The U.S. economy added 163,000 jobs in July, the most in five months. However, the unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point\u00a0to 8.3% as more and more workers scramble to enter the job market. This has created an uneven recovery heading into this fall’s presidential election. Fortunately, a cure exists in applying SEO to job-hunting.<\/p>\n
As both: a) an expert on jobs, careers and workplace issues and b) a recruiter specializing in high technology, I came to realize several years ago the benefit of applying SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to job hunting and recruiting. As a result, I built up the largest, non-profit, professional SEO group in the Chicago area with almost 600 members. Our main objective is to explore cutting-edge SEO techniques.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, Saturday, August 4th<\/sup> starting at 10:30 a.m. at 200 S. Wacker<\/strong> we will host our first ever symposium<\/strong> devoted to analysis of one\u2019s online presence<\/strong>. Two major goals are: a) to evaluate one\u2019s Internet footprint (or lack thereof<\/em>) and b) to suggest improvements. \u00a0These techniques can significantly increase a job seeker\u2019s chances of getting noticed by prospective hiring companies and being hired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The U.S. economy added 163,000 jobs in July, the most in five months. However, the unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point\u00a0to 8.3% as more and more workers scramble to enter the job market. This has created an uneven recovery heading into this fall’s presidential election. Fortunately, a cure exists in applying SEO to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,50,51,64,52,68,69,66,67,63,55],"tags":[40,46,38,56,34,35],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-employment","category-chicago-technical-jobs","category-engineering-careers","category-engineering-recruiter","category-interview-preparation","category-scientific-jobs","category-scientific-recruitment","category-search-engine-optimization","category-seo","category-technical-jobs","category-technical-recruiter","tag-chicago-employment","tag-engineering-jobs","tag-interview-preparation","tag-technical-recruiter","tag-unemployment","tag-unemployment-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}