We’ve been busy creating auto-listing tools this month. We haven’t tweeted that much, but we’ve put up some good jobs in several different areas.
Portland Jobs Listings/Tweets from the various accounts the last few days (plus tweets from friends on twitter):
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KGWNews:
RT @PDXJobs: (Please Retweet) Have a Portland job opening/know of a job opening? @, email, DM. Looking for a job? Follow me. #pdxjobs
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Posted By Dr. Sean Harry
A reader recently commented: “Dealing with recruiters, hiring managers, and HR is a game where the odds are stacked way against you. One never knows what it is that gets you eliminated from consideration. And often times, they just go with an internal candidate they identified way before they advertised the position you applied for.”
This is a VERY interesting observation. Many people feel its true that applying for a job is a “game” and that the odds are stacked against the applicant before the game ever begins, but think about it from the standpoint of the employer. Who would YOU rather hire? Someone you don’t know that you pulled out of a stack of 1,000 resumes? Or someone you know or have met through someone you know? I’m sure MOST of us would rather hire the latter. People hire people they know, because finding someone who is the “right fit” is often MORE important than finding someone who has the skills you need. You can always train people new skills. But if someone is not a good fit for your organization. . . well, you can’t really change that, can you?!
Then there is the cost of hiring. Consider that it costs about 1.5 to 2 times the annual salary of the employee per hire. That means, if I am paying someone $70k per year the cost to hire them is somewhere between $105k and $140k. If they end up not fitting into the organization I might have to pay that out again in 6 – 18 months. However, if I hire someone I know (or meet through a friend, colleague, current employee, etc) my chances of finding a good fit are much better – thus saving the cost of hiring someone else within 6 to 18 months. Again, which would YOU prefer?
Since THAT is the game, the secret for job seekers is to activate your network to be the person with the odds stacked in YOUR favor. Use your Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve been really busy making some auto-listing tools this week, We haven’t tweeted that much, but they are some good jobs here for sure.
Portland Jobs Listings/Tweets from the various accounts the last few days (plus tweets from friends on twitter):
Portland Jobs Listings/Tweets from the various accounts the last few days (plus replies from friends of PortlandTwitterJobs)
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Obviously, here at Portland Twitter Jobs, we believe that social media (and twitter in particular) is good for business and job seekers. But don’t take it from us, see what Portland Search Marketing company engineworks has to say. They even mentioned us!
From engineworks:
Should my business be on Twitter?
Everyone is Talking about Twitter
Twitter is gaining a lot of attention lately, for um…gaining a lot of attention. The site’s popularity even warranted a news story on CNN this week, leading to millions of social media laggards to ask two questions: ‘wait, what is Twitter?’ and the more introspective, ‘Do I need to be on Twitter?’ Read more at engineworks
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Portland Twitter Jobs was on KGW tonight. Excerpt from the story:
Getting back to work: “Tweets” help job searchers
09:27 PM PDT on Monday, March 30, 2009
By ANNE YEAGER, KGW Staff
PORTLAND — Lloyd Bagtas, 26, and John Brown, 26, have a lot of time to kill because they were recently laid off.
They worked as web programmers and designers for one of the largest interactive web companies in the country.
“You would know our clients. They are big names,” Bagtas said.
Bagtas won’t forget when he was called into Human Resources. “I really don’t even talk to my boss, he’s so high on the food chain. So when I saw him with the HR person, I said uh-oh.”
The company had lost some high-end clients and had to lay off 20% of their work force.
It was Brown’s first job. “It was hard. Everyone kept telling me, you’re not going to be laid off,” he said.
Both Bagtas and Brown have been on Twitter since it started two years ago. But for the rest of those who aren’t connected, it’s one of the hottest networking tools out there.
Bagtas and Brown “tweeted” that they had lost their jobs…Continue at KGW
Update: The TV/video segment is online now
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Julian Chadwick at KGW Newschannel 8
Portland, Oregon
March 27, 2009
KGW has a story tonight on using social media to find jobs and they had me in the studio to talk about @pdxjobs. They had a couple other Portland twitterers on as well. One has been in interviews as the result of twitter and one has found a job through twitter (hopefully through @pdxjobs!) It airs tonight at 11. Hope you enjoy & I hope I look good 
(Update: Story & TV/video segment)
In the meantime, we are working hard to make this site useful to you.
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In these economic times, many people are discovering that using social media tools can be highly valuable to network, research, and find career opportunities.
A few months back, I started a 
twitter account (@pdxjobs) to syndicate good & interesting jobs I found across the net. Luckily, we live a great community here in Portland and many people have helped. From the beginning, other PDXers were sending me jobs to post. KGW even had me/@pdxjobs on “Live at 7″ to help people find jobs.
If you are on twitter, I hope @PDXJobs helps you. Also, send me jobs you find, retweet it & use #pdxjobs hash-tag so others can follow jobs across the search timeline.
Because jobs range a great deal, I created a few others that cater only to certain fields. They aren’t quite running yet but, they will within a week so follow them if you are looking for jobs in these fields
Other accounts:
Clicking name on left takes you to twitter account. Clicking description on right takes you to posts here in that category.
Portland Jobs listed/tweeted March 20-25:
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