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Tip: re-assign recommendations in your LinkedIn profile

Do you want to merge 2 positions into one but afraid to loose the recommendations? Or perhaps you want re-assign a recommendation that is accidently assigned to the wrong position?

The good news is that it is possible to do this. What you’ll need to do is (temporarily) remove the position associated with the recommedation. This will cause any recommendation assigned to it to be placed into an “unassigned” status. The next step is to reassign the recommendation to another appropriate position.

These are the steps to be taken to reassign recommendations, according to LinkedIn:Tip: re-assign recommendations in your LinkedIn profile

Will this be the busiest recruitment day of the year 2011?

Yes, at least according to a 2007 survey of 1,500 UK employees, by jobboard Jobsite. The majority of employees said they would begin their hunt on the first Monday of the New Year. In fact 42 per cent of people were planning to look for a new job in January. So today, Monday 3 January 2011, will be the busiest day and your inbox will be flooded by CV’s. Are you prepared?

So I turned to Monster in The Netherlands (the leading jobsite here) for actual figures and asked them the question; ‘Was the first Monday in 2010 the busiest recruitment day?’. They looked into their web statistics and came with the following results:

  1. We see on the first Monday of 2010 a major increase in visitor numbers compared to the day before. Many people are intending to enter the New Year to familiarize themselves on the labor market for another job.
  2. Even more striking is the average visit length (over 10 minutes) on the first Monday of 2010: throughout 2010 the average visit length is not as high.
  3. Yet the first Monday of the Year 2010 was not the busiest day of the year. We see in the months of the first and fourth quarter of 2010 that there were even busier days, in terms of visitors at Monsterboard.nl. What is striking is that these days on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday fall. People experience a new week as a New Year, meaning a fresh start with good intentions and new opportunities on the labor market.Will this be the busiest recruitment day of the year 2011?

Horror Resume 17.0

Most resumes are standard and boring. Yet there are many who are creative and beautiful. For example this horror resume from Joe Kelso, a 29 year old Creative Specialist and Digital Photographer: This series of… Horror Resume 17.0