The News Review:
- Learn small talk — it’s good for your career
- How to get effective references and testimonials
- Career management firms under ethics scrutiny
- Last Lesson for College Grads: How to Find a Job in a Recession
- Career Step Partners with SUNY range County Community College to …
Learn small talk — it’s good for your career
CNN International
Your work relationships are your wealth at work" Eisaguirre reminds. "Especially in this age of downsizing you need to maintain your relationships. It’s something that no one can take away from you even if you leave your current employment. Relationships are built though conversations. " Think about the amount of people supervisors C-levels and other executives encounter each day. Even with the best memory and great personal skills they’re bound to forget names. But if you’re the person that bonded with them over funny stories about your children or had a lengthy conversation about a current event they’re more likely to remember you.
How to get effective references and testimonials
Examiner.com
If you are leaving your current job acquiring that reference may be out of the question. But don’t panic-next in line would be a close work colleague. Due to tenuous work environments today perhaps you could offer the favor of swapping references for one another-everyone no matter their current employment status should always be armed with solid reputable references. If you work for a large corporation getting people to provide references who can provide more than just dates of employment may prove difficult. Corporate human resources departments fear law suits or inconsistencies within the organization and may instruct associates to simply provide dates of employment versus lengthy descriptions of your work attitude personality or ability to play well with others. If this is the case ask for references from freelancers within the department you may have worked with or ask other associates within the firm if they can vouch for you on LinkedIn. If you’re a freelancer you have the opportunity to have very diverse references from every client you work with on a freelance basis.
Career management firms under ethics scrutiny
Examiner.com
Fischman’s case they contact job seekers after they post their résumés. They usually focus on professionals and managers massaging their egos by boasting that they accept only the most marketable candidates. Some companies place advertisements that appear to be job postings but instead are lures for sales pitches.
Last Lesson for College Grads: How to Find a Job in a Recession
San Diego Business Journal
f the 6200 who received questionnaires a mere 18 percent responded down from 54 percent among 2300 who graduated in December. The reason for the lackluster response rate for the most recent survey was readily apparent to at least one academic official. Dwindling employment opportunities were discouraging job seekers said James Tarbox San Diego State’s career services director. But he didn’t need the numbers to know how bad it is. “When you talked to staff and students especially the ones graduating you’d hear that they weren’t starting the job search process” he said. SDSU’s spring career fair also took a hit. “We usually have about 1400 employers and this time there were about 25 percent less” he said.
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Career Step Partners with SUNY range County Community College to …
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Gramm also stated that the school partnered with Career Step because range County is becoming a hub for medical facilities and offices. Career Step has been successfully training medical transcriptionists for over 15 years and the Career Step medical transcription program is designed to help students gain the knowledge and skills they need to gain employment as an in-house or work-at-home medical transcriptionist. SUNY range will be holding an informational pen House on August 19 from 6 to 8 p. in Harriman Hall Room 313 at 115 South Street Middletown N.