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Employer Newsletter - March 2009

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The Exact Candidate You're Looking For
40,000,000 Readers Can't be Wrong
This Issue's Cartoon!

The Exact Candidate You're Looking For

We designed ConstructionJobs.com to be as efficient a site for you to use as possible. You don’t want frills and gadgets: you want to find the best candidates possible to build projects for you at the high standard you demand.

We understand, as well, that you are going to move through the roster of candidates you find at ConstructionJobs.com with great speed and a practiced eye for evaluating the talent and achievements that is presented on the resumes that our site gathers for you.

In fact, your ability to weigh a candidate’s potential to strengthen your company has led to a fact that we stress with candidates who use our site: on average, employers like you spend less than ten seconds looking at a resume.

So clearly, a candidate must have something special on his or her resume to arrest your attention and impel you to want to contact that person.

To the end of helping you find candidates more efficiently than ever, ConstructionJobs.com now offers a Resume Writing Service to any candidate who feels he needs to use that resource to highlight the accomplishments which fit your need and which are not receiving the attention they should to trumpet a person’s skills well.

Our Resume Writing Service is not going to exaggerate a person’s skills; rather, we’re going to make sure that the ten seconds that you have to evaluate a candidate’s career is ten seconds very well spent. We’ll make sure the best of that candidate’s career is encapsulated clearly and concretely in a form you can take in, in seconds.

You need to know if this resume bespeaks a candidate who can save you time on projects, solve problems that hinder your company, or make money where others have failed to find the means to do that. We will tailor candidate’s resumes to make a headline of those very talents that are vital and profitable to you.

As the months ahead unfold, continue to turn to ConstructionJobs.com for those candidates who can help your company prosper and grow.

And count on us to continue to find ways to save you time … and make you money.

Alan Kerschen
General Manager, ConstructionJobs.com

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40,000,000 Readers Can't be Wrong

I recently read the famous pamphlet entitled A Message to Garcia, written in 1899 by Elbert Hubbard. In the text, originally published in a magazine, Hubbard praises the initiative and determination displayed by an American soldier, Andrew Summers Rowan, who was tasked with landing on the coast of Cuba and going inland to find an ally of the Americans during the Spanish-American War, a certain General Garcia.

With no questions asked and no objections, Rowan undertakes and accomplishes the mission, drawing applause from Hubbard. Hubbard sees in Rowan a model for how every person ought to go about his or her work: faithfully, obediently, with resolve and a can-do spirit.

Hubbard concludes that anyone who can, metaphorically, deliver a message to Garcia, is someone who will always be beyond value in the business world. An employer or a client will be thrilled to have such a reliable and devoted employee on their team.

Over the past 11 decades or so, 40,000,000 copies of this little five-page tract, A Message to Garcia, have been sold.

Why?

Because companies like yours require mission-oriented self-starters who take their assignment and then claim responsibility for seeing it through.

Because you are always willing and eager to welcome into the fold someone with the diligence that Rowan exhibited.

Because this country has thousands of workers who possess these virtues, and they are the backbone of the construction and engineering industries.

At ConstructionJobs.com, we recognize that you need problem-solvers who will do the necessary and sometimes daunting work that your company tackles, and at the level of skill and speed that your reputation and high standard demand.

We meet talented and ambitious men and women every day, and we’re proud when a Project Manager or an Estimator or a Superintendent or a Foreman proves to be, like Rowan, worthy of the trust you are careful to place in your employees.

We work hard to make sure you can call on your Rowan. Because we have a message to deliver, too.

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Happy Recruiting,
The ConstructionJobs.com Team

 
 

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