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A modern job search campaign is by nature very intricate. While the net has offered a variety of new channels, it also creates increased competition for choice jobs and possible challenges for job hunters.

Job hunting needs to be thought of as a personal, extremely directed marketing process where you are the product. Your resume is an advertisement. Your extended network is your inside source for information and job leads.

So where does the web fit in? At AA-Careers, we just posted a job on a popular job site and got over 600 applications in a week. For one opening. That’s increased job hunting competition.

Had a strong person gotten ahold of us before we ran the ad, they could have secured the position prior to having all that competition. How? By finding an employee at our company who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 8 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be sure to check your application matierials carefully! When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily taken out with a fast triage process. How? The same way any manager would. By rejecting resumes where the objective didn’t match our position description. By passing over prospects whose cover letters gave us reasons not to hire them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating candidates whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by eliminating prospects who didn’t trouble to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the great news is that job boards give you a feel of who is hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those positions are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well thought out resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another potential problem to be aware of is how quickly and easily you can be checked out on the web. As we Googled several candidates, we ran into some Facebook comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing crazy, but enough to tilt our thinking about who to employ.

AA-Careers provides a broad set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

Australian web hosting service Macquarie Hosting announced Tuesday that it has implemented upgrades on the entire network core of its data center. The upgrade is touted to increase the company’s scalability across the industry and improve on its ability to handle faster network speeds that Australia’s new national broadcasting network is set to deliver.

The said network core upgrade is reportedly part of the company’s overall investment amounting to over $55 million which was allocated for its Sydney data center.
Macquarie Hosting’s facility hosts government organizations including the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as well as private businesses in Australia such as PBL Media, SBS and WebJet.

The newly upgraded network core is now capable of delivering more than a terabyte of data per second. This will provide clients with improved reliability, enhanced scalability and bigger capacity.

According to Macquarie’s spokesperson, it took the company 15 months to design, build, deploy and migrate all its clients. The upgrade was implemented to help the company prepare for the increased demand for managed hosting solutions that is expected to come with the launch of the new NBN. It was specifically created to answer to the upcoming challenges of faster network speeds and greater volumes of data that have to be managed when the new NBN comes out.

When asked to comment on the recent upgrades, Macquarie Telecom managing director of hosting Aidan Tudehope said, Over the past months, an increased number of companies have already started moving their businesses and their operations online in order to take advantage of the benefits that high speed internet access is expected to deliver. Because of this, there is also a parallel peak in the demand for efficient managed hosting solutions and services. Any business in this industry that has not done anything to increase the capacity of its data center is losing out on the opportunity that this advancement brings.

Today we are finding since the beginning of radio and Tesla’s work in alternating current that these increased man made waves do affect the brain. The Wireless revolution is upon us and those of us who are sensitive to frequencies bands will find it difficult to have quality of life in those areas where lots of wireless activity is. A study by three Dutch government ministries found that radio signals for the next generation of mobile phone services can cause headaches and nausea. We have already found this out, there may be a way that this can be accounted for and corrected by use of intermittent ELF to help the body super charge the immune system.

In this particular Dutch Government Funded Wireless Study they compared the effects of radiation from base stations used for the current mobile telephone network with the radiation effects of base stations of 3G networks. The study found that the test group exposed to third generation base station signals felt tingling sensations, got headaches, and felt nauseous. Cognitive functions such as memory and response times were actually boosted by both 3G signals and the current signals. This is interesting and I have found this to be true when I used lots of minutes on my cell phone, I had more brain activity. Other studies have recently come out and said that small does of microwave are actually good for you and I have found that significant doses of caffeine during periods of high cell phone use increased and stimulated brain activity to higher levels of thinking. Similar to a computer running at a higher frequency.

The ramifications of the study to Wi-Fi networks is clear: previous research into the health effects of radio frequency radiation always measured the impact of cell phones, which are held close to the head and cause high fields of radiation close to the ear and warming of the brain. I have found that it heated up the back of the brain or cerebellum and thus stimulated the brain, but also could cause headaches, until which time the brain got use to that frequency; then it enjoyed the stimuli and was even able to pick up that signal. Meaning, just seconds before the phone rang the brain felt stimulated, in other words the brain was in fact picking up the signal.

This even worked when the phone was in the next room. So these studies are correct and the 3D technology and the cognitive enhancement, I can vouch for is real. The Dutch study, on the other hand, used lower a dose of radiation to mimic base station signals rather than handsets. Handsets emit stronger radiation when they are used, while base stations transmit more constant levels of radio signals, exposing everyone within range. This is just a thought. And here are some other recent article on the subject.

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopu…storyID=3534786

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1276183,00.asp .

All frequency pollution will have an effect on the brain, since it also works at a certain frequency as do all parts of the body. The important thing is to understand how these frequencies in the new wireless age affect the biorhythms and then move forward with a plan to protect the body and even enhance its performance without causing cancer, free radicals or damage to the tissue. Think about it.

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