A modern job search campaign is by nature very complicated. While the web has offered a variety of new channels, it also creates increased competition for choice jobs and possible challenges for job hunters.
Job hunting needs to be thought of as a personal, extremely aimed marketing process where you are the product. Your resume is an ad. Your extended network of contacts is your lead generating machine.
So where does the web fit in? At AA-Careers, we recently posted a job on a popular job board and got over 600 responses in a calendar week. For a single opening. That’s increased job hunting competition.
Had the right person gotten ahold of us before we ran the ad, they could have gotten the job before getting all that competition. How? By knowing an employee at our office who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 13 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?
Be careful how you submit your application as well. When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily removed with a swift triage process. How? The same way any HR professional would. By eliminating resumes where the objective didn’t match our position description. By rejecting candidates whose cover letters gave us causes not to hire them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating prospects whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by eliminating job hunters who didn’t trouble to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.
So the great news is that job boards give you a sense of what companies are hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those jobs are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well written resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.
Another downside to be aware of is how quickly and easily you can be checked out on the internet. As we Googled several job hunters, we ran into some personal web pages that were in questionable taste. Nothing illegal, but enough to rock our thoughts about who to hire.
AA-Careers provides a comprehensive set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.
Be careful out there, and good hunting!
Regarded as one of the top ten largest remodeling firms in America, K-Designers commitment is to quality. Their specialty is premium products coupled with praiseworthy customer service. They compete constantly to garner the reliance of customers who choose them as their designer. K-Designers have more than thirty years of home remodeling experience.
Larry and Lee Judson formed K-Designers with a commitment to giving customers value for their hard earned money. They began in 1978 with four employees, and today have more than 900 employees. Dedicated to design and remodeling excellence, the Company offers a wide assortment of items to their customers. They compound this with expert counsel on how a home remodeling project should proceed as applies to each home owner’s particular situation.
Products the Company provides originate from major suppliers in the home remodeling industry. Examples of products they offer their customers are quality exterior coatings, energy-efficient windows, and patio doors. They also offer security doors, garage doors, and exterior siding in vinyl, aluminum, and steel. In addition, K-Designers offer a gutter protection system as well as exterior window and door decor.
Currently in their 31st year of existence, the Company proceeds to work to earn the trust of their customers. They have a faculty of design experts with first-hand experience working with a wide variety of home styles. They furnish these design professionals to participating homeowners who want information and advice on how to carry on a home renovation project. K-Designers send the designer to the clients home where they help the client plan a design project that suits their needs and budget.
With home renovations often a reason for worry for homeowners, K-Designers operates to ally fears about the process. With years of experience dealing with diverse patronage, they understand the concerns people have. Their commitment is to providing quality products, design personnel, and craftspeople to homeowners who choose to use their service.
Wow, can you feel the heat? It’s getting hot out here in my neck of the woods. We’re just starting to put splitters away and break out the tillers.
It’s hard to find the right stuff these days on the Internet. So many fake places spouting spammy nonsense. Here are my favorite (and REAL) resources so far:
Planting
Some vendors have over 20 ways you can configure your rototiller. Is it time for you to get a cultivator? Sometimes buying one is the right choice. A lot of stores carry rototillers, but you can almost always find one online for less. Look at the rototiller store for some of the best deals around on the web for cultivators. After browsing around for a couple minutes, I purchased my tiller in no time. Visit the website as soon as you can. Oh yeah, they also have sweet deals every day from a variety of places so it’s almost like you can see all the best prices on tillers on the web in one place.
eFusjon
I promise I’m going somewhere with this roundup. Want to be energized? I sure do. That’s why I joined this program that sells energy drinks - they’re healthy too. Do you like to try things before you buy? I do too. I can’t believe how good and energized I felt after drinking this. Lol, you won’t believe how long this energy drink will last you. A long time! You won’t believe how healthy this energy drink is. Learn and earn with the efusjon ‘a’ team at startup4less.com. They are growing fast and willing to help and teach you regularly. This is a forced matrix mlm which means you can join and do nothing after getting 3 people to join and still make money…sounds too good to be true, but that’s what I’m doing. Hooray!
Splitter
Log splitter needs to be put into a shed or away for a season. Keep your log splitter out of the elements with a heavy duty tarp. A clean machine is a happy machine. If you’re shopping for a log splitter, there is no better place than Log Splitter Sale. Go visit the site because it’s easy to navigate and find answers to your splitter questions. Review the buyer’s guide too. Excellent advice for all log splitter buyers or potential buyers.
Hunky-dory! Until next time…
Do you need Digital Versatile Disc superiority; though miss your old video recorder’s facility to tape your much-loved action shows? If so, you are able to get the best of both with a Digital Versatile Disc (more generally known as a DVD) recorder, due to its versatile taping capabilities as well as its DVD superior sound and vision.
There are at this time numerous models of DVD recorders available in retail stores, each with exclusive specifications & features. This means that whatever your desires are, there will be a precise make of DVD recorders available in retail shops to suit you.
