Help Wanted: Yahoo! Hiring Social Editors
Big news, digital media people: Yahoo! is hiring social editors across its News, Sports, Entertainment and Commerce properties. Check out the job descriptions:
Y! News
Y! Sports
Y! Entertainment (Movies, TV, Music and omg!)
Y! Commerce (Travel, Shopping, Autos, and Real Estate)
This is Yahoo!’s latest step in extending conversations and user engagement both on- and off-network. Between the success of Social Bar, the rapid growth of Yahoo! social experiences (14M+ Facebook fans in less than a year) and making social an integral part Yahoo!’s editorial culture, this is a top priority and growth area for the company.
These social editors will coordinate and execute social efforts for Yahoo!’s leading media properties, track and measure success and lead the way in innovation and storytelling. The social editors will also coordinate SEO efforts and be the off-network publishing lead for the property. If you’ve got what it takes to lead the conversation, engage Yahoo!’s 180M monthly users and attract new ones from around the social web, email Yahoo! social lead Violet Lim (VLim@yahoo-inc.com).
PropertyOfZack Is Now Hiring
It’s been a truly exciting start to 2013 for PropertyOfZack, but we’d rather continue looking into our future than stay happy with our past. To make sure we can provide the best content and news for our viewers, we’re happy to announce that we are once again taking applications for anyone who is interested in possibly joining TeamPOZ. We have positions open in most areas of the site, so check out what we’re looking for and who to get in touch with below!
Hiring vent
I do NOT want to read your resume, I will look for ANY reason to stop reading it, don’t give me a reason.
STOP stringing together several large words that don’t say anything. It does not make you look intelligent.
Make it easy to read, formatting is important. I am not going to read something that gives me a headache or could possibly give me a seizure.
PROOF YOUR FUCKING WORK. If you can’t catch a typo on your own resume, the first representation of yourself, I’ll be damned if I will let you represent my company or waste my time looking past the first typo.
Capitalize properly. yes i am serious.
Stop using the same cover letter for every single job you apply for unless the ads are practically identical. It just makes me think that you didn’t bother to read what I wrote in the ad. I’m glad you want to use your skills to manage a retail store, we are not a retail store.
Oh and I know you didn’t read the ad, that’s why I put in the little test that you failed. 100+ (yes that many) resumes I won’t be reading.
Do not call yourself an expert or tell me about your expertise in anything. You’re not. Oh you’re an expert in using office equipment? Congratulations.
I understand that you are applying for a several jobs, and it’s OK if you don’t have a cover letter, if your resume is strong enough I will contact you. But if I ask for a reply don’t completely ignore what I ask for, just don’t. (About 15 people have done this)
Don’t take more than a day to reply, you have a lot of competition, there are only so many interviews that can be scheduled.
Unless you treat looking for a job like a job, chances are you won’t find a good one.
Secrets of a Hiring Manager
finance.yahoo.comIt’s a new year, filled with promise and prospects! As the job search continues, here are a few tricks of the trade, from the side of opportunity.
PropertyOfZack Is Now Hiring
PropertyOfZack has had a hell of a year, but we’re in the midst of gearing up for an even bigger one in 2013. To make sure we can provide the best content and news for our viewers, we’re happy to announce that we are now taking applications for anyone who is interested in possibly joining TeamPOZ. Do you not have a ton of experience? That’s okay, email us anyway! We have positions open in all areas of the site, so check out what we’re looking for and who to get in touch with below!
Hiring a Tumblr.
River Jones Music Label is now hiring for an Internship position of Tumblr. Job requirements are to be good at Tumblr and Tumbl label related stuff to Tumblr. Music and fashion savvy artists are preferred for this position. We can sign for college credit and give you free albums, free shows, and cupcakes baked by musicians we love. riverjonesmusic@gmail.com
Employers aren't trying very hard to hire
Tired of your loved ones giving you a hard time for not “trying hard enough” to get a job? Well, looks like you have FACTS on your side to shut them up!
