The Importance of Mobile on the Job Apply Process

The Importance of Mobile on the Job Apply ProcessThe Importance of Mobile on the Job Apply ProcessThe Importance of Mobile on the Job Apply Process RossheimMobile platforms are evolving the recruitment process, and along with it, the job apply.Today, job binnenseekers expect to view jobs seamlessly on their mobile devices and apply to them quickly and easily. So have all companies career sites jumped on the mobile-friendly bandwagon? Not by a long shot.There are all kinds of excuses why companies arent doing mobile recruiting, but its a must to remain competitive, says Michael Marlatt, executive recruiting partner at Cognizant Technology Solutions and founder of MREC, an annual mobile recruiting conference.Job seekers are voting with their mobiles. According to a Pew Internet study, 43 percent of smartphone owners used their mobile to look up information about jobs. The study points to an even more urgent message for employers that have taken it slow with mobile 18 percent of smartph one users submitted a job apply via mobile.Adding to the urgency, Google announced that, beginning in late April 2015, they will penalize web sites that fail the search giants mobile responsive test. The result will downgrade these sites tischordnung in search results served to mobile devices. Some estimates say 81 percent of company sites will be affected by Googles new algorithm, says Marlatt, If you care about your ranking, and want to be seen as innovative, you want to be mobile-ready.So if your company hasnt revamped its mobile recruiting process recently, its time. Here are some pointers.Complexity kills candidate interest. Pare down your career site to bare essentials. Many job seekers fail to complete the job apply because of its complexity, says Amy Hughes, director of client adoption at Monster. An average of 60 to 70 percent of seekers applying to jobs through company career sites will never complete the apply process.Assess candidates priorities. Ask recent hires which e lements of your career site attracted them and which didnt. Think about whats going to be important to users, says Marlatt. Make the things that most people want as easy as possible to find. You need to minimize fluff.In 2015, mobile job search is an expected convenience. Cater to the lifestyles of your ideal candidates. If Im waiting to pick up my daughter from a music lesson and I see all these jobs on my smartphone, I want to be able to apply from my phone, says Barry Wu, a senior product manager at Monster.Test-drive your career site on your phone. Play the part of the mobile seeker. The first thing companies need to do is assess their sites mobile friendliness, says Marlatt. Go and navigate the career site from a mobile device, a smartphone or tablet. How does it render? What does the candidate experience from the first point of entry? Whats it like to navigate?Ensure that your site is mobile-responsive. Put your site through Googles test for mobile-responsiveness. If you reali ze youre not mobile friendly, you need to consider a mobile-responsive design, says Marlatt. It may be too much for IBM to rebuild their site from the ground up for mobile thats a huge undertaking. The workaround is to have a redirect to a simplified mobile site.The best sites respond to the mobile device in the users hand. After youve made your career site at least minimally mobile-responsive, refine it for all the devices used by your target candidates. Apply with Monster, a one-button apply solution, is smart enough to determine whats the best experience for the particular mobile device that the user is on, says Wu.Consider the nothing-but-mobile apply. Can you decide which applicants to screen with a phone interview, based solely on their input via mobile? Make this your next goal. People are doing quick searches on their phones, just to see what jobs are new since yesterday, says Wu. If you put the whole apply on the phone, candidates wont be forced to set a task to complete t he process on a laptop or desktop.On the flip side, avoid trying to fully vet the candidate from her mobile apply. Dont front-load your application workflow with processes that can wait. Details like background checks often can be covered during the interview process, says Hughes.If you neglect mobile, you may miss out on diversity. Finally, keep in mind that if your career site turns off mobile users, your workforce demographics may suffer. Hispanics, African-Americans and women are the heaviest users of mobile technology, says Marlatt. So when you think about diversity recruiting, mobile is key.

