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If someone gave you $10,000 – 43% of people say they would pay down debt, 25% save it, 25% invest it, 7% spend it.

Noticed a list of the best / top jobs recently (Systems Engineer #1).

Criteria was multi-faceted including decent pay, good demand, enjoyable, and not a lot of pressure.

Was surprised insurance recruiter wasn’t in the top 50! (No insurance positions were).

The Mortgage Bankers Association predicts fixed rate mortgages of 5.9% by the end of 2010, and 6.3% at the end of 2011. (So, with rates at or under 5% now, be watchful if you have a loan coming due).

Don’t expect workers loyalty to outlast the recession.

Watson Wyatt says 25% of you have become disengaged (disgruntled), and Monster.com says 79% of job holders have stepped up their search for a new place to work.

So... there will be a lot of people making moves as more positions materialize.

Harvey Dorland

Pacific Recruiting

936-597-6500 - direct

hdorland@ez2.net

Career choices, defining who you are.

Interesting article, “Just Say No”

http://www.theladders.com/career-advice/when-to-decline-offer

Scot Dickerson, CPC

President

Capstone Search Group

Phone: (515)-987-0242 Ext. 18

Email: sdickerson@insurance-csg.com

Money in the bank

More and more candidates are telling me:

· They send resumes in response to job board postings and never hear a word.

· They interview two or three times for a position and then never hear a word.

Companies seem to forget that their reputation is only as good as the way they treat people.

Candidates should be treated as you would treat your best customer.

Trust me... the ones I hear about being rude the most frequently, are the ones that I put near the top of my recruiting list.

I believe I rightfully assume that if they are treating a #1 resource (candidates) with disdain, that’s also the way they are treating their own employees!

Most of the time, I’m right.

Harvey Dorland

Pacific Recruiting

936-597-6500 - direct

hdorland@ez2.net

Money in the bank

If you pay $100/month on a credit card that has a $5000 balance at 15%, it will take you 6.6 years to pay it off and cost you $2896 in interest.

Pay $300/month on the same and you’ll cut your pay off time to 1.6 years and interest to $643!

A recent CNN Money poll says 52% of us believe it will be a year or more before the economy gets better. 15% say it is already happening.

One of our Nation’s top business women says... “running a business is an overrated skill.” “Finding people that have strategic acuity and can reconceptualize for the future is what is in the shortest supply”.

Another says... “there just isn’t time anymore to ponder or analyze a decision to death”.

Tell that to all the people who are still waiting for the results of an interview they had 30 days ago. J

More later on this subject.

Harvey Dorland

Pacific Recruiting

936-597-6500 - direct

hdorland@ez2.net

Objectives: The death sentence of a resume.

I recently ran an ad for a Commercial Insurance Account Manager. I needed an experienced candidate out of commercial insurance who wanted to work for a growing insurance firm.

After reading MANY resumes, one really stuck out to me - not because I thought it was a match, but because I wondered, "What is this person thinking?" The resume was well written but this resume had a flaw so blatant that it shot down the candidate faster than I could say "DID YOU READ MY AD?" Their resume had an objective stating that this person wanted to get into the field of journalism. Hmmmmm......

What do you think the chances were for this person to land an interview for my job? With an opening line like that, front and center on the resume, zero. The hiring authority (or recruiter) realizes right off the bat that this person is probably not a detail person among other things.

Has your objective in your resume "killed" your chance for an interview for a job you really wanted? Read it again before sending it in for a specific opening. Don't let your objective be the death sentence for your resume.

Laura Hill
The Hill Group, L.P.
lhill@thehillgroup.net

Money in the bank

Resumes now more than ever need to speak about accomplishments (current and past).

Today’s employers often receive multitudes of resumes from people with similar backgrounds.

Yours will stand out if you also speak about accomplishments.

My suggestion is a one page cover letter outlining them, rather than hiding them in the body of a resume.

Our industry has lost 2.6% (59000) jobs over the past 12 months... so if you are one of those who was affected, or could be in the future, the above tip will give you an advantage.

Harvey Dorland

Pacific Recruiting

936-597-6500 - direct

hdorland@ez2.net

You don’t know what rough times are!

We have just completed 8 months in the most challenging year for this country since the 1930's according to our elected officials and the talking heads (and radio voices).

Now, I am fortunate to have both my parents alive approaching their 89^th year on this earth and they were both teenagers during the “Great Depression “and they laugh at today’s comparison. I have always hated when my parents would say “you don’t know what rough times are” but after speaking with them and doing a little research (just a quick Google search) I noted the following.

· By 1932 unemployment had reached 23.6%, and it peaked in early 1933 at 25%, we are currently under 10%.

· By 1933 more than 5,000 banks had failed. In 2009 it looks to be about 70 added to the 16 in 2008.

· In 1933 hundreds of thousands of Americans found themselves homeless and they began congregating in the numerous Hoovervilles, basically tent cities. And my parents included the personal viewpoints of the food rationing, cardboard in the bottoms of shoes and ketchup sandwiches.

Heck, I lived with the gas rationing in the 70’s and as far as any teenager was concerned then, THAT was the end of the world! My 1^st mortgage rate was 16.5 %

Suddenly I don’t feel so bad about today and we should feel better about our tomorrow.

Sean Sweeney, CPC | Team Leader

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