With a tightening job market numerous job seekers have increased their networking endeavours with the hope of tapping into the hidden job market, where 70-80% of unadvertised opportunities are located.
While networking should be an integral part of your search (and overall career management) efforts there are some secrets which can make a significant difference between not really generating much success and the potential for networking burnout in comparison to building influential and productive relationships that open the doors to potential job opportunities.
To avoid networking burnout, ensure you’re adopting the top …

While the Australian and US employment markets are very different they do share enough similarities for this article from US News to be a concern to everyone.
According to Adecco’s latest workplace survey, 54 percent are getting ready to start looking elsewhere. No surprise really that the itch to move on is highest among the youngest workers. Adecco reports 71 percent of 18-to-29 year olds plan to look for a new job in the recovery.
For job seekers it will mean if you are unemployed when the market picks up there might be …

Earlier in June specialist vertical search engine Classifind launched their new service the Classifind Job Index.
Each month we will publish information on National job listings as well as break them down by State, Capital Cities, and also show data for each of our 46 individual Sectors. This will be the most comprehensive source of data for job listings in Australia.
As of June 9 they had 107,993 jobs in their database so the figures should stand up even without data from Seek. Their first report shows a slight increase in jobs listed …

In early June Seek released their latest round of labour market statistics, showing some interesting trends. Firstly that the employment marketing might in fact be turning around. Second that the Australian Government’s prediction of 8.5% unemployment will prove wrong.

The evidence is clearest in new job ads registered with SEEK. Between August 2008 and March 2009 new job ads (seasonally adjusted) fell by 44.2%, at a monthly rate of 6.6%. While job ads continued to fall in April and May 2009, the rate of change has slowed significantly to only 1.9% in May.

Only time …

The job market is still soft the latest ABS figures show that in May 2009 unemployment climbed to 5.7%, an increase of 1.6% over the last 12 months.
This growth in unemployment means that many job seekers have to go the extra mile to land a new role.
For example take Doug Winfield.
Doug decided to take out a Facebook ad advertising his skills. But with one unique difference. He targeted a specific company, SHIFT. Using Facebook Ads Doug was able to narrow in on the specific organisation he wanted to work for. …

 Sometimes using traditional methods of finding a job do not work. In times like these you might want to consider some extreme job hunting tactics.
However before you do make sure you prepare yourself, extreme job hunting can get dangerous and you could end up on the front page of your daily newspaper! You also need to be a bit careful as a recent survey by The Creative Group found about 52% of marketing executives thought these approaches were “unprofessional”.
Getting Started
Before you can undertake extreme job hunting you need to arm …

While recruiters have always background checked candidates, you the candidate can now conduct comprehensive research on the recruiter, hiring manager and employer in a way that was never before possible. Using search engines you can delve beyond the glassy corporate brochures and web sites to see what employees, customers and competitors are saying about the organisation. By researching the organisation you can determine many different aspects that might not be so obvious from the organisation’s web site.
In addition to using general search engines tools such as Glassdoor allows the anonymous …