Homeland Security Education and the Corporate World
The post 9/11 world we live in has seen a multitude of changes in regard to the way we perceive homeland security. What was once a buzzword has become a certified institution, and academia has taken notice. The number of accredited colleges and universities offering homeland security degree programs has grown steadily over the last five years.
Homeland security degree programs offer an exceptionally wide platform from which to build a career. From law enforcement and corrections to border security and any of the many government agencies responsible for our nation’s safety, the opportunities are almost endless. One area of employment often overlooked by homeland security degree program graduates lies in the complex and oft misunderstood world of corporate security.
When most people think of corporate security, images of IT professionals come to mind. Certainly the problems of the information age have made data security and the safe and secure transmission of information a high priority. Still, corporate security involves much more than just the realm of information technology.
Trade secrets, formulas, employee access, financial information and secured locations are all part of the average large corporations security concerns. Considering that very few large corporations fall into the category of average, the need for qualified security personnel is ever present.
Homeland security degree programs, because of their very nature, are well suited for producing qualified applicants. The training and skills covered in areas such as surveillance, criminal law and security protocols and procedures can readily be applied to the corporate world. In years past, corporations would rarely hire recent graduates to handle their security needs, instead opting to recruit ex-military or retired police force personnel. Unquestionably, there is no substitute for experience in the law enforcement field or the military. Still, the curriculum offered in homeland security degree programs can provide students with the technical knowledge to be successful in the field. Those who have police or military experience in addition to a homeland security degree are especially ideal because of their experience level.
As the corporate world begins to recognize the potential for finding qualified security personnel from the pool of recent college graduates, it’s likely that more and more headhunters will be from the private sector in the years to come.
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LEGAL HEADHUNTER: THE BEST OF LEGAL RECRUITERS
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Get your Name Out There Using Resume Databases
Resume databases are essential to today’s job search. From headhunters to company human resource departments, everyone is using resume databases to find qualified candidates to fill important job positions. One of the keys to having success with a resume database is to choose the right databases.
Monster.com
Monster.com is one of the best known resume databases on the Internet. It has been around the longest, and many employers still search resumes on this website to find new talent. The site also contains helpful hints as you build your resume to be published online.
CareerBuilder.com
Career Builder is probably my favorite of the resume databases. They provide great tools and help you keep track of where, when, and to whom you have submitted your resume. They also work to help you create a well-written, engaging resume by providing important checklists and tools. Additionally, they help you determine what type of salary you can reasonably expect based on your credentials and industry.
HotJobs.com
Hot Jobs is another popular site, though they really work primarily as a job site rather than a resume database website. You can keep up with your different resumes here as well details about jobs you have applied for. Although this is a good resource, it’s not the best.
Local Websites
Most people overlook the possibility of local resume database websites. Some newspapers even provide a job search and resume database service for free. Be sure to look into what’s available in your area. If you live in a big city, you will almost certainly be able to find a local site to help you find a job.
What NOT to Do
Before you post your resume online, you need to know what NOT to do. First of all, if you’re in the U.S., you are not required to put down any personal information about your family, your race, or any disabilities. For now, keep those things to yourself.
Additionally, don’t put down your salary history or expectations. I know there’s a spot for that, but this can keep you from getting jobs for which you are qualified and that may have benefits that far outweigh the base salary provided by the company. Remember to leave off your references as well so that you can protect their privacy.
Finally, don’t submit your resume to the same company more than once, even if you are using different websites. This shows that you are unorganized and careless, two traits that no company will look kindly upon. So keep a detailed list of the descriptions and titles of all jobs for which you apply. You may find that a company name isn’t actually included, so the description will be key to determining whether or not you have previously applied for the job.
Get to Work
Now that you know about a few great resume databases and job search engines, it’s time to get to work. You’re ready to begin typing up your resume and polishing it. Be sure to let friends, family, colleagues, or a professional editor look over the resume before you submit it. You want it to be clear and free from mistakes when you post it online.
Amber Smith
http://www.articlesbase.com/college-and-university-articles/get-your-name-out-there-using-resume-databases-84904.html
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Duration : 3 min 21 sec
Good Resume Karma for Hospitality Workers
So, you’ve done your turn in the trenches. You’ve been a busperson, head waiter, bartender, host, and what-not. After ten to twenty years, many hospitality workers, feeling burned-out at the late shifts and long hours, yearn to break into the ranks of higher management. Yet they find themselves in a kind of ‘glass ceiling’ situation. They can’t get a recruiter to look twice at their resume, even when the qualifications are more than a match for the job.
