Cross-Post and CollegeRecruiter.com Partner On Newspaper Offering

Partnership helps newspapers greatly increase their classified advertising revenues by offering their employer clients a product to reach the early career and college market.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN AND SAN DIEGO, CA (November 30, 2009) – Cross-Post LLC, the California-based recruitment advertising company that helps newspapers increase their classified advertising revenues, today announced a partnership with Minneapolis-based CollegeRecruiter.com. Together, the recruitment-focused companies will offer an Early Career / College Job Posting Network to newspapers who will then in turn sell job postings to their employer clients which are interested in hiring interns, entry-level employees, or recent college graduates with zero to three years of experience
Cross-Post is the leading provider of niche-focused recruitment up-sells to newspapers with Cross-Post’s Diversity, Healthcare and Nursing networks. In all, 52 papers use Cross-Post products to generate hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars of additional profits with zero up-front investment.

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A Flight Attendant’s Salary Doesn’t Soar, But the Perks Could Give You a Lift

Flight attendant is one of many jobs for which a bachelor’s degree is not required; however, applicants with college degrees can easily edge out their competition. If they have customer service experience, too, they’re even more valuable. Since the first female flight attendant, hired by United Airlines in 1930, was a registered nurse, applicants with nursing degrees and/or experience would also be highly valued, as would anyone with education or experience in people-centric areas like:

• psychology
• communications
• sociology
• anthropology
• police or fire science
• travel and tourism
• hospitality
• education

People who enjoy traveling might see flight attendant as a dream job. But there’s more to being a flight attendant than traveling. It’s a demanding, treacherous profession requiring one to maintain a calm, pleasant demeanor in stressful situations; be willing to relocate; and be available to work nights, holidays and weekends.

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Personal Branding Interview: Jason Fried

Today, I spoke to Jason Fried, who is the co-founder and President of 37signals. In this interview, Jason talks about how simplicity is so important when it comes to products, his views on personal branding, web 2.0, the future, and more.
Your brand is based on simplicity and your products represent that. Why is simplicity so effective?
Simple is effective because it’s usually all that’s required. Plus simple is easy to understand. It’s approachable, easy to try, it makes sense, and it’s usually true. Most people’s problems are simple problems until someone makes them complicated. We try to make them simple.

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A Googol of Internships? Well, Not Yet.

Many students want to land internships with reputable companies, and Google, an international company headquartered in Mountain View, CA, is not only reputable, but the name also carries a certain level of prestige that could easily enhance an entry level resume. Google placed fourth on Fortune’s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2009, dropping three places from the top position it held in 2008. First place this year went to NetApp, a shared storage company based in Sunnyvale, CA.
With more than 750,000 candidates applying to work there, it’s safe to say that Google is still very much in the game. Although we know it’s impossible to please everyone, Google seems to be one company that really tries. Most of their 12,000 plus U.S. employees are happy with their professional lot in life. Google’s company culture is one that fosters learning and connecting with coworkers. Internships are at once challenging and empowering as new ideas are always welcomed, regardless of who presents them. Those ideas that are deemed practicable are used and the originator gets due credit. But if an idea is rejected, it’s done in such a way that the person who came up with it feels encouraged to try again.

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Secrets to Getting More Referrals – Part 2

Increasing Your “Referability” Factor
Getting referrals and attracting opportunities from people you connect with both in person and online comes down to being highly referable.
Last week I posed some questions to help you assess your referability factor. The first three test whether you’re giving contacts enough information to make the referral:

• Can contacts reach you?
• Can they describe what you do?
• Do they know whom to tell?

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Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Pink

Today, I spoke to Daniel Pink, who is the New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, and the author of the new book called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which arrives in late December. This is one of his first interviews before his new book comes out, so we spoke about how he was influenced to write it, what his thesis is, and then dove deep into what drives people.
What influenced you to write “Drive” and how does it connect with the message in your previous books?
I actually wrote a little about motivation in both FREE AGENT NATION and in JOHNNY BUNKO. But it was the central idea in A WHOLE NEW MIND — that we’re moving to a world where creative, conceptual, empathic abilities matter most — that really got me thinking. How do people develop those sorts of abilities? That question led me to the science motivation — and the answers I found surprised me.

