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May 7, 2013

JobTabs Releases Free Resume Builder – Free For Real

Filed under: Job Searching,Resume Writing,Sell Yourself — admin @ 1:01 am

Free makes people happy.

JobTabs Free Resume Builder is free. In fact, the JobTabs Free Resume Builder was created with the purpose being free as the very first design requirement. How so?

We are the authors of JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder commonly known as JobTabs. JobTabs is arguably the most powerful end-to-end job search tool in the world. When people trial JobTabs and then uninstall it, we invite them to comment on what we could have done to make it better. The most common request we received was for a resume builder. We were baffled. We saw so many sites professing to have “free resume builders”. Why should we create a resume builder when they can just use one of the many free resume builders out there? It is easy to import resumes of any type into JobTabs, so what was the problem?

Finally, we decided to see what short-coming all of these free resume builders had that turned so many people away. To our shock and dismay, we discovered that none of the free resume builders were free! They would invite you to fill in your contact information, work experience, education and everything else under the sun not to mention any other information they could get from you such as industry, location, professional level, etc. They would compile the resume into a template and then show it to you. Okay, . . . . but when we would try to save the resume to our hard drive, email it, or anything other than just look at it we were denied. We couldn’t even copy the contents of the resume – we built – to the clipboard! Unless, of course, we paid them some money. These people profess to offer job seekers a free resume builder? We were appalled.

What was equally surprising is the number of sites that shared the same business model. They all offered free resumes, but wouldn’t allow you to do a single thing with it unless you paid them some money. Egads. This is bait-and-switch in its most obvious form. If you are offered a free resume builder, why shouldn’t you at least get a resume after you’ve built it?!

We were exasperated. And to have a bait-and-switch plan not on the jet-set, high-living crowd, but the segment of the population that was looking for a job. The nerve.

Welcome to a genuinely free resume builder. For real.

We need to mention that the JobTabs Free Resume Builder, is the property of JobTabs, LLC. It is licensed for free use, but it is still owned by JobTabs, LLC.

It is yours to use as you wish. Share it, email it, burn it to disk, publish it on the web, whatever you want to do. Build your resume, your friend’s resume, your roommate’s resume, yo’ mama’s resume. Most importantly, share it with someone or some group that is looking for a job. This is free software. Build your resume, export it to pdf, docx, doc, rtf, html and several other formats and send it to a prospective employer. It is time to celebrate your freedom and the freedom of so many job seekers who are unwittingly being shaken down by “free resume builders” across the web.

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John Coffey is the President of JobTabs, LLC. Through JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder, thousands of job seekers have taken control of their destiny in finding new and fulfilling careers. JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder motivates job seekers by making the job search easier by a huge order of magnitude. John Coffey can be reached via his website at JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder, by email via jpcoffey at jobtabs.com, and by phone at 404-255-0248.

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February 18, 2013

JobTabs Job Search & Resume 2013 – Released!

Filed under: Job Searching,JobTabs — admin @ 12:59 pm

JobTabs, LLC announces the official release of JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder 2013. The most powerful job searching tool on the market has now been reinforced with the inclusion of an executive grade resume builder. The resume builder takes an intuitive form fill approach to helping users create an attention getting, professionally formatted resume.

Resume Builder features include,

Four professionally designed templates from which to choose a custom layout.
Ten unique sections to choose from to include Contact Information, Professional Objective, Professional Summary, Work Experience, Education, Certifications, Awards, Affiliations, References and Personal Information.
Dynamic columns that vary from one column to four to optimize professional summaries.
Drag and drop simplicity in ordering every detail of your resume.
Export/attach/upload any resume as a pdf, docx, doc, html, rtf or text (ANSI or Unicode).
A ‘Tweakery’ which helps job seekers in covering up that last bit of glaring white space. In real time, using an interface specifically designed for tweaking, the user can tweak page margins, line spacing, date formats and even the distance between the bullet and the following text.

JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder 2013 is built for the Windows platform and works on all Windows operating systems from Windows XP to Windows 8. It is freely downloadable from our site and contains a 15 day trial period devoid of any limitations whatsoever. There are absolutely no limitations as to what can be done with the trial version. After the 15 day trial period, the user is required to invest in a license to continue using all of the features.

