We are still looking for qualified students and will be happy to give a reward of US$30.00 to anyone who recommends a student that is not already registered with E-JAM.
JOBS AVAILABLE FOR UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO WOULD LIKE TO WORK IN THE US THIS SUMMER – UNDER THE J1 WORK & TRAVEL PROGRAM.
Applicants must be: - 18 to 28 years old - A full time student enrolled in a College, or University (not in final year of studies - proof required). - Willing to participate in an unskilled or service sector job. - Able to work a minimum of 3 - 4 months. - Able to attend a pre-departure orientation. - In possession of a valid passport (expiration date after end of assignment).
To start earning your US$30.00 per student, submit your referrals by providing information on the Referral Form. Please let the individuals know in advance that you are referring their names. Upon receipt of your referral, we shall notify the contact person. If your referral is successful we will contact you regarding payment arrangements.
Payment Schedule: If you recommend a friend, or colleague to employmentjamaica.com, who is not already registered with us and they are placed in a job, you will receive US$30.00. Payment will be issued after your referral receives their student visa.
Find Your Passion Make sure your resume instantly communicates your career target with a descriptive headline (e.g., "CPA Backed by Corporate Audit Experience") and adequately reflects your depth and breadth of experience in a brief, hard-hitting opening summary highlighting your top selling points.
If you're thinking about changing careers or industries, be sure you've clearly defined your goal. Your job search will be more successful if your resume targets a specific field instead of being a one-size-fits-all document. Research positions to gain a solid understanding of what you want to do as well as the qualifications employers are seeking. Once you identify your career target, assess your background and identify transferable skills and experience that will enable success. Add a resume objective that spells out your goals and shows the relevance of past experience. For example: "Award-winning educator seeking to leverage five years of teaching experience to transition into corporate training."
Add New Employment, Skills and Accomplishments Refreshing your resume also means keeping it current. If you've changed jobs during the past year, earned a promotion or expanded responsibilities, your resume should reflect this. Even if you've remained in the same position, you've probably achieved noteworthy accomplishments in the last year.
Don't forget about your new skills, including technical and computer ones. Survey your Skills section to ensure your proficiency level and years of experience are current.
Include New Professional Activities Add professional-development activities you completed last year, including certificates, degrees, courses and in-service training. Also include professional organizations you've joined and industry conferences you've attended. List training programs you've begun, even if you haven't completed them. This shows your commitment to ongoing professional development.
Edit Ruthlessly As you add new information to your resume, also consider the usefulness of older or less relevant experience. This will ensure your resume doesn't become unwieldy. Unless you want to return to a former career, decrease the amount of detail you provide for older experience. For job seekers with 10 years of experience or more, this may mean setting up an Early Career section, where you briefly summarize employers, job titles and employment dates. Other expendable items include obsolete technology and your high school diploma once you've earned a college degree.
Proofread your resume carefully to ensure it is error-free. Watch for information that needs to be updated from previous versions. For example, if your old resume included a summary that stated your years of experience, increase this number if necessary.
Start a Kudos File Resolve to start a file for projects and successes you achieve during the year. Copy performance reviews and keep them in this file. Print out complimentary or congratulatory emails and file these away. List new committees you join. Jot down assignments you complete during the year. Include details of quantifiable results (e.g., percentages, dollar amounts, before/after comparisons) of your efforts while still fresh in your mind. Your kudos file will remind you where you excelled so you'll be ready to punch up your resume.
Update Regularly You should refresh your resume throughout the year, not just at the beginning. You never know when opportunity may come knocking.
We are still seeking Food Counter Attendants for new positions in Canada.
Period: Early March - October 2012 Hours: 40-44 hours per week Salary: $12.00 per hour Housing: $60.00 per week approximately
The position is at an amusement park and requires travelling to different locations. Candidate must have great customer and food service experience. We are also seeking Food Counter Attendants with a valid drivers’ license to drive a small truck/trailer.
Employer pays airfare. There will be a fee payable to an Immigration Consultant for preparation of application forms in order to apply for a Work permit.
If you are interested in having your resume submitted, please contact us right away at ejamjobs@gmail.com. Also, let us know if you have a valid driver’s license to drive a small truck/trailer. Registration and Interviews are being arranged for December 21st or 22nd in Ocho Rios.
1. "I responded to a job posting and nothing happened, I never heard the outcome, is this a waste of time”
2. “I followed up with E-JAM and never received a response, what's going on?”
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We thank the many applicants that responded to the various jobs advertised on our website over the past few months. We sincerely regret that due to the large amount of resumes received, we have not been able to respond personally to all applicants. Despite that, we can assure you that we do review all resumes received; some are contacted within a short time; others passed on to our clients; or categorized to review for future openings.