The Truth Behind 5 Common Job Search Myths

The Truth Behind 5 Common Job Search MythsThe Truth Behind 5 Common Job Search MythsWhen you are looking for a new job, dont allow yourself to be undermined by your preconceived ideas or by the advice of well-meaning but uninformed friends and colleagues. An effective job hunt requires up-to-date knowledge about how employers go about looking for talent, plus insight into the nature of the entire process. Too often job hunters experience frustration along the way because they begin their search without examining fundamental assumptions about themselves and how they are perceived. Dont fall prey to these five inaccurate or outdated ideas 1. Your rsum is about you. Of course you are the subject, but it is more than just about you. Its about how you represent the answer to an employers needs. Its about you in relationship to that potential employer, so you shouldnt just use it to simply list all the responsibilities youve had and the things youve done. An employers job is not to look a t your background and figure out if the position at hand is a good fit for you. Just the opposite is the case. Of course, its true that your skills, experience, successes and education are about you. These are all critical elements of a rsum, but you shouldnt write them in a vacuum. You need to frame them as a marketing document that positions you as the answer to an employers needs. Carefully review position descriptions for which you would be well qualified and highlight keywords of importance. Then, make certain to incorporate those words into the descriptions of your accomplishments and skills. In this way, your rsum can be seen as a document that conveys your value to an employer. 2. A recruiters job is to help you get a job. Recruiters work for their clients the companies who hire them. They receive a hefty commission when they successfully identify a talented individual who is hired. As in many other professions, some recruiters care about the people with whom they interac t. They will try to help you where and when they can. Others seek only to maximize their own income and cant be bothered to spend any more time than is absolutely necessary with someone who cant fulfill that goal. The bottom line, however is that unless you represent close to an ideal match for what a recruiter seeks, he or she will not likely be able to place you into a new job. 3. Job seekers and employers must both sell each other on the opportunity at an interview. If you are looking for the employer to educate you about why you should value the opportunity at hand, you have not done your homework. Never make the mistake that an interview is the appropriate time for you to learn the basics about a company or the opportunities it offers. If an interviewer feels like you are expecting him or her to sell you on the company or position, you have likely just lost hope of attaining it. 4. Networking is all about obtaining help from others. Networking is about building relationships, not viewing people only for the assistance they might lend to you. Putting out the message, Can you help me to. isnt networking its begging. Relationship building takes time, and it involves getting to know other people, building human connections and understanding what you can do for others as well as what they might be able to do for you. A good networker always understands the value of offering to help before ever asking for anything. When you build solid relationships and take the time to learn about others, youll see your efforts come back to benefit you many times over. Networking is all about giving to get and paying it forward. 5. You can beat age discrimination by omitting dates from your rsum and LinkedIn profile. For sure, age discrimination in hiring is rampant. Bear in mind, however, that most people in their 30s to mid-40s wont hesitate to provide dates on their rsums and profiles. When you fail to do so, you give rise to the proverbial elephant in the room. If you a re in your mid-to-late 50s or even early 60s you might even make an employer assume that you are older than you are.You deprive yourself of the opportunity to be found by your contemporaries by failing to include the dates that you attended college and earned degrees on LinkedIn. This can work against you because those contacts might be able to help you. An old college classmate might even be that hiring manager eager to reconnect with you, recognize your value and hire you. Happy hunting

Dreams of a debt-free life, law student edition

Dreams of a debt-free life, law student editionDreams of a debt-free life, law student editionWhile one dream is dashed Would-be law student who appealed to the public to donate $105,000 for her legal education is now reconsidering law school as a result of all the mean-spirited comments prompted by her quest to pursue a debt-free life. She doesnt want to be in a hateful environment, reports the ABA Journal, and she doesnt want to take on tremendous debt.... another is about to be realizedDebt-less law student with $160,000 job lined up has $140,000 set aside for a down payment and a great credit score now he just needs the perfect digs in which to begin his BigLaw life. hat tip to Above the Law- posted by vera

