All About E-Portfolios

Saturday, May 31, 2008 0 comments
E-Portfolios - online spaces for teachers and students to communicate, share, reflect and collaborate in and outside of the classroom - have created exciting opportunities for teaching and learning world-wide. The popularity and wide adoption of e-Portfolios is due to three key factors: easy access, low cost, high impact on teaching and learning.E-Portfolios are easy to access because most are web based, meaning that any computer with an internet connection can access the software and become a hub for communication between teachers and students. Increasingly, e-Portfolios are available at a low cost for both teachers and students to use. Low cost software removes one of the biggest technology hurdles schools face, a limited budget. e-Portfolios have the potential to deliver a high impact on teaching and learning when integrated into the curriculum. Read More>


Five Things You Should Know Before Changing a Job in Software Industry

Friday, May 30, 2008 0 comments
Changing jobs in software industry is common. But miss out on any of these and you could be heading for trouble in that dream job.

So you are frustrated with your current job and you pick up your resume to update it. Wait! Before you start surfing the job sites and calling up placement consultants you need to look at a few things closely. To your surprise, it may also turn out that a change is not required to get what you are looking for. Read on.

Marketing for Beginners: Networking Basics

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 0 comments
Learn the basics of network marketing and improve your readership using these basic network-marketing techniques.

In the simplest terms “Networking is the meeting of new people” and the more new people that you connect with, the larger your network grows. The network that you build can be used to promote your writing, blog or even business to a targeted market. On the other hand, your network could be used to locate something that you might need and someone else in your network might have exactly what you need. Read More>

E-Portfolios, the Newest Career Tool

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E-Portfolios are the newest career tool for recent grads and job seekers. Kelly Driscoll, president and co-founder of Digication, shared some e-Portfolio tips in a recent article called "Stand Out with an E-Portfolio" (featured on CareerBuilder.com and MSN Careers).

1. Brevity is best – Like a great résumé, you want to provide clear, direct information about yourself, your work and your achievements. Providing snippets or brief introductions to your work that lead to or link to full descriptions and examples are best. Read More>

E-Portfolio & Networking

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Bright Fuse
Use BrightFuse To...

Profile iconCreate a professional web presence

Project iconPost projects and work samples

Message iconKeep in touch with colleagues

Network iconNetwork with industry peers

Carbonmade
Carbonmade is...

* The easiest way to display and manage your portfolio online
* A clean canvas to show off your work
* Instant updating with no HTML experience necessary
* A set of easy to use management tools
* Images, flash, video... Oh my!
* Used by over 45,000 designers and artists worldwide
* Carbonmade is your online portfolio!

Coroflot
Coroflot Portfolios: The fast, easy way to get your creative projects online and in front of the right people.

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Digication
Digication opens the lines of communications by combining elements of e-Portfolios and learning networks. The software allows users to create a community that can learn and grow both inside and outside the classroom.

ePortfolio

Use ePortfolio to achieve your goals:
  • » Create a plan of study
  • » Maintain a dynamic resume of your experiences in life, work, study, and at play
  • » Store examples of your achievements (documents, photos, graphics, spreadsheets, web pages)
  • » Create media rich Guest Views to share with family, friends, employers, faculty, and others
  • » Showcase your accomplishments!

FAIRspot
FAIRspot.com is an online resource dedicated to giving the creative industry a spot to find inspiration, share work and stay updated with news, events and competitions within the community.

Unlike many other design resources, FAIRspot uses moderated submissions to maintain a high-end platform that creative professionals are proud to use for promoting their work or business.

Folioplanet
Created by illustrators, Folioplanet is a directory of 2027 illustrator links, 251 illustration portfolios and 36,341 stock illustration images. They are not a stock agency and do not represent artists. Art buyers should contact the artist or their representative directly.

InSource
Becoming a member of InSource gives you not only access to these tools, but access to the InSource community, a community of people just like you. Through the InSource Forum you can easily reach out to your community to share learnings and ask questions.

jamuse
jamuse is a better way to...

JibberJobber
JibberJobber is more like a personal relationship manager that allows you to do everything you need to do to manage a job search and optimize your network relationships - for the duration of your career!

LinkedIn
LinkedIn brings together your professional network

* Stay in touch
* Discover job & business opportunities
* Get expert business advice

MyPortfol.io
At MyPortfol.io we give you the potential to stand out from the crowd.
With easy to use tools you can create your own individual look to showcase your work, either in a portfolio or a boutique. You can choose how you present your work and make the most of your space. You can also choose what information users can see about you and determine how you want prospective employers or buyers to contact you.

pbwiki
PBwiki is the world's largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis.
  • Access from anywhere – Eliminate schedule conflicts.
  • Secure collaboration – It doesn't have to be hard to use to be hardened.

