The Internet offers huge opportunities for a job hunter, but also presents several potential challenges. It also adds several complexities, and a lot more matters to consider…and be careful of.

Job search needs to be thought of as a personal, very directed marketing operation where you are the product. Your resume is an ad. Your extended network is your inside source for information and job leads.

So where does the internet fit in? At AA-Careers, we recently posted a job on a popular job board and got 600 plus responses in a week. For one position. That’s increased job hunting competition.

Had a suitable candidate called us ahead of our posting that ad, they could have landed the position prior to getting all that competition. How? By finding someone who knows an employee at our office who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 11 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be careful to check your application materials thoroughly before submitting them. When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily taken out with a fast triage process. How? The same way any manager would. By rejecting resumes where the objective didn’t match our position description. By passing over prospects whose cover letters gave us reasons not to employ them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating prospects whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by eliminating job hunters who didn’t trouble to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the good news is that job sites give you a feel of who is hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those positions are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well honed resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another issue to be aware of is how quickly you can be checked on on the internet. As we Googled several job hunters, we ran into some pictures and comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing illegal, but enough to sway our thinking about who to choose.

AA-Careers provides a encompassing set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

With scores of changes occurring in computers nearly every day, only a couple have proved more convenient and valuable than the introduction of the netbook. The size of netbook computers is the most important reason that makes them so necessary to the typical end user or organisation. Where notebook computers are rather heavy to fit precisely on most people’s laps, netbook computers boast the ideal size and portability. Possibly the best situation to demonstrate this would be on either a train, or airplane, while travelling to, or from your destination. In these instances, a netbook is unquestionably the more appropriate hardware, often being virtually half the size of a normal laptop computer. Find a large assortment of technology products such as; netbooks, led tvs and ipod classic from leading brands online.

The size of these netbook computers raises a number of worries with regards to their screen resolution. With such a small size, comes a small screen, so you may possibly want to make sure you obtain a netbook computer that has a suitable contrast ratio, & high resolution rate. This will save you from countless headaches when trying to watch a presentation or a video clip. Making sure you get the highest contrast ratio for your set budget is very simple, mainly because there are a lot of sites that analyses each netbook computer brands to their opposition. This can offer you valuable information when looking for a netbook computer.

This comparing of netbook products can be excellent in maximizing the quality of the hardware in the computer, and the sum of money that you planned to pay. Internal hard drive space, wireless capability & unit cost are several core qualities that you ought to make sure you explore when picking a netbook. With such an assortment of different brands putting out netbooks currently in 2009, there are lots of offers around that you can find simply by undertaking ample research before you purchase. Making sure you get the very best hardware currently available for your set budget is crucial, especially in this recession. Take the first steps towards upgrading your mobile computing experience. Splash out on a netbook & enter into the brilliant world of convenience & portability that these machines offer.

A current job hunting campaign is by nature quite complicated. While the internet has offered a variety of new job sites, networking sites, etc., it also creates exaggerated competition for outstanding jobs and potential hurdles for job seekers.

Finding a job needs to be thought of as a highly personal, highly targeted marketing and selling process where you are the product. Your resume is an ad. Your extended network is your lead generating machine.

So where does the Web fit in? At AA-Careers, we recently posted a job on a popular job search site and got 500+ replies in a few days. For just one opening. That’s extreme competition.

Had the right job hunter contacted us ahead of our posting that ad, they could have secured the job prior to getting all that competition. How? By knowing someone at our organization who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone was aware of the job for at least a week before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming on the market soon?

So the good news is that job websites give you a sense of who is hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those jobs are posted, the competition is intensive. You can still compete, if you have a well honed resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing - so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another downside to be aware of is how easily you can be investigated on the internet. As we Googled several candidates, we ran into some pictures and comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing illegal, but enough to sway our thinking about who to hire.

AA-Careers provides a comprehensive set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

In an announcement made last week, the European Union has come up with some tough measures to protect health workers with some new guidelines. The guidelines have been presented with an aim to help reduce the risk to healthcare staff from sharps and needles. On an average, about 100,000 cases of sharps and needlestick injuries occur in the NHS in a year.