The place where hospitality is at a disadvantage is the job titles. The hospitality industry being as pinched for profits as it is, someone hired as a waiter or bartender will find themselves performing management functions: balancing books, being in charge of the staff, purchasing, ordering, overseeing the operation of the establishment, and on and on. All of these skills are transferable to higher-salary jobs, but because they were done under the job title of “hostess” or some such, they mean zip as far as an interviewer is concerned.
This is a shame, as the person who knows the business the best is the one who worked their way up through the ranks. The computer age has also sealed the fate of many poorly-considered resumes, as human resource departments search resumes in electronic form, including and excluding keywords and only pulling up those resumes that meet the search criteria.
The recruiter’s ultimate responsibility is to the restaurants, hotels, casinos, and clubs which they are hired to represent. This is not to say that they don’t also have your best interests at heart; it just means that recruiters have to comply with the job description and qualifications set forth by their clients. So they are unable to present candidates that do not match those requirements - no matter how much a candidate calls back.
So this should tell you something: there are good and bad keywords and phrases. Words like “restaurant, hotel, hostess, waitress, bartender, cook, chef” tend to get you stuck in a rotating cycle of those positions forever. What they fail to address is that you have done work far outside the scope of your job title, and are ready for a meatier career. A broad majority of hospitality job seekers have job titles unrelated to their current career goals.
You are much better off using skill headings rather than job titles, if your goal is to land higher salaries and increase your interview rates. For example, if you were quite practiced in enhanced selling at your business, a handy leading line might be: “A versatile and skilled sales and marketing professional with excellent hands-on experience in developing and improving sales for wholesale and retail operations in the hospitality industry.” You did it, why not flaunt it?
Or if you were eventually saddled with overseeing the restaurant staff when all you started out as is a line cook, it’s high time you boasted: “An assertive manager with outstanding interpersonal people management skills, experienced in communications, negotiations, operations, and scheduling.” Again, your title may not have been manager, but that’s still the job you did, and the one you’re seeking now!
Bartenders are another catch-all position. The head office sees a bartender as somebody who washes glasses and pours. But the best of all outcomes is when your bar business expands so that now you’re booking entertainers, arranging bachelor parties, expanding to include a kitchen, purchasing and warehousing the stock, hiring and firing help, placing advertisements, and generally overseeing the day-to-day operations. You’ve been promoted in everything but title!
How better to highlight some bullet points:
- Recruited and trained X-number servers and kitchen employees in full service dining.
- Assisted in the X-number% reduction of labor costs through better selection of staff.
- Reduced labor and cost of goods sold by X-number%.
- Carried out a demographic study that pin-pointed the establishment’s market.
- Developed and oversaw the new catering program.
- Analyzed and upgraded kitchen equipment to achieve greater efficiency.
- Improved cost control by eliminating waste.
- Consistently ran low-overhead costs throughout seasonal highs and lows.
- Prepared the annual budget for the branch location.
- Directed the development of a new line of appetizers.
To your ears, this may sound like “laying it on thick”, and you may be right, but you have to understand that head-hunters think this way. To them, there is no “we switched to a cheaper brand of vodka in our martinis”. There is only “efficiently oversaw a new product strategy that reduced price of goods sold”.
Chefs are another career category with a few roadblocks in advancement. The publicity of the Celebrity Chefs of the Food Network has helped the chef career gain new stamina in recent years, but maybe that casino manager with the hospitality manager position doesn’t watch the Food Network. Many people think ‘chef’ and are unable to picture anything but a line cook in front of a grill, flipping steaks.
If you engaged in anything involving creativity, such as pastry, planning a menu, designing a new side dish, experimenting with a new recipe, or coming up with a new line of beverages, there’s room in marketing and design arts for you. After all, if your endeavors were successful, then that shows that you know your target market and what they like. If your restaurant started hosting banquets and providing catering services, then your responsibilities grew with the business.
Whatever the situation, it’s hard not to find examples where you expanded your job experience to fulfill higher duties. The trick, then, is to focus on your newly gained skills, which, after all, you undertook in the first place hoping for advancement, did you not? By phrasing things in a more general way, it makes it evident that your skills are easy to transfer to a new job category.