WeGrow is a new entrepreneur school for five-year-olds

WeGrow is a new entrepreneur school for five-year-oldsWeGrow is a new entrepreneur school for five-year-oldsIts never too early to start a geschftlicher umgang. This is the spirit behind WeGrow, a private elementary school for conscious entrepreneurship from the founders behind the office-sharing company WeWork, which is valued at $20 billion.After disrupting how we work in offices together, the WeWork founders, Adam and Rebekah Neumann, have set their sights on a familiar question the Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerbergs of Silicon Valley also want to solve How should we educate the next generation? If you believe that current education is squashing out the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity thats intrinsic to all young children as Rebekah Neumann does, then WeGrow is the school for you.Neumann has enrolled one of her own children in the pilot program thats underway. These budding entrepreneurs, ages five to eight, spend part of class in a WeWork space in Manhattan, and one day a week they go to a 60-acre farm north of the city. In one example the Fast Company profile on the school gave, Neumann described how the children sold crops they harvested on the farm and called this experience empowering.Now that Im a mom, Im noticing theres been a huge missed opportunity in the educational system, because children are ready to start creating their lifes work when theyre five, Rebekah Neumann said. And thats just the truth of it. So why are we waiting until they graduate from college? I dont even know if my kids are going to go to college.Do children really know what their lifes work is going to be at age five? Should childrens empowerment be linked to how much reach their ideas have and how much money they could make?If youre skeptical of WeGrows pedagogy, so wasSamuel Abrams, the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, at Columbia Universitys Teachers College, when Bloomberg News asked him to weigh in on the idea. Abrams said WeGro ws instrumental approach to how kids should learn is essentially encouraging kids to monetize their ideas which at that age, is damaging because it makes learning less fun.Kidpreneur businesses are growingWhether youre a lover or a hater of WeGrow, the idea of a kidpreneur is here to stay and is part of a growing trend of education companies catering to the ideas of young hustlers.If youre not ready to fully commit your childs education to entrepreneurship, there are companies and competitions that will facilitate a childs business savvy on the side, includingsummer camps teaching teenagers how to build their personal business brand and Shark Tank-like business competitions with real equity investment money on the table for high schoolers.The Acton Childrens Business Fair, which bills itself as the largest entrepreneurship event for kids in North America, allows young children to sell products at the fair. One of the biggest success stories from the fair isMikaela Ulmer, who at age 4, was encouraged by her parents to bring her lemonade recipe to the fair, which eventually led her to score a $60,000 investment onShark Tankand get her Me the Bees Lemonade stocked in Whole Foods.To succeed as a kidpreneur, you need to dream big like a kid, Ulmer advises. When a kid has a dream and they want it to come true, they will do whatever it takes to do so. They dont see the obstacles in the way, they will just fight hard to make it come true, she said.

