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3 LinkedIn Profile Setting Secrets for the Job Seeker

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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**This is a guest post written by Joshua Waldman author of “Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies.”  Why are we even talking about social media in the context of job search?  Simple!  Recruiters are using social media and recruiting to find talent. In fact, several surveys in the last few years point to a very [...]

December 26, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

3 Ways to Use Social Media to Source Quality Candidates

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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Most of us will agree that the most talented people are already in good jobs and doing well. Passive job seekers are just that, passive and not actively looking, that is why sources like Linkedin are such good sources to find talent but just because I can find someone on Linkedin doesn’t mean I can [...]

December 2, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Resumes Don’t Get You Hired. Interviews Do.

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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A resume will get you through the door, but the interview is what will get you hired. You might be the BEST at the JOB you are interviewing for, but if you don’t master communicating that in an interview, you may not get the job. Interviewing is a skill that can be learned… here is what [...]

November 15, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Work Life Balance – It’s Complicated

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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If you have to work for a living – and most of us do, life can get really complicated especially if you have a spouse and/or kids.  I have gotten past that point in my life, where I have to worry so much about the work life balance, as both of my children have left [...]

October 6, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Job Searching on Social Networks – Yay or Nay?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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With the explosion of social media it seems that individuals and companies alike are using social networks to make personal and business connections. From tweeting customer complaints to maintaining photo albums on Facebook, it has become the norm to take everyday tasks to a social medium.  But what about job searching? Countless employers and recruiters [...]

August 30, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Dear Job Seeker, It’s Really Not All About You

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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  What “So tell me about yourself” really means? It’s usually the first question you hear at a job interview: “Job Seeker, so, tell me a little about yourself.” A lot of us take this as an invitation to wow the interviewer about how cool we really are. Besides being qualified for this position, they’ll [...]

August 19, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Social Media Helps Job Seekers Find Work

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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So when I say “Social Media can help you get a job” The replies are usually, only if you happen to be chatting to the right person, I didn’t think of Facebook like that or Yes I heard something about Twitter and jobs. Social Media is powerful and if you are currently looking for a [...]

July 8, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Should You Fly Your Freak Flag Online?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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We all have a creative side.  Some embrace it more than others, but hopefully you have found at least a few passions in your life.  I speak about those who tinker with an old car, enjoy knitting, photography, or pottery in their spare time.  These folks have learned to negotiate the mythical work / life [...]

July 7, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Challenges of Managing Non-Profit Volunteers

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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If you manage a staff at a non-profit organization, more than likely, you will deal with volunteers, which can be both rewarding and frustrating for human resource managers. Volunteers can be tricky. They aren’t paid staff, yet if they perform work for an organization, they have to be managed like any other employee or the [...]

June 24, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Wal-Mart, Women, & Workplace Inequity

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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There will always be inequity in pay – – and usually the inequity is on the side of women because they are, most of the time, the designated primary care-giver once they become a parent.  I think where the equal/balancing act gets skewed is in the importance a parent plays in the life of a [...]

April 21, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Employment Law, Labor Unions, & Social Media

by Jessica Miller-Merrell
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Labor unions are using social media in new ways every day.   They are using it for member outreach, for organizing, and for widely sharing their issues and messages.  They are developing new and effective ways utilizing social media to reach out to your employees with a goal of building contacts for future organizing attempts. It [...]

February 17, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Guinea Pigs, Google, and You

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

How do you know if that next big idea will or won’t work as a strategy in your company? Is it because you’ve tested and measured to find that result, or is it because you made an assumption ahead of time? Maybe you should give things a test run on a sample population (your guinea [...]

September 23, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Ways to Rock the Job Search

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

I don’t remember who said it, but someone once told me that looking for a job is pretty much a full-time job in itself.  Boy were they right.   Since becoming unemployed in October of 2009, I have managed to rack up hours upon hours of searching for the next job.  I’ve managed to pick [...]

September 22, 2010 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How Important Is Domestic Partner Benefits to HR?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

In reflecting on the 2010 SHRM Conference in June of this year, where I attended a session called Employee Benefits; Just How Competitive Is Your Company? where the speaker Steve Williams Ph. D., SPHR threw out the number that now 33% of companies offer benefits for domestic partners and said that if you’re not providing this benefit you need [...]

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