Isabont is a website that aims to “plan your career. manage your job search.” An easy claim to make but the video demos on the Isabont homepage do make the tool quite appealing. Simon Clay Michael, Isabont’s founder, was kind enough to offer a Premium account so that I could test out the site for you in all its glory. This is the JobMob review.

--Jacob Share

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Tags: Companies You Should Target (or Not), interviews, Isabont, resumes, reviews, Simon-Clay-Michael, web2.0, websites     Filed under: Tools You Need

Jason Alba and his team launched JibberJobber exactly one year ago today on May 15th, 2006. Over the past year, the site has grown in leaps and bounds in becoming a critical tool for many people around the globe. As part of the anniversary festivities, Jason agreed to talk with us. This is the JobMob interview.

--Jacob Share

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Tags: bloggers, business, CRM, empowerment, interviews, Jason-Alba, JibberJobber, job-search, resumes, self-employment, startup, Steven-Covey     Filed under: People Who Want to Help You

Are you making these mistakes on your resume?

10) Using a cutesy email account to send the CV. Any email arriving from snookums12 or bigboy69 that gets through the spam filter will get caught by the human filter before being dumped in the trash filter. Email from billgates1 is probably not going to help at Microsoft either.

9) Mentioning low grades (Hebrew) or test scores. If you had problems in a course, why mention it at all? You’re too honest. Emphasize the positive and achievements you can be proud of.

8) Forgetting ineffective information on your CV only to have it surprise you in the subsequent interviews, such as alternative musical tastes (which I have), esoteric hobbies (I would get asked about mixology too much) or even a past job experience unrelated for the position at hand. Every detail you leave on your CV should have a purpose or not be there.

--Jacob Share

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Too often, companies emphasize hard work over experience, when instead they should put smart work ahead of hard work. Ever felt that kind of disdain? Then this list is for you.

1. CareerJournal.com: Start by deciding what you want to do next. Emily Allen, manager of the Workforce Initiative Program at AARP: for older workers, it’s often “the first time in life that they can consider what they want to do rather than what they need to do.”

From Forbes.com via YourHRGuy via Waypoint:

2. Midlife job seekers need a resume that looks forward, not backward. To quote from the article- “a résumé shouldn’t read like the testimonial at your retirement dinner.” Rather- “Change the perspective from “look at everything I have done,” to “look at everything I can do for you.”"

3. Don’t be defensive and don’t omit dates. You’ve worked hard to get where you are, so be proud of what you’ve accomplished along the way and be even more enthusiastic about what you have yet to accomplish.

--Jacob Share

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Lacking an official definition, the Web2.0 label means different things to different people regardless of whether they have Israeli startups in mind. At its simplest, we can say that Web2.0 refers to the state of the Internet today as opposed to during the late ’90s Internet Bubble. With that in mind, what has changed when it comes to job hunting?

--Jacob Share

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Tags: bloggers, Bubble, job-search, resumes, RSS, video-resume, web2.0     Filed under: Tools You Need