10 Habits of Successful Project Managers

10 Habits of Successful Project Managers10 Habits of Successful Project ManagersWhy do certain project managers bring their projects in on time, on budget and with satisfied customers while others have a hard time? Lets look at the ten habits that highly successful project managers share to find out. These habits get mentioned over and over again in performance appraisals and in end-of-project reviews where the client, gruppe or sponsor is offering feedback to the project manager. You dont need to have ten years of experience to deliver successfully every time. By changing your habits and brushing up your skills you can drastically improve the chances of your project being a success and give yourself a less stressful time at work as well. Using the Right Team The most effective and successful project managers know the capabilities of their team members. It means that they can allocate the right work to the right people. Using the wrong resource on a task can lead to it taking lon ger or being poorly done. It helps to know the strengths and weaknesses of the individuals working with you so that you can best allocate them to project tasks. Managing Project Issues All projects hit issues from time to time. Successful project managers dont let it worry them. They know the processes for issue management and also how best to deal with problems as they arise. You can do that too. Once you know how to assess a project issue, youll find that issue management becomes an easy habit to incorporate into your weekly routine. Put some time aside to go through your issue log each week, and youll soon find that its an easy job to stay on top of managing problems. Coping With Changes Projects are designed to change things, but that kind of change is happening to other people Its harder to manage change that is aimed squarely at the project team, upsetting the detailed project schedule and creating new work and a whole pile of documentation updates. Successful project managers have a change management process that they follow. Following defined steps makes it easier to turn any action into a habit because its structured and repetitive. The change management process looks like this Receive information about the change.Assess the change.Establish how much work it would be to do the change.Prepare a recommendation about whether it is worth going ahead. Once youve prepared a recommendation, ask your sponsor to get a decision from about whether you should incorporate the change or not. You can approve some small changes yourself as long as they are within your remit and authority levels. Successful project managers know that coping with changes is part of the job and they have a plan to deal with them as and when they arise. Managing Project Costs It is highly likely that your project is going to incur costs, even if you dont have full control over the purse strings yourself. Being able to manage financial elements in your control has to be a habi t. If you dont approach it regularly and routinely, you will find the job becomes so huge its impossible to do well. Fantastic project managers stay on top of the expenses with filing systems that work for invoices, quotes, and estimates. Get into the habit of using your budgeting software (even if that is just a spreadsheet). You cant manage your project costs until you have a plan of what you are going to spend. Read this on how to create a project budget so you can get started. Teambuilding The project team might not be working directly for you. So, why is teambuilding part of the habits of successful project managers? Its because you need your team to work together effectively and you need the individuals involved in the project to quickly come to a point where they trust each other. You get that through building the team. Watch out for situations where your team is falling apart. Bullying behavior, in particular, is unacceptable. Understanding Processes The sixth habit of highly successful project managers is that they understand the processes that exist within their sphere of control. That means that they know what work procedures need to be followed. They dont waste time trying to work out how to write a business case because they know that there is a procedure for that and they can follow the steps. The most successful project managers are not a slave to process. They know when the right thing to do is to follow the process. They know when its better to tweak it slightly to make the tasks overall easier for everyone. An example of that would be to remove the bureaucracy from a small project by tailoring the processes accordingly. Updating the Schedule Project schedules shouldnt be left to chance. The most successful project managers will make it a habit to regularly check their schedules for accuracy and update them. There are lots of ways to track your projects progress. The most important thing is that you do it. If you are struggling to make this habit your own, then book a short meeting in your diary with yourself and your schedule once a week. Use the same time each week and take 30 minutes to review where you are and where you need to be. Make the necessary amendments, tell the team and carry on with the project. If your schedule changes have an impact on the end date for the project or on the delivery date for major milestones, then talk to your sponsor. You shouldnt change the fundamentals of your baselined plan without going through a formal approval process. Managing Project Risk Knowing what to include in your risk register is one thing, but habitually reviewing it and acting on the risks raised is something different. Its not enough to use the beginning of your project to identify risks and then not think about them again. Risk management needs to be part of your project habits because without it youll find that risks turn into issues and create problems for you. It is another area where standard proce sses and booking a regular slot to do a risk review can help. You can include it as part of your team meetings. Make it a habit to review your risks with the team, close any that are no longer a threat and plan actions for those that you want to mitigate. Tracking Time Project managers know a lot about project time management, but that tends to be in the domain of scheduling and planning. What were talking about is time tracking on a more regular, daily basis. Were talking about timesheets. Project teams often arent that keen to use timesheets if they havent done so before. Many project management software tools have time tracking inherent in the product. That can make it easier to introduce the switch to time tracking as a team. Whether or not you track your teams time (which is recommended) it is important that you know where your own time goes in a day. You should make it a habit to keep a notenzeichen of how you spend your time. It will help you understand whether you are sp ending time on the top priority project tasks. You might think that you are, but are you? Timesheets or time recording of some form will help, even if it is just an hourly log on a notepad. Delivering Business Change Finally, the habit that makes project managers most successful is their ability to equate project outputs to business results. If users dont use your product or the software quickly falls out of date or customers arent as amazed as you arethen your project has been a waste of time. The most successful project teams make sure that they know what business results theyre aiming for. They build a solution that delivers that business change in a sustainable fashion. What they deliver when the project ends is fully used and totally adopted by the customer. Its a success because it has been built to be a success from the start. Understanding business objectives is a key criterion for any project manager who wants to make an impact on customers and stakeholders. If you can show that you have delivered something of value, then its easy to demonstrate the impact you have and the value that you bring to the company. Make it a habit of asking your stakeholders what business value they are expecting and how they want to use whatever it is that your project is delivering for them. Talk to them about how they define success. You can build this into a repeatable process at the start of every project.

