There are so many acronyms that you may come across when looking through job adverts. Sometimes adverts are so full of them that you may be left wondering what it is they are looking for.

To help you with your quest we thought it would be use full to post some of the most common below:

A Job Bank is a web based database of job vacancies - it’s another way of advertising jobs. Many job banks are US based or focus on IT positions. The selection listed below is chosen for its breadth of coverage in terms of geography and range of vacancies.

Many of the job banks have ‘job agents’ where you can register your criteria and e-mail address so that vacancies are emailed to you as they are added to the database. This is a great time-saver and worth spending some time setting up. Most sites also offer other features such as CV registration, assessment tests and articles.

Jobserve

A Massive job bank with roles in pretty much all categories. A good site with plenty of new roles posted daily. The search engine which sits behind this site may not be as user friendly as most but once you get the hang of it, it works well. One of my fav job search sites this

It’s very difficult to stay motivated when you’re looking for work, whether you’ve been made redundant or are looking while still employed. These 8 great tips will help you through your job search.

1 Maintain a Routine

It’s very important to maintain a routine while you’re job hunting. For example, in the mornings take the dog for a walk or do a work out and aim to be sitting at your desk at home by 10am scanning recruitment websites.

2 Put on a Happy Face

It’s hard to keep it all in perspective sometimes, but keeping a positive outlook is crucial. The last thing you want is to go into an interview feeling down and irritable.

3 Phone a friend

Marketing shouldn’t be limited to advertising companies. Finding a job or enhancing your current position requires good self-marketing skills. What is self-marketing? Basically, it is communicating your benefits to potential or current employers. Think of yourself as a “product” and explain to employers what differentiates you from other “products.”
Why is self-marketing important? Landing a job or improving your current position requires effectively selling your skills, abilities, and knowledge to employers. How do you market yourself? Self-marketing can be accomplished through networking, resumes, interviews, and salary negotiation.

Reports estimate that as many as 85% of jobs aren’t advertised. Networking is one way to get at the “hidden job market” – those unadvertised jobs. Tell everyone you know that you are looking for a job. They just may know of someone who is hiring. Develop a contact list including: family, friends, friends of friends, acquaintances, co-workers, former co-workers, neighbors, doctors, dentists, and lawyers. Remember, more contacts equals more job opportunities.

If you think working from home just means rising late, shuffling to your office in slippers, and figuring out your schedule over coffee and a box of doughnuts, you probably won’t last very long as a teleworker. Such personal freedom might be one of the perks of working from home, but it is a benefit only appreciated by those who really know the realities of working from home.

To decide if you are someone who can make it as a teleworker, there are ten important traits you should possess. But, before we go over them, allow me to give you some insight into the realities of what it’s like to work from home, so that you will understand why these traits are so important to the survival of a teleworker.

Tips for working in the global cyberspace By David Leonhardt

“Where do you work?”

“Planet Earth.”

Sound familiar? No? Well, it should. More and more people are working from home on the Internet, and there are two things you should know about your office when you work on the Internet.

First, your office will be very, very small and very, very lonely, as I chronicled in my hermit trilogy.

Second, your office will be very, very big and full of many, many people from every corner of the planet, mostly trying to sell things to each other. That is because when you work from home, Planet Earth is your office and theirs.

For instance, would you believe that a man on the Internet in the Ukraine delivers the local weather forecast in Sydney to Chicago? So much for sticking your head out the window.

What was the name of the manager you met at last month’s business mixer? Did you ever follow up on the application you mailed two weeks ago? Which version of your résumé is the most recent one — without the typos? If you’re asking yourself questions like these, your job search could benefit from some organization.

The typical job search can generate a daunting stack of paper and a backlog of communications from many channels at once. If you are actively looking for work, you may quickly find yourself buried in multiple versions of your résumé, copies of cover letters, clippings and printouts of job listings, business cards from people you have met, e-mails sent and received, bookmarked web pages, phone messages, flyers for networking events, and much more.

To keep all these essential job search components organized, here’s what you will need:

You have listened to them thousands of times on TV and radio, but voice-overs are the performers who are heard, but not seen. So how do you go about getting work in this fascinating field?

What you need to break into the industry is a well produced demo; this is a demonstration of your potential performing various scripts. It shows producers & voice agents what you sound like and what you are capable of; it is, in effect, your portfolio or ‘audio CV’.

Showreel

Your demo, or showreel, should include the following: commercials, trailers (or promos, as they are sometimes called), announcing and narration - which is anything from audio books to a documentary read, via an on-hold telephone message.

Voice-overs are made up of three elements:
1) the sound of your voice - its ‘timbre’
2) the way you interpret a script and
3) marketing.

Are you unhappy with your present job? Do you bewilder each time you receive a new job offer? Do you vacillate between your head and your heart when it comes to making an important decision about your career? So here’s the second portion of chicken soup for a ‘Dream Job’ seeker’s soul. Read on…

Here is an attempt to make all you unhappy career people realize that your job can be your tool to carve out happiness & satisfaction in your lives, provided the job you choose is by your choice or is a choice of people surrounding you.

Life may not give us a second chance but when it comes to our career, its far more than just one or two chances. Thanks to the numerous job consultants and job portals that have not only simplified our job search but also equip us with new job offers almost each day. One such portal is Naukri.com, which is India’s number 1 job portal and has recently launched its international branch in the Middle East called NaukriGulf.com. For more information on these job portals log on to www.naukri.com - jobs in India and www.naukrigulf.com - jobs in Gulf.

With exams out of the way and graduation around the corner, the main concern for many college graduates will be getting their first job. Another concern, however, is what exactly the different sectors are paying college graduates?

Marketing graduates with little or no experience are starting on salaries of €18,000 to €25,000. However good marketing positions are rare for graduates and usually only low level sales jobs are open as a training ground until they gain enough experience.

Those in their first telesales job are typically earning €15,000 but there is commission to be earned on top of that. Because of the number of multinationals basing call centres and technical support hotlines in Ireland, employees are clamoring for graduates with language skills. Even if they don’t have technical skills, they can be given basic training in a matter of weeks. They can expect to earn €17000 to €20,000.