Job Search BLOG

Tough Economy

2009-09-06T20:55:00.000-07:00

We know that lot's of people are struggling in this tough economy and we are here to help. In fact, the reason CBCJobs.com was created is to help people find jobs. The good news is that this recession appears to be coming out of its slump. We personally think that what would greatly help is pulling out troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, taking these billions of dollars that are wasted and putting them back into the American economy to pay the teachers and firefighters. Unfortunately, our government does not seem to realize that.

RC Helicopters

2009-07-25T12:07:00.000-07:00

Maybe some people don't know, but I also run an online store called SEBRONCO. Click to Visit. I have always been into remote control flying things, and this store grew out of my hobby.

One of my very first airplanes was the EASY STAR (pictured above). who can forget this fine flying machine? Actually, it's still one of the best airplanes in my opinion. It was very durable, had an engine in the back and i flew it forever in airplane time. Usually rc planes break rather quickly. If you ever flew one, you know what i am talking about.

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Then there is the big Llama (pictured above). This thing is great. It's not humongous in size, but it's very stable in flight. I had fun flying this thing in front of my house and in the park and it's pretty stable in the wind, unlike some other heli's. Definitely this one is on my list for the holidays.

RIP Michael Jackson

2009-07-12T11:29:00.000-07:00

RIP Michael Jackson we will love you forever! Just so sad with the pills and all...why do people do that??

Traffic is up!

2009-06-24T18:11:00.001-07:00

After fixing some things in our feeds, our traffic jumped! Monday was over 800 uniques!

PiHRA meeting

2009-06-24T18:01:00.000-07:00

Serge's trip to PiHRA monthly meeting

Today in the morning I went to the PiHRA meeting. PiHRA is Professionals in Human Resources Association. I went to District 14 meeting. It was pretty fun and the people were great and very friendly, but they didn't let me pass out the CBCJobs.com fliers...bummer...they let me do it at the NHRA...boo...

I got to talk with a lot of different HR folks...I think a lot of people were pretty interested in CBCJobs..(although i could be wrong and they were just being nice to me :0) ... by the end I ran out of business cards...the food was really good too ... it was at the Newport Beach Radisson...they had fried potatoes, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, OJ, coffee lots of fruit...all in all pretty good... but it was really hard to get up at 5:00AM, because I had to be there by around 7:00AM, but on the good side the traffic wasn't too bad though

...also...it's still hard for me to drive because of my poor eyesight... (i have a case of keratoconus on one of my eyes, if you don't know what that is, please google) during the night its especially hard, but bearable during the day...there isn't a day that goes by that i wish my eyesight was back like it used to be hopefully someday its restored...

How to find a job in the 21 century

2009-06-06T09:46:00.000-07:00

How to find a job in the 21st century

(HINT: The Internet is your Friend)

By Serge B.
CBCJobs.com Founder

WEBSITES TO USE

1) Monster.com
2) CareerBuilder.com
3) Dice.com – tech/IT jobs
4) HotJobs.com
5) Craigslist.com
6) CBCJobs.com – OF COURSE and we have lots of LA/OC Jobs! 

GENERAL STRATEGY
a) Make sure they are hiring, and hiring soon.
A lot of employers, especially smaller companies, put out jobs to test the waters, gather resumes, or hire someone if it’s a perfect match. But, they are content with not making any hires.

b) DO work with temp agencies.
Do not rate the jobs offered by temp agencies as below the ones offered by employers directly. There is a reason why there are so many temp agencies around, they actually do help people find jobs. Keep in mind that temp agencies most always place people on full-time jobs only, not part-time.

c) Exercise discretion with Craigslist
Since the fee to post jobs on Craigslist is very low or free, there are a lot of spam jobs posted. Jobs that are simply to collect resumes, or are part of some kind of scam. This is not to say there are no good jobs on Craigslist at all, but there are a higher number of spam jobs there than on other sites.

d) Longer resumes are better
Having looked over hundreds of resumes myself, I can tell you that longer resumes look more impressive. It’s beneficial to include a fuller description of your previous positions and your education credentials.

e) Include Keywords, and lots of them, in your Resume
When employers search resume databases, they search for keywords. Usually searches are ranked by the number of keywords in a document. In other words, if an employer searches for “nurse”, the resume that comes up number one has the highest number of the word “nurse”. So, if you are a nurse, it’s helpful to mention that as many times as possible.

