The Employment Report

The senior management staff of internet marketing company Three Stars Inc. will be traveling from their headquarters in Orlando to San Francisco to attend the 2009 ad:tech conference.

The key destination will be the exhibit hall that features booths from companies such as Google, AT&T, eBay and many other industry leaders that Three Stars wishes to forge new relationships with. Past ad:tech events generated dozens of new contacts that have led to numerous partnerships that greatly benefited the company’s growth.

Three Stars’s team will also be attending the keynote addresses by Digg CEO Kevin Rose and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales who will be discussing the future of consumer generated media and social networking sites, exploring how they will drive internet marketing for the next decade. As a leader in online markets, Three Stars will be expanding their business model to include social media to open up new markets and revenue streams for the company.

Ad:tech will be held April 21st through the 23rd at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco.

Pharmaceutical sales reps, medical device sales reps and any one else seeking employment in the medical industry vertical experience the power to BRAG!

Promoting yourself with a career brag book has been industry standard for pharmaceutical sales reps for many years. It’s a proven method to showcase your achievments and let you shine above your competition.  The question has been asked by many as how  to promote your success more efficiently and to be seen by more  hiring eyes?  The answer is BragFolio.com.

Bragfolio has brought the sales brag book to the electronic age.  Now a job candidate can create a profile that details job history along with personal photo and the ability to display career accomplishments.  The idea is for medical sales reps and pharmaceutical sales reps to gain the interview advantage by showing more than just the standard resume. Creator of BragFolio Jeff Stahl has received many positive comments since the site launch late last month. “We are pleased with the response thus far.  I have had comments of gratitude from users whom claim gaining interviews and positive attention by employers and recruiters alike.”

The open network of BragFolio.com allows a user to create a custom url which can then be attached to all job search agents both on BragFolio.com and beyond. Job searchers are encouraged to create a profile on BragFolio.com then immediatley start the search on indeed.com to gain access to the most employment postings listed in one place.  ”We will have job post capability soon at BragFolio.com.  But we want and encourage our users to promote their profile on as many job search agents as they can.  We want to see people get hired!” says Stahl.

BragFolio.com is a very easy to navigate site with lots of positives.  Take a look for yourself at BragFolio.com and give yourself the power of BRAG!

A leader in the world of executive coaching, leadership development, management training, talent management, organizational effectiveness and sales improvement, MCG Partners continues to expand its presence and services in this area of need in the marketplace.

MCG Partners, a premier provider of leadership, talent and organizational effectiveness, announced today the launch of Career Transition Advisors, a prominent provider of career transition, career search, career management, and outplacement services.

“Our clients and the marketplace have for some time been asking for a change in how career transition and outplacement services are provided, and we have addressed that need”, said Chuck Mollor, MCG Partners’ Managing Partner and the President of Career Transition Advisors.  ”We created a fully dedicated organization that delivers higher quality, more tailored services, while improving client results and satisfaction.”

Chuck Mollor states.

For more information on what makes Career Transition Advisors a different and improved service compared to what is currently offered, or to schedule an interview with Chuck Mollor, contact Adrienne Kravitz at (508) 279-9900 or e-mail akravitz@careertransitionadvisors.com.

About Career Transition Advisors:
Career Transition Advisors is a consultancy specializing in career transition, career search, career management and outplacement services. Career Transition Advisors offers unlimited and one-on-one career consulting and coaching with experienced, qualified and passionate consultants, who dedicate the time to tailor a program for immediate impact and long-term results. Our years of experience and best practices with downsizings, restructures, mergers, acquisitions, and managing change allow us to customize an approach for our client organizations and each individual effected. For more information, visit www.careertransitionadvisors.com or call 508-279-9900.

Every state is different.  The common theme to most laws is that the employer must give the reference in “good faith”.  Meaning, employers should not say negative things about you unless it was true and documented.  Most laws protect the employer from civil litigation, not you the employee if they violate it.

Employment references should be like the information reported from a credit reporting agency.  If you paid your bills on time, they should report that information as such.  If you paid your bills on time and they report anything other than that, the information would not be accurate.  The real question is, even if employment laws said employers couldn’t give a bad reference, how many people go through stop signs every day.  That law is very clear in every state!  However, most people don’t make a complete stop, roll through the sign or ignore it all together.

The next issue is, did the person who gave the reference violate company policy when saying something about you?  More than likely, your employment references aren’t following company policy or state law when giving out information.

The simple fact is, if you want to protect yourself from a bad reference, you need to know what your references are saying about you.  If you find out that your former employer is saying things about you that you do not agree with, you have remedies.

The fastest way to cure a former supervisor giving you a bad reference would be to contact the Human Resource department and ask them to verify the company policy on reference checks.  Most Human Resource departments will tell you they verify your dates of employment, title, confirm ending salary.  Ask them how they would handle a supervisor in the company that is deviating from the company policy.  Depending on what is being said, it might be best for you to take this information to a local attorney and get a legal opinion on your case.  Having proof is the smoking gun!  Finding a lawyer to take your case becomes a lot easier once you have proof that your old boss is giving you a bad reference.  The best way to protect yourself from a bad employment reference check is to know what your former employer is saying about you.

For information about laws in your state about employment references, please email customerservice@

checkmyreference.com

“Enrollment in two- and four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. reached 20.5 million in 2006, up 3 million since 2000,” says a September 18, 2008, US Census Bureau report. This includes 17.1 million undergraduates and 3.4 million students in graduate or professional schools. That’s good news for companies. However, it also means that nearly 5.975 million graduating college and graduate students are expected to join the job search (or apply to graduate schools) in the summer of 2010. One company is providing desperately needed services to college and graduate students.

“DHResumes provides fast, professional resume writing and job research services that win jobs,” says Alan Leon, President of DHResumes. “We are receiving droves of resumes from college and graduate school students, who are seeking resume editing and writing that wins interviews and paying jobs.”

Surprising clientele: “DHResumes is receiving clients from all backgrounds. What may be surprising is that 80% of our clientele come from competitive colleges and top graduate school programs. We believe that students and parents are seeing how competitive it is in the job market, and they are choosing to make the career investment to order professional resume writing and job research services that give them a competitive edge. We provide documents that get in front of Hiring Managers, enabling our clients to get interviews and win paying jobs.”

Return on Investment: “When you look at the cost-to-benefit ratio solely in the first year, the cost of using a professional resume writing service is less than 1% of our happily employed clients’ salaries. It’s worthwhile to have earnings and job security, especially in light of the other option,” says Leon.

What DHResumes does differently:

“DHResumes recognized the desperate and growing need before anyone else. We specialize in creating winning documents for students and recent graduates. Our writers and researchers ask plenty of questions, we do in-depth research of the students’ interests and career pursuits, and we work with our clients to make sure that the finished product meets their needs. DHResumes is offering a
FREE Assessment of Your Work, Training and Interests. DHResumes is also running a $30 Sale for clients who register using a valid .edu email address.” Leon continues, “Students made the right decision getting higher educations. DHResumes does the writing to get them hired. We’re helping the next generation use the talents, skills and training that they’ve invested in for the future.”

To learn more about resume writing and job research services at DHResumes, check out http://dhresumes.com.

To order and save at DHResumes, go to http://dhresumes.com/page25.php. Students save $30 when registering with a valid .edu email address. Non-students save $20 for a limited time only.

Media, please email media@dhresumes.com or call 847.204.2564 to schedule an interview, ask questions or get quotes.