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February 5, 2013

Job Seekers Doping to Land Jobs in Tough Economy

Filed under: Job Searching,JobTabs — admin @ 11:51 am

As if the Lance Armstrong revelations were not enough, dopers are beginning to show up in the most unexpected places. The job search? Believe it.

Who is Juicing?

There are literally tens of thousands of job seekers who are doping to maximize their job search prospects. In a tentative economy and a tight job market who can blame them? From a job seeker who requested to remain anonymous, “If I can send out twenty resumes in a week, each of which is ideally tailored to the job requisition with as little effort as possible, why wouldn’t I? Before I started doping, it used to take much more effort just to do five resumes a week. Now I’m getting interviews that I could never get before. The more interviews I have setup the more confident I can be; the more confident I can be, the more success I can have.” And success he has. He has an offer on the table, but is holding off on accepting it until he completes his final interview with a competitor.

While the job search is inherently difficult, job seekers are confronting employment challenges that few ever expected to face in their lifetime. Job seekers are getting no reply to the jobs they have applied to. In the absence of even a simple acknowledgement, people begin to question if they have accomplished anything of value in their career. Dejection begins to set in. Those with the fortitude to press on are saddled with a discouraging work to reward ratio. It takes too many job applications to get even a single interview. Eventually, even the most head strong job seekers begin to succumb to a sense of futility. The solitary nature of the job search compounds the sense of futility and this creates a breeding ground for doping.

What benefits are job seekers getting from doping? Tailored resumes that get results. Identifying a resume and making the modifications needed to become an ideally suited candidate is extremely easy. There is no mishmash of files and folders to encumber your effort. Select the resume, clone it, refine it, send it, exhale. Do this enough times and you will always have the perfect resume with no effort. This is where the euphoria kicks in – the job search gets easier and easier. Moreover, doping job seekers have all of their resumes automatically stripped of hidden meta data that could possibly compromise their job application. Couple that with generically named resumes, resumes backdated to a date prior to the job posting and sent in any number of formats (pdf, docx, doc, html, etc.) and you have job seekers cycling past the competition.

The job seekers dope of choice? JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder, scientifically known as maximus paycheck regularis. On the street, locker rooms, and crack houses of America it is simply known as ‘JobTabs’. Unless the DEA intervenes, the doping is going to be an increasingly larger factor in the employment process. Whether it be JobTabs’ resume handling, networking facilities or any number of features, JobTabs is giving an advantage to job seekers who had been getting passed over.

Ultimately, all job seekers will have to make the decision as to whether or not they want inject their candidacy with what JobTabs has to offer. There are currently no tests to determine if a job seeker has been using JobTabs and there does not appear to be movement to ban JobTabs from the job application process. According to JobTabs, LLC President John Coffey, “If a job seeker can move to the top of the resume stack, as long as he complies with the law and is ethical, he has every right to do so.” He went on to say, “In a highly competitive environment, every job seeker should leverage every advantage they can. Those that refuse to adapt to the changing landscape will be left behind.”

More research can be conducted on the JobTabs phenomenon at www.jobtabs.com.

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September 1, 2012

JobTabs Job Search & Resume 2012 – Released!

Filed under: Job Searching,JobTabs,JobTabs Story — Tags: Career, jobhunt, jobsearch, jobseeker, resume — admin @ 1:24 am

JobTabs Job Search & Resume 2012 has been released. While there have been improvements across the board, we really wanted to focus on application speed and handling objects/graphics in the word processor.

Previewing Saved Jobs from the Internet is 10x faster

We reviewed the process and simply decided that we were saving too much. We eliminated much of the superfluous elements of the web pages and focused on what mattered. We also moved the process to a separate window so that it can be cancelled at will. The update messages provided by the window are much more detailed to give you the assurance that things are happening.

The crux of the word processing upgrades were necessary in order for us to implement a new product designed to complement JobTabs. More on that later. Suffice it to say that the JobTabs word processor has always worked beautifully, however we added some more functionality that we are going to need as we make JobTabs even more powerful.

Transparent Text Frames

While you could always add text frames to a cover letter or a resume in JobTabs, they had to be inline with the text. Now then can float above or behind and let the background image text show through entirely or partially.

