Month: September 2007

Back to Basics. Write an Effective Résumé.

Your résumé is your calling card and first impression to a potential employer. You have less than 10 seconds to grab a reader’s attention.

Every line a reader see’s when your résumé is viewed on a screen will influence the decision to call you.

You may want to format your resume like this:

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A good resume can be most effective. But is the resume telling you all? Do the facts on the resume correspond to someone’s actual history?

You will never know until you conduct a pre-employment background check. this is why Corra urges every business to run the criminal check, at least, and the education and employment verification checks as well. If your candidate is driving for you, then the MVR Driver’s Report is also a must.

Check them out before you hire.

Yahoo Execs Dropping Like Bombs

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Yahoo has been in a constant state of reorganization lately with the entrance of Jerry Yang and the still not filled exit of CTO Farzad Nazem as well as other positions being shuffled around.

Being thrown into the mix is position of CFO for Yahoo’s Network division as current holder of that position Mike Weetman, is leaving to become the COO of BermanBraun, a new production company formed by former Yahoo employee Lloyd Braun and Hollywood executive, Gail Berman.

For the entire article go to Adotas.com

So who is left to turn out the lights, when everybody leaves? A good question. Corra has heard of the great mass exodus, especially in Los Angeles, where we are headquartered. Hollywood is rife with either mass firings or mass splittings. Sometimes the mass exodus is even more newsworthy than the last OJ fiasco, but we digress.

So what to do when y our key executives leaves. Recruit new ones, but take your time in making sure they are the right fit, they have the right motivation and the incentive you offer meet with their satisfaction. But someone’s candidate is often someone’s recent firing. There are a lot of reasons for executives being let go, downsizing being not the least of them. But then there are the more incompetent executives, the ones who didn’t meet their numbers or, worse, were caught stealing or selling your valuable databases to your competitors.

Stuff happens. Hence your HR people should be conducting careful interviews and utilizing a comprehensive background search for key executives. When executives may have been involved in white collar crimes, Corra suggests you run the Federal Criminal and Federal Civil Searches, among the other searches you will conduct.

Be smart. Sometimes the gift at the door is just another Trojan Horse. Check them out before you hire.

Reverse Brain-Drain?

From: Inc.com

A lack of work visas for skilled immigrants could result in a reverse brain-drain and a subsequent decline in U.S. competitiveness, a new study shows.

As a result of a growing backlog of visas, roughly one in five new legal immigrants and one in three employment-based legal immigrants are planning to leave the United States or are uncertain about the future, according to a joint study by researchers at Duke, Harvard, and New York universities. Every year, about one million scientists, engineers, doctors, researchers, and other skilled immigrant workers compete for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas.

For the entire article go to Inc.com

Corra hears all the stories about how the immigrants are taking American jobs away? But what about the smart, skilled and talented immigrants who are needed to fill gaps on high level and professional levels? Let’s face it, for America to move forward it is in need of skilled and highly educated employees. Some of them will be person educated here but from foreign countries.

As it is with domestic candidates, it is important to run a pre-employment screening check on foreign candidates. If your candidates have been educated here and have lived in the US for a long time, often the domestic criminal and education background searches will suffice. If they were educated abroad or have only immigrated to the US then it will be necessary to conduct International background searches as well.

Corra supplies International background searches, including criminal, education and employment verifications. It’s a smart move to run these background checks. And cost effective.

Check them out before you hire.