No one does a funny infographic about resume verbs better. I've loved The Onion ever since I discovered it back in university. I have one of their books, and I still visit their website from my smartphone all the time, so it felt right to finally give my own salute to The Onion. Enjoy!
This poll was inspired by a recent talk I gave. Why this is important In 4 Things to Know and Do Before Employers Google Your Name, I mentioned a 2008 survey that reported how 20% of American employers researched candidates' backgrounds on social networks. In April 2011, career expert Joshua Waldman - who sponsored the just-ended 5th Annual JobMob Guest Blogging Contest - quoted a more recent survey claiming that 81% of American employers google candidates. And in a recent talk I gave at the Jerusalem Business Networking Forum...
After the biggest edition of the contest in 5 years, it's time to announce the winners of over $5000 in prizes. Here we go... Contest statistics Before we get to the long list of prize winners, let's take a look at some of the numbers that sum up what happened this summer: * 25 guest posts were submitted by contestants from Israel, the USA, the UK, Germany, The Philippines, Spain and Canada * 10 guest posts were rejected because they didn't meet the guidelines or arrived after there were no spots left * 17 of 25 contestants, or 68% of the participants, won prizes (so yes, it really is worth getting in on this every year) * 1 contestant - Judi Perkins - had her part of the competition interrupted by Hurricane Irene * The articles were shared with over 1850 retweets, 1904 Facebook Shares and Likes, 328 Google +1's, and they were emailed over 2000 times * Almost 250,000 people visited JobMob during the contest
25 terrific entries and almost 400K pageviews later, the 5th Annual JobMob Guest Blogging Contest is over. Winners' announcement coming this week Over US$5000 in prizes will be awarded this Wednesday, September 21st. Among the many prizes about to make a lot of people happy, there's the new Judges' Choice prize, the overall favorite guest post as voted by the contest judges, regardless of how well the guest post performed in competition for the other prizes. However, since the grand prizes are so grand, I've decided that their winning guest posts won't be eligible for the Judges' Choice prize, only the other 22 entries will be. This is one way I've tried to spread the winnings around to the many contestants, in recognition of their efforts.
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