Background Images

New support for background images allows you to insert a watermark, a CONFIDENTIAL/DRAFT disclaimer or a picture.

Object/Image Support

The JobTabs word processor supports OLE handling, images and many other objects. We made it easier to size and move them on the fly as well as maintain the aspect ratio as needed. This was especially important for job seekers who would include a signature graphic with their cover letter. The signature didn’t look like the real thing.

Prior to the upgrades, a signature couldn’t be placed directly above the typed text without covering it up.		After the upgrades, a signature can be placed above the typed text as it would normally be if it has been actually signed by the person.

In closing, a word on updating JobTabs is in order. Before ‘online updates’ went mainstream, software companies would distribute software improvements in bulk via CD or disk. One could expect lots of bells and whistles with the arrival of each annual upgrade. That was then, this is now. JobTabs is distributed over the internet and by CD upon request. Every time we improve upon JobTabs, we roll it out to our user base immediately. Why make earnest job seekers wait for a deluge of application upgrades all at once when those upgrades have already been developed? It makes no sense to us so we roll out new bells and whistles as they are developed. All registered users of JobTabs get free upgrades for an entire year after their purchase! This includes all major and minor upgrades. We look forward to serving you a steady stream of updates for as long as you will permit us to do so. : -)

John Coffey is the President of JobTabs, LLC. Through JobTabs Job Search & Resume, thousands of job seekers have taken control of their destiny in finding new and fulfilling careers. JobTabs Job Search & Resume motivates job seekers by making the job search easier by a huge order of magnitude. John Coffey can be reached via his website at JobTabs Job Search & Resume, by email via jpcoffey at jobtabs.com, and by phone at 404-255-0248.

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December 21, 2010

Age Discrimination is Over!

Filed under: Job Searching,JobTabs,Motivation,Resume Writing,Sell Yourself — Tags: Career, jobhunt, jobsearch, jobseeker, resume, Resume Writing — admin @ 12:23 am

Who's the boss?

There is a steady undercurrent in the job search space about age discrimination. I believe it. However, what I don’t believe is that it cannot be overcome. People, it is all about packaging.

Think about it for a moment. Let’s say someone is 50 years old and has been in the workforce in varying capacities for roughly 30 years. This person has 30 years from which to draw accomplishments which are relevant to any job posting he applies to. Take someone who has only been in the workforce for 5 years. That person only has 5 years from which they can reference relevant accomplishments when applying for a job. This gives experienced job seekers a huge advantage over less experienced hires.

The key word here is relevant. What many job seekers fail to grasp is that the likelihood of their next job being an exact match of what they have been doing up to this point is nearly zero. When applying to a new job, there is invariably going to be some nuance of the job posting that the applicant is going to have to correlate to his experience to date. Examples could include,

Managing other people.
Setting goals and a course of action for projects.
Working within a budget of varying sizes.
Demonstrating some knowledge of government law such as safety, employment, environmental, etc.

Experienced job seekers, if they work hard to chronicle their career to date, would have a much easier time getting under the bar to fulfil what the employer is looking for. Then there are a host of subjective considerations that the senior job candidate is far more likely qualified.

Conflict resolution among individuals, teams or departments.
Proactive problem solving.
Identifying the chain of command and working within it to get buy in.
Generally more likely to be looked to as a leader by subordinates than by someone closer to their own age.

A cornerstone of JobTabs Job Search & Resume success has been its ability to easily manage a large number of resumes for a wide number of job opportunities. As the experienced job seeker applies to more and more positions, he gradually accumulates more and more supremely tailored resumes for different job descriptions. Here is the lynch pin . . . . as the experienced job seeker creates more resumes in JobTabs, it becomes easier and easier to create even more refined dead-on resumes for each job they apply to. The breadth and depth of their experience is pared down to only what is absolutely relevant to the immediate job posting – as it should be! Creating a copy of a resume that meets 80% of the requirements and bringing it over 95% becomes incredibly easy!

While the junior candiate has his own advantages, he does not have the experience pool that a 50 something job seeker has. This is a very touchy subject among many. If you have any enlightening comments to share with me I would readily welcome them. Otherwise, age discrimination is over!

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