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Standing out at a Career Faire can make a difference in your search. Job Faires are starting to pick up, and a major job search company is running some nice ones, called Targeted Job Fairs. At a San Jose Area Career Faire in early 2010, 10 companies as showing up, and a major job search company has 82 career faires scheduled for this year across the United States.

How do you rise above the crowd at a Career Faire? The competition can be considerable, but you can help yourself jump out from the crowd with early homework. At AA-Careers, we have a straight-forward six-step process to get ready. Planning to go? Here’s how to prepare:

First, research the companies that are going and pick your targets. Use the web to check out the companies that are there before you even decide to go. Go to their web sites and see if they have their jobs listed. Pick a small number to go after, and get ready to spend about an hour researching each one. It’s hard to do more than eight in a day, and three or four is a much more reasonable target. For each hiring organization, you want to know: executive names, recent news, and key product lines. Try to see if you know anyone at the target companies. You will end up with with a page or two of research for each company/job.

Second, if there are job openings on the web, read them to see what the company is looking for. Create a mapping of your accomplishments and skills to the prerequisites of the job. Make the language match. If the hiring organization calls customers "clients", your resume should do the same thing. The accomplishments should be written in the style of the hiring organization.

Third, create a ‘brief sales pitch’ for each likely organization/position combination. Write down a ninety second ‘thumbnail’ that you can repeat verbally describing why you are a fantastic prospect for that position. You’ll use this in your resume and when you meet people at the job booth.

Fourth, modify your resume for each position. The objective on your resume should exactly match the position you’re going after. The executive summary should be a written form of your “mini sales pitch” for the job. Then choose the accomplishments and skills that most clearly match the job description. Especially at a Career Fair, the purpose of your resume is a sales tool for you – to get you on-site job interviews. It should be obvious to see that you’re a match based on your resume.

Fifth, rehearse your ‘mini-sales-pitch’. Collect your research and the resume for each spot - bring a couple of copies for each – and put each in a clearly marked folder. Keep them in a lightweight briefcase or folio.

Finally, dress and prepare as if you’re doing on-site interviews. Dress nicely and be fittingly groomed. Avoid strong cologne or perfume…use any cologne or perfume sparingly, if at all.

Remember to smile, and good hunting!

Selection of Internet and mail hosting plays major role in determining online success or failure.

Publisher: Sam Harfig

Selection of Internet hosting service plays key role in determining the success or failure of any business willing to go online. The first and the foremost thing that every company stepping into the web domain comes across is “Internet hosting. An Internet hosting service meets a wide range of customers requirement ranging from website launch to posting of blog for online promotion. In fact, success of a company’s online business depends largely on the selection of Internet hosting service. Or in other words, a website host is that what distinguishes a successful online business from a failed one.

Companies working to make their presence on the Internet will find a large number of hosting services. These services are primarily limited to the web such as web hosting service, reseller hosting service, shared web hosting service, dedicated web hosting service, virtual private server, managed hosting service, home servers, collocation web hosting service, etc.

Some companies believe that simply setting up a web page bearing their custom log, a brief account of services and a contact number will be sufficient. The belief may be justified at some instances, but it is not the case always.

One may consider the case where a company has wide assortment of goods to sell; here, just having a home page will not make sense for the company’s online business. In such a case, the business should explain all its services and products through customized web pages that give it prominence on the Internet. For accomplishing this task, application hosting service will be the best option since it fulfills all the business requirements.

Often concerns like e-mail hosting services, DNS hosting services and mail list management are associated with web-based applications. Therefore, in order to garner lucrative results, complete and profound technical proficiency and support are required for the application hosting services.

Thus, businesses should hire a professional to run hosting services who not only understands their requirements but also provide appropriate solutions. Before hiring an Internet host, a business should take into account other factors since all depends on the selection of website and the kind of presence it wants to make online. Lastly, a business should ensure that its investment in the Internet hosting service give complete value.

While the selection of Internet hosting service solely depends on business hiring it, security of that service need to be on the top priority list. It is inevitable for every company venturing into the online world that they have appropriate firewall, imap spam filter and other security software in place. These solutions ensure protection of the company from different kinds of malicious attacks. This becomes even more crucial when online financial transactions are performed through the company’s website. Following strict safety measures and protecting the website from probable threats not only increase the reputation of the company among customers but also help to earn good revenues.