Friday, February 20, 2009

a cover letter i not expendable

There was an article in the NY Times about cover letters titled "A
Cover Letter Is Not Expendable". Writing an effective cover letter
does make a difference.
Don

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/jobs/15career.html?_r=1
The Savvy Networker
Eight Little-Known Tricks for the Job Hunt
Liz Ryan
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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(02-22) 04:00 PST 02/22/09 -- You're up to date on the latest job-search ideas, right? You're responding to posted job ads. You're crafting smart and incisive cover letters to accompany your resume on its travels. You're networking like crazy. What else can you do?
You may be leaving a few essential job-search stones unturned. Here are eight less-well-known ways to get the word out and jump on job-search opportunities:
Add a signature line to your outgoing e-mail messages. This reminds your friends and contacts that you're on a job search. Much as they love you, it's easy for our friends to forget our day-to-day priorities, including a job search that feels like a life-or-death proposition to you. Add a signature line to your e-mail messages that reminds your friends what you're after.
Include your LinkedIn profile URL in that signature. You can customize your LinkedIn profile's URL (as soon as you set up a free LinkedIn profile) to something that sounds logical, like www.linkedin.com/in/yourname. Add this to the signature line I recommended a moment ago. Might as well make it easy for people to check out your credentials.
Use Twitter to keep your fans in the loop. A daily (or even more frequent) "tweet" from you keeps your cronies and well-wishers abreast of your latest job-search happenings. If you tweet to say "Got an interview at Apple tomorrow morning," then your friends with friends at Apple can jump into the scene and help you out with a side-door connection or referral.
Make your Facebook page work for you — not against you. Smart job-seekers fill their Facebook pages with useful and relevant information about what they've accomplished and where their strengths lie. Using Facebook effectively in a job search requires more than just taking down the party-animal photos. Prospective employers are bound to see your online persona, so you may as well make it one that moves the ball forward for you.
Add a quote to your resume. Got a favorite quote (in writing) from a boss who praised your work? Add it to your resume in place of the tedious "References available on request." Everyone knows your references are available. Tell us (in twenty words or fewer) what one of those people actually said about you — the more specific the kudos, the better.
Get a Moo card. Job-search business cards are great tools, because they're easy to pass to a conversational partner at a networking event (no one wants to take your resume in a setting like that). Moo mini-cards are cooler than regular business cards, because they're small and attention-grabbing. If your field is creative, techie, or you just want to stand out a little, order your mini-Moo cards online at www.moo.com.
Put a voice on your job-search profile. Too shy to appear on camera? Add an audio file to your LinkedIn, Facebook or other social-networking profile to help job-search targets and influencers get a feel for who you are and how you think. Buy a headset for a few bucks and download Audacity for free to make high-quality audio files. You can even send your podcasts to iTunes and build a following.
Rewrite your resume so it sounds human. As a career expert, the biggest job-search stumbling block I see is a boilerplate-laden resume that sounds like every other resume I see. Yank the boilerplate out of your resume and give it a human voice, replacing "results-oriented professional" with "I'm happiest solving thorny technical problems that slow down product development" or whatever (human) statement describes you.
A job search doesn't leave room for error these days. Details can make all the difference — better put every tool to work for you now and put your job search behind you sooner.
Liz Ryan is a 25-year HR veteran, former Fortune 500 VP and an internationally recognized expert on careers and the new millennium workplace. Contact Liz at asklizryan.com or join the Ask Liz Ryan online community at www.asklizryan/group.
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Project Manager - san francisco

Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Project Manager Lead to work for a healthcare insurance company in downtown San Francisco. This individual will be responsible for handling complex, multi-year projects involving all aspects of change and project management, including organizational development, behavioral change, process redesign, communication, training, planning, budgeting, faciliation, cross-functional/divisional management, and new technology.
Responsibilities Include
Act as the single point of accountability to plan, direct and coordinate moderately to highly complex projects to ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished with high quality, and meet customer and/or business needs.
Define business requirements, manage the implementation process and work closely with the stakeholders, partners and technical development team to ensure on-time implementation.
Drive issue identification and resolution, summarize project status, and produce effective management reports.
Manage scope and scope change requests, planning and directing schedules and budgets.
Skills Required
5+ years of cross-functional, cross-disciplinary, hands-on project management and business analysis experience within the healthcare industry.
Strong history of implementing business solutions in a creative way.
Extensive experience with business process design, process improvement, documentation and auditing.
Demonstrated success managing complex projects with multi-month timelines.
Skills Preferred
Project management certification, i.e. PMI.
Quality management experience, i.e. Six Sigma.
Claims experience ideally for medication and/or medical services.
Timing: Temp-to-Perm, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: downtown San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: $42-$56 as W-2; ($45-$65 if S-Corp/LLC)
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please reply to this em

using twitter to network and find a job

Using Twitter to Network and Find a Job Article

I found this article very informative about twitter's possibilities.

http://thetalentbuzz.com/2009/02/find-a-job-using-twitter-and-
networking-twitter-job-search-strategies/

Monday, January 26, 2009

VisualCV.com is the powerful alternative to LinkedIn and it empowers one to tap their creative skills as a means to stand out in the crowd.

The site has many samples to enable one to construct their profile and one can copy and paste their LinkedIn content to this visually empowering mode of connecting.

