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13 Wild Thoughts On The State Of Job Fairs

Should we get rid of job fairs once and for all? I've been to job fairs in Canada, France and Israel but the Techeads Israeli Hitech Job Fair on March 6th 2012 was the first job fair I'd been to in a while. I had originally planned to go to a recruiting event at the same conference center, just in a different room. When that was canceled, I ended up spending almost the whole day at the job fair instead. And I'm glad I did. After meeting almost all the company reps at the fair and speaking to well over a dozen attendees, here are some thoughts on that job fair and other job fairs in general.

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April 4, 2012

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Were You Laid Off or Fired? Why It Matters

Stop shooting yourself in the foot. Fired vs. Laid off: What's the difference? The word 'layoff' gets thrown about very easily, especially when times are tough and the unemployment rate is high, but getting laid off and getting fired aren't the same thing. Getting fired - when a person is let go from a company, often due to their poor performance, without any hope of being rehired Example: if he hadn't resigned first, David Sokol probably would have been fired by Berkshire Hathaway for violating their ethical code of conduct by buying shares in a company that he knew Berkshire would purchase. Getting laid off - when a person is let go from a company, usually due to their company's poor performance, with the possibility of being rehired if the company's performance improves Example: my entire team of web developers and I were laid off in early 2006, as my employer hoped to save money by outsourcing our work.

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January 4, 2012

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How To Date Your Way to a Job

Find your perfect job/perfect love with these job and spouse hunting tips. This is a guest post by Yehoshua Paul. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to find the perfect job? Or ever wondered why it is so difficult to find the perfect spouse? After I recently got engaged (to the perfect woman), I started thinking about the two subjects, and realized that both dating and job hunting actually have a lot in common. Think about it: you often use the same tools for finding a job and finding a date, and both first dates and job interviews are basically all about your marketing skills – with one you are marketing your professional side, and with the other your personal side. So I decided to compare these two processes, and share my findings.

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September 8, 2011

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7 Life-Changing Job Trends You Need to Know About

The world of work is changing. Here's how to deal with it well. This is a guest post by Donna Sweidan. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Job seekers- you just got a promotion, the “career” as we know it is dead. Welcome to the new world of work.

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September 7, 2011

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10 Ironclad Reasons Why Job Seekers Must Use Social Media

In case you're still holding out, the time has now come. This is a guest post by Aliza Israel. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Based on Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta Social media has radically altered the process of job hunting. If you’re looking for work and haven’t been converted yet by social media evangelists, perhaps the time has come. Job seekers today need to leverage the opportunities inherent in the new Web; to ignore it is to miss out on what is, potentially, your most powerful job seeking tool.

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August 17, 2011