Job Board

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ADC Job Board
Check in with the ADC Job Board. Search among Advertising, Exhibit Design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design and Web Design positions that are posted daily. The listing includes jobs all over the country and abroad. You may also post a job on the ADC job listing site.

Applicant Tree
Get Paid for Someone to Look at Your Résumé. Easy for employers. Profitable for you.
Take charge of your job hunt!

Bookjobs.com
Whether your major is finance or history, science or art, English or business, bookjobs.com posts jobs from over 300 publishers.

CareerBuilder
CareerBuilder.com put over 1.6 million jobs in front of poised job seekers wherever they are - at home or work - in print and on the Internet. More than 23 million unique visitors come to the site every month to check out opportunities in every industry, field and job type.

CareerTV
CareerTV is the first and only global television programmer and interactive website designed to help college students and young professionals develop long-lasting, successful careers.

Creative Hotlist
Creative Hotlist is a customizable online application for connecting talent, companies and services. Much more than a job site for the creative community, Creative Hotlist has a sophisticated search engine and enables users to find individuals, companies and resources for any aspect of the creative marketplace including job openings, creative services, artists, designers, programmers, printers, service bureaus, schools and clubs.

Dice
Dice.com is designed for the specific needs of technology professionals, enabling them to perform highly targeted job searches based on specific criteria, including location, type of employment, skillset and keyword. Dice.com also provides job search tools such as search agents, resume posting and career-related content. The job postings available in the Dice.com database, from both technology and non technology companies across many industries, include a wide variety of technology positions for software engineers, systems administrators, database specialists and project managers, and a variety of other technology and engineering professionals.

DiversityInc Careers
Post your resume on the leading Diversity job board.

ExecuNet
ExecuNet is an exclusive membership organization that connects senior-level executives who are currently working or in transition with people, information and opportunities that add value to their business and their career.

Graphic Design Tool
Other Job Sites Show You The Jobs They Want. We Show You The Jobs YOU WANT. You Tell Us About The Jobs That You Are Looking For (job type, locale, companies you like) And We Find The Jobs For You Through Our Network Of 1,000's Of Companies.

HotJobs

Yahoo! HotJobs' tools and advice put job seekers in control of their careers and make it easier and more cost-effective for employers and staffing firms to find qualified candidates.

iHipo
INTERNATIONAL JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS : iHipo is the High Potential network dedicated to empowering international careers.

JobFox
Let the best employers find you, using Jobfox’s innovative skills matching capability.

jobpostings
jobpostings helps students find jobs through our print and online media. Our clients advertise to recruit students on specific campuses through Career Fair Guides and nationally through jobpostings Magazine.

JustTechJobs

JustTechJobs.com provides you with targeted, high-tech job openings from the leading employers in your area.

KIT List
Whether you're actively looking for permanent or consulting work...or you just want to get a pulse on the market...the KIT List provides a daily stream of job opportunities directly to your email address.

The Ladders
Set Yourself Apart: The premium job site created exclusively for $100k+ people looking for $100k+ jobs.

Monster.com

Your Calling Is Calling: Why wait to find your perfect job? Why surrender one more Monday morning to weak coffee and daydreams? Start searching Monster's extensive job database now. And propel yourself to a whole new work life.

mydesignjob.com
Your unique local guide to employment agencies. Discover the best businesses and services based on ratings and reviews we've gathered from across the Web!

NW Jobs
Explore your options. Get inspired. Make connections.

Printworkers
Printworkers.com unites the best companies with the most talented employees in the print, copy, digital and web industries.

Simply Hired
Looking for a job shouldn't be a full-time job! That's why we built the biggest, smartest job search engine on the web. We search thousands of job sites and companies, just so you don't have to.
We eat, sleep and breathe job search, to help you find that dream job. Use our nifty tools to find local jobs, identify trends, research salaries, and secure that offer letter.
So what are you waiting for?

10 Things You Don't Do at a Job Interview

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 0 comments
Sometimes we get nervous during a job interview and we say or do things that don't really give our best impression. Here are 10 things you don't do at a job interview.

