Job hunting – Insight Sciences

How to interview your next employer

December 7, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Think Your Interview Process is Fair? Read This Letter.
BY Suzanne Lucas, inc.com

Most companies demand plenty of information from job applicants. There’s no good reason for this to be a one-way street.

What would happen if job candidates treated you the way you treat them? You might be receiving letters such as this…

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Here’s How Elon Musk Can Tell If Job Applicants Are Lying About Their Experience (businessinsider.com)
Five Tips for Smart Hiring Decisions (huffingtonpost.com)

Crack the job application systems

January 1, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

4 Strategies for Conquering Online Job Application Systems
Brie Reynolds, lifehack.org

If you’re like the majority of job seekers, you spend quite a bit of time searching for jobs online. While there are lots of other job search methods—networking, company research, career fairs, recruiters, and the like—once you finally find a job…

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Crack the job search application systems (timbatchelder.wordpress.com)
Hiring Through Employers’ Eyes: 5 Common Complaints About Job Seekers (sweetbriarcareerservices.wordpress.com)
4 Strategies for Conquering Online Job Application Systems (lifehack.org)
7 Ways Job Searching Has Changed (money.usnews.com)

Why LinkedIn is replacing Monster as job search tool

December 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Job Recruiters Eschew Monster to Find Hidden Talent on LinkedIn
By Olga Kharif -, bloomberg.com

In his more than 15 years as a headhunter, Jeff Vijungco has tried Monster, Craigslist, CareerBuilder, and other online job boards. Lately the head of recruitment at Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) has scrapped most of them.

“I think job posti…

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Good engineers try to hide

Job Search Tools and Internet / 8 New Ways To Do (jobmarketmonitor.com)
Dos and don’ts (LinkedIn Tips) (cobiasocial.wordpress.com)
What a hiring suggestion feature can teach us about LinkedIn and corporate recruiting [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Better Hiring? LinkedIn Has an Algorithm for That (forbes.com)
The most important LinkedIn page you’ve never seen (wired.co.uk)

Employers put offices in social media pockets

August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

By Cory Brown, washingtontimes.com

It is a manager’s problem that Henry Ford and even a young Bill Gates never had to deal with – how to maintain productivity when workers are using valuable company time to update their Facebook status or check their Twitter feeds.

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Employers put offices in social media pockets