Friday, April 27, 2007

College Grads Face Stiff Competition in Job Search

Interesting insight from Experience Inc's fifth annual College Graduate Survey.

More than 2,800 graduating seniors took Experience's online poll, and nearly 50% of those who had already started their job searches at the time of the survey were still looking. The results, released in early April, also showed that only 22% of these students had offers in hand. Another 15% planned to continue on to graduate school, and 10% had yet to begin searching.

So, college grad, where are you?

Dennis Smith
T-Mobile USA
Sr. Manager, Recruiting

Friday, April 13, 2007

Carnival of the Job Search ~ 4th edition


Welcome to the April 13, 2007 edition of carnival of the job search.

We're featuring six blogs this week; 3 newcomers and 3 old-timers!):

ISPF presents A Comprehensive List of Helpful Job Search Resources posted at Grad Money Matters.

Henry Bagdasarian presents Think Before You Accept that Overseas Job Offer posted at Free Identity Theft Prevention, Detection and Fraud Solutions.

Arun
presents Charm your way to Success posted at Arun is bringing you...Your Daily Remedy, offering up tips to get you through job interviews!

Airhostess presents Airline Recruitment Spree posted at Airline Recruitments, touting careers in the sky.

ambition presents Is your 'online reputation' letting you down?? posted at recruit-ER.

And finally, Reynald presents Who Else Doesn't Want a Job? posted at JiveFood.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition ofcarnival of the job search using our carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

HOT JOBS: Director, Engineering - RF (Parsippany, NJ) T-Mobile


Director, Engineering - RF

Manage a regional team that consists of the following core functions:

Automatic Frequency Planning (AFP), BSS Engineering, Capacity Planning, Data Engineering and TDOA.

The job duties include but are not limited to:

Frequency Planning, BSC/TCU/PCUSN dimensioning and forecasting, Radio Access Capacity planning, New technology rollouts, TDOA Administration including Network dimensioning, New deployments and KPI monitoring.

Director will play a key role in developing and managing regional markets network performance and KPI targets, serving as the subject matter experts to the local markets.

Requirements:
High level of competency in all aspects of Radio Network Design and optimization. Includes but not limited to: Antenna theory, GSM Call processing, RF propagation theory, Field based measurement systems and interpretation, understanding of GSM Radio based call statistics such as dropped calls, BER, and Handover.

The candidate must posses a strong financial understanding, be able to create and manage departmental budgets, prepare and adjudicate business cases, as well as manage large technical projects.

This candidate will have strong leadership skills, with the ability to conceive, communicate, and implement design and operation concepts that improve the performance of the network and the efficiency of the RF teams.

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, BSEE is preferred.

8+ years Cellular/PCS industry experience.

5+ years RF Management experience in heading a team of engineers and/or technicians.

Hands on experience with GSM technology strongly preferred.

Please send your resume to Dennis @ wirelessheadhunter@gmail.com.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Can Blogging Help You Get a New Job?


Sarah E. Needleman (Associate editor for CareerJournal.com) posts a nice article in today's WSJ (subscription required) about blogging and how it can help you get a new job.

Here's a short excerpt:

Corporate recruiters have long surfed the Web to vet potential hires, but now they are also surfing blogs to unearth job candidates, expanding their talent pool and gaining insights they say they can't get from résumés and interviews.

If you are a recruiter and you aren't surfing the blogs, you are already behind the eight ball.

If you are surfing the blogs but aren't making hires, at a minimum, you are putting yourself in great networking stead. And, personally, I'm finding no greater opportunity than blogs, for developing relationships with candidates for future opportunities.

One of my goals is to use the blogosphere to make new contacts every day (ok, at least one).
And for the most part, I consistently meet this goal.

As an example, it wasn't too long ago that I left a comment on the WirelessisFun.com site, and as a result, struck up a friendship with the guys behind the WirelessisFun firewall. We now have a pending podcast for sometime in the near future and an almost daily dialogue. However, I'm really looking forward to talking my buddy Dan in to a new career with T-Mobile USA.

It's a long relo to Bellevue, WA from Romania, but hey, anything's possible in the blogosphere.

