It’s always a good idea to have a copy of your resume online. You will be able to apply for jobs from any computer and you’ll always have a copy of your resume handy.
ResumeBucket – Online Resumes originally appeared on About.com Job Searching on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 06:39:44.
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The comment period to collect opinions on the future of the .jobs domain closes Friday. But a two-page ad in the recent Staffing Management magazine from SHRM seems to say the decision has already been made.
The ad promotes the use of the planned series of job boards by the DirectEmployers Association. Against a snowy mountain backdrop, the ad lists a sampling of 18 of the planned “thousands” of job sites, among them Tokyo.jobs and Governmentconsulting.jobs.
“Coming soon!,” the ad promises. “List your jobs for free at thousands of locations.”
Technically, however, both the promise and the Internet addresses in the ad are premature. Under the rules by which the .jobs Internet extension was authorized, such names are not allowed. The rules allow only employer names to be used with a .jobs extension.
Whether the thousands of job boards ever come, let alone soon, is still to be decided. A SHRM-appointed group (the nine-members are the Policy Development Process Council) is studying a proposal to open up the naming rules to allow Employ Media to sell or (in the case of the DirectEmployers plan) “loan” geographic, occupational, and combination names.
SHRM is involved because it sponsored the creation of the .jobs domain as a way for employers to help job seekers find the jobs and career sites of specific companies. Five years after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved the creation of .jobs, only a few thousand of the addresses were sold. So Employ Media began looking for ways to broaden the appeal of the domain. That’s where DirectEmployers got involved.
The history of this is detailed in multiple posts here.
Gary Rubin, SHRM’s chief publishing, e-media, and business development officer and point man for the .jobs policies, said the ad was “most likely” placed by Employ Media. “Ads for .Jobs in SHRM publications and websites are placed and paid for by Employ Media,” Rubin wrote in an email. He speculated that it was created before SHRM formed the advisory council.
I sent an email to Tom Embrescia, CEO of Employ Media, asking about the ad, but have not yet heard back.
In an earlier email Rubin offered clarification on the comment period (comments can be posted here) and how SHRM is collecting HR community sentiment about the use of .jobs. He said the comment period would close Friday. Meanwhile, he reported that SHRM conducted a survey of its members to plumb their opinion on .jobs and its future.
The survey, Rubin wrote me was sent “to a sample that included approximately 1,400 HR generalists and 1,500 employment/recruiting professions. This quantity of HR professions sent surveys are sufficient to represent the views of the community. It is a scientific survey, and the results will be tabulated for the Council.”
“The public comment application is for the sole purpose of informing the members of the Council on the perceptions of anyone in the community who chose to comment,” he added.
If you haven’t already offered your opinion on the future of .jobs, the Internet address extension designed for corporate career sites, better hurry. Friday might be your last chance.
Then again it may not be.
The Society for Human resource Management is collecting opinions on the wisdom of loosening the restrictions on what names can be linked to a .jobs Internet extension. In a May 8th email, SHRM’s Gary Rubin, point man for the group’s .jobs involvement, said the comment period would last “about three weeks.” The period opened May 11.
However, on the website set-up by DirectEmployers Association, key beneficiary of changing the rules, the association’s leader says: “The open comment period is open for 10 days only, through Friday, May 21st.”
Who’s right? I don’t know. The SHRM public comment page is silent on how long input will be accepted. I sent Rubin an email asking about the duration, and a few other questions, including why comments are not being made public, but haven’t gotten a response.
DirectEmployers is pitching hard for the change. Its launch last year of several dozen job boards was the catalyst for changing the rules.
The Dot Jobs Universe site has an eight-and-a-half minute video on the homepage talking about the virtues of allowing geographic or occupational or geo-occupational names. It espouses the DirectEmployers view of the events that began unfolding last year. The video doesn’t discuss the financial arrangements between DirectEmployers and Employ Media, the .jobs registrar, or its potential earnings from selling job posting enhancements.
What DirectEmployers calls a “beta test” was previously described by the organization and its executive director, Bill Warren, as a prelude to the launch of several thousand — millions, DirectEmployers once boasted –more sites in February. In an interview with the Associated Press, Warren is reported as saying that 30,000 job sites would be launching by late March.
Even then however, Warren knew the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was questioning the use of the non-corporate names. ICANN, the Internet’s addressing authority, had sent letters regarding the DirectEmployers’ sites and cited the review procedure that is required before changes to the operation can be made.
SHRM is involved because it sponsored the request to create .jobs in the first place. Technically known as a top-level domain, the extension won approval based on the application by SHRM and its partner, Employ Media, that a .jobs appendage would provide an easy way for job seekers to find corporate career sites.
The arrangement finally approved by ICANN in 2005 was that .jobs addresses must use the name of the employer. Other naming conventions are not allowed.
But with sales of the .jobs addresses flat, and only 7,848 active (according to the last report), Employ Media, the operator of the business, wants to be able to sell a .jobs address using almost any name. Thus, last fall’s initial test launch of several dozen job sites.
The sites were all pulled down in February after ICANN got involved and insisted that the procedures detailed in its agreement with Employ Media be followed. Among the requirements is a public comment period and a review by a council of involved parties.
Do you need to know how to write a resume? First of all, your resume needs to not only be well written and properly formatted – it also needs to sell an employer on interviewing you.
If doesn’t make a good first impression, your resume won’t get a second glance from any hiring manager.
It’s important to take it a step further, as well, and take the time to create a customized resume that specifically highlights the experience you have that is relevant to the job you are applying for.
How To Write a Resume originally appeared on About.com Job Searching on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at 06:00:13.
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The good news is that the college graduate job market isn’t any worse than it was last year and starting salaries are up a bit.
The not-so-good news is that it is still very competitive for college seniors and recent graduates seeking entry level jobs.
College Grad Job Market Outlook originally appeared on About.com Job Searching on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 00:00:51.
