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Can You Help Me Find a Job?

When are you going to find me a job? Can you help me find a job? Why haven’t you found me a job? Those are the questions many job seekers want to know when they follow up with a recruiter or a staffing firm.

Recently, there have been cases in which job seekers have experienced what is known as Job Hunting Depression because they have tried so hard to find a job, and have interviewed with multiple staffing firms, yet did not receive any requests for job interviews. Additionally, some of those same individuals have applied online for several jobs, only to experience rejection, and in many cases, no responses at all.

As their job hunting frustration grows, those questions might become more agitated and they might ask: Will I ever find a job? Am I capable of being hired? Why won’t anyone hire me? The sad thing about this scenario is no one should ever solely depend on a recruiter, a job board, or any person for that matter, to find a job.

If you are searching for a job, or wondering how to find a recruiter, you must realize that most headhunters/professional recruiters receive hundreds of applicants each week. While many do their best to help each person, it becomes nearly impossible to give individualized attention to most of the applicants.

Stop Depending on Job Boards

If you are searching for a job, I am sure that one of the most complaints is not receiving any response from the employer. After all, applying for jobs on multiple job boards each day is what you are suppose to do… correct? Additionally, the more job boards you join, the better… correct?

Nothing can be further from the truth. Job seekers, you must quickly learn to stop depending on submitting resumes to job boards as your primary source to find jobs. If nothing from nothing leaves nothing, it doesn’t matter how many job boards you decide to join… nothing from nothing will still give you guess what? Nothing!

Did you know that nearly 80% of ALL available jobs are UNADVERTISED? For many of you, by the time you apply for an advertised job, it’s already too late because the employer was waiting for you when you were waiting for them to post a job advertisement. Yes that’s right… if you are completely depending on the traditional way to apply for jobs, you are making the decision to bypass nearly 80% of the available unadvertised jobs in the Hidden Job Market. Those employers may never know that you are out there.

Remember This: Employers can’t hire you if they don’t know that you even exist!

Find a job in Kenya today without agencies or bribe-seekers

If you have recently entered the job market, or have been in it for a couple of years in Kenya you are one in some millions joining the same race. As in every evolving economy, where there is a need, the service providers will arise. Some of those do not come into the market to genuinely service a need, but to fleece unsuspecting new entrants.

There are two kinds of job service providers that any new entrant into the job market in Kenya should be very wary of.

The first kind are the seemingly helpful ones who set up offices in some back-street and promise you a job, if only you part with a few coins. Some will even be so kind as to help you craft your CV, at another small fee of course. Others may even have some false list of candidates who have gotten jobs through them.

After you have parted with your few hard-gotten coins, for most of them are very convincing, you will be disappointed many months later to learn that they never had any intention of helping you find a job at all.

Healthcare jobs are amongst the most sought after in the job market as there are plenty of opportunities in this sector. There are various nursing jobs or doctors jobs that are always required in many of the leading hospitals and medical care facilities across the country. Like in any other business sector, you will have to make concerted efforts to land yourself rewarding healthcare jobs so that you can get forward with your career in right earnest. You can always get a headstart on other contenders for these jobs by becoming a member in online job forums that focus on the healthcare sector.

When you are hunting for healthcare jobs it is important to have a definite focus in choosing prospective employers. It is for this reason that it is an absolute must to look for nursing jobs in dedicated websites that concentrate on bringing all the recruiters in the healthcare sector on a common online platform. There are websites that have extensive job portfolios of office and field jobs in the healthcare sector. You may make the appropriate choice of nurse jobs according your specific preferences.

Top 5 Reasons to Change Jobs

Good economic conditions bring with them booming business, increased workloads and good cheer for most companies. They also bring with them increased attrition rates and higher mobility among employees.  In a good job market, there will always be a large number of people who would be willing to change jobs.

However, a good job market is not the only reason for a change in jobs. Jobs In A Jiffy has compiled a list of the top 5 reasons why an employees chooses to leave his current employment.

Higher Pay

The most obvious and often cited reason for a job change is for higher pay. Most respondents to our questions felt that they get a bigger salary hike when they move to a company than they would get in their current employer’s performance appraisal. Though it is debatable if money is the sole reason for an employee quitting, but we can safely say that it is one of the prime motivators.

Promotion and More Responsibility

All employees strive to move up the corporate ladder. This is not merely for the higher pay check but also for the opportunity to handle more responsibility.  At these stages, an employee can more visibly see his contribution to the organization. He is responsible not only for his own work but also for managing, motivating and getting the best out of his team. If an employee feels his career getting stagnated in his present organization, he will look to jump ships so as to fulfil his ambitions.

The Top 5 best performing public job sectors during the recession and beyond

By Public Jobs Direct the public sector recruitment specialist

Many officials and economists around the world claim that in spring 2009 the global economy passed the critical test for what lies ahead. Although, nobody can guarantee with certainty that the recession is over many believe that the economy showed glimpses of recovery. The stable  and in some cases increasing prices in the housing market, the latest rally in the stock markets in Europe, Asia and the US are some of the reasons to be more optimistic for the future.

Nevertheless, both Ben Bernanke, the president of the Federal Reserve in the US and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of IMF, claimed that the situation is still fragile and the recovery will be slow. With plans to inject even more money into troubled companies and sectors (the so called “statistical easiness”) it is almost certain that it will take longer than initially thought for economies to fully recover. In the UK, the Governor of the Bank of England Mervin King is under new pressures to print more money as GDP slumps again.

You may have seen work agencies for executives or specific sorts of jobs like secretaries or high tech workers but did you know that a full industry exists for folk trying to find luxury jobs? A luxury job is a position that is present in the commercial market that offer luxury services to consumers. These include luxury retail roles in jewelry, fashion and gourmand food as well as roles in luxury travel and hospitality, exclusive VIP services, high-end property and more. It is often tricky to match up companies in the posh market with employees that are suitable to be employed in for such jobs. It is for this reason that a luxury job industry portal that advertises the most recent high end retail jobs and luxury sorts of jobs available in the bizz can be beneficial to all parties involved. Both those trying in the recruitment agency market and also those making an attempt to get a luxury position will find a luxury career website a place to help meet their wants.
Using such a website can be very helpful for matching employees and employers for global positions. This may mean an executive that has to travel a lot either in the luxury travel industry or perhaps he might need to go to fashion shows and other events if that position is in the posh fashion industry. Another important benefit for companies using e-recruitment is to best source out the finest candidates for the luxury positions they are trying to fill.

Part Time Jobs ? How to Earn Cash from Home

We cannot go without money. Therefore, it should be our first concern that how we can earn money. Life becomes burden in the absence of money. It is considered more money more enjoyment and no money no enjoyment. So, it depends on you that how do you want to lead your life with enjoyment or like burden. If you want to lead life with enjoyment, you should have money and that money can be earned doing either office jobs or part time jobs. If you are unable to get office jobs because of any reason or the income of office jobs is not enough for you, you can consider about part time jobs.

These are online and home jobs in which you have no need to visit any particular place. You can easily do these part time jobs at your convenient time either in day or night. These online jobs provide golden opportunity to everyone to do these jobs similarly. Being online and home jobs, even moms, student, retiree and disabled person can think about these jobs as these jobs allows the job seekers to their other works as these jobs don’t require your full time like office jobs. You can do these jobs just 3 to 4 hours daily.