The most-visited blog posts of 2010 by top job bloggers from around the world. The list isn't ranked, I simply added the links as the bloggers sent them to me. Enjoy!
Over 2 dozen comments later, we have 5 winners. Thank yous Before I announce the winners, thank you to everyone who participated. Although leaving a comment is easy, this contest required a burst of creativity. More than a few people took up the challenge, and one - Yonatan Silver - took it up more than once. Thank you all. Thank you also to Scott Gerber for sponsoring the contest on the occasion of the launch of his new book Never Get a "Real" Job, which is getting some great reviews, so the winners really have something to look forward to. And now...
What you'd most like to know from the 2010 Kenes Gius (כנס גיוס), the 3rd edition of the biggest recruiting conference in Israel. The Kenes Gius is the annual conference about recruitment in Israel put on by HRD, the company of Israeli super-recruiter Morit Rozen, one of my Top 9 Israeli Job Search Experts on Twitter at @moritrozen. I had hoped to attend the conference in 2009, but there was a problem with the timing - and I think that I ended up being sick that day anyway - so I was particularly looking forward to this year's conference, which took place on October 11th. One of the reasons I wanted to attend the conference was to hear about recruiting trends in Israel and other juicy pieces of information that would interest you. Here's what I learned.
Almost 2 months after its first entry appeared on JobMob, the 4th Annual JobMob Guest Blogging Contest has finally come to an end. So who won? Contest numbers As I'd hoped, this year's contest was the biggest and best one we've had on JobMob to date. Here are some numbers that tell the story: * 24 guest posts were submitted by bloggers from Israel, the USA, Germany, The Philippines, Australia, Jordan and South Africa * The articles were shared with 1011 retweets, 506 Facebook shares and generated 109 comments * Almost 200,000 people visited JobMob during the contest Thank Yous As usual though, the numbers don't tell the full story.
Paradise for vacationing... and for skilled job seekers? This a guest post by Rob Kiernan. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Australia is known as the lucky country, a phrase first coined by Professor Donald Horne back in the 60’s, although he did it with a sense of sarcasm at the time. But today Australia really is regarded as a pretty lucky place to be. Moving forward about 35 years, Ben Southall won a competition and landed "the best job in the world" and was sent to the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia. Paradise, yes. But it didn't stop him getting stung by an Irukandji. Ouch! There is much talk about Australia being a land full of venomous creatures, but it is also a country of great opportunity, because...