UNISON’s Head of Health, Karen Jennings, was the key person involved in a series of meetings and negotiations held at the EU level between the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) and the European hospital and healthcare employers’ association, HOSPEEM.

The focal point of the agreement is to lower the rate of injuries due to these causes and coming up with suitable response if an injury does occur. Health and safety training is essential; for managers and supervisors IOSH training is designed to provide you with the knowledge to manage safely and effectively in compliance with both your organisation’s policy and best practice in health and safety, click on IOSH Distance Learning for info on a tailored course to suit your needs of your team.

Jennings conveyed her pleasure at the outcome of the deliberations and complimented the unions on their hard work and determination. She also stated that exposing thousands of NHS workers every year to dirty needles is unwarranted and inhumane, when safer needles are available at competitive prices.

Citing cases of death among health workers due to accidents involving needles, Jennings also said that such injuries can cause enormous agony and pain and may also lead to potentially life threatening diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS. Moreover, it is far more cost effective to provide safer needles, taking into account the huge amount of money that would otherwise be spent on treating persons with needlestick injuries, sickness absence, compensation and so on.

The relentless defensive player Dikembe Mutombo is also a softie. One of NBA’s most celebrated centers and a 4-time winner of the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award, the 7-foot-2 Mutombo is also an active philanthropist who has focused much of his charitable endeavors on his home country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, through the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation.

One of Mutombo’s notable projects is the construction of the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in the outskirts of his hometown, Kinshasa, the capital of Congo. He donated an estimated total of $18.5 million to the establishment of the $29 million-facility. Named after Mutombo’s late mother, Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital is Congo’s most modern hospital to date, with technological innovations such as telemedicine and live network connection with other hospitals and medical institutions in the United States and Europe.

Mutombo is someone who never forgets his roots, no matter what material possessions and degree of fame he has achieved in life. He also emphasizes the importance of social responsibility of those who are doing well in life to lend a helping hand to other members of society. His favorite saying confirms his philanthropic resolve - “When you take the elevator up to reach the top, don’t forget to send it back down so that someone else can take it to the top.”

The hospital and all of his other philanthropic efforts are his means of sending the elevator down.

Philanthropist and Ross School founder Courtney Ross is listed on the Forbes 400.

Courtney Sale Ross is the founder of the Ross School.

Courtney Sale Ross was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose.

Communications is a two way process of sending and receiving messages. The sharing of messages between human beings is complicated and far too often taken for granted. Generally what we do is talk. Let’s clear one thing up from the outset. Talking is not communicating. We can talk without communicating and to be honest with you, this seems to be the case in way too many relationships.

Understanding and improving communication patterns means learning not to take communication for granted. Admittedly, this is difficult because most people tend to be as unaware of their communication as their breathing. It is crucial that you begin to see that it is communication that creates relationships and it is most often communications breakdowns, either directly or indirectly, that lead ultimately to relationships demise.

Human relationships and communication are interpersonal, that is, between humans and the interpersonal communication of messages is a two-way process. Inherent in the two-way view of communication is the understanding that persons who communicate both send and receive messages and both are responsible for the message.

When communicating is understood as a dynamic process, it becomes clear that speakers need to express thinking and feeling messages as clearly and accurately as possible; listeners need to provide responses in order to clarify their perception of messages. Sometimes in relationships, persons will not share the same perceptions and there will be conflict. Conflict is inevitable because people are unique and different. It is important to avoid viewing conflict as something which is always bad because it is not; conflict can be healthy. It would probably be beneficial to manage conflict as opposed to eliminating it. Trying to get rid of it entirely may result in individuals erecting walls of separation. It is perfectly okay to just agree to disagree. Good conflict management skills can keep your relationship positive and may even strengthen it. Of course, the opposite is also true. Poor conflict management can destroy relationships.

I cannot begin to impress upon you how extremely important it is to develop good assertive communication skills. When you are assertive, you are emotionally honest because you express your thoughts and feelings in such a way that the other person feels valued and respected and also respects you. We must preserve the other’s ego strength. Failure to do so will ultimately lead to the diminishing of the relationship integrity. There is much truth in the axiom, “it is not what you say but how you say it.”

