Luckily, it’s not hard to avoid these blunders.
This is a guest post by Bill Post. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.
How can you make sure that your business card is the most effective tool that it can be? By avoiding these blunders.
1) Vague personal branding
Someone reading your card should immediately be able to tell what kind of work you do.
2) Unsuitable business card style
If you are in a conservative industry, such as law or finance, you’ll want a simple white business card with black ink, raised lettering, and very little, if any, color. If you are a graphic designer, though, you may want something more creative.
Continue reading >> 20 Classic Business Card Mistakes That Make Your Life Harder
--Jacob Share
A bunch of ideas to kickstart your job search and leave unemployment behind.
This is a guest post by Kasey Steinbrinck. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.
If you’re out of work and hunting for a job, you’re not alone. At first, that may be kind of comforting, but it also means there’s plenty of competition.
Not too long ago I was in your shoes. The syndicated radio company I worked for as a producer shut its doors in January of 2009 – not a very good time to start a job search by any means. It took me about nine months to find a part-time job and more than a year to get back to full-time employment.
But I learned a few things along the way (many of them the hard way). I can’t guarantee you that following these seven suggestions will make your time unemployed completely pain-free, but I know they’ll help make it shorter.
Continue reading >> 7 Tips To Get Off Unemployment ASAP From Someone Who’s Been There
--Jacob Share
What is sometimes a small thing for you can be a big deal for someone else.
The 3rd annual #Kindness Party will take place on Twitter this coming Sunday, April 3rd. More details below.
There are actually lots of ways to be kind to people on their job search. Most don’t require much effort, but they will all be very appreciated.
7 ways to be kind to job seekers
Here are a few ideas to get you going:
1) Proofread a resume
The more someone works on their resume, the less likely they are to notice spelling mistakes (especially homonyms) or missing words. Your fresh pair of eyes could help out there.
2) Translate a resume
When I started my first Israeli job search in 2001, my friend Assaf S. – and especially his mom – did a great job translating my resume into Hebrew. Too bad its English source wasn’t so terrific in the first place.
Continue reading >> 7 Kinds of Job Search Kindness To Make You Squirm
--Jacob Share
JobMob is now a registered US trademark. This is the story of how it happened.
Background
When I first started JobMob, even though I had no idea where it would be 4 years later, or perhaps because I had no idea where it would be 4 years later, it made perfect sense to protect what I was building. And one of the ways you do that is by trademarking your idea.
I had a feeling it would be expensive, especially for someone who was just getting started and wasn’t thinking of blogging as a business, so I did some research and found out that:
Yes, it IS expensive for a hobby blogger (over US$300 just to file an application)
And that’s just for an American trademark. It’s even more expensive to file a trademark in Israel.
However, I also found out that according to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), “if you claim rights to use a mark, you may use the “TM” … designation to alert the public to your claim of ownership of the mark, regardless of whether you have filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).”
Continue reading >> How I Registered JobMob as a US Trademark
--Jacob Share
8 tips for getting over every job seeker’s worst nightmare.
This is a guest post by Nisa Chitakasem. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.
It’s every job seeker’s worst nightmare.
You’re in an interview for a job you really want and it all starts going wrong.
Whether it’s your phone ringing or you giving the longest, most irrelevant answer to an interview question ever, once things start going wrong it feels like there’s no way back.
But there is.
It is possible to get things back on track and limit the damage during the actual interview. There are also some follow-up steps you can take after the event to rectify the situation and to move on with your job search regardless of what the outcome of the bad interview is.
Continue reading >> How to Quickly Recover From Bad Job Interviews
--Jacob Share
Jacob Share is the founder and SVP of 