Positive Pause

2009-05-28T13:05:00.002-07:00

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2009-05-28T13:05:00.001-07:00

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New Logo

2009-05-09T18:13:00.000-07:00

We redesigned the logo and added the graphical part plus converted it to .gif so its like 3kb now instead of 26kb jpeg....

Go Lakers!

2009-05-08T22:20:00.000-07:00

They beat Houston tonight. The series is 2-1. Kobe had like 30 points and they kept making 3's. Good job!

Office Humor

2009-04-29T22:28:00.000-07:00

From FlameStorm.com

Changes in Company Policies

* Dress Code: It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary. If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we assume that you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise. If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so that you may buy nicer clothes, and therefore you do not need a raise. If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and therefore you do not need a raise.

* Sick Days: We will no longer accept a doctor's statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

* Personal Days: Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturday and Sunday.

* Bereavement Leave: This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for dead friends, relatives, or co-workers. Every effort should be made to have non-employees attend to the arrangements. In rare cases where employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should be scheduled in the late afternoon. We will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour and subsequently leave one hour early.

* Restroom Breaks: Entirely too much time is being spent in the restroom. There is now a strict 3 minute time limit in the stalls. At the end of 3 minutes, an alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the stall door will open, and a picture will be taken. After your second offense, your picture will be posted on the company bulletin board under the "Chronic Offenders" category. Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be sanctioned under the company's mental health policy.

* Lunch Breaks: Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch, as they need to eat more, so that they can look healthy. Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to maintain their average figure. Chubby people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that's all the time needed to drink a Slim Fast.

Thank you for your loyalty to our company. We are here to provide a positive employment experience. Therefore, all questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternation, and input should be directed elsewhere.

We've moved to a dedicated server

2009-04-28T08:57:00.000-07:00

About 3 weeks ago we moved to a Dedicated server. The website is running blazing quick. It's very fast. CBCJobs.com loading time is about 0.8 seconds, according to Vertrain Software's website. Compare this with Monster's 6.84 seconds, Dice's 7.92 and CareerBuilder's 3.84 seconds.

Major Bug Fixed

2009-04-27T14:48:00.000-07:00

We finally fixed the white spaces bug. The job descriptions and resumes were not appearing correctly on IE 6 and 7. Since our offices only used Firefox and IE 8 (please don't d/l it, it's full of bugs). By accident, we tested the website out of another office in which a computer was running IE 7. The pages were not displaying white spaces and instead were displaying everything, including job descriptions, company descriptions and resumes, in one continuous line. All has been fixed now and pages appear correctly on IE 6, 7, 8 and Firefox.

Next Project

2009-04-25T17:58:00.000-07:00

Oh yes, our next project is accepting the .docx files for resumes...and lol Murphy's law, as soon as we do that, Microsoft will come out with Word '09 or something with a completely new format....

Recording data...

2009-04-25T17:53:00.000-07:00

It is important to preserve the formatting of all documents, be it when an employer pastes a job description from Word or when a resume is uploaded or pasted. This module underwent a major rehaul, as there were problems with the data not being formatted correctly. This is all fixed. The website used to change whitespaces into
's, well thankfully, we got rid of that backwards method and now all the whitespaces are simply preserved and then displayed back on the screen.

It's funny, the website is over a year old and we are still working out the bugs. But it's fun to get those little buggers out:)

Metro Areas by Date

2009-04-24T08:34:00.000-07:00

Worked a bit more on the Metro Areas and fixed it so that it now lists them by Date (newest to oldest) and only one job listing per date. The next project is installing a module to accept Microsoft Word 2007 .docx files. Microsoft completely changed its format for 2007, now its a form of XML file, so needs a different conversion process to read it.

Site traffic is growing

2009-04-19T23:00:00.000-07:00

Our site traffic is growing. Monday and Tuesday are usually busiest days, while Saturday is the slowest...hmmm we wonder why? Do people not like to do anything on Saturdays? :) Here are the Compete Statistics. They are a bit lower than actual stats, but as you can see they are growing. This is virtually with no advertising, it's all word of mouth viral marketing.

Metro Areas Improved

2009-04-19T22:26:00.000-07:00

Metro Areas have been improved. Now the site displays all job categories and how many jobs in each categories vs the old way where it was just a search with the center zip and a mile radius. But since the job categories were changed, not all the jobs have the correct categories, therefore the categories are currently off. All the new jobs will have the correct categories.

Now what we have to do is define counties for all Metro Areas. So far we've done the first few including Orange County and Los Angeles, working on rest...