In most cases, if you applied for a job and have not been contacted, that means we have selected an applicant who is the most qualified for the position.
One major problem that sets us back is reviewing and handling resumes of applicants that respond to jobs that they are NOT qualified for; (read - Not Qualified For A Job? Don’t Apply).
Here are some things you can do to improve your chances of getting your resume noticed and to receive a response.
Follow specific instructions as to how to apply to the job that is advertised. Your resume is a marketing piece; it is supposed to answer an advertisement. If an ad says "I want to buy a Mustang!", you would not respond by sending a picture of a minivan. But that is in essence what many people do.
The resume needs to be restructured to meet the needs of every employer that receives it. If they are advertising for a "Sales Manager" then that is the positioning statement you put as the Job Title; or in the Subject Line of the email. A hiring manager is more likely to read the resume that says "Sales Manager" than the one that says "seeking employment with a progressive, growth oriented company."
Add a professional headshot photograph to your profile – your headshot is an important part of your online personal brand; it gives credibility to your content. A good example of a professional headshot photograph is a passport photograph with a smile added.
E-JAM appreciates the time you invested in your application and encourage you to apply for posted and advertised positions, for which you qualify. Please read the blog articles mentioned, they will assist you in getting your resumes noticed and receiving responses to your job application.
1. FOREMAN with 10 Years Experience - one needed for each of the following category: Framing, Roofing, Siding, Drywall, Flooring, Stucco, Painting, Landscaping & Masonry (Block Work).
2. SPECIALTY FINISHERS - 10 Years Experience - 5 Concrete Flat Work and 5 Framing/Carpenters.
3. GENERAL LABOR - 2-5 Years Experience in the following areas: Framing, Roofing, Siding, Plumbing, Electrical, Drywall, Flooring, Stucco, Painting, Home Finishing, Landscaping, Masonry (Block Work) & HVAC.
Please upload your resume on our website www.employmentjamaica.com and enter the word CONSTRUCTION as your resume title. If you are sending an email, please place CONSTRUCTION in the subject line and email ejamjobs@gmail.com.
PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCED AS STATED ABOVE. ONCE WE RECEIVE YOUR RESUME, IF YOU ARE QUALIFIED, WE WILL SEND YOU FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION.
There's no better way to learn about the United States than participating in the US Work and Travel Program. It provides an opportunity to work, meet international friends and experience another culture.
Apply Early with E-JAM and Pay a Lower Program Fee - A Savings of US$110.00
$990.00 - Paid in full before 12/31/2011
$1,100.00 - Paid in full between 1/1/2012 - 3/15/12
More reasons to apply early... JA$500.00 Savings on Registration Fee JA$2,500 reduced to JA$2,000.00 if paid before 11/25/2011
Even more Savings... Recommend your friends and get US$10.00 off your Program Fee for each referral. There is no cash value for referrals; the money you accumulate is used against your program fee.
When using major job boards and resume posting sites, you may find yourself frustrated by the lack of responses. If you posted your resume and haven't received any hits in a couple of weeks, there are some things you can do to improve your odds of getting noticed by employers. Even online job searches should be an active process. So be prepared to get involved.
1. Set aside at least an hour (or two for a new profile) to improve and update your resume-posting profile. All job boards have a questionnaire process that you click through, when you first sign up. If you want your profile to be effective, you have to put a lot of effort into preparing it so a potential employer will find you when it is searching for applicants with certain keywords and phrases. If you have already posted your profile, go through the initial steps again, bearing this advice in mind. If you are posting for the first time, make sure you use this information to your advantage.
2. Know where your resume files are and have copies prepared in two formats. The first should be a text-only, or ASCII, format that you can copy and paste into the appropriate text box on the website. The second should be an MS Word version. This is due to the fact that many job boards allow you to upload a formatted copy of your resume so that they can easily print and read or forward it. Most of the sites say you can upload a "Word" copy.
3. When you fill out the required information in the questionnaire, be thorough. When they ask for a job description, don't just give them a repeat of what's in your resume. Using a solid list of keywords and key phrases, give them a brief overview of your duties and then tell them about your accomplishments and special projects you worked on. Use things that you didn't include on your resume, but you feel are important.
4. Take your time going through the lists of skills. Don't leave anything out. Even if you only have a little bit of experience or only have training, click on the skill and say that you're a beginner or only have one year of experience.
5. Remember that keywords are the only way that an employer can find you. If the keywords and key phrases they're looking for are not included in the language of your profile, employers won't find you. Use those keywords in as many places as you can, while making sure they are used in the natural language of your profile. If you see a particular job posting that you want to apply for and the language they use is not in any of your profile writings, make changes. Add the keywords in natural places or exchange them with others, where they'll fit appropriately.
