Perhaps — or maybe not. If you are currently employed, be very cautious about setting up a Web site that announces that you are job hunting. If your employer to find out about it, could be rejected, says Kim Isaacs, Director of ResumePower, a service of résumé-writing in Doylestown, PA
Some job seekers, a profile on LinkedIn, the business social networking site, is only the Web presence they require.
Jeff Neil, a career consultant and owner of be your own best Coaching in Manhattan, says that LinkedIn is "the primary source for employers seeking candidates online and a fabulous way for most job seekers to inform our colleagues and potential employers who are job hunting.
But LinkedIn has limitations for job seekers, Mr. Neil says, including confined spaces and a hard format for listing past jobs.
"Thus setting a website exclusively for job hunting," says, "can be a particularly good idea for consultants and people in creative fields like advertising that want to describe many projects you've worked on."
Even if you aren't in a creative field, the curriculum you register on the site of research should be different from that which could be a manager in an interview, says ms. Isaacs, who is also the curriculum specialist for Monster.com. "You still short bits of information, where you get quickly to key points, but you can create a multi-page, online portfolio on the Web and include case studies, a page of references and testimonials," she says.
It is also a good idea to provide your resume in a variety of formats, including Microsoft Word, ASCII text and PDF files, MS. Isaacs, says. "Companies have different systems of tracking of candidates," she says, "so you want to host various requirements and give potential employers the ability to choose how they want to download your curriculum."
When to send your CV, be more cautious about privacy as it would if you were presenting it to an interviewer. MS. Isaacs more job hunters are failing their address, and city these days, says. Some list a p.o. box for privacy and use a phone number to Google Voice, partly to keep their actual phone number private.
"I've heard of an employer Googling address of the candidate before deciding whether to interview the person," she says. "You don't know what a hiring manager may be inferred from a position of the road, and it might take two clicks to find the information".
Richard Deosingh, a regional vice President of staffing firm Robert Half International, suggests to make accessible your e-mail address or telephone number. " Put it on every page of your website; Don't make a recruiter to work to find it, "she says. He advises also included a brief biography and update the site regularly.
When he wanted to change jobs last June, Jared Kreiner, an account supervisor of public relations in New York, designed job-hunting site, www.jaredkreiner.com. Shortly after, a former colleague who was about to leave the public relations society, g. s. Schwartz & Company recommended Mr. Kreiner at his manager as an opportunity to replace her — and mentioned her website.
"I think my site helped me to get the job," says Mr. Kreiner. Took away his resume when he started to work, but republished, when he was fired last December due to cost cuts. Now he is actively promoting the site.
Mr. Kreiner includes the URL of your website, in online applications and cover letters and use Google Analytics to find out how many people visited your site and downloaded his resume.
"I always good feedback," he said. "People who I interviewed with said my site helped them decide whether or not to meet with me and they've forwarded the URL to their colleagues and anyone else that could be potentially meet in the interview process." He says that he has had several interviews in recent weeks, and that some companies have called him back two or three times.
This site was useful to Mark Webster, also from NYC. Mr. Webster was the Creative Director for networks Intercast when the company has lost its funding and closed in 2008. Has established a website, http://shouldhireme.com, to help you find a new job.
The site helped me get telephone interviews with a couple of potential employers. "It has opened the door, but from that point on, it was still the same hunting at work", says Mr. Webster. A few months later he turned and started his own Web design and development company, Kickstart concepts.
Having your site may not have achieved its initial goal, he says, but he still could see that "it was a great way to break through the noise."
No comments:
Post a Comment