Hope for the Tech Sector: Boom Again?

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Search Results

So I set up an e-mail alert for jobs with a popular career messganing board. I put in words like , writer, copyeditor and editor into the search field, and every day I get sales jobs sent to me. This has been going on for about two weeks, and I tell you what I am turning the e-mail alerts off. Its a waste of my time. if they dont have anything that matches my listings, why not just send it empty. I think sales jobs must show up for everyone. Who ever designed that system should have to get the search results sent to them every day.

100 Best Companies to Work For

While many employers will say that their place of employment is better than any other other, it is one thing to talk-the-talk, but another thing to walk-the-walk. I can’t think of a better indicator of a best place to work than the opinions of those who actually work there. Fortune recently surveyed employees across the country to come up with a list of the 100 best companies to work for.
Let me guess. Google is at the top of the list, right? Wrong. Well, it is on the list, right? Wrong again. Google doesn’t even make the list. But Genentech does and it lands in the number one position. Never heard of them? Well, you’re not alone but you’ve heard of them now. They’re a biotechnology firm in South San Francisco and 95 percent of their employees are also shareholders. Their two most common jobs are salaried Research Associates, who earn an average of $69,425, and hourly Manufacturing BioProcess Technicians, who earn an average of $47,817.
The 100 best companies to work for are:

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Career Reality Videos

Ever wanted to get a better feeling for what it is really like to work in a particular career field or for a particular employer? Then you may want to check out the Alumni Career Reality Videos on the web site of the University at Buffalo, which is a State University of New York school. The videos show University at Buffalo alunni in real workplaces and are designed to help students make better career decisions by providing insightful information regarding their professions.
Current videos include alumni who are accountants, mechanical engineers, physical therapists, district managers, entertainment and marketing coordinators, and pharmaceutical sales representatives.

Law School Applications Drop

For the first time since the 1997-98 admissions cycle, the number of applicants to law schools dropped last year and another decrease is expected for the 2006-07 cycle. In 2004-05, only 95,800 prospective law school students applied, which was 4.6 percent fewer than in 2003-04. This year’s numbers are not yet complete, but according to the New York Times, this year is running about 10 percent behind last year.
So why are fewer students applying to law school? One reason is that the economy has improved significantly over the past few years so fewer undergraduate seniors feel compelled to go to law school or any other graduate school.

Accidental Networking

Everyone around me (here, my friends, my school, my boss) talks about networking like it’s a calculated, pre-planned formula. I always tell people I’m horrible at networking, and I am.
I’m horrible at their kind of networking. You know, where you map out an agenda of people you want to impress and follow-up with them regularly. It sounds all well and good, really, and kudos to those who can do it, but it’s hard for me. The whole idea of that kind of networking feels… wrong. Cheesy. A bit like using people. Also, a bit of an imposition – like I’d be bugging them. (While I think that sometimes people take networking too far and are impositions, most of the time, it’s perfectly fine. So, I see this as my own unfair discomfort and judgment on the practice and nothing more.)
However, to say I’ve never “networked” is probably a bit of a stretch.

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CollegeRecruiter.com Founder to Participate in Blogging Panel at Kennedy Information’s Recruiting Conference and Expo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 27, 2006 — Technology changes such as blogs (web logs) make the employment world more “connected.” On Thursday, May 11, 2006 at the Las Vegas Hilton, Steven Rothberg, President and Founder of http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com will join John Sumser, Founder and President of Interbiznet.com; Denis Smith, Talent Acquisition Manager of T-Mobile; and Jim Durbin, Director of Corporate Communications at Durbin Media Group in a panel discussion on why recruiting departments need to blog.

“Today’s web-savvy candidates want to know the real scoop behind the companies they want to work for, and traditional employment sites that present a static and unresponsive face to the world won’t cut it anymore,” said Panel Moderator, Jason Davis of Recruiting.com. “If an organization’s career site fails to speak to the needs and wants of the best candidates, then the site will actually discourage applications from highly qualified candidates,” said Rothberg. “A blog can help develop an audience which will become interested in your knowledge, your experiences, and the reason you go to work each day. A blog will help you to build a pipeline of top level candidates who want to hear from you on a regular basis, even if they are not yet ready to make an employment change. In short, a blog will help you engage the star candidates – the ones that truly make a difference in any organization.”

