My Blogger Account

At this point I’ve set up so many blogs that I’m not sure where they are. I have a blog linked to Linked IN (not this one) and when I decided I wanted to write for the recent college grad market, I set this one up and also started to write for infobarrel. But then I wanted to set up a google adwords account (maybe someone wanted to advertise on my blog???) but couldn’t do it with the infobarrel ID number and couldn’t figure out why. I then tried wordpress blog info and that didn’t work either. So I figured that google really likes when you use their products, and low and behold, I set up a blogger account and got a google adwords ID immediately.

And now I don’t really want to link the blogger account to Linked In but will because I need links in order to get my blog come up in searches, so people can read, get info and I can get google adwords on my site. Make sense? Not to me but sometimes when I try to do something logical on the computer I end up in the twilight zone and get really frustrated.

So here it is:http://collegegradjobsearch.blogspot.com/

 

My Pet Project

It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. I’ve been caught up in this fascinating blog called Smartpassiveincome.com that I found through a mobile guru that I follow. Really interesting blog and business model. One of the things I learned about was InfoBarrel and decided to try my hand with my pet project of helping the soon to be or recent college grads with the job search process. I’ve written four posts and here’s the link to the latest: http://www.infobarrel.com/How_to_form_your_first_resume_for_recent_college_grads. The more people who read them and pick them up for other online things, the better chance I have at making (what my friend Jana calls) banana money. So, please read away (I’ve written them quickly so hopefully there hasn’t been too many errors….)

New Mobile and Apps Landing Pages

Here are landing pages for our core specialties:

 

http://www.karentripi.com/DirectMarketingRecruiter.html
http://www.karentripi.com/EcommerceRecruiter.html
http://www.karentripi.com/MobileMarketingRecruiter.html
http://www.karentripi.com/AppsMarketingRecruiter.html

10 Things to leave off your resume

I couldn’t have said it better: http://blog.fishdogs.com/2009/04/top-10-things-to-leave-off-of-your.html.

 

 

Resume Format: What’s best

I thought this article sums it up nicely: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/the-best-format-for-your.

It has a heavy emphasis on what search engines will or will not pick up. And even if recruiters don’t care what format your resume is in, they will have to send it to their clients who likely use heavy key-word databases.

 

Who’s shopping on their phone

Who’s shopping on their phone

I’ve learned a lot about the new world of mobile very recently since I’ve been working on a search for a mobile start up. And mostly what I’ve learned is that I know very little. Mobile is complex, yet limited. It’s stand alone, yet it needs to be integrated. It’s difficult to break through the clutter and two players dominate. But what I’ve really learned is that very few people really know how to do this well but that those who do, will be in huge demand.

Here’s a link to a very interesting article about who’s shopping on their phone:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/27/report-one-third-of-u-s-moms-own-connected-devices-97-of-ipad-moms-shopped-from-their-tablet-last-month/.

What do you do if a recruiter wants to change your resume?

This was a question posed on the very well done blog: askamanager.org (the writer gives well thought out advice). As a recruiter who frequently wants some revision to a resume I would answer the question a bit differently than askamanager.

As you can see from my previous post, your resume gets a six second look at from recruiters and also hiring managers (or HR screeners). The resume needs to say immediately what you want to convey. Not everyone is good at writing resumes so I frequently ask candidates to do some changes/editing and I sometimes do them myself. But I never do them without asking permission first. That is as unprofessional as sending out a resume without permission. And then I follow up and send them a copy of the resume so they have it for a phone screen or interview.

Sometimes a candidate doesn’t want to do the edit I ask for–I’m fine with that, especially if they have a good reason. It is also important to not be misleading with dates and removing jobs. More and more companies are doing background checks and this will disqualify you for a job. If you have a short stint somewhere you need to think carefully how this fits into your overall profile (meaning you’ve had very few jobs, one mistake won’t matter) or if your a job hopper there are other ways to position yourself (I won’t get into that here).

Chances are that the recruiter wants to position you in the best way possible. Listen carefully, but keep control.