The Battle Over Producer Resume and How to Win It

The Battle Over Producer Resume and How to Win It Producer Resume - Is it a Scam? Its simple to navigate and you are able to manage your social networking posts by dragging them around to modify the schedule. Furthermore, you can look for production assistant jobs on Monster. Watch the subsequent video to learn to compose the ideal recent-graduate resume for an entry-level position. In the present competitive job market, securing the job of an audio producer isnt simple. Its not overly hard to use a template. Resume Templates also be sure that you dont miss out any beneficial article of information about yourself which can be important for the provider. Most resume templates may be used to apply for a variety of forms of jobs. Today, the quantity of totally free zugnglich resume templates is astounding. Producer Resume Can Be Fun for Everyone Directories like Kays Production Manual can offer useful contact info. To be able to attract Digital Editor that best matches you r requirements, its quite important to compose a crystal clear and precise Digital Editor job description. The format of your entry-level college-graduate resume will be contingent on the info you need to work with. The Death of Producer Resume Highlights the relevant skills that the employer is seeking in the perfect candidate. Each client differs. Whenever you are asking for work, its mandatory that you submit a resume. For instance, suppose youre seeking a job as a Retail Manager. In some scenarios, though, a functional CV is acceptable and might be more appropriate. Assuming you have the skills theyre searching for, a striking and visually appealing resume will go a ways at getting you the creative job which you would like. In case you have some experience, its not essential to elaborate your educational information. Gaining relevant work experience is important. Since you may see, there are several different possible responsibilities that could be part of the produce r role. The other important duty of a producer is developing a film, television show, or other project whilst working within the boundaries of an established budget. Naturally, you dont need to list every job that youve had as a video producer but instead the ones which standout the most. After their resume writing strategy can help you land more auditions. Producer Resume Secrets That No One Else Knows About Include men and women in the decision-making procedure, even if it is outside their job titles. There are things you can do in order to accelerate the approach. In lots of ways, your resume will be much more straightforward and easy to write. Therefore, your very first image in the view of the employer will probably be created on the grounds of your resume and should you get an appointment call or not will also be related to the impression made by the resume. Together with that moment, the expense of renting a producer may be included. Much like all facets of the audio business, contracts are important since they let everyone know where they stand and whats expected of them. As soon as you have the cast and crew in place, you would want to delegate responsibility to every department. Producer Resume Secrets Its normal for producers to get both. An audio producer accounts for the last shape of any audio production. If youre an important producer on Hollywood blockbusters, for example, you could wind up earning millions Producers involved with the songwriting procedure can expect royalties in addition to production fees. Quite a number of video producers weve worked with did not wish to initially incorporate a summary. Your files are offered for download immediately after payment along with sent to you by e-mail. You might even mention the names of the television serials which youve produced. The Basics of Producer Resume If youre a producer, you should involve your staff in the creation of the full program and encourage employees to requ est assistance and guidance from one another, he states. A CV should also provide some notion of your upcoming potential. Illustrate your achievements Its not sufficient to just state the posts and responsibilities which you have held. Youre asking for a business award. You know youve got the skills. Skills are important, but the very first step to success at work is consistently showing up when youre scheduled to get the job done. If you continue seeing a skill or tool mentioned you dont know a lot about, search for free or low-cost on-line courses on the topic to bolster your skill collection. For instance, if you concentrate on a couple of your skills within the body of your letter, ensure that your abilities and the keywords match the keywords and description from the work listing.

What Typical Job Seeker Mistakes Can Reveal About a Candidate - Spark Hire

What Typical Job Seeker Mistakes Can Reveal About a Candidate - Spark HireAs a human resources professional, youve probably seen more than your fair share of nervous candidates and have a story or two to share about embarrassing mistakes youve seen job seekers make. Are these harmless mistakes, made by almost any job seeker, to be tolerated? Or can their foibles give you insight into their work place behavior and performance? What can those blunders say about the candidate whose employment youre considering?Most likely, youve seen a number of sloppy resumes. Misspelled words and grammatical errors are almost inexcusable in an era of electronic word processing programs. Formatting issues or other glaring mistakes reveal that a candidate is not detail oriented or meticulous about the work they present. Those characteristics would certainly carry over into their regular work, possibly affecting deadlines or inhibiting them from accomplishing small but important tasks.At times, a candida te can be so entrenched in their job search that they do not do the necessary research to answer questions in the interview. This is often blatantly obvious by the generic tone of their resume and cover letter and further in their answers to interview questions. If a candidate hasnt taken the time to adequately prepare for the interview with you, it may show their apathy or carelessness. If they havent taken the time at the outset, will they show dedication and interest in the position once theyre in it?Job seekers should know that at the end of an interview there is typically time for them to ask questions of the employer. A genuinely interested candidate will have a number of questions which reveal something about their professional character. Are they concerned about the growth of the company? Are they interested in the tasks they would be expected to accomplish? Do they inquire about the work atmosphere to determine if they would fit in well? A candidate who seeks to understand the details at the outset shows their dedication to seeking the best job for themselves and offering the best candidacy to potential employers. If they dont have thoughtful questions prepared at this point in the interview, they may lack the enthusiasm youd like in an employee.Perhaps one pitfall that all job seekers experience is an inability or hesitancy to speak about themselves confidently. Counter this by asking questions which encourage them to give examples of their accomplishments or ask them to offer reasons why they are uniquely qualified over their peers or colleagues. This article from The Huffington Post encourages older job seekers to set aside their modesty in order to sell themselves. Youll get a better idea of a candidates qualifications if you ask questions that push them past their reticence.These small job seeker mistakes, and many others youve probably experienced, can tell you something about the type of employee a candidate could become. As an employer, know t he signs which point to poor performance, beginning with a candidates performance as a job seeker.Are small job seeker mistakes a big deal to you when youre hiring? Is there a common job seeker mistake not mentioned in this post that youve come across? Comment below to share your experiences.IMAGE Courtesy of Flickr by Victor1558