ResumeBucket is Looking for a Viral Marketing Intern

Looking for experience in online viral marketing?

What we need: 2 interns to train in the secrets of this valuable online marketing technique. Learn from the masters in this part-time position and get college credit for easy (and fun) work.

You should be someone who:

1. loves to blog

2. enjoys posting comments on forums, blogs and articles to get in the conversation with others

3. manages many social network profiles- facebook, myspace, twitter, etc.

4. is addicted to social bookmarking - digg, delicious, stumbleupon, and yahoobuzz

5. wants to take all of your social network and social bookmarking talents and apply them to spreading the message about a company virally.

6. can market gourmet service effectively and consistently

Please submit your resume to cass@resumebucket.com to apply. BE SURE TO PUT “SOCIAL MEDIA/VIRAL MARKETING” IN THE SUBJECT LINE

This internship position will go fast, so hurry!

Location: Santa Monica

When The Buzz Gets to Loud

Working at Resumebucket.com we often come by resumes and job descriptions that make us laugh, the reasons vary but more often than not it’s because of the tedious and pretentious buzz words that people often use as filler or to make themselves look intelligent (hint: it doesn’t). Yesterday one of our founders came across this gem that had us all staring in disbelief trying to force a laugh.

Click HERE to view the train wreck of a job description. Be warned, you are about to get slammed with a wall of text made up of buzz words with no real content. Why would we expose you to such a monstrosity? Well my hope is that those of you out there filling your resumes with buzz words will change formats and start focusing on real content.

Coordinate planned and researched system enhancements/modification activities with administrative and technical personnel to ensure a continuing supportive environment for existing and planned application systems and a coordinated and transparent conversion.

Uhhh.. what?

So why would we bring this to everyone’s attention? Our hope is that #1, you’ll laugh, but more importantly #2, you’ll take what you’ve just seen into consideration and learn from the mistake. Flooding your resume with useless buzz words not only makes the hiring manager throw the resume out, but you are doing yourself an injustice by using to many words to convey nothing. Keep your resumes (and job descriptions!) short, concise and to the point. You’re not only helping yourself, you are doing those of us that have to read them a favor.

For more pointers regarding buzzwords check out these articles at the TechRepublic and Directory M.

What Makes Us Different From the Rest?

The days of pen and paper resumes are quickly coming to an end. Recruiters are shifting towards the Internet as the primary medium for seeking out potential employees. This creates new avenues and opportunities for those in the market for a new career that have never been available before, all of which are easier to manage, create, update, and disperse. The only obstacle is figuring out the most
effective way to create your personal brand online so that the recruiters can seek you out.

The most popular job search websites are so saturated with sponsorships, sneaky advertisements, monthly fees, and on top of all you are submitting your resume into a massive sea with hundreds of thousands of other resumes—reducing your chances of being seen to slim and none.  At ResumeBucket we get rid of the clutter so that it is easy to navigate and recruiters can access your resume in a flash.

So why waste your valuable time, effort, and money when you can promote yourself the same way but in an easier, cost free, and effective way. ResumeBucket lets you get your personalized resume online in less than a minute of signing up as apposed to other websites. You have the option to create a personalized profile with a unique URL with a recognizable name (example: http://resumebucket.com/johnsmith).

One feature that sets ResumeBucket above the competition is our metrics tool. You have the ability to see who is looking at your resume, how many times it’s been viewed, and when it was viewed. Seeing the results in real time is great to check for the effectiveness of getting your resume out to potential jobs. You can easily get your resume out with the premade badges that you can paste into your e-mail, personal webpage, or social media network.

Have more than one resume? Cover letter? ResumeBucket allows you to upload multiple variations of each so you can submit each one accordingly, depending on the recruiters’ interests.  You also have the ability to make resumes private or public and active or inactive if one is still being updated. If you don’t have a cover letter you can browse through our sample cover letters that have been organized based on different career categories.

Having trouble creating the professional resume and cover letter you deserve? ResumeBucket offers professional writing services that will custom tailor you a personal qualifications into a resume that will impress any potential employer.

Not only are you able to do all these things with your resume, you can proactively search and apply for jobs with minimal effort. With the search function you are able to search for thousands of jobs that are relevant to what you want to do.

ResumeBucket has all the services you need to jumpstart your career. Sign up and watch your newfound opportunities unfold. Have a success story? Tell us about it because we love hearing them. With all these options, ResumeBucket.com is your one stop job search website.

Get Hired 2.0

ResumeBucket is hosting Get Hired 2.0 Thursday May 21, 2009 at Santa Monica Library at 6:30.

Get Hired 2.0 will have the top hiring managers in Los Angeles to discuss the ins and outs of what you need to know to get a job in this economy. Topics include the current shifts in hiring candidates, the importance of having a powerful Internet presence and the things you need to know when working with an internal hiring manager versus an outside recruiter.

Feel free to come, ask questions, and enjoy some refreshments. This is a great opportunity for networking, building your personal brand and getting exposure. Space is VERY limited so sign up today.

Who: EVERYONE

Where: Santa Monica Library

When: May 21st, 2009

Time: 6:30pm

Cost: FREE

For More Information and Tickets : CLICK HERE

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Search for Colleges on ResumeBucket

Ready to search through colleges? Well now you have that opportunity! Our college search feature is finally live. Just type in a specific area code and career path and we filter in all the potential college opportunities in your area. The feature is set up so that you can hone in on your desired career goal and sort through various opportunities to pick the perfect one that suits you.

For example say you live in Santa Monica and you’re looking to find a college or vocational study in the Web Design industry. Finding an opportunity is as easy as clicking the “college” tab, choosing “Technology/IT”, and typing in the Santa Monica zip code. A few milliseconds later you will land on this page. Check out all the different options available to you!

Sounds easy right? Well it doesn’t get much easier.  ResumeBucket.com has a wide variety of college options to choose from- ranging from Art and Design to Biology to IT and even Massage and Wellness. Any type of path you are looking for can be found by our easy to use college search function.

Most websites will charge a fee to be able to access a similar search function but of course, like everything on Resumebucket, the feature is completely free to our users (similar to our college search and job search features). The only thing we ask in return is that you take a few seconds to give us some feedback by clicking the red tab located on the left side on the search page or go directly to our forum and post what you would like changed on our website. Our new feedback option will help us get more in tuned to our users so that we can make ResumeBucket even better!