As the President and Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com, the highest traffic career site used by job-hunting students and recent graduates and the employers who want to hire them, Rothberg truly understands how important it is to build a sense of community. “Everything matters when it comes to your employer brand; everything matters when it comes to your ability to recruit and more importantly, to attract the best employees,” said Rothberg. “Every interaction your organization has with prospective employees matters. Each moment of truth shapes how your employer brand is perceived in the labor market, and if a blog is done right, you will be able to communicate with potential employees on a regular basis simply because you are willing to put yourself out there and say, ‘This is why we work here and this is why you should consider our company as your next place of employment.’ If you’re not using blogs as part of your recruiting strategy, then you’re like most organizations – you’re using a recruiting engine that is firing on only one cylinder.”

During the panel discussion, Rothberg will provide real life examples on how the introduction last September of the award winning CollegeRecruiter.com Blog has enhanced the efforts of CollegeRecruiter.com to be the leading job board for college students and recent graduates. Currently, CollegeRecruiter.com has two award winning blogs and recently launched its sixth blog: CollegeRecruiter.com Insights by Resume Writing Experts Blog. These blogs are not about fulfilling journalistic fantasies. They’re about putting a face to the organization and improving the ability of visitors to CollegeRecruiter.com to interact with the staff, clients, and candidates who use the site.

“We’re excited to have Steven Rothberg as a speaker at the Kennedy Information’s Recruiting 2006 Conference and Expo,” said Matt Lyons, Director of Recruiting Products, Kennedy Information. “We know he will provide great insight on how and why employers should use blogs to advance their recruitment efforts, enhance their employment brands, and recruit those hard to find passive candidates.”

About CollegeRecruiter.com

CollegeRecruiter.com is the highest traffic career site used by job-hunting
students and recent graduates and the employers who want to hire them. Three
million visitors per month use the CollegeRecruiter.com network of career
sites to find part-time positions, summer jobs, internships and career
opportunities. CollegeRecruiter.com features tens of thousands of job
openings and over 3,500 pages of employment-related articles and Ask the
Experts questions and answers. Further information about
CollegeRecruiter.com is available at
http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com/pages/press-room.php.

CONTACT INFO:

CollegeRecruiter.com
Steven Rothberg
3109 W 50 St Ste 121
Minneapolis, MN 55410-2102
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Phone: 800-835-4989
Fax: 702-537-2227
Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com
http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com

Slow Week

Its been a slow week for job openings that are what I am looking for. I am considering just writing cold letters (ones with no specific opening) but I am not quite sure how to do that without it looking ike spam.
Also in my general rantings- my department just cahnged managers, and now we are training four new nurses who have come down from the floors with her. They dont even have enough staff to train them. I was annoyed when they kept me on training for two months (turned out it was so I could finish the telemetry c lass) but now looking at this I’m grateful.

50 Best Jobs in America

The good folks over at CNNMoney.com have been at it again. This time they’ve come out with a list of the 50 best jobs in America. While some such as college professor were of no surprise to me, others were. For example, I know that the job market has bounced back for information technology workers, but how many people would have expected software engineers to rank first? Or computer analysts to rank as high as seventh? And just where on the list is owner of a college job board? Hmmm.
The list, with no further editorializing:
1. Software engineer
2. College professor
3. Financial advisor
4. Human resources manager
5. Physician assistant
6. Market research analyst
7. Computer/IT analyst
8. Real estate appraiser
9. Pharmacist
10. Psychologist

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A botch?

Well, that ended kind of badly.
I submitted my resume to over a dozen places at a job fair recently, and recieved an e-mail from someone asking me to confirm having an interview … yesterday. Only, due to techological malfunctions and the sheer volume of stuff I had to do for classes over the weekend, I didn’t recieve it until tonight.
I went ahead and e-mailed the person back on the slim hopes that they’re not too annoyed with me, but my hopes are fairly low at this point. And it’s kind of frustrating to me, too, especially because I normally pride myself on being very quick at replying to business-related e-mails, because with graduation ticking down, every opportunity is one that I want to follow to its fullest.
The fact that this totally botched is rather vexing. Hopefully, they’ll give me another chance, but man, my own expectations are low at this point. (Even on the chances that they have a grace period, replying THIS late to the e-mail in question probably doesn’t reflect too well upon me.)
Hopefully some of the other interviews I’m trying to set up or schedule will pan out better. Here’s to the triumph of hope over experience every time!