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

Helping to Put Magic in Your Job Search

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 Trends, Tools, Tips and Preparation around employment.  Here is a compilation of the 5 most popular articles is each category:

TRENDS

1. 7 Life-Changing Job Trends You Need to Know About
2. The Relationship of Greed, Slow Growth and High Unemployment
3. A Talent Exodus for the Rest of Us
4. Mastering the New Freelance Economy
5. Beyond the Resume – A Different Approach to Job Search

TOOLS

1. 6 Tips for Using the SIGNAL Feature on LinkedIn
2. How to Prepare a 30 Second Elevator Speech
3. The Long and Short of Personal Branding and Work
4. 9 Key Elements of a Smart Game Plan When Changing Professions Mid-Career
5. Loving your Doubts: Alert, Humble and Hungry

TIPS

1. Three Keys to Success for Job Seekers Born in the 50s or 60s
2. What Information Should NOT be Shared with HR
3. Hidden Gems – Cold Calling and How to Improve a Job Search
4. The Swimming Pool Rules of Networking
5. 15 Basic Resume Tips

PREPARATION

1. 3 Secrets to Holding the Attention of a Hiring Manager
2. The 1^st Step in Landing a New Job – Ignite Your Network
3. The 7 Career Commandments of Dilbert
4. 6 Steps and Recommendations for your Job Search
5. 10 Sure-fire Ways to Boost Your Job Search

We hope you have enjoyed these articles and have found them useful, stimulating or entertaining.  We encourage you to wander around on our site and find other articles that will help you and guide you to a successful search and placement.  And we will continue to bring more articles to our readers in 2012, along with a new Online Talent and Opportunity Network that is different from all others.  We can’t wait to share it with you early next year.

We wish you all health, happiness and prosperity in 2012.

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Employment, Jobs, Work, Advice, Tips, Trends, Research, Resource, Career, Search, Resume, Interview, Network

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