One of the best ways for recruiters and employers to promote job opportunities is on a free job board like Job@twit.  A jobs board is a website where many different opportunities are listed in one place, providing employers with the chance to get their job openings in front of candidates.

Employers who post their job openings on a free jobs board use the service to advertise an available position within their business, and rely on candidates finding the job – either because they regularly visit the jobs board, or alternatively because they find the website via a search engine.

Job@twit uses many different methods to attract visitors to the site.  People who want to find jobs on twitter will discover that we promote all of our jobs and posted CVs on social media networks.  You can follow Job@twit on Twitter by visiting our page, or clicking on this link.

Because jobatwit mostly has an audience of tech savvy users who are either interested in working in new media, or already work in an industry such as digital marketing, or have SEO jobs, the majority of jobs advertised on our free jobs board are related to digital marketing or social media, however we regularly see opportunities working for many different industries including catering jobs, and much more.

If you are a recruitment agency or company looking to advertise jobs for free, register now for your free profile.

…For the tech industry at least.

A recent study carried out on behalf of Wired Magazine has suggested that redundancies in the technology industry are a good thing in the long run, and help to incubate new ideas as well as opening up new avenues of research.

The technology industry has long had a reputation for being an area of the economy where short term employment is not unusual.  Many staff in smaller start-ups will often discover that competition (and in some cases realisation that the big idea is a bad idea) can finish off many companies very quickly.  Not everyone gets bought out by Google.

Of course, the turnover of businesses and staff does mean that a highly qualified and flexible workforce  is often avaialble at short notice, so good posts are often filled quickly and efficiently.

Many staff also have good business skills, and an entrepreneurial streak, meaning that provided they get a good pay-off for being made redundant, it can often be an opportunity to begin a new project to expose their talents within the market.

For more information about the study, its worth reading the article in Wired Magazine, but if you’re more interested in finding Tech Jobs, check out the tech jobs avaiable on job@twit.

Two interesting pieces of news in the last few days indicate that the end of the recession in the building industry could be in sight, and that more construction jobs could be on the way.

The first notable story was the increase in new lending that mortgage brokers are reporting around the UK.  According to the BBC, mortgage approvals have reached a seventeen month high, with 38181 new loans being approved during July.  In addition to this increase in mortgage lending, increased confidence in business circles is also indicating that the country could well be on its way out of the recession – some correspondents are suggesting that economic output could grow through the summer to effectively end the recession (successive quarters of negative economic growth) when the latest figures are reported at the end of September.

These developments are fantastic news for the beleaguered building industry.  Over the past couple of years, a lack of available funding for purchasers has led to many major building projects being closed down or left incomplete, but now, with increasing confidence returning, many developers are taking their projects out of mothballs in order to rush them through to completion.

Thanks to relatively good pay deals being offered on many of the current crop of construction jobs as employers seek to get the best staff possible to work on their projects both in the UK and overseas means that many skilled workers will be able to return to the industry more quickly than expected.

When you’re going through the process of applying for a new job, getting your CV right is incredibly important.  You could be he most able and talented individual in the world, but if your CV doesn’t actually manage to communicate that information, you can kiss goodbye to even getting an interview.

With the job market as competitive as it is now, you need to make so much more effort than ever before to get to interview stage, and while in the past you might have got away with sending the same bloated CV off to hundreds of companies, that simply won’t work any more.  The better the job, the more people will be applying, and the harder it will be to get through the door.

You need to grab the attention of your potential employers immediately, and to do this you need a CV that nt only communicates who you are, but also explains exactly why you are the best candidate for the exact position that you are applying for.

Tip 1 – Tailor your CV to the Job

The chances are, if you’re applying for a job, you will have some relevant experience.  Whether this is from the workplace (which it probably should be), or from out of work activities (which it might well be), you need to highlight this experience as close to the start of the CV as possible.

Tie previous experience and skills into the job you have applied for.  If you are looking for a first job in web design job and your only experience is a hobby site, provide the URL, and talk about what you did to design it.

Tip 2 – Keep it Short

Two sides of A4 tops, and I don’t mean densely packed with 6pt text.  If you’ve structured your CV around the job you’re applying for, the chances are that you will be able to keep it shorter.  Keep job descriptions limited to a set of bullet points with an introductory paragraph if necessary.

Tip 3 – Keep it Relevant

You know that week of work experience in a furniture shop that you did ten years ago or the fact you were a fry chef in McDonalds?  It isn’t going to help you get a job in Web Design.  If you can’t tie in the skills that you used in a particular  position to the job you are applying for, ask yourself whether it is worth including it in the document.

Tip 4 – Keep it Honest

OK, there are always going to be places on your CV where you dress things up a little bit.  Employers know that there is a kind of language that you only see in a CV.  Assisted in the company induction schedule means that you showed a new starter round the office, was responsible for maintaining customer records meant that you did the filing.

A bit of window dressing is fine and expected, it’s like make up.

On the other hand, lying is wrong.  Make stuff up, and you might get in the door, but you’re going to look like a fool during the interview when it comes out that you actually weren’t a surgeon.  Or when you start the job and it turns out that you don’t actually have  a clue what you’re doing.

Tip 5 – Use your Spell Check and proof read.

So, you’re “hard working and have grate atenntion to detail”?  I wouldn’t claim to never make a mistake, or drop the odd howler into something I’ve written, but to be honest, if a CV comes into my inbox with any errors, it’s going straight in the bin.  This document is your shop window, it’s not great if its riddled with errors and makes you look illiterate.

Overall, you shoud treat the CV as an advert to say why you are the right person for the specific job you are applying for, not just any job that you might look at in the future.