The Great Blog Off – 48 Hours Later – Summary Part 1

Here is the first summary of the posts that Gina and I posted over the last 24 hours. Thank you to all of our guest bloggers! We appreciate your support and your help to assist us with our journey through The Great Blog Off.

If you missed the Blogging Marathon we did as a fundraiser for Accion International, I am going to post a summary over the next few days. I wanted to give you an opportunity to read them one spoonful at a time. Take some time to review these posts. There is lots of good stuff here.

Hour 1: The Great Blog Off – Fundraiser for Accion International – The Great Blog Off is an opportunity to do something good. The Business Channel will be supporting Accion International as our charity. Here is an opportunity for you to donate money to a great organization that is the business of helping people. Read more>>>

Hour 2: Thought For The Day – Words to Live By – An excerpt from No Glass Ceiling. Dream what you want to dream; Go where you want to go; Be what you want to be, Because you have only one life; And one chance to do all the things; You want to do. Read more>>>

Hour 3: 24 Hours of Interview Fun – Gina’s introduction to The Great Blog Off.

Hour 4: Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Job Seekers – Web 2.0, according to Wikipedia technology and , is a term describing the sexy trend in the use of World Wide Web, web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. Read more>>>

Hour 5: Behavioral Interviewing: An Introduction – Behavioral Interviewing is an interviewing technique where the potential candidate is asked to tell the interviewer a story of a time in their career where they demonstrated a particular skill. The premise of this interviewing technique is that, it’s easy to tell an interviewer what they want to hear when responding to a particular question but it is much more difficult to do when the candidate is required to give a specific example of a time where they actually used the skill. The questions usually start out with “tell me about a time when you…” Read more>>>

Hour 6: Thinking of Adding A LinkedIn Link to Your Resume – I helped a client update his linkedin profile, and he now includes a link in email correspondence to employers. It may have been a coincidence, but the first employer he sent a link called him in for an interview the very next day! My client is convinced that linkedin played a role. Read more>>>