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Tips to Avoid Making Typos

Don’t you hate sending a document and realizing after the fact that you made one typo … or more?! I have three tricks that I use on a regular basis when I write. These tricks allow me to produce writings that are more coherent and also allow me to catch typos along the way. Here they are:

• Print a paper copy instead of reading directly from the computer screen. I find it much harder to read slowly when I read directly from the computer screen because it puts more strain on my eyes and, subconsciously, induces me to read faster. That may actually be one of the reasons why our attention span is shorter when we browse the Web. Further, printing a paper copy allows me to make corrections with a red pen, including reorganizing sentences and paragraphs.
• Leave your report, resume or whatever you wrote aside until the next morning. This will help you put things in perspective. In the heat of the moment, you may think that what you wrote makes perfect sense and you may feel the impulse to finalize it and send it out right away. Big mistake. Unless it is a pressing matter, leave what you wrote aside for the next morning or when you are normally at your peak. When your eyes are rested and your mind is fresh, read through what you wrote again and, I can almost guarantee it, you will find things that can be improved.
• Read backward. When reading “the usual way,” we tend to assume things and that’s how we overlook typographical errors. The way to counter this is to read backward. If you read backward, you will realize that you no longer assume things and will see the letters as they are. Yes, I wrote “letters” and not “words.” That’s exactly the problem when we read; once our brain recognizes a word, it tends to shift its attention to the following word. That’s how typos are overlooked.

If you follow these three simple tricks, you will bring your writing skills a notch higher, guaranteed!
Article by John Sylo and courtesy of WorkBloom, an employment blog incorporating a comprehensive career resources section, including the largest database of professionally written resume and cover letter samples on the Web.

Four Ways to Tame Your Timewasters

At this time of year in colder climates there’s a brisk trade in caulk, weather-stripping and plastic wrapping for your windows.
It’s all designed to stop leaks, to keep the cold air out and the warm air in.
Don’t you wish there was something like that for your time?
Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as putty to plug up the holes in your schedule, but there are ways you can tame your timewasters. Here are four of them:
Add It Up & Get Real – Often we waste time by trying to do more than is feasible. Often we don’t have a clear idea of what we want to accomplish in a given amount of time, and we get even foggier about how long it takes to do something. Try making lists of what you want to do in a day, along with realistic time estimates. Yes, realistic. Don’t shave time off your estimate because you’ll be trying really hard. Add up the hours it will take to do your day’s work. If your total for the day is more than you have available, re-think your schedule. When your plans are in line with what you can actually accomplish, you won’t feel like you’re spinning your wheels as much.

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How important is work/life balance to you while seeking employment? How do you convey the need for this balance to employers?

For me work/life balance is very important. For me, it is vital to have sufficient downtime so that I can “recharge” enough to continue being productive. If I am working practically 24/7, I will get burned out, and, additionally, that kind of stress will affect my health; and we all know a sick worker is NOT a productive worker. So, I think that for companies that require round-the-clock service they should implement shifts, which would help staff to be able to have a normative (rather than unpredictable hours) workday (or work night), and allow for people to balance work and life.

– Submitted by M. S. from Bronx, New York, United States through the CollegeRecruiter.com Career Blog Application on Facebook.com.

Giving Thanks for Your Motivated Skills – Help Others Learn About Theirs

Take a few moments to identify your motivated skills – and ask a friend or family member to do the same for themselves. Ask yourself, what 2-5 “good experiences” in or outside of work have you had where:

• you feel you did something well,
• you enjoyed doing it, and
• feel proud of it.

And for each one, ask yourself:

• what did you do?
• how did you do it?
• what happened?

Voila! You now have a practical list of your motivated skills – for use anywhere – at home, at work, on your resume. And be thankful for your unique gifts.
Were you surprised when you realized there were skills you do well, feel proud of, but don’t enjoy? It might steer you in some different directions – at home or at work. Please feel free share this positive, useful activity with everyone you know.
And for such a positive contribution to career development, thank Drs. Bernard and Jean Haldane and Dr. Jerald Forster for their work with Dependable Strengths, on which this activity is based. I just ordered Dr. Forster’s new book, “Articulating Strengths Together” and will be reviewing it on the blog next month.
Article by, Juliet Wehr Jones, J.D. and courtesy of Career Key, striving to help all people make the best career choices, worldwide.