Helen Perruzza, receives tons of resumes from hopeful job applicants everyday. She is a senior personnel consultant with First Choice Personnel, an employment agency in Toronto. Early in spring 2000, a young woman sublimated a resume for a Customer Service position with one of First Choices clients. Her resume was outstanding and paralleled the job position. Perruzza invited her in for an interview. Her performance in the interview was very satisfactory and she was introduced to the client, who was also impressed by her. A background check was performed and alas, the diploma she claimed she had received from college never existed. So no job offer!
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Job Search Advice
October 27th, 2010
How to Ruin Your Brand at the Press of a Send Button
Grandma knew the importance of brand management. In Grandmas days, children were not allowed out of the house with holes in their underwear for fear of the proverbial ambulance ride. Housewives cleaned thoroughly under their beds and chesterfields lest dust bunnies be discovered and whispered about.
Read MoreOctober 21st, 2010
How Social Media Can Cost Your Your Job
Seasonal jobs are good for more than earning extra spending money or awesome discounts at retailers for holiday
shopping (though, lets face it who could resist based on that alone?). In fact, taking on a seasonal job can
be a great stepping stone on the way to beginning or getting back into a career.
October 21st, 2010
Benefits of a Seasonal Job
Seasonal jobs are good for more than earning extra spending money or awesome discounts at retailers for holiday
shopping (though, lets face it who could resist based on that alone?). In fact, taking on a seasonal job can
be a great stepping stone on the way to beginning or getting back into a career.
October 13th, 2010
Dress for Success..the Modern Way
DRESS FOR SUCCESS what does it mean? These days those three little words seem to cause more confusion than ever. Appropriate dress used to be determined by the industry or profession. Now it also varies from business to business. Its up to each company to determine its own standards for professional dress. Unfortunately today, not every company does.
Read MoreOctober 7th, 2010
The death of the Canadian dream? Not necessarily…
In a National Post article by Andrew Mayeda, he discusses the challenges faced by the Millennials — those born after 1980 — in finding a job in todays economy. Specifically he profiles an individual with a masters degree in international affairs and volunteer experience working abroad for non-profit organizations. At 27 she is finding it challenging to find full-time employment and has been forced to take a contract job.
Read MoreOctober 5th, 2010
Five Statistics That Matter for Your Job Search
Each year for the past nine years CareerXroads has conducted a survey about the sources of new hires. The most recent survey (full report available here) solicited source of hire stats for 43 large companies, who collectively filled 176,000 positions in 2009. While the sample size is small, and arguments can and have been made about the accuracy and applicability of the statistics, the survey results are nevertheless revealing, and have some important implications for how jobseekers invest their job hunt energy.
Read MoreSeptember 10th, 2010
Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey
Today Statistics Canada released its monthly Labour Force Survey and the results are slightly more positive than economists had anticipated. There were 35,800 jobs created in August and the unemployment rate edged up a tenth of a percentage point to 8.1%, due to higher participation in the labour market. The Canadian job market has now regained nearly all of the jobs lost during the recession, however, the unemployment rate is roughly 2 per cent higher than it was prior to the start of the decline. This may be partly…
Read MoreAugust 24th, 2010
Just How Many Jobs Are You Missing Out On?
I recently nagged a client to get her LinkedIn profile fully up and running. She emailed me the other day to say that she got an email from a recruiter within 2 days of doing it. A new survey explains why.
Read MoreJuly 28th, 2010
Your Job Search Elevator Pitch – Communicate Your Value in these 7 Easy Steps
Imagine youve walked into a networking event only to meet a potential employer youve been dying to snag an interview with. This is your chance. You need to make a good impression, and quickly. But youre not sure what to say.
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