It always made me cringe when I counseled couples where one or both engaged in nonassertive communications. Nonassertive communications is dishonest and disparaging of one’s self because you deny your own thoughts and feelings. Nonassertive communication is an anathema to relationships because it is a situation where one feels hurt and inferior and angry while the other person feels superior. In situations like this, the negative thoughts and feelings do not go away, they build, fester and brew and may eventually be expressed in some form of misconduct.

Perhaps most debilitating of all is aggressive communications. Aggressive communications exist where one person expresses him or herself without regard for the other person or the relationship. It is the height of disrespect and non-caring.

Again (and I cannot repeat it too often), assertive communications is the way to go. It serves to preserve or build relationships of mutual respect even when the communicators have very different perspectives on what they are communicating about.

Rev. Saundra L. Washington, D.D., is an ordained clergywoman, social worker, and Founder of AMEN Ministries. http://www.clergyservices4u.org. She is also the author of two coffee table books: Room Beneath the Snow: Poems that Preach and Negative Disturbances: Homilies that Teach. Her new book, Out of Deep Waters: My Grief Management Workbook, will be available soon.

The Blarney Stone is a historical stone, or actually part of
the Blarney Castle in Ireland where it was believed that kissing
the stone can grant you the gift of gab. Yeah, it seems strange
in this day and age, but who are we to question tradition? It’s
not like I’m saying that Santa Claus doesn’t exist (OOPS!).

There is so much to know about conversation that anyone, even I,
could ever realize. You can go though watching talk shows; radio
programs; clubs dedicated to public speaking; ordinary
conversations; certain rules still apply when it comes to
interaction through words. It may sound tedious, I know, but
even though it’s your mouth that’s doing the work, your brain
works twice as hard to churn out a lot of things you know. So
what better way to start learning to be an effective
communication is to know the very person closest to you:
yourself.

1. What you know. Education is all about learning the basics,
but to be an effective speaker is to practice what you’ve
learned. My stint as guest at every Toastmasters’ meeting I go
to taught me that we all have our limitations, but that doesn’t
mean we can’t learn to keep up and share what we know.

2. Listening. It’s just as important as asking questions.
Sometimes listening to the sound of our own voice can teach us
to be a little bit confident with ourselves and to say the
things we believe in with conviction.

3. Humility We all make mistakes, and sometimes we tend to slur
our words, stutter, and probably mispronounce certain words even
though we know what it means, but rarely use it only to impress
listeners. So in a group, don’t be afraid to ask if you’re
saying the right word properly and if they’re unsure about it
then make a joke out of it. I promise you it’ll make everyone
laugh and you can get away with it as well.

4. Eye Contact There’s a lot to say when it comes to directing
your attention to your audience with an eye-catching gaze. It’s
important that you keep your focus when talking to a large group
in a meeting or a gathering, even though he or she may be
gorgeous.

5. Kidding around A little bit of humor can do wonders to lift
the tension, or worse boredom when making your speech. That way,
you’ll get the attention of the majority of the crowd and
they’ll feel that you’re just as approachable, and as human to
those who listen.

6. Be like the rest of them Interaction is all about mingling
with other people. You’ll get a lot of ideas, as well as knowing
what people make them as they are.

7. Me, Myself, and I Admit it, there are times you sing to
yourself in the shower. I know I do! Listening to the sound of
your own voice while you practice your speech in front of a
mirror can help correct the stress areas of your pitch. And
while you’re at it you can spruce up as well.

8. With a smile A smile says it all much like eye contact.
There’s no point on grimacing or frowning in a meeting or a
gathering, unless it’s a wake. You can better express what
you’re saying when you smile.

9. A Role Model There must be at least one or two people in your
life you have listened to when they’re at a public gathering or
maybe at church. Sure they read their lines, but taking a mental
note of how they emphasize what they say can help you once you
take center stage.

10. Preparation Make the best out of preparation rather than
just scribbling notes and often in a hurried panic. Some people
like to write things down on index cards, while other resort to
being a little more silly as they look at their notes written on
the palm of their hand (not for clammy hands, please). Just be
comfortable with what you know since you enjoy your work.

And that about wraps it up. These suggestions are rather
amateurish in edgewise, but I’ve learned to empower myself when
it comes to public or private speaking and it never hurts to be
with people to listen how they make conversations and meetings
far more enjoyable as well as educational.

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