Digital Versatile Disc Recorders have never been so cost-effective to acquire. In actuality, prices are falling so quick that getting rid of that old Video Cassette Recorder (more commonly refereed to as a VCR) and switching over to DVD or Hard Disk Drive (HDD) recording makes understandable sense. But, it is a consumer marketplace ruled by technology and innovation & thus means product features are improving on a daily basis.
If you’re bewildered by the differentiation between DVD-R, DVD-RAM and DVD+RW, we also provide you with a necessary breakdown of the configurations on offer - which corporations are supporting them and what the hottest improvements are. Prices slashed on all DVD recorders at Digital Direct!
Pioneer creates a variety of DVD recorders, various of which have HDD capability; letting you to tape several hours of telly before transferring them on to DVD when necessary. Pioneer also produces a collection of excellent DVD players and DVD home cinema systems including HDMI compatible models.
Pioneer is a universally recognised television and hi-fi business catering for the home, car, multimedia and DJ product markets. Pioneer started up as Fukuin Shokai Denki in Tokyo in nineteen thirty-eight. The company initially began life producing speakers then later changed its name to Pioneer in nineteen sixty-one. Since then it has initiated a selection of firsts onto the electronics market, which includes the world’s first GPS car navigation device in nineteen-ninety & the first ever Digital Versatile Disc recorder nine years later.
Installing Wireless Access Points: Errors
After you have performed your site survey, installed your access points, and configured your clients…you will always find problems some where. Hopefully you can avoid some of the errors listed below.
1. Access Point Placement - Do not place access points in corners, by phones, large metal objects, behind posts, microwave ovens.
2. Antenna Diversity - Don’t have your access pont at full transmission power if it dosen’t need to. The most secure wireless network is one that nobody knows about. Often A medium sized business with a couple cheap access points will be broadcastin their signal for blocks.
3. Antenna Installation - Reduce you cable length as much as possible. Also check the maxium cable length for that antenna.
4. No dynamic IP addresses - Give all your wireless access points permanent IP addresses.
5. Same channel - Change your wireless access points to the same channel but don’t leave it at the default.
6. Quality vs Quantity - Spend the money on a good access points and antennas. You want as few access points in one area as possible.
7. Spend the Money on POE ( Power over ethernet)access points - With POE your not limited to where you can place your access points.
8. Firmware - Update your wireless access points firmware before you install it. You could fry your access point and have to uninstall, that sucks.
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What is a Spam Firewall?
A spam firewall is a hardware device that sits between your internet firewall and LAN. It is called a “firewall” because it provides data filtering of email packets, and blocks the packets that meet the criteria of “spam”. Spam firewalls can also provide anti-virus protection, anti-spyware, anti-spoofing and anti-phishing services, depending on the model you choose. A spam firewall is not designed to protect your network against intruders such as hackers - you will need a regular internet firewall for that.
How Does a Spam Firewall Appliance Work?
Spam firewalls use a variety of methods for determining what is considered spam and filtering it out. Normally a form of blacklisting is used, which automatically filters out email from known spammy addresses. A whitelist may also be used, which allows the administrator to identify addresses or domains that should never be blocked. Keyword scanning may also be used, allowing the administrator or individual user to block emails containing certain keywords or keyword combinations. A form of message authenticity checking is also normally used to identify valid “from” addresses, check details of the entire SMTP process, or validate legitimate IP addresses. Many spam firewall appliances also use bayesian algorithm filtering, which help the firewall block more spam over time as it “learns” what is considered spam based on message history, user input and other analysis. Incoming message flow filters also look at the number of incoming messages and where they are from, allowing them to quickly spot and stop a sudden barrage of spam emails that have been mass-distributed from the same source. Spam firewalls are very “smart” and good at eliminating the majority of spam email that comes into a network. They are not 100% effective, but many come close.
Are Spam Firewalls Expensive?
Spam firewall appliances range in price from around $2000 up to $20,000 or more, depending on the number of users it needs to protect and features. Many spam firewalls have optional features like antivirus or anti spyware. Spam firewalls need to be kept up to date with the latest data on known spam sites, new algorithms, updated filters, etc… This is normally handled by the firewall manufacturer as an auto-update feature. As with most network appliances, an annual maintenance plan is usually purchased for the purpose of keeping the firewall up to date and performing it’s best.
What About False Positives?
Spam firewall appliances use many sophisticated techniques to identify and block spam, generally with very good success. Because spammers are constantly change their techniques in order to get their junk mail past the latest and greatest spam filtering technologies, spam firewalls must continually monitor patterns and make filtering corrections. Spam firewall manufacturers are also constantly make corrective configuration changes to keep up with the battle against spammers. For this reason, even the best spam firewall is going to filter out “good” mail from time to time. This is called a “false positive”, and administrators (and users) must always be on the lookout for this. Most spam firewalls have sensitivity thresholds that can be adjusted by an administrator to help overcome false positives.
A spam firewall appliance is not your typical “set it and forget it” firewall, but the advantage of having such an appliance on your network far outweighs the need for some administrative work. If your organization experiences a lot of spam mail - get a spam firewall and experience the difference!
DJ is a corporate IT Manager and author of the following sites covering information technology topics: Computer Security for Everyone, Save on Phone Service with VoIP, Internet Phone Service - The Future is Here!