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Snippets: What’s your reputation worth?

This is part of a series of articles to make your job hunting experience more meaningful with JobStreet.com.

A lot. In fact, your reputation is the most valuable thing you own. If you have a bad reputation, nobody will want to take a second look at you. Therefore, be known for being dependable, professional, and cooperative. Act and look the part by dressing professionally. Make a name for yourself by attending conferences, delivering speeches or writing articles.

Do check back on 30 Aug 2009 for more tips!

PitchYourTalent reaches 20,000 sign-ups

Since the launch of PitchYourTalent.com earlier this year, more than 20,000 people have pitched their talents on the website. There have also been over 190,000 searches and over 30,000 contacts made by hiring managers, recruitment firms and potential business partners.

Here are comments received from some of those who signed up: "I have used many online job boards over the years but I've just registered at PitchYourTalent and already there’s an employer who contacted me! I definitely recommend this service – in fact I have emailed a couple of my friends about your site." – Bobby Geh. "I personally feel that PitchYourTalent is an amazing platform for employers like me. I was surprised to learn that PitchYourTalent is only two months old where I thought it was longer than that due to the large pool of people I can search and contact. "I find the candidates in PitchYourTalent are relevant and they are more of quality, not only in skills but professionalism. I was even able to find niche skill sets like fire-fighting!! The turn-up rate for interviews is better than any newspaper or online job portal. I was finally able to secure a candidate for my project manager position which I have been searching for a very long time." – Annie, HR "This is the first job portal which gives the clear picture of a candidate for the employers to go about. I have liked it and I will also recommend it to others. Good Luck and keep it up. " – Mahesh, Job seeker

What makes PitchYourTalent.com different from other job hunting methods? Check it out below:

PitchYourTalent.com presented during MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference

PitchYourTalent.com was given a slot during MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference to present it to the conference participants.

  

It was indeed an honour for PitchYourTalent.com to get this chance to present, alongside brands like Google, Microsoft, Red Hat etc.

Since the launch 2 months ago, PitchYourTalent.com has had thousands of people signed up!

To check it out, go to here .

If you want to search for the talent, you can use Basic Search  or Advanced Search .

To browse all the talents listed, go to here  . 

If you're Web 2.0 type of people, do join the Facebook Page! Close to 1,000 people have signed up to be fans!

PitchYourTalent: Privacy and benefits

By now, I suppose you should have heard about our latest product called PitchYourTalent. If you haven't, maybe this is the time and place for you to find out more about how you can pitch your talent to the potential employers out there.

PitchYourTalent is actually one of the easiest ways for you to make yourself seen in today's crowded employment market. We believe that this will be the most productive way for talented people like you to get their next jobs.

All you need is to set up your profile and you'll benefit through:

1. Letting opportunities find you. Your profile gets seen by tens of thousands of employers all over the world.
2. Building your profile within five minutes. We designed our system so that you can build your profile intuitively and quickly with minimal fuss.
3. Getting cutting edge tools. Get powerful customization and advanced profiling tools you won't find anywhere else, ever.
4. Protection of your identity. Only you decide what information gets seen and what remains unseen: a 100% control at your finger tips.
5. Securing your spot on the Internet. We'll fine-tune your profile so that it comes up prominently when your name gets searched in Google, Yahoo and MSN.
6. Getting seen by potential employers in the region and beyond. As long as they have an Internet connection, they can come straight into PitchYourTalent.

So should you be worried about privacy? Naturally, privacy is everyone's concern. But I wouldn't be pitching this service to you if we at JobStreet.com haven't addressed this issue to protect the user.

Here's what happens. When you register with us, all we ask from you is your email address and telephone number. This will enable us to contact you in private. Your email address and telephone number is strictly confidential and hidden from everyone.

You will have total control of all information in your talent profile. For example, you may wish to include your name and contact number if you are comfortable, or you may choose not to. It's very much your say. Any potential employer that wants to contact you will have to go through our messaging system. He contacts us and we will forward his message to you It's that simple. The rest is then up to you.

It's a simple system but it's effective. Do give PitchYourTalent a try, won't you?

Breakfast with JobStreet.com's Mark Chang

I was having breakfast with Mark Chang the other day and our conversation turned to PitchYourTalent, the latest product on offer from JobStreet.com. How would he explain PitchYourTalent to job seekers? Here is his take on it:

"Well, obviously it's a new service for both our clients and members. As you know, JobStreet.com is well known in this region as one of the prime movers in the online recruitment business. We've successfully run our business since 1996 and we have grown to six million members and 50,000 clients in eight countries.

"Traditionally, our business model has always been to have clients advertise their positions online and then we would get job seekers to apply to these jobs from the JobStreet.com website. We are very satisfied with this time-tested model but of course, we are never one to sit still. We are always looking at alternatives to improve our services and one day, we were struck with this novel idea.

"What if we turn the process upside down? What if we have job seekers advertising themselves? That's what we are trying to create with PitchYourTalent. It's a new excitement where job seekers now have an opportunity to pitch their talent to the world. Let them tell the world about their experience, achievements, skills, qualifications .... and then let companies who are in search of good talent come to get them."

To know more about PitchYourTalent, click here.

Pitch your talent to the world

Heard of PitchYourTalent? Well, if you haven't heard of it before, you are hearing it now. It's the latest product from JobStreet.com.

PitchYourTalent.com is designed to provide you, the job seeker, with an alternative means of getting hired. On PitchYourTalent.com, you will get the opportunity to advertise your skills to the employers.

So do you want to get headhunted? Or get in front of thousands of potential employers? Or maybe, you simply want to get yourself known to the world. To do that we will give you all the tools you need to pitch your talent to the world: quickly, easily and - for a limited period - for free!

Over the next few weeks, we shall be bringing you more information on PitchYourTalent and what it can do for you. In the meantime, should you want to know more about PitchYourTalent.com, click here.