Buzz Gnosis

A modern job hunting campaign is by nature really intricate. While the net has offered a variety of new sites and ways to communicate, it also creates multiplied rivalry for great jobs and potential issues for job seekers.

Job hunting needs to be thought of as a highly personalized, highly targeted marketing process where you are the product. Your resume is an ad. Your extended network is your lead generating engine.

So where does the Net fit in? At AA-Careers, we recently put up a job on a job search site and got over 500 applications in a week. For a single opening. That’s extreme competition.

Had the right person contacted us ahead of our posting that ad, they could have secured the job prior to getting all that competition. How? By knowing someone at our office who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone was aware of the job for at least a week before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming on the market soon?

So the good news is that job websites give you a sense of who is hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those jobs are posted, the rivalry is profound. You can still compete, if you have a well honed resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another problem to be aware of is how easily you can be checked on the internet. As we Googled several candidates, we ran into some pictures and comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing larcenous, but enough to sway our thinking about who to hire.

AA-Careers provides a comprehensive set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

Son of Jose Abadi and Francoise Guthmann de Abadi, Carlos Abadi is a prominent Buenos Aires-born banker now based in America. However, history shows he has ties beyond Argentina, for Abadi is actually a “citizen of the world”. Carlos Abadi’s great-uncle is none other than Moussa Abadi, the valiant altruist who rescued multitudes of young Jews during the Holocaust. Like his great-uncle before him, Carlos Abadi has exhibited great deeds. He once volunteered as a reading tutor at one of New York City’s public schools and donated to the teen pregnancy charity called Inwood House. Now married and with two sons, Carlos Abadi belongs to an illustrious family that counts in Spinoza and Borges author Marcelo Abadi, Stanford-schooled scientist Martin Abadi, and many others. He remains faithful to his roots. As proof of this, he serves on the board of directors of the Argentine-American Society, a nonprofit group formed in 2001 to help his impoverished countrymen. Religion-wise, Abadi lends his presence to the Central Synagogue of New York City, where he is a community volunteer. In more business-like pursuits, he sits on the Roubini Global Economics Monitor advisory board. He is also on the boards of 900 Fifth Avenue Corp and The Core Club, both in NYC. Carlos Abadi is known in Wall Street circles as the founder and president of Abadi and Co. His company deals mainly with debt restructuring and bonds in emerging economies like that of South and Central America. An avid cyclist, Abadi competed in L’Etape-2005 Tour de France.