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

How do you get to the real interviews at a Career Fair? The competition can be noteworthy, but you can help yourself leap out from the gang with advance preparation. At AA-Careers, we have a simplified six-step process to prepare. Plan to go? Here’s how to prepare:

First, investigate the companies that are going and pick your objectives. Use the web to check out the companies that are there ahead of time. Go to their internet sites and see if they have their jobs listed. Pick a sensible number to go after, and get ready to spend about an hour researching each one. It’s hard to do more than 8 in a day, and three to five is a much more reasonable target. For each company, you want to know: key product lines, recent news, and executive names. Try to see if you know anyone at the target companies. You should end up with a page or two of research for each company/job.

Second, if there are job postings on the web, read them to see what the hiring department is looking for. Create a mapping of your achievements and skills to the demands of the job. Make the terminology 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 company.

Third, create a ‘thumbnail sales pitch’ for each likely company/job combination. Write down a 90 second ‘thumbnail’ that you can repeat verbally depicting why you are a fantastic candidate for that position. You’ll use this in your resume and when you meet the company at the job stall.

Fourth, modify your resume for each position. The objective on your resume should exactly match the position you’re want. The executive summary should be a written form of your “mini sales pitch” for the job. Then choose the achievements and skills that most clearly match the job description. Especially at a Career Faire, 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 fit based on your resume.

Fifth, dress and prepare as if you’re doing on-site interviews. Dress nicely and be well groomed. Don’t overdress (this isn’t a date!) and don’t underdress (no jeans or t-shirts, no matter how much you paid for them). Avoid strong cologne or perfume.

Finally, practice your ‘mini-sales-pitch’. Collect your research and the resume for each position – bring a couple of copies for each – and put each in a clearly labeled folder. Keep them in a light briefcase or folio.

Remember to smile, and good hunting!

Most people with video content will limit themselves to only uploading their videos to YouTube, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing because that website has millions of users logging on per day, but your YouTube video is treated like a needle in a haystack as thousands of other videos are also uploaded there every day. A good practice well known from the marketers is to upload a video to a Facebook profile, it’s not so complicated, then you can search for Facebook groups related to your topic and add your video to the groups. Another sneaky method of promotion is to tag at least 50 of your friends in your uploaded video (even if they aren’t in it) because each of those 50 friends will have at least 200 friends each and their friends will see your video.

The fact is today milion of Web 2.0 websites offer free music video codes and are becoming very popular for that. Due to the fact that more and more people use these codes in order to change their profile on a site like MySpace for example, all this for free. Of course not all these sites are the same. The best sites are the ones that offer a huge amount of video codes (some unique and rare video codes, not like Britney Spear classic videos).

There are tons of other networking sites to the grab and promote on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace are the main ones that come to my mind. But by browsing a little bit the internet, you’ll come across multiple music videos from brand new sites that also allow you as a musician to create networks of people globally. Using these sites any musician can create a fan base, share or release new video media, make announcements of what he his currently working on and what fans can expect in the near future.

After writing regarding a latest cable TV service that could leave TiVos useless, a reader speculated, imagine if TiVo and AT&T U-verse, a highly-preferred option to cable? Unluckily, AT&T’s U-verse does not either support TiVo. Like the cable companies who are rolling out switched digital video, U-verse uses the same two-way communication technology.

But not AT&T.An AT&T representative told me that U-verse customers obtain Total Home DVR at no extra charge so why would clients want TiVo? Okay, she didn’t quite say it that way however she pointed out U-verse’s clever multi-room system, which incorporates a DVR that can be reached by several TVs in other rooms (TiVo has a similar feature).

TiVo enthusiasts can still use their TiVos with U-verse but just as dumb recorders. Set the TV channel to the movie you wish to record and press the record button on the TiVo.”Consumers must make sure their receiver is placed to the channel they want to record at the time they wish to record their show. Because our service is tunerless and uses switched video, the customer requires go through this process manually to prepare the recordings,” said the speaker.I checked with TiVo and they pointed me to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Section 629, which guarantees that two-way communication is accessible for users.

Although, AT&T claims that it isn’t a cable operator so it isn’t subject to that requirement. The FCC currently is investigating this problem, according to TiVo. In fact, it is a important issue for the AT&T, which in Connecticut was viewed by a group as a cable company, but not by another.