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The days are ticking by, and you find your job search has been less than fruitful. Companies you contact have their budgets on hold until the new year, and you’re left feeling unsure of what your future holds.

If you’ve experienced the mentioned scenario in your employment hunt, it’s time to take your job search to the next level. Let’s discuss three little known strategies to get your foot in the door with a target employer – no matter what time of the year it is. We’ll also talk about creating a “reasonable” time frame for which you should expect an interview invitation, before moving on to a different opportunity. Finally, we’ll take a look at the possibility of creating your own opportunities, when your employment prospects are dropping the ball.

We’ve already mentioned that you’ve come up against a lot of rejection in the job market, simply because many employers put their hiring budgets on hold this time of year. This has absolutely nothing to do with you as a job seeker. Depending on where you live and want to work, and based on the current economy, you may be up against more rejection than you ever thought possible. The issue here comes down to supply and demand. There are more qualified workers so the supply is high; creating a decrease in demand. The goal of this article is for YOU to become in HIGH demand.

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Newport Beach, CA, February 10, 2010 — GadBall (http://www.GadBall.com), a Career Portal for job seekers, was recognized as a top-rated site on February 2, 2010 as the U.S. Department of Labor released the results of its Tools for America’s Job Seeker’s Challenge. The Challenge received more than 16,000 votes and comments from the public.

GadBall assists job seekers in attaining meaningful employment in the shortest amount of time by integrating social media with content and tools for job seekers to simplify the job search process. By leveraging partnerships with employers, employment sites and job boards, GadBall provides targeted direction to a vast array of resources hidden throughout the web to enable job seekers to focus their efforts where they are most likely to yield the best results. No other employment related website has access to the extensive technologies and job board partnerships that provide the depth of resources available to job seekers on GadBall.

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Career assessments are unique tests that are designed to help job seekers understand how their personal attributes affect their career and satisfaction with a chosen career path. They mainly answer a simple question: “what job is right for you?”

Assessments might check multiple personal attributes such as your interests, job preference, values, motivation, and skills. There are multiple tests and flavors for each test. Most personal assessments are easy to complete because the questions are about the one thing you know best about: yourself.

GadBall offers O*NET Integrated Career Interest Assessment & Job Research tool called “Work Genius”. Job Seekers completing the Work Genius assessment on GadBall will identify personal interests; these are linked to matching occupations and matching local open jobs.

The Work Genius Career Assessment is designed to match you with the ideal occupation and job based on your interest profile. Your interest profile is determined based on selecting activities that you like to do and identifying activities you don’t like to do. It’s that simple.

Whether you are planning your future career, have a career but want a change, or just want some additional insight, try out the career assessment. You don’t need to be a GadBall registered user to use this tool but by creating a free job seeker account your answers will be saved on your profile.

When it comes to business, people want to feel safe and have reliable employees beside. That’s why they often recruit people through recommendations and it is your friends who can help you in your job search and spread the word about your talents and strengths. It’s not a rapid process but we’ll show you how to make it more effective.

1. Making your relationships work for you.
If we take a look into our address books, it turns out that each of us has a lot of friends and acquaintances who we haven’t reached out for quite a long time. Some of them are from school, some are from college, a hobby-group, a sport club, previous work, a volunteer organization etc. All of them do something, work somewhere and have a lot of friends. So it makes good sense to talk to them about your job search.

2. Establishing new connections.
It’s not so easy to make new contacts and build new relationships but it’s an essential component of any successful job search. Work out a system of expanding your connections – meeting new people both on your own and through third persons. There’s always a good possibility to join a professional association, attend business and cultural events where you can easily find connections that can lead to jobs or other work-related opportunities.

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GadBall entered the Department of Labor’s “Tools for America’s Job Seekers” Challenge. If you like us, help us win and recommend us.

In addition they feature a list of free resources to all job seekers and employers you might find beneficial.

Recommend here: http://dolchallenge.ideascale.com/a/dtd/20628-5847

During a job interview, people often have the tendency to provide answers which they think an interviewer wants to hear. This is especially so for questions such as ‘What are your career goals’ or ‘Why do you want to work here’, where a typical response is a re-phrased/grander version of what the company might have on their website.

For example – “I want to work in investment banking because of the fast-paced life and dynamic learning environment. I want to dedicate myself towards creating value-based financial solutions for clients, in order to help them maximize shareholder value. What attracts me to your company in particular is the focus on integrity and team work. I am also excited by the opportunity to work directly with senior management on the client’s side and diverse people within the company”

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Technology can be a wonderful servant … and an awful master.

To find work faster, remember that your goal with any gadgetry or software — from smart phones and email to Linkedin and Twitter — is to meet people who can hire you.

With that in mind, here are two ways to find a job — one high-tech and the other very low — from Australia. How can you adapt them to your search?

1) Tweet and Meet

Jade Craven (www.jadecraven.com), in Geelong, Australia, found work in August 2009 by doing a few smart things on Twitter.

She offered the following five tips to help you do the same.

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Last week, I wrote about four common frustrations found in the hundreds of emails I’ve received this year from job seekers across America.

This week, I’ll address two more problems and offer solutions to help you get hired faster.

Do either of these apply to you?

Frustration #1: There just aren’t enough jobs out there to apply for.

Solution: Let’s unpack this one …

When I speak to job hunters, in seminars, by phone, and via email, I ask the same question: “How are you looking for jobs?” Almost invariably, the answer is: “I look online or in the paper.”

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Employee performance is an essential ingredient in any company’s ability to achieve its goals. Therefore managing employee performance is integral to business success. A well managed performance appraisal assists managers to assess and provide feedback to increase the competency of their team members. Developing skills, knowledge, attitudes and increasing team member capability are key objective of performance appraisals. For many businesses performance appraisals results in spending ‘time on the business’ to build capability.

Performance appraisals promote business development in the following ways:

1. Drive business performance
Facilitating performance appraisals means managers making an effort to communicate with their employees. Managers who care about the performance of their people and business will recognise the importance of providing feedback and assisting their team members to grow and develop. The performance appraisal is a proactive HR solution in driving business performance.

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Taking into account requests from our readers, we started a series of articles titled ‘Resume Makeover Series.’ The objective is to take you through the complete process of writing a resume, with best practices for each stage.

In our last article we advised that you should start your resume with a Power Statement. In this piece we round-off that discussion and talk about the resume Summary Section, which includes your Power Statement plus a few more bullet points about your most relevant skills/characteristics.

We recommend starting your resume with a Summary Statement, which is like your personal advertisement. It should give the reader a concise overview of your experience, skills and achievements. When writing your summary statement make sure that you focus on the job you are applying to, its main requirements and your unique selling points. Typically, the Summary Section is about 3-5 bullet points.

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