Accuracy in your resume is a must - And a Golden Rule Too

12 Deadly Sins That Kill Your Job Search 
by Diane Coffey and originally appeared on PongoResume.com
Extract:

Sin #6. Lying is very high risk, both during the selection process and after you get hired. Many people have been fired for lying on their resumes, even after years of high job performance. Positive spin is good; lying is bad.

On the same shelf:

• NDP apologizes for embellishing new MP's resumé, [The NDP apologized Tuesday to Ruth Ellen Brosseau... ] CBCNews.ca: Tuesday, May 10, 2011
• Accuracy In Your Resume: The Golden Rule
   

Seven tips to help land your first post-university job

May 01, 2011, Toronto Star,  By Krystal Yee

• Have a killer resume and cover letter
• Clean up your digital footprint 
• Target your job hunt 
• Network, network, network 
• Be interview-ready at all times 
• Follow up
• Get your foot in the door  continue reading

 The bottomline: What if you don't reach the door? See the following stories: 

• Ten Must-Do Job-Search Tips for Spring 2011 Grads
• Tips for overcoming an experience-gap
• New Graduate Unemployment in Japan, China and Canada
• 1 Year Graduate from Environmental Science and Geography... Jobless
• Graduate and Jobless - Angela Dai's Blog
• Youth unemployment hits 30-year high: study
• The Transition to Work for Canadian University Graduates: Time to First Job, 1982-1990, Queen's University and Statistics Canada
• Young and jobless: The recession's toll - The Globe and Mail
• Thread: Degreed And Jobless, College Graduate Turns To Stripping
• Jobless? No, I'm 'funemployed' – - Macleans OnCampus
• Adventures in Canadian Post-Secondary Education: Jobless grad
• My New Life as a Jobless College Graduate | lovelyish

Top 5 questions HR professionals ask about resumes of internationally qualified professionals

... (and the answers to them!), Written by: Michelle Pinchev
 By guest contributor, Najia Alavi, Marketing Manager, Career Edge Organization

Extract:
1. “Why do so many newcomers’ resumes read like those of generalists?”
2. “Why do immigrants’ resumes so often emphasize job responsibilities instead of their professional achievements?”
3. “How am I supposed to know if the international college/university listed on an internationally qualified professional’s resume is a credible one”
4. “Why do internationally qualified professionals always seem to have 3 or 4 page long resumes – do they really think we need to know their entire life history?”   
5. “Why, oh why, do some new Canadians include personal information like their marital status, date of birth – and sometimes, even their photographs – on their resumes?”   continue reading: Top 5 questions HR professionals ask... click here or here

Top Ways to Find a Job

Extract:

1. Tell everyone you know that you are looking for work.
2. Write a good résumé.
3. Look for work every day.
4. Use the resources available to you.
5. Look at community bulletin boards.
6. Visit job fairs.
7. Register with headhunting/personnel agencies.
8. Knock on every door.
9. Stay motivated.continue reading @ Regional Municipality of York
   See also, Employment Placement with Incentives program: Paid Employment  

Tolerance a Canadian Myth or Fact

Two current news stories give you two shades of opinions, and we value your opinions, right?

• Tolerance a Canadian myth — DAVE DALE’s Soapboxing [highlight: Our tolerance for weather is also a reflection of not being able to tolerate people.]
• Canadians are the most tolerant people in the developed world: report‎  [highlight: At 84 per cent on average, Canadians report the highest community tolerance of minority groups—ethnic minorities, migrants, and gays and lesbians—in the OECD, where the average is 61 per cent.”]

So, what do you feel, reading the above?

The Worst Resume Mistake EVER! @ Monster.ca

Extract:

Tip 1. Don’t Rely Entirely on Spell Check When Proofreading
Tip 2. Customize Your Wording To The Job You’re Applying For
Tip 3. Send It In The Proper Format
Continue reading the full article: The Worst Resume Mistake EVER, by By Mark Swartz, Monster Senior Contributing Writer

On the same shelf:

5 Resume Mistakes You Are Making And How To Avoid Them -- see also: www.huffingtonpost.com

Who is hiring now in Toronto

There is a long list of potential companies that are hiring.

Craigslist's Jobs list is frequently updated. Click here for the current posting

• See also craigslist SCAM ALERT

• RCMP probing 'mystery shopper' scam posing as $150-an-hour job

• Two new scams currently being used by con artists in Ontario

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• City of Toronto: Apply for a job
• Education Canada Network  
• Rogers
• Home Depot: www.homedepot.monstermediaworks.ca/
• www.walmart.ca/Careers
• Zellers / HBC: www.hbc.com/hbc/careers/default.asp 
• Rona: www.career.rona.ca/stores/job-offers.aspx
• Brick: Careers
• BadBoy: Careers
• Leons: View All Jobs: Scarborough, Mississauga,  Danforth
• Futureshop: Click here to see our current openings.
• Best Buy

See on the same shelf:

• It’s a paradox: high unemployment with serious labour shortages

It’s a paradox: high unemployment with serious labour shortages

Doug Saunders | Globe and Mail, Feb. 19, 2011

The above news headline offers a moment for reflection for all concerned about the real picture of Canadian job market. Is there then, a job saturation? If yes, does the labor market spell the sectors? If not, how does one justify the following:

"Looming shortage of ICT workers: study"

'Unqualified' interpreters working in courts‎

CTV Toronto - New jobs created, but unemployment edges up

Nursing Shortage. What is it? How severe is it? How will it impact ...‎:

Hoping for a fulltime teaching job? Think again
Oversupply of education graduates fueling teaching job shortage in Ontario

Canadian surgeons face flat-lining job market‎

Who will heal the nursing crisis?‎

Changing standards for training schools have created a flood of dental hygienists

In another sense the paradox is multidimensional, there is resume flood, there is an endless preaching about trimming the resume, customizing, etc., etc., as in the following instances,

as depicted in this news story @ IT Business Edge: Companies Must Find Solution to Resume Overload.

there is a constant effort to trim the resume, as in these two news stories: LinkedIn’s top buzzwords list can help job hunters By Rafael Ruffolo, 14 Dec 2010 in ComputerWorld Canada; and
10 Tips for Integrating Social Media and LinkedIn in to Your Job Search in 2011, in Windmills Marketing.

More on the same shelf:

When the Marketing Reach of Social Media Backfires

Ottawa tech firm joins RIM in tablet computer war

Alberta a 'job-creation machine' while rest of country lags behind‎

New Canadians may help Ottawa labour crunch‎

Same old won't help young Canadians‎

Staff shortage forces overtime‎

For job-hunting PhDs, the degree was the easy part, [read as: finding a job is the v.v.v. difficult part]

A Job Search Evening @ Mississauga Central Library

My book discussion, A Job Search Evening, @ Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burnhamthorpe Road West, March 2, 2011, 7 - 8 p.m. See the event details, here.


See the book details, here: Job Search The Canadian Way: What Works, What Doesn't



PS. The book can now be ordered via COUTTS, S&B Books Ltd., and Amazon's Createspace.
Or Download Ebook.

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