Josh Stone
http://www.articlesbase.com/resumes-articles/good-resume-karma-for-hospitality-workers-126213.html
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Duration : 59 sec
Covers Letters Can Give Life to a Resume
A resume is the single-most important document a job seeker can have. It’s the key professional passport that’s required for entry into a new position and sometimes a new career. However, resumes by themselves are lifeless without the accompaniment of a well-crafted cover letter. An apt term, cover letter, because it’s designed to do more than physically cover the resume in mailed form; it’s to cover those aspects of a job seeker’s background that the resume will detail.
The cover letter is most effective when it introduces the job seeker to the reader. Like a sort of written handshake, the cover letter introduces the person, his credentials and desired direction for the future.
By presenting the person, the cover letter includes factual personal information such as name, address (usually home), business, cell and home telephone numbers and a personal email address (sometimes a business email address is listed).
I recommend a personal or home email address because they generally change less frequently than the business address. Also, by providing a home email address, the job seeker is giving the headhunter or potential employer a way to contact him privately and sometimes at a later date.
Conveys personality
A good cover letter will also reveal a snippet of information regarding the personality and possibly character of the writer. Depending on the writing style chosen by the candidate - formal, cookie-cutter, informal, friendly, chatty, conversational - the reader is able to gain some insight into the author of the letter. This preliminary process often helps narrow the list of those who may be pre-screened via phone or invited for in-person interviews.
The credentials portion of the letter is also a window into the mind of the writer. By emphasizing and highlighting select parts of his background, the job seeker is signaling the reader to look more closely at certain parts of his resume. It also should indicate in what direction the job seeker is heading. This helps the headhunter/employer to see how the job seeker perceives himself in relation to his peers.
The uninitiated might think that a person’s experience and credentials are nothing more than a bunch of facts and dates in chronological order. It’s the cover letter that summarizes and crystallizes what the writer feels about the most relevant parts of his background. Determining how a job seeker perceives himself, and the skills he brings to bear, is an integral part of the headhunter’s job. We have to make sure that the candidates’ perception of themselves will match ultimately with how they present themselves to our client.
Lastly, the direction in which a job seeker wants to go is critical to the entire job search process. The more clearly one expresses his aims, hopes, goals and direction, the smoother the process. A cover letter is the best place to state that direction.
One cannot speak about cover letters without emphasizing the need to use the spell and grammar check. Solid writing, good grammar and correct spelling and punctuation are the bedrocks of communication.
A most unusual approach
And from the folder labeled unusual cover letters and correspondence comes the following group that I’ve saved for just this type of occasion:
A cover letter typed neatly on the back of a postcard entitled: Where do I fit in the job market?
A one-page letter with an inset color photo of the candidate holding a basketball captioned: Pete Smith, World’s Worst Basketball Player. The headline reads: He could never hit the J, but there are no Js in PR. The letter continues with references to his PR experience and analogies to basketball.
What’s Halloween without a letter on bright orange paper titled: There’ll be no tricks, only treats, if you can help me find a job!
Memorable stunts include one candidate who telegrammed a client following an interview: I have a great idea for your campaign. Hire me and I’ll tell you what it is, AND another who sent a client a thank-you in the form of a wheel of Brie. Accompanying that was a note that began, I just wanted to thank the big cheese himself…
Jane Doe Up for Grabs screams another letter. It then goes on to describe how this freelancer promises to dress in professional attire (including pantyhose); how her cats went nuts with her credit cards and how she yearns for the normal life of a full-time job.
And finally, one helpful soul who visited Spring Associates’ website wrote: In order to be taken seriously as the leading PR Executive Search firm, proof read you (sic) home page. There is a misspelled word Associates in the first paragraph. Thanks. And thank you!
These letters may not have gotten the writers the intended result - a job, but they certainly gave me a chuckle and got my attention. Do they really work? You be the judge.
Dennis Spring
http://www.articlesbase.com/resumes-articles/covers-letters-can-give-life-to-a-resume-128161.html
Level one - Headhunter
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Duration : 17 min 41 sec
Job Banks - the Portal to your Dream Job!
Headhunting, Inc.
Stanley Telemacher doesn't sleep well. And he is the world's worst job recruiter. He's screwed up one too many job placements, and his boss gives him one last chance- find the right person for this job or you're fired!
Duration : 12 min 50 sec