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1. What is Career Brander?
Career Brander is a centralized career marketing and job search networking site that allows you to easily build resumes, create personal career/resume websites, and utilize the most powerful career transition tool available, Job Search Radar™. Career Brander gives job seekers the tools to find work faster! The service includes deep databases of corporate information and the ability to have job leads sent daily to your personalized job search dashboard. Career Brander simplifies, organizes and accelerates individual job search. If you are looking to find work faster, Career Brander is the service you need.
2. Why do I need Career Brander?
There are two primary components to any successful job search. Personal Branding & Effective Networking. Career Brander helps you create and organize your own personal branding through our powerful web applications and helpful content. The Internet has changed how job seekers must approach career marketing and Career Brander helps you navigate this paradigm. Today, almost 75% of job seekers are researched online prior to being hired. Career Brander helps you manage this emerging aspect of career transition and find a better job, faster.
For networking, Job Search Radar™ is the most powerful tool available. Job Search Radar™ is like a having your own Salesforce.com® (or similar customer relationship manager/CRM) application plus a daily lead generation program for your own personalized search. It’s almost like your own private marketing department backed by the technology corporations use to generate and grow sales. We help uncover the 85% of all jobs that are never found through job boards.
Job Search Radar's™ dashboard makes it easy for candidates to manage and track every aspect of their job search campaign. No more tracking via notepads or spreadsheets are necessary. We provide online, organized and actionable business intelligence. Imagine every morning you wake up and have an email that gives you all the new job listings, news and events associated with your 50 best-fit targeted companies ready for you to take action. Now you are ready to access the hidden job market!
3. Why do I need to purchase Career Brander if I can find similar services elsewhere on the Internet?
The simple answer is that we believe, you cannot find a service that does everything Career Brander delivers, anywhere. You may find single-point solutions on the Internet, but Career Brander is unique. We are a highly intuitive, fully integrated career marketing solution that provides you with the knowledge and tools necessary to develop your own personal marketing and accelerate your networking. Our Launch Pad offers a complete career marketing package and Job Search Radar™ is the most sophisticated career intelligence and networking tool available. Career Brander is not a job board; we are not a job board search engine, we do not sell consulting or coaching services; and we are not an ad driven business model. We are an integrated technology platform that harness’ the Internet’s power with the singular purpose of getting you in the right job faster. There are thousands of job sites, hundreds of resume posting and distribution services, social networks acting as job sites, and resume video services. We are different, we help you navigate this complicated landscape, and utilize the best of the Internet to your advantage.
4. Can you tell me more about Job Search Radar™?
Job Search Radar™ is so robust that it is difficult to describe in a few sentences. It is a comprehensive database service that offers contact management, corporate profiles as well as job board and company website scanning to push relevant information to job candidates. Everything is assembled in a personalized job search dashboard that is updated daily. The system also offers information on recruiters and venture capital investments. Ultimately, Job Search Radar™ is a centralized place to coordinate your entire job search campaign while utilizing business intelligence and web spiders to bring efficiency to your search. We scan millions of records on the Internet daily to bring critical job search information directly to you. Job Search Radar™ simplifies the complicated job search process by leveraging Web 2.0 technology.
5. Is Job Search Radar™ integrated with social networking sites?
Yes, Job Search Radar™ cross references with sites liked LinkedIn® and automatically displays how your network is connected to managers at your target companies. We provide the roadmap to leverage your connections. Your job networking accelerates through warm introductions as opposed to submitting resumes online.
6. Is Job Search Radar™ different than job boards or job site search engines?
Yes, Job Search Radar™ is very different.
Job Boards are effectively classified ads making their money by charging companies to list open positions.
Job site search engines basically scan job boards for new job listings based on an individual’s search criteria.
