Let’s Get Serious About Employment Networking

Orlando, FL, October 13, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Sharp Candidate LLC is very pleased to announce the launch of SharpCandidate.com. Born out of his own struggles with employment networking after losing his job in 2008, SharpCandidate’s President, Gerald Cronlund, developed a powerful, yet simple web tool to assist people in their efforts to effectively and uniquely communicate the answer to the all important question: “Tell me about yourself.”

In his job search, Mr. Cronlund found that his own network genuinely wanted to help him connect with other employment opportunities. However, it was difficult to do with a paper or electronic resume alone. He wanted to be able to communicate his core competencies, experience, and skillset in a repeatable way that could be understood quickly by others in his expanding network.

Career coach, Ulli Munroe with Munroe Consulting, Inc., strongly emphasizes, “There is a 75% probability that your next job will be found through networking rather than the Internet, newspapers or agencies.” SharpCandidate.com was created out of this employment reality.

The simple solution was found in the concept of a 90 second video resume. This video medium allows job search candidates to consistently put their best foot forward. Job searchers, using video resumes, are concerned with three things: 1) making their video presentation as professional as their paper resume, 2) having their personal information secure from undesirable exposure, and 3) completing and having it hosted at low or no cost.

A video resume hosted on SharpCandidate.com makes employment networking extremely easy. Job seekers simply provide their private, SharpCandidate web link, containing their 90 second video resume, to their network partner prior to a meeting in person. This video jump starts the learn-about-me process. The video resume is a clean, stand alone, and polished business presentation selling the job seeker’s capabilities. It answers the question: “Tell me about yourself.” Face-to-face networking meetings can then concentrate on job advice and assistance based on the substance of the video resume. The network partner leaves the meeting with the job seeker’s web link. This link can then be emailed, with positive comments, to the right people in the partner's network.

Sharp Candidate LLC is a privately held company established to make video streaming web technology available to job seekers at low or no cost. The company provides a high level of security for personal information. SharpCandidate.com offers excellent guidance about job search techniques using video resumes. Job candidates gain the video edge in presenting themselves to their employment network professionally, easily, and efficiently.

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