1. Don't Dress To Seduce
Don't dress to seduce the interviewer, and on the other hand, don't dress for the gym with the hopes of appearing relaxed and flexible. Most proficient businesses are looking for employees who will representative their product or service with quality and professionalism. They are not looking to be entertained. So, line your appearance up with what they expect, not with how you want to impress them.

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Creative Staffing Agency

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@Tech
Your Technical Staffing Specialist
With over a decade of experience, At-tech serves to connect the very best technical employees and contractors with forward looking employers and organizations. Our staffing consultants take the time to understand your needs and focus on identifying precision matches that serve both the employee and the employer.

Alden Staffing
For over two decades, Alden Staffing has been consistently putting in the extra effort when servicing a corporate client or candidate. As a result, our placements achieve a higher level of success than our competitors.

Aquent
Aquent is the world’s leading marketing and design staffing agency. We match professionals with freelance, contract, try-before-you-hire, and full-time job opportunities at top organizations.

BigCreative
The finest creative talent and ultimate service;Freelance and full-time staffing solutions for ad agencies, studios and corporations.

The Boss Group
The BOSS Group is, literally, where talent and opportunity meet. It's where creative and marketing communications professionals come to find jobs and assignments, resources and industry connections, and where clients find the talent that will help them succeed.

CGR/seven
We started life as a creative staffing firm, not as a corporate spinoff of a general service agency. This is our field, our expertise, and our passion. And it shows.

Choice Creative Staffing
Choice Creative Staffing fills the freelance and permanent jobs that get New York creative designed, written, produced, and delivered. Online, offline, print, and interactive.

Creative Circle
Creative Circle was created with one single idea in mind - provide the best talent, on time, all the time. Or, more simply, make the task of finding talent as seamless as possible.

The Creative Group
We specialize in placing experienced creative and marketing professionals in rewarding positions with a variety of firms. Our Account Executives are former marketing, advertising and creative professionals who know the business – and your marketplace – and can provide you with just the right talent for your requirements. With teams specializing in both freelance and full-time placement, we can meet your needs in the New York area today.

Filter

We make ideas and initiatives happen for industry-leading companies, by connecting them with specialized creative, marketing, and interactive media talent. We provide contract staffing and recruiting services in the creative and marketing field, but we also offer interactive media project and production services.

hotgigs
The following is the registered list of Creative staffing agencies.

icreatives
i creatives, formerly TempArt Staffing has been a reliable source for staffing professional creative talent for over 17 years. Ad Agencies, Design Firms, Corporate Marketing and Web Departments have come to rely upon us because of our industry specific insight to understand and respond to unique creative staffing needs.

KForce

Kforce (NASDAQ: KFRC) is a full-service professional staffing firm providing contract and direct hire staffing solutions for hiring organizations and career management for job seekers.

Krop Creative & Tech Jobs
Jobs for Designers, Artists, and Developers.

Paladin
At Paladin, we have paid our career dues in the marketing and creative fields, and we share a common goal. We want to be an integral part of your success. We are dedicated to making great matches for interim, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire positions.

Paramount Design Group
Paramount Design Group is a premier creative resource providing cost-effective, high-quality design services.
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Freelance

Monday, May 19, 2008 0 comments
All Freelance Jobs is a directory and articles blog aimed at freelancers, consultants, & the self-employed, offering many helpful tips, advice & resources for home business owners.

Brain Store
The IdeaFactory BrainStore develops ideas using an industrial process.
For companies, organisations and private people. Reliably, and in record time. You too can wind up the IdeaMachine, produce amazing ideas and be a part of the BrainStore community.

Find Work - Do What You Love

FreelanceSwitch is a Community of Freelancers. On this site you'll find Advice, Jobs, Resources and much more.

Guru
Freelancers: Market your skills, find online freelance work, and get paid safely.


Heritage Web Solutions can provide a constant stream of accounts to qualified individuals, providing you with the opportunity to control your workload. Whether it is one account a week, or more, we have the accounts to accommodate.

Internet.com Freelancer is a full-service marketplace for employers to find qualified developers, programmers, writers and other technology professionals to bid on freelance projects. All project postings, bidding, collaboration, communication and payments are performed on-site in an all-in-one secure environment. Employers can visit Internet.com Freelancer to post a project ad today at no cost. If you are a technology professional looking for extra work, you can search Internet.com Freelancer projects and submit a proposal. We also offer free portfolio and profile space to help you stand out.

mediabistro.com: career and community for media professionals
Find consulting, contract, temp or freelance opportunities today.

We are the first online marketplace for buying and selling advertising, marketing and design ideas. Pitch ideas to clients and make money!


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