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Oh look! It’s Friday again and you’ve made it through the week! As a reward, I offer T.W.I.T that is filled to the brim with extra chatty goodness. The OS team ran the gamut with comments ranging from comical and snarky to insightful and, dare I say, poetic. Check out the top tweets from the first official week of summer:
Onward Search and our Chicago staffing team were excited to attend the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition in Chicago this month because the attendees were many and the news was good!
If you’re not familiar with the IRCE, it’s the world’s largest e-retailing show, attended by representatives from the retail, catalog, manufacturing and customer service industries. These are the forces that drive Internet retailing and make it possible for people like you and me to enjoy an ever evolving e-marketplace and shop online with ease.
The latest episode of CareerCast is live and it’s a good one – full of advice for freelance professionals and insight regarding how companies are hiring them.
The New York City job market is brimming with opportunities for freelance professionals so Jenn Walsh and Mike Ondocin from the Onward Search NYC office spoke with host Peter Clayton about the hiring trends they are seeing in the area.
A tip for freelancers in New York City: Stay flexible with your rates and keep advancing your skill set. Even though the market is turning around for freelance professionals, Mike explains that doing this will give you a greater advantage over the competition.
Read More from OS CareerCast #7: Freelance Hiring in New York City
Happy Friday, faithful Onward Search fans! Looking back through our team’s feeds, I noticed a significant amount of chatter this week about major sporting events, the most prominent of which being the World Cup. Here’s how the OS team weighed in on all the games this week.
Onward Search recruiters always make a good impression everywhere they go, so I wasn’t surprised to find one of them featured in a Chicago Now blog this morning. After meeting at a couple of Chicago based networking events over the past year, Brendan Tripp, author of The Job Stalker, interviewed Account Executive Courtney Davis about her experiences in staffing. Courtney describes what the job market might bring in the next few months, offers advice to job seekers and explains what makes Onward Search so great.
Read the entire interview here and catch up with Courtney on Twitter at @CourtneyDavis. You can also learn more about the Chicago office and the latest job opportunities in the area here.
Read More from Chicago’s Courtney Davis Featured On The Job Stalker Blog
When it comes to your job search, the little things can have a lasting effect on your chances of getting that offer. This is much different from the occasional flubs we all make. Remember when you met that woman and asked when she was “due” only to find out she wasn’t with child? Or the time you said “You and your daughter share a striking resemblance,” to your co-worker and his much younger date? Ah, the social faux pas – so easy to make and generally easy to bounce back from. Unfortunately, recovering from a seemingly minor slip-up in your job search could be much more difficult.
In the interest of identifying these often over-looked mistakes, I spoke with the Onward Search recruiters about the tips they offer to help their candidates navigate the recruitment process and avoid the missteps.
If you haven’t heard the news, Search Marketing professionals are the focus of a new government initiative. No, it’s not a nationwide crackdown on Black Hat SEOs. The US Department
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