Your Resume may be Great, what about your Social Media
It may not be your resume holding you back from getting that dream job;
It could be your Social Media
With the high levels of unemployment and the competition for the limited number of jobs available, you may have to rethink your employment-marketing plan. Yes, your employment-marketing plan. As with any item that is bought, sold or traded, you too are a product being offered to an employer. That means that from every angle an employer can view you, you should have the features and offer the benefits that set you apart from the crowd. In many cases that means having the education, the certifications, and the experience to be the product the customer wants to buy. You might have all the bells and whistles that the employer is looking for to fill the open position, only to find out that they may have selected a different candidate for the job. Why you ask, it could be the information collected from Social Medias, such as Face Book, LinkedIn, MySpace or the other numerous Social Media programs on the internet today.
Employers today are getting more and more perceptive on ways to research your background without running expensive background checks, credit reports and criminal history records prior to ever offering you an interview.
Several ways that you can protect yourself is to make sure the only information people can find is positive information. Think of it this way; is this information the kind of information I would like my Grandmother to see about me? Companies do this all the time and spend a great deal of money removing or burying information that is derogatory about their company and you should too.
Some areas that you should focus on; include age, extreme political views, extracurricular activities that may not be deemed suitable or acceptable that could be listed in your Social Media listing. In addition, friends, comments or photos that may be on your Social Media profile or wall can be disastrous to your job search. Several ways to protect yourself is to simply delete your profile completely and not use these Social Medias, but this too can be nearly impossible to achieve since the data is not deleted, but simply hidden from view. Other ways include not allowing anyone outside your group of friends to view the data. That means you need to verify that everyone in your friends, colleague, or associate lists are actually people you know and trust.
Remember, there are great things about the “Information Age”, but sometimes too much information can hurt your reputation and your chances of getting your dream job.
Scott Christianson
2010
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davidlee 4:19 PM on 11/06/2011 Permalink
The American Jobs Program.
It’s time to face the reality that sustainable job growth can not be created through infrastructure rebuilding, certainly it will create jobs in the short term, but it will also create a heavier tax burden on it’s citizens, corporations and individuals of the US.
The only way to create jobs in the US is to return many of the jobs back to the US through manufacturing, technology and services. Over the last 20 years the American people have seen millions of jobs leave the US, through off-shoring. Estimating conservatively that 200 thousands jobs per year over the last 20 years have left the US amounts to 4 million jobs, and this is a conservative estimate, reference http://www.greatjob.org/offshoring.html. This situation has been caused by many factors, lower salaries in foreign countries, reduced restrictions on pollution, and emerging markets. Unfortunately, the government has not had the foresight to be proactive enough to secure legislation that could have help stem the tide of jobs leaving the US.
How to fix it.
The government needs to reduce the advantage to moving jobs to other countries by offering incentives to companies that either keep jobs in the US or reward companies that have returned jobs to the US or increase the overall cost incurred for moving jobs from the US.
The Problem:
With the advent of high speed telecommunication it has become more affordable to allow companies to send jobs overseas than it is to hire in the US, many of the jobs include programmers, network administration, customer service, accounting and data storage. This issue will continue to be a problem as long as international companies can see a cost saving by off-shoring these positions.
One solution:
Increase telecommunication fees and taxes for calls and data communication that is rerouted overseas, this is a major cause for many of the Data Communications Careers and Customer Services jobs leaving the US. It is far too easy and cost effective to reroute a call to an American company based in Chicago to countries with call centers on foreign soil, when the companies are able to pay half if not less than then half the salary they would be paying to a US worker. This also gives larger organizations an unfair advantage over smaller businesses that simply can not afford the luxury of building a foreign call center.
Increase funds to universities and college for research and development, this has a three pong advantage. One effect would be to increase funds available to financially strengthen our universities, second the technology would be learned by the people graduating the university, and three this would help reduce tuition fees to the universities.
Tax deduction for education:
Separate the Tax deductions for education into a separate category from itemized deductions. By separating the tax deduction for education into a single category from tax payers this would allow individuals to continue education in order to keep up with changing technologies.
Disallow a college or universities from offering reduced resident rates to non-US citizens. One major complaint from many students today is that foreign residents can qualify for better tuition rates than US residents and out-of-state US residents.
Reinstate finance rules to set limits on credit cards and other revolving credit accounts to only allow x % over the prime interest rate. This has caused an overburden of many individuals who saw their 6-9 percent credit interest implode to 25 and 32 % interest rates. If credit card companies complain that this is only way to insure they can make a profit due to the bad-debt ratio they incur, as with any business, it’s time to re-evaluate their process on issuing credit.
Increase tax deduction for purchases of domestically US built vehicles, not all. One major problem with many of the vehicles tax incentive programs that have been created lately, is that have not specifically been designed to help promote US manufacturing and US jobs, “Cash for Clunkers” as one example, allowed foreign car manufacturers to make a killing while US auto dealers closed.
We have to look at the true causes for the financial crisis this country is in. Bantering about whose to blame is only elevating the lack of confidence the American people feel about government in general and only avoids moving forward with real solutions.
A major reason for the credit crisis today is due to irresponsible activity by creditors that gave credit to individuals and companies that did not have the ability to repay the loans. Secondly, reducing interest rates to such a low percentage has caused the Treasury to become almost insolvent and from a consumer stand point gave buyers a false sense of what their could afford. Although we are a member of a “Global Economy” we have to focus on whose HOUSE is most important, today it is America’s. We must tune every effort in creating jobs to hiring people that will buy US goods, give tax incentives to companies to promote “Hire America”, and disallow any organization or municipality hiring foreign workers, purchasing foreign products or using foreign services to achieve a tax incentive.
David Lee
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Michel Bartolini 11:32 PM on 12/08/2011 Permalink
Couldn’t have said it better myself.