Archive for October, 2009
 Twitter yesterday announced a much anticipated functionality of Twitter Lists. According to Twitter: Lists are a great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts.
So what are Twitter Lists?
Twitter just announced a much anticipated functionality of Twitter Lists. According to Twitter: Lists are a great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts.
You must have seen many websites and blogs listing people to follow on Twitter. Now you can officially organize people to follow on Twitter by creating your own lists.
We thought we would share some of the best Twitter accounts to follow for Jobs, Resumes, Recruiting and Career advice:
You can see our full “list of lists” at http://twitter.com/twittin4job/lists
Or follow them individually:
Please feel free to follow us: http://twitter.com/twittin4job
And please add Twittin4job to your Twitter list as well!
For more information on how to use Twitter in your job search, please don’t forget to read our article: How to Find a Job on Twitter – 10 Job 2.0 Networking Tips
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WASHINGTON — The economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in two years, fueled by government-supported spending on cars and homes. It’s the strongest signal yet that the economy has entered a new, though fragile, phase of recovery and that the worst recession since the 1930s has ended.
Going forward, many analysts expect the pace of the budding recovery to be plodding due to rising unemployment and continuing difficulties by both consumers and businesses to secure loans.
“This welcome milestone is just another step, and we still have a long road to travel until the economy is fully recovered,” said Christina Romer, President Barack Obama’s chief economist. “It will take sustained, robust … growth to bring the unemployment rate down substantially. Such a decline in unemployment is, of course, what we are all working to achieve.”
The much-awaited turnaround reported Thursday by the Commerce Department ended the streak of four straight quarters of contracting economic activity, the first time that’s happened on records dating to 1947.
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If you’ve never had an idiot boss, consider yourself very lucky.
So what makes a lousy boss?
A lousy boss loves to take credit for your work and never gives you praise or positive feedback for any of your achievements. A lousy boss fails to support you in accomplishing your work and leaves you hanging when you actually need their help. All the “support” that you get is annoying and counter-productive micro-management when you actually don’t need any help and they are just interfering in your work.
Lousy bosses think their subordinates have no feelings, interests or personal lives outside work. They think employees are robots designed for carrying out their orders. They make employees stay late after work for no reasons, attend stupid meetings and perform tasks that make no sense or have little purpose.
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With the unemployment rate in the United States reaching new heights each month, many are forced to contemplate relocating to reduce their costs of living. Many areas of the country are facing next to zero, or negative growth in salaries. However, there are still some areas in the country where salaries are actually growing (mostly in the East coast and many larger metropolitan areas). Kiplingers just released a new article highligting the growth in salaries from the last quarter of 2008 to the 1st quarter of 2009 across the country (this isn’t job growth, but growth in salaries of the employed):
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 All companies try to save time and money especially with today’s economy. Now some of them know how they can save on job interviews.
These days many companies use Skype program to conduct job interviews. It is an Internet-based program that allows real-time international communication. Voice and video calls are free Skype-to-Skype no matter where you’re located. All you need is a computer and an Internet connection.
For companies it saves a lot of money on travel expenses and provides the employer with a much quicker and easier way to find the perfect person for the position without the time consuming face-to-face interview process.
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 20 years old Florida man said he was fired for wearing an American flag button “One nation under God, indivisible”. It was his way of supporting U.S. troops the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
Trevor Keezer started to work for Home Depot 19 months ago to make some money for his college. “I want to go to school to become a nurse,” said Trevor. He was wearing the button since he started working at the home improvement retailer.
Keezer, whose brother is set to return to Iraq this year, said none of his supervisors had any negative comments about the pin until recently when he began bringing his bible to work, the paper reported. Then, his manager confronted him about the button.
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 After a year of economic downfall and the rising unemployment, many of us who have been successfully employed for years are now going through job interviews again.
Some of these new job seekers are realizing that they have completely forgotten the process, which sometimes leads to embarrassing or awkward situations. We’ve asked to share some of them with us:
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Wellesley, MA (PRWEB) October 22, 2009 — The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF, TSX:SLF) today released the latest edition of its Unretirement℠ Index, which reveals 65 percent of American workers will delay their retirement by at least one year - an 11 percent increase since the end of 2008. The Index also indicates 27 percent of Americans now believe they will need to work at least five years longer than expected because of the current economic environment. The third release of Sun Life’s biannual Index gauges how economic, financial, and societal forces affect working Americans, and forecasts their future retirement decisions that will impact individuals, the government, employers and the larger economy.
Sun Life’s current research also shows more Americans plan to remain in the workforce past the traditional retirement age of 67. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed say they will work full- or part-time at 67, and another new high of 28 percent of US workers across all age groups are planning to work full time past the age of 67.
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We understand that job searching is a serious matter. However, we sometimes feel that most other job websites are way too serious to the point where using them becomes almost a depressing experience.
While we focus on what really matters – finding people jobs, we also believe that little humor in the process has never hurt anyone. If anything, it helps people keep their spirits up and makes the job searching process a little more enjoyable.
With this thought in mind we’ve just unveiled a new series of funny viral ads for Resumark.com. Please vote for your favorites (by clicking on the stars below) and let us know what you think!
Enjoy (click on the image below to see the full list):
 Resumarks are really cool 'viral' graphics to promote Resumark.com. You may have seen them before in our blogs or artciles. Let us know which ones you like the most!
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