Tools You Need | JobMob

How MaxCDN Makes JobMob Faster

Is your website fast enough for your viewers? MaxCDN ***Thanks to MaxCDN for being a Silver Sponsor of The 8th Annual JobMob Guest Blogging Contest. Thanks to MaxCDN, JobMob visitors around the world have benefited from faster page loads for years. Please support and recommend them like I do.*** Everyone benefits MaxCDN speeds up your site - worldwide. If your site is hosted in Houston and a user in Hong Kong tries to access it, their browser sends file requests to your hosting company's servers halfway around the globe in Texas, and the files (e.g. CSS, images, Javascript) then need to go all the way back from Houston to Hong Kong. With MaxCDN, your visitor gets those files straight from a local server in Hong Kong, saving a lot of time. How much time?

6 Comments

August 3, 2014

Tools You Need

The Story of My First Job Interview. What a Nightmare!

What can happen when you're not prepared. Inspired by the JobMob article 444 Most Popular Job Interviewer Questions To Prepare Yourself With, my friend and job search coach Lavie Margolin has just published "Winning Answers to 500 Interview Questions". For this book, his 5th, Lavie invited me to write the foreword, and here it is now, all for you: I remember my first job interview. I was lucky, I didn’t even have to apply for the job. A friend of mine had a marketing position for a small web design company in downtown Montreal (Canada) and they were looking to add someone just like him to their team. I didn’t have any much marketing experience but this was a junior position and as a Computer Science major, I had spent more time online than pretty much anyone else I knew. My friend was able to get me the interview invite simply by mentioning to his boss that yes, he did actually know someone who might be a good fit. One phone call later and I was all set with a date and time bright and early in the morning a few days later. I did no homework for the interview.

2 Comments

May 22, 2014

Read more about the article Top 100 Useful LinkedIn Groups for Job Seekers and Recruiters in 2014

Tools You Need

Over 100 Salary Surveys, Guides and Calculators For 2014

Know the market rate for a job before recruiters ask what the rate is for you. Salary surveys help you: * Understand your current market value, locally or abroad * Learn about options for relocation, where your market value is that much higher * Learn about other career options where you could earn enough, or even more And that's why I compile these lists for you. How to use this list As much as possible, I try to only list sites that are credible and have compiled their own numbers from their own sources. For best results, compare multiple surveys to reinforce your impressions, especially since you might end up making decisions with these numbers in mind.

7 Comments

March 27, 2014

Tools You Need

How To Get and Use Your Own Domain Name, Part 2

To really take advantage of your own domain name. A JobMob reader asks: I have a professional question. Do you know how someone gets a domain name that is their name? As in jacob@jacobshare.com? There are actually 2 parts to the question: 1) How do you get your own domain name? 2) How do you use that domain for a website and/or email? I previously answered the first question in How To Get and Use Your Own Domain Name. If you missed it, you might want to go read it now (the link will open in a new window/tab). In this article, I'll focus on the second question.

1 Comment

February 6, 2014