Mike Konczal at Next New Deal points out that the amount of effort employers have put into finding new hires sharply fell during the recession and has yet to bounce back. A chart in the post shows
ThinkProgress explains
“Recruiting intensity” is a measure of employer behavior that encompasses advertising expenditures, screening methods, hiring standards, and the attractiveness of compensation packages. Those in turn affect the number and quality of people applying to job openings, the speed with which their applications are processed, and their acceptance rate when job offers are actually made
Somehow I have a feeling that giving the corporations tax breaks hasn’t made them feel more inclined to increase recruiter intensity…
[via ThinkProgress]
The Most Innovative Employees at Google Aren't Stanford/MIT grads with Perfect SATs
Google has long had a reputation for being a place that’s near impossible to get a job if you aren’t a Stanford or MIT grad. They not only asked you for your college GPA, they even asked you what you made on your SAT as a pimple-faced high schooler.
Recently, that’s all changed.
Google’s known for being one of the most data-driven companies in the world and in the area of HR, they’re no different. They even have a department of “people analytics” whose job it is “to apply the same rigor to the people side as to the engineering side.” Google takes this extremely seriously: “All people decisions at Google are based on data and analytics,” according to Kathryn Dekas, a manager in Google’s “people analytics” team.
Their use of data is so powerful that it was able to refute the bias of the company’s founders towards those with an elite educational background that mirrored theirs — that is, top university grads with high GPAs — and it actually resulted in changed organizational behavior.
For years, candidates were screened according to SAT scores and college grade-point averages, metrics favored by its founders. But numbers and grades alone did not prove to spell success at Google and are no longer used as important hiring criteria, says Prasad Setty, vice president for people analytics.
Rather, based on extensive surveys of its work force and performance data, Google discovered that its most innovative workers “are those who have a strong sense of mission about their work and who also feel that they have much personal autonomy.”
Google’s findings have a strong congruence with bestselling author Dan Pink’s work, that the source of human motivation and our best work comes from the drive towards autonomy, mastery and purpose. This can clash with high-prestige and credentialed individuals who are driven by external recognition and rewards, not curiosity and craft.
What you might end up with is people who can follow the rules, but not necessarily those who are after moonshot innovation with extreme dispatch and verve.
A friend of ours is opening Farm Cuisine, a new Modern Cooking restaurant in Wicker Park this Winter and they’re hiring all positions! Have experience in the industry? Looking for work? We’ve included their official posting below. Let’s see if All Terrain can’t help you out!
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Award-winning Chef Bryan Moscatello opens Farm Cuisine | Modern Cooking Restaurant
Storefront Company is currently seeking full time positions for both front and back of house.
We will be introducing a new style of cooking and dining in Wicker Park and are looking for service minded individuals with a passion for food, drink and fun.
We welcome individuals that have experience, speed and skills to handle a fast paced restaurant with style.
Front of House Requirements:
- At least 2 years of fine dining or casual elegant dining experience
- Exceptional guest relations skills
- Passion for food, wine and service
- A strong sense of urgency
- Superior communication skills
- Basic computer and math skills
- Willing to work a flexible schedule and holidays
- Open Table and/or Micros knowledge preferred
- An advanced knowledge of wine, beer & spirits are a prerequisite for manager, server and bartender positions
Back of House Requirements:
- At least 3 years experience in an upscale, fine dining environment
- Passion for food and service
- A strong sense of urgency
- Superior communication skills
- Willing to work a flexible schedule and holidays
Please forward your resume for consideration to careers@thestorefrontcompany.com with the job you are looking to fill in the subject line.
We thank you in advance for sending your resume, and although we may not respond to every email, we appreciate your inquiry.
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Good luck & happy hunting!
More of the Same in 2012
2011 was a great year for Unreal Business Solutions and 2012 will be more of the same. What we do will not change nor will we attempt to go outside of our core services. We will offer more of the same because it works!
What will change in 2012 is our reach. We know people and businesses need what we offer (and we know were they are) but placing what we sell in front of everyone would crush us. It would be impossible to deliver service and we would go bye-bye fairly quick. We market our service based on our ability to handle the work load and continue to deliver quality service. We’re not talking about technological resources we’re talking about people. We will be increasing the number of staff this next quarter so we can increase our reach, grow our business while still providing a high level of service.
We wish everyone a “profitable” New Year!
Unreal Business Solutions
