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52% of US Companies Will Add Jobs in the Next Year

January 26, 2012 By mbyrd

by Jessica Miller-Merrell, originally posted on 1/26/2012 in Blogging for Jobs With research from Talent Technology (www.talenttech.com), Jessica Miller-Merrell summarized the finding of the State of Recruiting Survey for 2012. In her summary, Jessica states that online recruiting and Job Boards are the most effective means of hiring – but she (and Talent Technology) includes the professional networking site LinkedIn.com into this category… Some of her findings: All signs are pointing towards an improving economy and yesterday’s release of Talent Technology’s State of Recruiting for 2012 supports what many in the industry are seeing. Business is happening. Hiring and adding new staff is in the … [Read more...]

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Job Search Advice: You at Your Best vs You at Your Average

December 30, 2011 By mbyrd

Originally published on Dec 28 2011 by Phil Rosenberg (Reposted with permission) Employers expect you will present your best … so why do most job seekers present yourselves at your average? Of course, you don’t intentionally undersell yourself. However, there are many ingrained job search habits we’ve all been taught, that present us as average rather than as superior. We’ve been taught to sell ourselves at our average We learned most of our body of knowledge of job search from placement and career offices, starting with our College/Grad school placement office – even High School placement offices teach much of the same stuff. From the Great Depression up until the end of 2007, there was a valid assumption … [Read more...]

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The 2011 Top 5 Trends, Tools, Tips and Preps for Your Job Search

December 30, 2011 By mbyrd

It’s the end of the year and the calendar tells us we have the opportunity for a fresh start, a new beginning and a clean slate for the New Year. For new job seekers and for people still searching for that right position, this can be daunting. At Booyango, we are dedicated to helping job seekers find meaningful employment, and helping companies find better talent solutions. We have put a lot of time and effort into bringing our reader’s valuable content that can help them find a better job, hone their interviewing skills, find resources for their job search and have brought them the wisdom of the experts through our blog postings. In 2011, we posted 86 articles - our own and others’ - of outstanding content addressing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Booyango Community Blog, Employment Trends, Employment Trends, Guest Blogs, Mac's Journal, Tech Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: Advice, career, employment, interview, Jobs, network, research, Resource, resume, Search, Tips, Trends, work

Hope Floats – and so does the opportunity of Success

December 19, 2011 By mbyrd

Can we find any stability in a rapidly changing environment? Can we find Economic stability; Career stability, Family stability; Spiritual stability? We’ve all suffered from the bumps and jostles to our finances, our careers and our egos in the last year – from ridiculously high-unemployment, to the Wall Street Occupation; from the Arab Spring to the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami; from flat take-home-pay, to slight increases in personal spending; from gridlocked government, to the resurrection of the .com venture-capital and IPO boom. And let’s not forget the failure of trickle-down economics and the demise of the American Dream. This last year, we have had to accept that the global economy is not coming back to what it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Booyango Community Blog, Employment Trends, Employment Trends, Guest Blogs, Mac's Journal, Tech Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: Accept, Change, Hope, Learn, Live, Opportunities, Reality, Stability, success

Marketing Is a Profit Center

December 12, 2011 By mbyrd

by Thaddeus B. Kubis, November 2011 (reprinted with permission) As a business owner today, you need a clear and concise perspective on offline and online media, interactive and interaction tools, and the latest communication trends and emerging technologies. Also, you must be able to support your choices with measurable results. Today, in addition to achieving results, prerequisites for any marketer include tracking, return on investment (ROI), accountability, and marketing automation. The media you select need to be media your customer will actually use. Placing ads, managing an e-mail effort, and running a blog will not guarantee a successful media or marketing effort. What will turn your marketing effort into a profit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Booyango Community Blog, Employment Trends, Employment Trends, Guest Blogs, Mac's Journal, Tech Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: Customer, Effort, Marketing, Media, Percent, Profit, Program, response, Results, Sales

Where to Find the Truth about Job Searching

December 6, 2011 By mbyrd

I have a friend named Allison Green. I don’t really know her and I’ve never met her, but I consider her my friend. Alison is my friend because she doesn’t hesitate to tell me (and all of her subscribers) the cold hard truth from her perspective. Don’t real friends do that - give you the truth even when you don’t want to hear it? Well, I thought I knew a thing or two about Job Searching – I mean, heck, I’ve been writing about it here for Booyango, I have personally had over 17 different jobs in the last 40 years (I started working at a VERY early age!), interviewed and hired over 200 people, and helped develop in-house hiring procedures for 4 major multinational companies and a bunch of smaller ones. Yep, I thought … [Read more...]

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A Story of Thanksgiving, but not exclusively a Thanksgiving Story

November 27, 2011 By mbyrd

Danielle LaPorte has a blog called White Hot Truth. In it, she writes about her experiences in such a style that it comes as revelations to her readers. Last week’s blog, although not necessarily about Thanksgiving, did have the setting of a dinner party with a diverse group of people with different interests and different passions. Kinda sounds like all of our families gathering around the dinner table for a Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner, right? Well, if you read her story, I’ll bet you can relate back to her title very easily – “Respecting Your Natural Ability and Your Never, Never, Evers” and I’ll also bet you will make the same connection to Thanksgiving that I did. Her story goes like this: respecting your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Booyango Community Blog, Employment Trends, Employment Trends, Guest Blogs, Mac's Journal, Tech Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ability, blog, Danielle LaPorte, Dinner, Natural, Runner, Story, Thanksgiving, White Hot Truth

Career Ownership: The Time is Now

November 11, 2011 By mbyrd

By Janine Moon, reposted with permission As the economy has moved from Industrial-base to an information/conceptual/ service-base, the concept of “career” has not shifted to align with the realities of a very different business model. Although gold watches and retirement parties are almost non-existent, people still look to organizations for the security and the career model of the 20th century. (As evidence, consider the numbers of people who see their downsizing from a victim mentality.) People still expect that their organization (manager) will define their deficiencies, pay for their training and education and put them on a career path that proves their worth. Few, if any, within an organization would ever claim … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Booyango Community Blog, Employment Trends, Employment Trends, Guest Blogs, Mac's Journal, Tech Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alignment, business, career, Employee, Janine Moon, Model, Organization, Ownership, work