Job Search Radar™ accesses deep, searchable databases, including Hoovers premium content, to create specific target company information and tracking mechanisms. It then provides management contacts, job listings, news events, competitor data, and other pertinent job search information. It also fully integrates with major social networks and downloads everything daily, into to an online personalized dashboard. Job Search Radar™ constantly mines and tracks millions of Internet records for the job seeker. Job Search Radar™ opens up significantly more opportunities to the job seeker.
7. Do I need technical skill to utilize your site and services?
There is no technical skill required to use our service.
Each of our applications is built to be highly intuitive. Most of our software has been used by thousands and in some cases millions of users. We rarely get questions sent to our email help desk.
8. Why do I need a personal website if I am already on LinkedIn, Facebook and other social networking sites?
First and foremost, a personal website allows you ultimate control over your online identity. Secondly, a personal website allows for a much broader means to express who you are and what makes you unique. It serves as the centralized home of your Online Identity. (We recommend that job seekers point their social networking profiles back to their personal websites). Personal websites allow for a secure place to post your resume and for added security our Site in 60 application allows for password protecting any button on your site. We have had clients use it to protect resumes, references and work samples. You cannot protect content on most social networks and quite often it is sold to third parties. This is true of most resume uploading systems on job boards as well. For more reasons to utilize a personal website as part of your career management strategy, please read our blog.
9. Will Google or other search engines find my personal web site through your service?
Yes. Our sites are crawled by search engines so once you launch your site you will be building your personal SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Ultimately, ranking does take time and is driven by numerous factors such as content, keywords and links.
10. How does your resume builder work?
Our resume builder automatically formats your content. The system allows users to switch templates on the fly and easily customize them. The resume builder stores unlimited versions of your resume while also providing PDF, MS Word and RTF output to any computer.
When creating your Site in 60 personal website, if desired, the system will automatically upload your resume into your website. The resume builder is comprehensive, with built in writing tips and one touch reorganization of your functions or chronology.
11. What is the commitment when I join?
After your initial license agreement, each additional month is $29, and you can cancel at any time. Typically, it would cost $10 - $20/month just to host a personal website, which is why some customers have told us everything else is virtually FREE. Click here to sign up.
12. Will someone from Career Brander write my resume, manage my Job Search Radar™ or create the content for my personal website?
Career Brander is a technology company that delivers software solutions. We do not provide consulting, career coaching, professional writing or website development services. We could never provide such services for the all inclusive, low price we offer.
13. Is there help desk support?
Yes. Just look for the HELP icon inside the application. Our system is so intuitive, that we get very few help requests. We generally respond with a personal email and/or solution within a few hours.
14. Can I test the service?
We offer a free trial version of our resume builder only. The trial is for 14 days and output is limited to PDF only. All work will be stored in the resume building system and can be accessed through purchased activation of your user name license. Sign up for a free trial version of our resume builder.
15. Do I need any special software, browser, or hardware to use Career Brander’s service?
No, all you need is a computer with an Internet connection. We support the major browsers – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. If your computer runs any of these browsers then you have everything you need.
16. How does your affiliate program work?
Many sites have linked to us because of our incredibly high utility to job seekers. Linking code is available through the affiliate page at the bottom of our Home page. If you are interested in other strategic affiliations, contact us at partners@careerbrander.com
17. Can my company utilize Career Brander as part of our outplacement strategy?
Absolutely. Small businesses as well as Fortune 500 and Fortune 5000 companies have already done so. We are a highly valuable and cost effective solution. Typically we provide 6 or 12 month licenses. We provide implementation materials in less than 24 hours. We can easily support thousands of employees worldwide. Contact us at partners@careerbrander.com
18. Who owns Career Brander?
Career Brander is a service of G2M4U, LLC (Go to Market for You). The founder can be reached at ian@careerbrander.com
19. Again, Why Career Brander?
There are not enough good jobs for everyone that is looking for work. Job Seekers are looking for an edge or advantage. A professional presentation to the right audience is critical to finding and securing the best positions. Career Brander helps you maximize your brand and find the right audience. We represent a small investment that will save you time and provide a true job search competitive advantage to get you back to work faster.
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