JobActs

Find Jobs:  Employers use telephone interviews as a way of identifying and recruiting candidates for employment. Phone interviews are often used to screen candidates in order to narrow the pool of applicants who will be invited for in-person interviews. They are also used as way to minimize the expenses involved in interviewing out-of-town candidates. While you're actively job searching, it's important to be prepared for a phone interview on a moment's notice. You never know when a recruiter or a networking contact might call and ask if you have a few minutes to talk. Review these tips, then take a l...

Money Saver:  I recently asked a question on LinkedIn about online recruiting and the best strategies hiring managers and recruiters use to find candidates. Granted, I was asking a captive audience, but every respondent suggested that LinkedIn was an excellent tool for finding candidates, and, a good resource for finding jobs, as well. The Importance of Your LinkedIn Profile One of the most important parts of LinkedIn is your profile. That's what you use to connect with people in your network and your profile is how you get found on LinkedIn by potential employers. In addition, your L...

Career Advice:  I would have to say one of the biggest problems that job candidates have today is movement on their resume. Regardless to what skills you possess, or the fact that you passed your CPA exam at the first sitting, clients want to see stability on a resume. They want to make sure if they invest in you that you are going to stay with them and not split for the next passing ship. Whenever we submit a candidate who has been with a company for a short period of time or with a series of companies for a short period of time, we always have to explain the movement in detail and “justify” why our...