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

How do you get to the real interviews at a Career Faire? The competition can be noteworthy, but you can help yourself stand out from the crowd with early homework. At AA-Careers, we have a simple step-by-step process to get ready. Plan to go? Here’s how to prepare:

First, investigate the companies that are going and pick your objectives. Use the World Wide Web to check out the companies that are there before you go. Go to their internet sites and see if they have their job openings posted. Pick a tenable number to target, and get ready to spend up to an hour researching each one. It’s hard to do more than seven in a day, and four to six is a much more reasonable target. For each hiring company, you want to know: recent news, key product lines, and exectuve 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 organization is looking for. Create a mapping of your accomplishments and skills to the demands of the job. Make the nomenclature match. If the hiring company calls customers "clients", your resume should do the same thing. The achievements 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 out loud showing why you are a fantastic prospect for that job. You’ll use this in your resume and when you meet the team from the company at the job booth.

Fourth, modify your resume for each job type. The objective on your resume should exactly match the job you’re aiming for. 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 Job Faire, the purpose of your resume is a sales tool for you – to get you on-site job interviews. It should be quick to see that you’re a match based on your resume.

Fifth, rehearse 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 understandably labeled folder. Keep them in a lightweight briefcase or folio.

Finally, dress and prepare as if you’re doing on-site interviews. Dress well and be fittingly groomed. Avoid strong cologne or perfume…use any cologne or perfume meagerly, if at all.

Remember to smile, and good hunting!

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Free enhancements have been given to FiOS TV widget, Facebook and Twitter. This fresh enhancement, people who signs up to FIOS television will be able to mail Tweets. (mini blogs in text format posted to real-time, social network media) Try to customize their Facebook profile information using an onscreen keyboard.

Verizon’s FiOS television and high-speed internet services are provided through its existing network. FIOS TV generally focuses on the new features to enhance customer experience of social marketing network. These new features allow subscribers additional ways of connecting with each other when utilizing Verizon’s TV service.

“The Widget Bazaar”, is a new store front to released last July. This will equip additional features and applications to FiOS TV subscribers. Verizon will soon be opening “The Widget Bazaar” to third-party data creators under revenue-sharing agreements.


Because of the stiff competition in the market with its Triple Play bundle, Verizon remains aggressive with their promotions. FiOS is not just any other cable provider, offering different features along with its FiOS service, Verizon could really stay ahead in the competition.

Verizon stays o the game because of its FiOS TV and FiOS high-speed internet service. The organization stays developing its presence in the market with FiOS TV services. The number of subscriptions to FiOS television is doing well too, as revealed in the steady increases in the past two quarters. Verizon had about a few million consumers of its FiOS television marked at the end of 2009’s second-quarter. FiOS communication improved market penetration and the 4G wireless network upgrade has strengthen Verizon’s market rank against its rivals such as AT&T and Sprint Nextel.

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At last, my location got access to the latest in broadcast alternatives, and we recently connected to Verizon’s latest Fiber-optic FIOS TV. Where I live, a lot of people are on the waiting list, but I joined this month and installation took place only this past week. At the present time, we were hooked up with FIOS internet, which provided 15MB downstream as well as upstream (a premium service for an additional monthly fee of $10) and I’ve been really satisfied.

Installation to connect my TV was a breeze because I currently had internet with Verizon FIOS. Using my current Coax wire splitter, he divided the wire before it reached the router. Once inside, the coax splits and goes into all the rooms and then one of the downstream cables connects with the Verizon Internet Router’s Coax. Although the router speaks TCP/IP over RJ-45 to the DVR, it can also hand out IP addresses over Coax to supply the house. (DVRs) that comes included along with your FIOS TV bundle.

The interface is very easy to use and very intuitive. There are also plenty of advanced features and shortcuts you’ll find as you become more familiar with the software. When you’re watching TV, selecting the buttons marked up, down, left or right will take you those directions. For use as a shortcut It is very easy to navigate to different modes. To view a split-screen that has the TV guide on the left-hand side, push the up button, and in order to see a half-screen floating guide, push the down button. If you press “Guide” a single time, it delivers the full-screen menu, while hitting it two times takes you to a split-screen. Hit info once for a popup, hit it again for a full-screen page.

This DVR holds approximately 17 hours of High Definition content or 60 hours of SD TV. (Similar Defintion) or whichever combination of options you choose. It functions like any other DVR where you can mark every recording to be saved. (not deleted in an automatic manner) or have to line up endlessly waiting with the final x recordings. You can choose all shows to include repeats, or only new shows.

The price for core package is 43$ a month. For this you get several DVR options ranging from standard HD, standard DVR and HD DVR. Cable was costing us close to $60 and we don’t watch enough TV to justify spending that much. Premium channels cost the same as with cable, most likely since HBO and Showtime set their own costs, rather than the provider.

We have been very pleased with the results. I am satisfied with Verizon’s picture quality and its set-top box; wish they come out with more choice of on-Demand movies and of course update the set-top boxes Verizon FIOS TV has been available in my area for only a month, but I feel they are providing a great service. I feel that local cable does not compete with this service.

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