Monday, August 18, 2008

product manager - sf bay area

Product Manager (SF Bay Area, CA)
Posted by: "KIT List Jobs" jobposting2@kitlist.org
Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:59 am (PDT)


Please direct your responses to: rhenderson@accountn ow.net

Company Description
AccountNow, Inc. (www.accountnow. com) & (www.accountnowvisa .com) is a fast growing, privately held company providing financial solutions to the 40 million plus under-served/ unbanked consumer market. AccountNow provides lower cost alternatives to this market with products including “second chance” bank accounts, debit cards, credit builder, electronic transfer and bill payment services through numerous marketing channels.

Position Summary
We are seeking a seasoned, energetic, and tech-savvy entrepreneur who is wildly passionate about developing a WOW offering and customer experience for 40 million “unbanked” consumers. The Product Manager is responsible for creating customer delight, rapid growth, and durable competitive advantage. If you enjoy a fast paced environment with a start up approach to technology then this may be the role you’ve been waiting for!

The Product Manager position will be focused on managing the product roadmap. In addition, this candidate has to have a passion and proven track record in identifying, understanding, and developing innovative online solutions to customer problems. The candidate should also demonstrate strong leadership experience working with product managers, developers, and external providers and partners.

Job Function
As a Senior leader of Product Management, you will be responsible for:

• Lead overall offering strategy, priorities, and roadmap for new and existing online offerings, features, and services.
• Leverage participatory trends around user generated content, forums, and commenting.
• Work across organization to maintain a wholistic and unbiased world class online customer experience.
• Define/ Maintain product requirements and working with IT and senior management to execute on development projects.
• Manage the entire product life cycle from conception to development to release
• Develop an overall product strategy for development and maintenance of the assigned products.
• Develop tactical plans for delivery of the strategy.
• Translate/ Map customer understanding into creation of product requirements.
• Work as a single team with product development, user experience, contractors, operations, and third party providers to deliver on-time and high quality implementation of releases.
• Execute listening posts, usability reviews, and other research to continually enhance offerings.

Qualifications and Experience
• 8-10 years experience; ideally with at least 5-7 years of proven product management experience (including complete project lifecycle) with a prior start – up, consumer internet company, consumer financial products company, and/or other consumer-focused organization.
• Proven track record serving as business lead for web site creation and implementation
• Advanced understanding of software and new web technologies.
• Ability to think strategically while working tactically.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with focus on teamwork and ability to manage / foster relationships across multiple departments
• Entrepreneurial, high energy, and flexible - ability to multi-task, prioritize, roll up sleeves and jump in, and deliver under pressure with limited time and resources.

Education
• Bachelors degree or equivalent in marketing, economics, business administration, engineering, or computer science; MBA or advanced degree is strongly preferred

Salary/Benefits: The position is full-time and includes great benefits and a very competitive salary with stock options and bonuses based on results. We are located in the business park of San Ramon CA which can be conveniently reached from the Walnut Creek or Dublin/Pleasanton Bart Station. pro

Thursday, August 14, 2008

jobs

Fw: 2 new jobs from ServePath
Posted by: "will la cross" wilacross@yahoo.com wilacross
Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:15 pm (PDT)



--- On Wed, 8/13/08, ServePath Recruiting Team wrote:

From: ServePath Recruiting Team
Subject: 2 new jobs from ServePath
To: "William La Cross"
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 4:36 AM

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Fw: Jobs Available Today!
Posted by: "will la cross" wilacross@yahoo.com wilacross
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--- On Wed, 8/13/08, nsigman@nelsonstaff ing.com wrote:

From: nsigman@nelsonstaff ing.com
Subject: Jobs Available Today!
To: wilacross@yahoo. com
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:16 PM

Jobs Available Today!


Philanthropic Services Assistant—Long Term Temporary—35 hours/wk

A large non profit foundation located in the Presidio is seeking a highly skilled admin to work as their Philanthropic Services Assistant. Duties of the position include providing administrative support to the Operations and Grant Administration department by coordinating tasks such as grantee report tracking, preparing reports and correspondence, and answering questions and correspondences from grant seekers/grantees. Additional duties include researching information for clients using the internet, maintaining donor information in the database, and taking on special projects as needed. The successful candidate is one who has strong office administrative skills, including phone and written communication experience and must have an excellent customer service orientation. Must have excellent letter composition ability; page layout, and spreadsheet experience. Strong computer skills particularly with databases and word processing important. A general
interest and or background in the non profit arena is a huge plus. This is a long term temporary position lasting until January/February and has the potential for hire. Pay rate is up to $21/hr.

Conference Services Coordinator—Temp to Hire

A large law firm located in the Financial District is seeking a Conference Service Coordinator for their busy downtown office. Necessary duties include greeting all clients and visitors, coordinating maintenance of lobby, reception areas, and general overall facility; sorting and distributing all incoming mail, and assisting in the backup capacity to the office services department, including the mailroom, copying, shipping, and supply ordering. Overall, the candidate is responsible for performing all clerical and record keeping administrative tasks for the Conference Services group regarding conference center and visitor information. The ideal candidate must be extremely professional and have the abilty to interact effectively with all elvesl of personnel, including management and support staff. Must have a strong customer service and organizational skills and have a minimum of 3 years administrative or related work experience. This is a temp to hire
position with the pay rate of approximately $18.50/hr.


Please carefully review the qualifications for these positions and if you feel you are qualified for the role or have a friend or family member that is, please respond with your most updated resume and in the body of the email specify why you are qualified for this position in a paragraph and send it to nsigman@nelsonstaff ing.com. Please indicate which position you are interested in the subject line of the email. Thank you.
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