6. Update and save your profile at least every 30 days, although every 14 days is better. Resume-posting databases use timestamps to return profile search data to hiring professionals. The more recent your updates were, and the better your keywords match, the closer your profile will be to the top of the list.
7. Search for and apply to job postings. The more active you are in contacting potential employers, the more likely you are to get a response. Remember, you are competing with millions of others. Odds are that your resume won't be seen by an employer unless or until you express an interest in a position by applying for the job. Also, the more active you are on a job site is a direct correlation with your ranking in the database.
Does the title of this post sound a bit restrictive to you? If so, you may be part of a large group of job seekers wasting an incredible amount of time. How so? If you apply for jobs in which you are quite obviously un-qualified.
When I post jobs onto various job search networks, I am still surprised at the response. I would estimate that 70% of the professional resumes I receive are from well-meaning people who were clearly un-qualified for the position. I’m not a recruiter, but I am trying to filter jobs on their way to the hiring manager. But, hey, I understand how it feels to be out of work. You see a job that fits a few concentric circles outside your experience and you have to apply, right? Well . . . no.
The two most common issues?
1. The job requires certain experience, education or training which you don’t have . . . and you apply anyway.
2. The job is for a Vice President and you are a Manager (or the opposite) . . . and you apply anyway.
So, you may ask, what’s the risk? If I don’t get the job, who gets hurt? At least I tried!
Here are a few of the risks and penalties of applying for jobs when un-qualified:
· A cluttered submission process for truly qualified candidates. And that will be you someday.
· Hiring managers, HR people and recruiters bear the brunt of your impulsive effort. It takes a long time to look through stacks of resumes. If you abuse the process, someone may remember your lack of focus.
· Ever feel like no one is getting back to you? No feedback? You become frustrated in the lack of feedback and lose steam in your search effort. Just think if my 70% number above went away. The feedback loop would get much stronger for the remaining candidates.
· Wasted time on jobs that you won’t get instead of doing really important things like building a solid strategy and networking for the jobs you really should be targeting.
· If you simply send your resume it may seem like a pretty easy, low energy effort. The problem is the simple approach + a lack of qualifications equals a lack of reasons for a recruiter to see you in the role.
So, how do you know if you are unqualified? Well, as simple as it sounds, read the job description. Those are written with you in mind – with the hopes that you will take it to heart. Ask a friend to review the job against your qualifications and give you honest feedback. Finally, build realistic and specific job search objectives. Once built, you will be better suited to tell people what you are looking for as well as have a guide for positions to target.
Now I’m not saying to see the glass as half empty – there is some room for aspirational thinking. But not if the job description says “must have” and you don’t.
Seeking experienced cooks for a one year contract in Albert Canada.
The wage is approximately $13.32 per hour. The position is full-time permanent with consideration of long term employment based on performance.
Cooks must have: good communication abilities, 3+ years of experience and strong cooking experience.
The restaurant specializes in steaks so that type of experience is important. The air ticket is paid by the candidate.
Please email resume and experience to ejamjobs@gmail.com or you can apply for this job online and upload your resume. If you are applying by email, you must put the position title in the subject line to be considered.
Seeking candidates with at least 3 years experience who can work with vinyl, porcelain and ceramic tiles. This position is for 12 months.
Wage is $23.10 per hour for 40 hours per week.
Please email resume and experience to ejamjobs@gmail.com or you can apply for this job online and upload your resume. If you are applying by email, you must put the position title in the subject line to be considered.
We are looking for three additional persons that have a valid driver's license to drive trucks with air breaks. Must also have some experience working in warehouses.
Wage per hour is $12.96. This job require warehouse work, deliveries and a large amount of heavy lifting. Please apply for this job online and upload your resume.
Please apply online or send a resume to ejamjobs@gmail.com with the Job Title in the subject line. Emails without the subject line will NOT be considered. ------- Connecting Employers & Jobseekers Worldwide! Visit Us: www.employmentjamaica.com
For many years before I started blogging and editing full-time, I made my living as a freelance writer. One of the biggest pain points for me during that part of my professional life was the tedium of finding and landing gigs. Though freelance work is plentiful in many areas, especially creative professions like design and writing, actually finding jobs, writing proposals and negotiating with clients often took up more time than the actual work.
Based on my own experience, plus that of three current freelance professionals, below are five tips for finding and landing freelance work. Are you a freelancer? How do you find gigs? Share your tips in the comments.
1. Network, Network, Network
The number one way freelancers we talked to found work was via networking. “The secret is networking, never stop doing it. Get it right once, the stream just keeps flowing,” says freelance creative director Dann Petty. “Never stop networking, seriously, just don’t stop. Don’t talk about yourself at all and always ask questions about the other person,” he advises.
