and direct target marketing. Continue Reading →