Do you have questions about employment? Need to discuss something?
As I will be touring South Africa for three weeks from tomorrow, my posts will be irregular.
When I get back to Central Australia, I’ll go back to daily posts.
Don’t leave yet … we have a long way to go.
Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”
CVOne is a free video resume tool for jobseekers and comes with a personal URL to be sent to recruiters and hiring managers. The Internet link can be posted on your printed resume or business card, in career communities and on job sites, and much more.
CVOne can be used to apply for jobs and internships, even projects. The creation of a video application with CVOne does not require advanced technical skills and is easy, and secure.
I’m in the process of testing this on Windows VISTA and will write a review if time permits. At present, I have only a vague idea about what it does.
Why not check it out here
Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”
Do you think it’s rude not to advise people of the outcome of their job application?
It happens all the time. You apply for a job and then there is a huge void. You didn’t get an interview so you just assume that you didn’t get the job. Or you get an interview and that’s the last you hear.
I’m a bit old fashioned. I believe people should be advised of the outcome of their applications. Unfortunately, my business ethics are out of date in today’s business world. However, I didn’t let that bother me when I was recruiting. I always let applicants know what had occurred.
With email, which almost everyone has, it doesn’t take a lot of time or money to advise applicants of the status of their applications. It’s quick and effective and shows that you care.
I think it’s poor business practice not to advise people what the outcome of their application was? What do you think?
Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”
Although I am not paranoid about identify theft, it seems that there are people out there who, for one illegal reason or another, want details of people so they can assume their identity.
One way they collect information is via email. Job seekers, because they are eager to provide information in the hope that they will get a job, are being tricked into giving information to criminals.
Therefore, you need to be diligent when providing information. If someone emails you about your resume and asks for further information, make sure they are legitimate. Some of these crooks use recruitment agency logos, create sites similar to genuine ones and so on just to suck in the unwary.
How could you check them out? Try the telephone directory and perhaps call the office to ask if a person whose name appears on the email works there; attend the office in person (often a better approach anyway); look at the email address … no reputable firm would have an email address with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc, they will have their own domain name eg, dwave.com.au.
Don’t provide any information to anyone unless you are sure of their identity. It’s apparently a problem that’s on the increase.
Stay well.
Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”
If you are using a recruitment agency to find your staff, the good news is that your chances of finding the right people at the right time just got better.
While most recruitment agencies simpy store resumes online and then let their clients search for them, there is a new company in Australia now that has taken a whole different approach. Have you heard of Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the new web of social networking, where people get together to do all sorts of things online. There are many examples eg, MySpace is a well known social networking site.
Now, social networking sites are powerful places and attract thousands of visitors every day. Many of those visitors are looking for jobs, placing adverts, trying to find employers/employees and so on.
My new joint venture partner combines the buzz of social networking with a highly professional online recruitment service. And it works. Why? Because it’s new and different.
Want to find out more? Download my explanatory PDF file here (right click and Save target as … or load into your browser and save) and read all about it.
I was so impressed, I asked for a piece of the action. You’ll be impressed too.
Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”
I was surprised to see this advertisement in the Gulf News yesterday:
Some of the jobs eg, Sales Manager don’t need years of university training. Australia is encouraging people to immigrate when we have masses of people unemployed. Surely the sales and marketing industry is sufficiently large to promote a few retail assistants into sales managers.
As for the remainder, all are highly specialised jobs. However, I’m sure there must be people who, with sufficient short-term support (eg, for travel costs, books, enrolment fees etc) could upskill into these jobs. The cost to government in the short term would be high, but they would more than recover the cost in the long term by getting someone off the long term welfare nipple and transferring them into tax-paying, productive members of society.
What do you think?
Robin
“Think success - Achieve success:
Recently I contacted a university about casual instructional work. The person to whom I wrote emailed and said the university was interested and asked me to send a copy of my resume. I replied by email and included a link to my Career Portfolio.
Online and protected by password, I have a Career Portfolio site that has my resume, a summary of my life and career, copies of my degrees, and examples of work I have completed.
Now, anyone involved in recruitment can simply click on the link and read all about me. Much more than what would be in a resume.
There are sites that provide visual CV services with audio-video snippets and more. One of them is here. You can create your Visual CV and then simply point interested people to it.
Call in and have a look, it’s very interesting.
Robin
“Think success - Achieve success’
Are all disabled people unable to work? Definitely not? Do they have an assessment to see whether they can work and, if so, what types of work activities would be best suited for them? I don’t know.
What I do know is that taxpayers pay a lot of money for people who are on disability payments. I also know that there are many skills shortages faced by employers. It seems logical that if we could somehow get disabled people to do some level of work we could reduce welfare payments, employment shortages and at simultaneously provide some fulfillment for these people.
My son is profoundly hearing impaired, but has been permanently employed for much of his adult life. Although he is in a low paid job, he still manages to live without support from taxpayers (except occasionally me … but that’s different!).
What we need is for a few firms to embark on a program to identify skills of a given disabled cohort, customise jobs to meet the skill demand, and to give disable people better access to the workplace.
Is there anyone out there willing to give it a go? Is there anyone doing it now?
Robin
“Think success - Achieve succes”
