Cyber Poems

The Internet offers huge opportunities for a job seeker, but also presents several potential challenges. It also adds some complexities, and a lot more matters to consider…and be wary of.

Job hunting needs to be thought of as a personal, extremely directed marketing operation where you are the product. Your resume is an advertisement. Your extended network of colleagues is your lead generating machine.

So where does the internet fit in? At AA-Careers, we just posted a job on a popular job board and got hundreds and hundreds applications in a calendar week. For one position. That’s increased competition for jobs.

Had a strong candidate called us before we posted the ad, they could have gotten the job prior to having all that competition. How? By knowing someone at our company who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 10 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be sure to check your cover letter and resume carefully! When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily removed with a fast triage process. How? The same way any HR professional would. By rejecting resumes where the objective didn’t match our position description. By eliminating candidates whose cover letters gave us causes not to engage them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating candidates whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by rejecting job hunters who didn’t bother to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the great news is that job sites give you a sense of what companies are hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those jobs are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well honed resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another downside to be aware of is how quickly you can be checked on on the internet. As we Googled several job hunters, we ran into some Facebook comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing illegal, but enough to swing our thoughts about who to employ.

AA-Careers provides a all-inclusive set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

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DSL might not be as famous as cable, however it’s unquestionably going strong. While the cable companies and telecommunication operators like AT&T, and even believed to be the potential of optical fiber, Qwest’s view, fiber mix added DSL to the home node, in particular , is a modern electronic products that can augment our position as champions of the speed, up to 40Mbps The.

Within the next few months , Qwest DSL will be presenting DSL speeds in 23 markets. Then will be improve the remote terminals with VDSL2 technology.

Depending on distance from the remote terminal actual speeds may differ . Though Travis Leo, Qwest’s DSL director did say that “almost all” can get 12Mbps speeds. He wouldn’t give any numbers on how many subscribers can in fact acquire 40Mbps downloads. The only ones that will acquire anything near to 40Mbps will be those closest to remote terminals. They’ll need a new modem to do so.

It sounds decidedly obscure if you compare it side-by-side to FiOS or DOCSIS 3. Qwest can consistently deliver 50 Mega Bites per second to the majority of consumers deployments can now reach 100Mbps It offers better-quality service compared to the majority of Digital Internet services in the country. It definitely surpasses the majority of DSL services in the nation . Though AT&T profess their top speed service to my suburban Chicago home is a disappointing 6Mbps, they’ve yet to achieve even 5Mbps.

Selling off chunks of its DSL business and appears to be dropping the “DSL” tag altogether from its service. Even if the whole non-cable service providers know that “fiber” refers to the “future, Qwest’s clearly the time being,” an advanced optical fiber technology to deliver the next growth of Internet services to your neighbors. ” 3 million households will soon be covered by Qwest’s fiber to the node deployment, and should be able to achieve 12Mbps relationship and 40Mbps things. In a mark of its appearance (Web Version Number 2.0) A welcome development for customers upset by the telecoms sluggish upload speeds. Qwest is stressing upload speeds just as much as download, saying that its system can hit up to 20Mbps upstream. The current cable modem service will only put out 768 kbps for uploading..

Qwest forcefully sustain that it has all vital speed for the immediate future. Leo repeated the company’s assertion that broadband sales are not entirely speed-driven and that Qwest’s “value-added” services are completely competitive with cable. In the future , the company can always explore new channel-bonding technology or just run fiber out from its remote terminals and up to people’s houses should .

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At last, my location got access to the latest in broadcast alternatives, and we recently connected to Verizon’s latest Fiber-optic FIOS TV. The waiting list in my state is especially long, so while I signed up last month, it wasn’t installed until last week. We had a 15Mb up/down FIOS connection already. (an exclusive service costing an extra $10 monthly) and have been pretty content with that

Installation to connect my TV was a breeze because I currently had internet with Verizon FIOS. The technician installed the cables by taking my existing coax splitter and splitting the signal before the router. The coax enters from outside the house, splits and runs into all the rooms, with one downstream cable attaching to the Verizon Internet Router’s Coax connector. From that location the router speaks TCP/IP over RJ-45 and supplies your home, however it also can display IP addresses over Coax to the DVR. (DVRs) that comes included along with your FiOS TV Bundle.

While the interface is really intuitive, in addition it comes with lots of innovative shortcuts that you’ll find while using it. When you’re watching TV, selecting the buttons marked up, down, left or right will take you those directions. (which serves as a timesaver) It is very easy to navigate to different modes. For example, pressing the up button takes you to the TV Guide split screen mode with the TV picture shown on the left, and pressing the down button takes you to the half-screen floating TV guide. If you press “Guide” a single time, it delivers the full-screen menu, while hitting it two times takes you to a split-screen. A small popup window opens when you hit “info” once, and if you hit it again, the information page fills the screen.

The DVR can store approximately 17 hours of HD TV or 60 hours of standard TV. (Similar Defintion) or whatever mix of the two you can take care of. It functions like any other DVR where you can mark every recording to be saved. (not deleted in an automatic manner) You may fix yourself in a queue with the last x recordings. It’s possible to choose just the latest programs, or every show, with reruns included.

The price for core package is 43$ a month. For this you get several DVR options ranging from standard HD, standard DVR and HD DVR. Cable was costing us close to $60 and we don’t watch enough TV to justify spending that much. Premium channels cost the same as with cable, most likely since HBO and Showtime set their own costs, rather than the provider.

Overall, I can report that we’ve been thoroughly pleased! The quality of the picture is outstanding, the set-top box works well, and I believe that Verizon will keep updating the boxes with the newest software features and even more On-Demand Movies. It is my opinion that the first month of Verizon FIOS TV in my state has set the stage right for its great progress. It is recommended over local cable if you can get it.

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If you’ve been considering getting u-verse you might want to to think about one of their competitors ; unless you like on top of infinite wait times to talk with someone on the telephone.

You probably heard a multitude of favorable att television reviews and I’m providing my version. I was actually astonished at the number folks who were for the service.

I write this because I was sitting idle for 47 minutes to speak with the billing dept because my very 1st bill was a disconnect notice and a amount due of $392. After transferring to several idiots, I was finally passed to a rep who could make a modification on the what was due. After 17 minutes on hold, I was charged that the first person I chatted with could only modify it. So, that was pretty much way too long call that changed absolutely nothing since the other office closed up while I was wasting time.

Added to that wonderful experience, I’ve had a guy come to my house a ton of times for the shotty service. Nothing has been fixed. The only reasonI selected them is because the number of channels has great potential and it is lower than the other providers. But seriously, I wouldn’t recommend attuverse to anybody.

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