7 Tips for Improving Your Social Skills (to get the job you want)

Tom Stern, creator CEODAD.com and FastCompany blogger pointed me to a new book: 150 Best Jobs for Your Skills by Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin.
The book identifies the top ten skills that are the most important in today’s economy, based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor and the latest O*NET. It also reminds us that, according to an NCDA Gallup Poll, 54 percent of professionals feel they are not using their skills in their current job.
Interesting statistic. Over half of us believe we’re not using our skills in our current job?! If that’s really true, the loss of productivity (as a result), just blows me away.
Maybe it’s just the way that I’m wired, but I can’t figure out why somebody would stay in a role when they didn’t believe they were using their skills. If not from using our skills, then from what/where does one derive their sense of satisfaction?
The authors also identified social skills as the number one requirement for the fastest-growing opportunities out there. No surprise. Although it does concern me a bit as I consider this generation of gamers, myspacers, texters, who spend precious little time involved in face-to-face communication.

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Students, Make a Name for Yourself

In the past year, this guy has done more to impact my professional career than anybody else on the planet.
Really.
And he just wrote his fourth book.
And you can buy it HERE, and HERE.
Or, you can download the complete book HERE, for free (just read through his post and you’ll find the link that says, “right now.”
That’s the one you click.
Why should you read it?
Well, as Scott says,

“If you don’t make a name for yourself, someone will make one for you.”

Job Search for College Grads

Interesting insight from Experience Inc’s fifth annual College Graduate Survey.
More than 2,800 graduating seniors took Experience’s online poll, and nearly 50% of those who had already started their job searches at the time of the survey were still looking. The results, released in early April, also showed that only 22% of these students had offers in hand. Another 15% planned to continue on to graduate school, and 10% had yet to begin searching.
So, college grad, where are you?
Dennis Smith
T-Mobile USA
Sr. Manager, Recruiting
WirelessJobs.com – blog

Light the Birthday Candles for….

… Mr. Steven Rothberg, the King of College Recruiting!
Dennis
T-Mobile USA
WirelessJobs.com
*by the way…did you know you share the same birthday as David Cassady? You are one lucky man.

How to Get Bloggers to Talk About You

Could this also say,
“How to Get Recruiters to Talk About You?”
See Job Search Lessons From American Idol.
Dennis Smith
Executive Recruiting Manager
T-Mobile USA
WirelessJobs.com

Can Blogging Help You Get a New Job?

Sarah E. Needleman (Associate editor for CareerJournal.com) posts a nice article in today’s WSJ (subscription required) about blogging and how it can help you get a new job.
Here’s a short excerpt:

Corporate recruiters have long surfed the Web to vet potential hires, but now they are also surfing blogs to unearth job candidates, expanding their talent pool and gaining insights they say they can’t get from r√©sum√©s and interviews.

If you are a recruiter and you aren’t surfing the blogs, you are already behind the eight ball.
If you are surfing the blogs but aren’t making hires, at a minimum, you are putting yourself in great networking stead.
And, personally, I’m finding no greater opportunity than blogs, for developing relationships with candidates for future opportunities.

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Elvis to Headline @ EREexpo 2007 (San Diego)

C’mon, meet me @ EREexpo 2007 and we’ll talk Recruiting and eat a coupla’ Peanut Butter ‘n Banana sandwiches, eh?
It doesn’t get much better than that.

Dennis Smith
Sr. Manager, Recruiting
T-Mobile USA
WirelessJobs.com

The Fastest Job Search in History

Chris Norton shows you 2 easy steps to get the job of your dreams.
In fact, Chris video-chronicles his job search from beginning to end, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a successful job search go down nearly as fast.
Big-time thanks to Chris.
This is going to revolutionize the job search industry.
Dennis Smith
T-Mobile USA
Sr. Manager, Recruiting
www.WirelessJobs.com

Job Seeker: Make Your Best Job Interview Your Last One

Scott Ginsberg posted this morning about his beloved Cardinals.
Actually, the post isn’t about the Cards so much, but he uses the Cards season opener as a platform to encourage us to be more like David Eckstein.

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The ERE Streaker … it’s just a fad, right?

With all due respect to David Manaster, I couldn’t help but post this pic.

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