Razzle Dazzle and other Management Tricks

The pressure on leaders to perform is great and the challenge to achieve results on a quarter-to-quarter basis is overwhelming.  A sudden decline in sales and market share, increased costs and competition and other factors can lead to underperformance in a heartbeat.  A downturn in business will not tolerated, so some leaders find themselves reaching into their bag of tricks.  They have served them well in the past and they will need them one more time.

Who's in your PDA?

Almost 200 million job seekers in 2005 visited Monster.com worldwide.  Approximately 40,000 new resumes were posted daily to Monster.com for a total of 16.4 million new resumes in 2005.  Job postings on their site were viewed 2.1 billion times.  Monster is probably one of the most widely known.  CareerBuilder.com is another with over 21 million unique visitors monthly.  Altogether, there are more than 1,500 employment career sites on the Internet and growing. 

What does this mean for the individual job seeker?  It might represent tremendous opportunity or it could mean the odds of landing a job through the Internet are insurmountable.  The truth is the majority of jobs are filled the old fashioned way by who you know.