(Source: Indeed.com)

Indeed.com allows us to make a zoom on the retail industry for a more precise analysis of the employment market trend in this sector.

What is interesting to see is that even if hiring needs in retail have increased (+17%), they have not increased as much as the demand for retail job opportunities (+50%). There has obviously been a much higher number of job seekers in 2009 than last year.

The second interesting point is that companies tend to hire more between August and November in order to be ready for the holidays. This is even more obvious when looking at Florida. Whether Bal Harbour, Boca Raton, Worth Avenue, Lincoln Road, Sunset Place or Aventura Mall they all work on a 6 month-year during winter. If they have to hire new Store Managers or Sales Associates, they have to do it before December or risk to loose of lot of sales by lack of sales staff or retail management.

We will talk about the economical situation and employment market trends in the United States. We will provide insights to job seekers willing to work abroad:

• Why the United States?
• How to prepare you career plan?
• How to start searching for career opportunities?
• How to contact?
• How to use Social Media in your job hunting strategy (linkedin)?
• What are the management cultural differences between the US and Europe?
• How to assess your strengths?
• etc…

This year the HEC Career Fair holds many conferences and workshops in English, so that it opens itself even more towards international business. In addition the HEC MBA students and alumni, who are non-French speaking for a vast majority will have the opportunity to be fully involved in every event.

Hopefully this will help keeping on building even more the HEC brand and reputation among American companies.

The idea is that the form has to be standard and perfect for our Applicant Tracking System to analyze properly and our eye to read it easily… Forget about graphic design and colors. Keep it simple and crystal clear.

Are you sure your resume will be found and read ?

Like many other recruiters, whether in-house or from third-party employment agencies, at ACCUR Recruiting Services we search resumes most of the time through a “Search Engine” (our internal Resume Management System (Also called Applicant Tracking System ATS), CareerBuilder, Monster, Linkedin…)

Have you ever heard of Search Engine Optimization for websites ?  (Meaning: making sure you website appears on top in Google (and others…) when someone types specific keywords)

For resumes it works the same way, but it is much simpler and everyone is able to do it !!

Search Engine Optimization for a resume doesn’t make it a good one no matter what, but at least makes sure it will be found when a recruiter searches for someone like you. There are not too many options for us when we use a resume database and the type of keywords we enter are always the following:

• Industry description
  
• Type of products or services
  
• Group / Company / Brand names
  
• Titles
  
• Territories (mostly for sales)

The conclusion is that you always should write 1 or 2 lines after each company you worked for explaining the industry and the type of product and service sold. You can also mention the industries you want to work with in the “Objective” section of your resume. Don’t hesitate to indicate the clients and suppliers you had, or their industry description, as they will act as additional keywords.

More keywords = More calls from recruiters !!

If you have more tips on how you write your own resume, don’t hesitate to share them below in the comments.