Needleman also posted an article titled,

What Job Seekers Can Gain From Blogs about Recruiting

Without question, the blogosphere is the place to go for job hunters who are seeking advice (of course, I'm slightly biased to this point, but it's because I'm right). And modest.

Here's a few of the blogs noted in the article - great choices - I read every one of these blogs and believe that job-search savvy job seekers should be reading them too.

  • YourHRGuy.com
  • Cheezhead
  • Resume Hell: Dumb Stuff I Read on Resumes
  • JibberJobber
  • Brazen Careerist
  • Kaleidoblog
  • Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters: The Blog
  • the CHAD

  • Go get 'em job seekers!

    And don't forget, just one visit a day, that's all I ask.

    Dennis

    Sunday, April 8, 2007

    Want a "WirelessJobs.com" Blog Badge? Anyone ... anyone....Bueller?



    I'm not really so presumptuous as to think anybody would want a "WirelessJobs.com" badge for their blog.

    If I'm wrong, just click the "want this badge?" link above.

    Create your own blog badge at WordofBlog.net.

    Dennis

    Tuesday, April 3, 2007

    20 Most Interesting Wireless Startups


    Paul D. Kretkowski (DailyWireless) brings us a nice post today:

    20 Most Interesting Wireless Startups
    I'll list the 20 Wireless Startups here, and you can check out DailyWireless for the specifics on each HERE.

    I'll even bet a few of these companies are searching for wireless geeks...to hire:

    1) Admob

    2) Blyk
    The first free mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).

    3) FON
    A HotSpot in every pot.

    4) Futuretxt

    5) I'minlikewithyou
    Interesting concept, just won't apply to me.

    6) Jajah
    I'm liking this one - make VoIP calls from your PC or landline w/o downloads or plug-ins - even w/o having broadband.

    7) Jaiku Mobile

    8) Jott
    Dictation turned in to email?

    9) Medio
    Mobile search

    10) Mozes
    Send and receive mobile messages to and from your fave bands, social groups, friends.

    11) MyGADS

    12) myMobileMedia
    Giving mobile subscribers access to their PC (music, pictures, video).

    13) Obopay
    This just might be my fave of the 20...will allow me to make $$ transfers alarmingly ez (backed/secured by MasterCard).

    4 words: Money on your phone.

    14) Radar
    Instant picture conversations with your favorite people and no one else.

    15) Streamverse

    16) Teleflip
    Email on your cell phone ... for free.

    17) Twitter
    If you don't know what Twitter is yet, I can't explain it to you. Well, yes I can. Twitter answers the question, "What are you doing?"

    Assuming somebody cares.

    18) Thrrum

    19) VoiceThread
    Create a voicethread and collect the stories behind your pictures.

    20) ZenZui
    Stop surfing. Start Zooming.

    Monday, April 2, 2007

    Job Seeker: Make Your Best Job Interview Your Last One


    Scott Ginsberg posted this morning about his beloved Cardinals.

    Actually, the post isn't about the Cards so much, but he uses the Cards season opener as a platform to encourage us to be more like David Eckstein.

    If you don't follow Baseball, you don't know Eck. But you should. He's the perfect example of a major-leaguer who, day in - day out, gives his absolute best on the field.

    He doesn't coast. He doesn't save himself. He leaves it all on the field.

    Here's why Scott loves Eck:

    Because every grounder matters.
    Because he gives it his all, every time.
    Because he plays harder than anybody.
    Because he actually sprints on and off the field, every inning.

    Did Eck win the MVP last year because he's lucky?

    Don't think so.

    If Eck were asked to name the one game, in all his years of playing, that he believes to be his best, Scott believes Eck would say,

    My last one.
    Here's Scott's takeaway: Make your best one your last one.

    The best sales call you ever made…was your last one.
    The best speech you ever gave…was your last one.
    The best report you ever handed in…was your last one.
    The best meeting you ever had with your staff…was your last one.
    The best customer service phone call…was your last one.

    Now, let's make this even more relevant for my audience: the job seeker.

    Are you looking for a job?

    Are you currently engaged in job interviews?

    Make your best interview your last one.

    If so, it just might be your last one.