• TorontoJobs.ca Presents: Hot Career Topics of 2009
  
  
• Article: Practice For Your Interviews, By Colin A. McClean
  
  
• Article: Will Telephone Interviews Become a Growing Trend For Employers,
  By Karen Shane
  
  
• Article: Advice From Top Employers Throughout the GTA
  

TorontoJobs.ca Presents: Hot Career Topics of 2009

The Economic Downturn of 2009 has affected hundreds of thousands of Canadians within the workforce. Over the course of the past year, TorontoJobs.ca has made it our #1 priority to educate job seekers on up-to-date career trends within the workplace and to deliver current open positions from top GTA companies! Listed below are our Hot Career Topics of 2009 which received tremendous feedback. We wish you much success in 2010!

Branding Yourself Online: The Internet and online social networking has radically changed the way we interact with each other on a day-to-day basis. As a result of this transformation, people need to be aware of how they are perceived when their name is searched online.
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10 Tips To Help You Maximize Social Media To Find Employment: Social media is a growing resource for job seekers looking for new opportunities to help you land your ideal job.
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Career Change in an Economic Downturn: When a lot of the news about the economy is anything but positive, many people focus on making sure that there is stability in their lives.
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How to Defeat the “Job Search Recession Blues”: 10 things job seekers can do to ensure they are making the most of their job search in tough times.
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Practice For Your Interviews
By Colin A. McClean, Employment Services Specialist & Author,
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To… My Career!

“Practice makes perfect.”  “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”

There can be no mistaking the value of practice when it comes to job interviewing. Once you have a basic understanding of the most common interview questions and of questions that may be specific to your job category, it’s time to step on to the interview rehearsal stage.

Will Telephone Interviews Become a Growing Trend For Employers
By Karen Shane

In the 1980’s telephone interviews were an uncommon method of choice for selective employers seeking to place new employees. In our contemporary employment marketplace, employers may find that telephone interviews not only save time but also promote a non-judgmental approach for choosing the proper candidate.

Appointments are set up for you, the prospective employee, either to call in or to be near a landline telephone and await a call from an organization. The process begins with a ‘break the ice’ conversation and is followed by a series of brief questions. In combination with the typical interview questions, interviewers could interject a question or two that requires quick thinking. For example, the interviewer might ask a question to describe three uses of a paper clip – or some such question designed to keep you on your toes. Responses are recorded by the telephone interviewer and passed through the appropriate channels in the hiring process. The answers maybe presented to staff persons with or without your name on the top of the page.