Resume is boring, Story is better

Posted in Careers on August 8th, 2011 by Satish Sallakonda

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Are you one of those who applied for a job with thousand others and have a resume that looks very similar to all of them? If so, then don’t be surprised if you have not heard from your prospective employer. Most resumes look very similar and tend to highlight day-to-day activities, responsibilities. While these are [...]

Does your email style support your brand?

Posted in Insight on July 5th, 2011 by Meg Bear

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Those of you who are top of your game are already well aware of your brand.   You manage it closely and you tune it to meet your professional needs. One thing you might want to add to your thinking is your email style. If you haven’t heard that email is killing everyone, you are probably [...]

Facebook for Professional Networking

Posted in Industry on June 27th, 2011 by Satish Sallakonda

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Like me, you have probably read dozens of articles that speak on how LinkedIn is primarily for professional networking and Facebook for personal sharing and pictures. Not any more, the line is blurred. Today, Monster announced Professional Networking Application on Facebook Platform. Monster is not the first mover, BranchOut came out with professional networking app [...]

Is online recruiting social?

Posted in Insight on June 13th, 2011 by Satish Sallakonda

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I recently had a chance to attend Recruiting Innovation Summit held at LinkedIn Headquarters in May’2011. The session “Behind The Wall with Social Recruiting” by Susan Strayer, David Kippen started off with an interesting  question “Recruiting isn’t social until you take it offline“.  The audience were asked to wear a tag to indicate if they [...]

Thought leaders in Recruiting

Posted in Insight on April 27th, 2011 by Satish Sallakonda

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HR Examiner published their latest edition of Top 25 Online Influencers in the recruiting industry. As John Sumser rightly pointed out in the article “The HRExaminer is helping us understand who we need to talk to and who makes things tick in HR.” While John and his team are working hard to put up this [...]