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Every year there are a few brave souls who suggest that the Monday after the Super Bowl should become a national holiday. After the Super Bowl two years ago, Yahoo! Sports wrote, “You shouldn’t have to work today. You shouldn’t even have to get out of bed. This should be a day where you can sleep in, sleep off the effects of all the “soda” you drank yesterday.”
Wouldn’t it be great if you had a friend on the inside at the company where your “dream job” is listed? Check out this brief video on how to use Glassdoor’s Inside Connections,™ a new tool for job seekers that leverages your Facebook network so you can uncover which friends (and friends of friends) work or have recently worked at more than 150,000 companies all over the world.
Glassdoor, a jobs and career community, has just launched a new tool to help job seekers get the answers to all those questions and more. The new tool, Inside Connections™, leverages your Facebook network to help you find an ‘in’ at specific companies where you’d like to work. You may be surprised on who has that ‘in’ you’re looking for – it could be a friend you grew up with, a fraternity brother or sorority sister, a co-worker, someone from your basketball fantasy league or perhaps even your own mom.
Join Wall Street Journal’s Careers Reporter Lauren Weber and Glassdoor’s Career and Workplace Expert Rusty Rueff to get your questions answered about resumes, job applications, interviews and landing a job.
Tuesday, January 25 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT
Today, Fortune released its list of the “100 Best Companies to Work for 2012,” which includes companies like Google, Boston Consulting and SAS Institute… but interestingly not Apple. We were curious to see what other companies made the Fortune list, or didn’t make it, and compare to Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work 2012.
You may be a few months away from putting on your cap and gown, but how prepared are you for your job search? Don’t let the time slip by before you have had a chance to really tap into all the benefits and resources available to you as a student which can help you get started on the right foot.
We understand that, regardless of the state of the economy, finding your first ‘real’ job can be an uphill battle. We wanted to ease some of the stress that comes with a job search, and give students a quick ‘how to’ guide that highlights how to get the most out of your job re-search by using Glassdoor.
Let’s start with the basics…Sign up for a Glassdoor Account
Normally at Glassdoor, we require all our users to post a review or salary of their own before getting access to the reviews or salaries of the community. However, we offer students full access to salary data as well as company and interview reviews, without having to post anything! Any student or career services professional can simply email students@glassdoor.com from their .edu address and we will set up a free student account.
The New Year is off to a good start with both the employed and unemployed showing increased confidence in the job market. In the latest Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey, employee optimism related to the job market, company outlook and pay raises increased in the fourth quarter of 2011. In addition, pessimism among the unemployed fell to a new low in the fourth quarter, with just 21 percent of unemployed job seekers reporting they think it is “unlikely” they will find a job in six months, down 11 points from the third quarter of 2011 to the lowest level since Glassdoor initiated this survey in 2008.
When it comes to the interview process, research and preparation for the interview can often times determine your chances of making it to the next step. One of the best ways to get ready for a job interview is to practice your responses to any and all interview questions – even the downright weird. To help you get started, Glassdoor sifted through tens of thousands of interview reviews to find out some of the most common interview questions candidates are getting asked in recent interviews.
Over the past year, interview candidates just about everywhere shared some of the most difficult, or unexpected interview questions on Glassdoor, a jobs and career community. We’ve looked back on thousands of these questions, across a range of jobs, companies and industries. Here’s our take on the top 25 oddball interview questions of 2011:
Glassdoor’s fourth annual Employees’ Choice Awards reveal the top 50 Best Places to Work in 2012, an award solely based on reviews by employees. Employees at the #1 company overall, Bain & Company, and the #1 tech company, Facebook went beyond the reviews and give an inside look through video, really showing what it’s like to work at these companies.
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