Two IT Jobs for Non-Nerds

IT doesn't just need developers. Reportedly, they're having problems hiring enough salespeople and project managers.

Job clubs are great, says a division of the US Department of Labor who is promoting them.

Mistakes

There are some words that shouldn't be on your résumé .
Replace them with examples--prove what you did.

More interviewing no-nos: smelling like you've been smoking and long hair on men.

Online Presence

A company doing background checks for employers claims its software can find the real names of people using pseudonyms on the web.

Don't trust privacy settings to keep your secrets safe from inquiring employers.

You've deleted something an employer shouldn't see from the web. But you're worried Mama Google will still report a cached copy of the url.

You might look at Google's URL removal tool .

Another technique is to get so much positive stuff indexed about yourself, the questionable item disappears to page 34 of the results.


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4 fields and 1 country are HIRING!

Good news: fields with jobs

4 job titles not bothered by the recession are reportedly (all techie): engineer, programmer, developer, math professional.

Then there's India's problem. They can't find a hangman. Don't know if they're accepting online applications.

The Mechanics

It's a numbers game, one article suggests. The more people you network with, the more likely you are to find a job. The problem with that is do you have time to network well with any of them?

You can get 1,000 friends on LinkedIn or Facebook but at that level, how many of them are you actually interacting with? The idea of networking is to learn, help and show. You probably can't do that effectively with a huge number of people.

Here are suggestions on what to do for a job
fair--like bathe beforehand. These ideas work well for networking meetings or interviews too.

Know the company intensely at the interview. 38% of job hunters show up knowing little or nothing about the company. Why not eat their lunch from McDonalds in front of the interviewer too? Some hunters even answer their cell phones during interviews! (Maybe the competition isn't as stiff as you thought.)

Brief your references--they should know what the new job is all about, how you fit in and who is likely to be calling.

The US Department of Labor is concerned unpaid internships may be abused, giving the employers free workers but the interns little benefit. They've set up 6 rules.

Numbers

The unemployment rate for veterans in the US is 3 points higher (12.1%) than that of the general population. It's 16.2% for African Americans.

There's now a company whose whole mission is to report on your online presence for employers.


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