I know I shouldn’t be cynical, but there’s been quite a flap across the blogosphere as a result of the recent Google pagerank, or PR, update. There’s also a few very excited campers about who received their first PR, or an upgraded ranking, this week.

This particular site is holding steady with a zero rank, (it’s only been going three months) but my other two sites, which have been going for several years, have PRs of 5, which I don’t think is anything new.

Anyway congratulations if you just received an inaugural, or revised, PR. Don’t forget that content is king though!

Enough of that talk, you’d think this was an internet marketing site, it’s time to settle into this week’s Friday five, or Check list. Have an excellent weekend!

• Here’s something career changers should read. Lying on a Resume Hurts Everybody, an article I spotted via Labour Market Information Blog. While I’m not suggesting career changers lie as a general thing on their CVs, there can be times when the temptation to perhaps “slightly overstate” certain experience, in order to “get a foot in the door” is overwhelming. It’s not wise, and there are better ways to gain an employer’s attention.
• Also from the Labour Market Information Blog, an article that is music to the ears of the person behind The InterChange Desk (actually that would be me), according to The Lincoln Journal, career makeovers are becoming more frequent in the job market. Essentially a career is a work in progress. “A career is a process. When you’re in college, you’re defining who you are at that moment and at that time. All of us know that the person we are at 21 is not the person we are at 40.”
• Get Off Your Couch-Meet People-Get A Job, over at the Career Cube blog offers some tips and advice for making a good impression at job fairs. “First and foremost, you want it to always be casual,” is a great starting point.
• Technology and the internet have changed the way we look for work, and Utilizing Technology in Your Job Search makes a few suggestions on how to effectively conduct the cyber job hunt. The article also makes the important point that “the internet” and technology are not the be all and end all when it comes to searching for work, and should be regarded as only some of the tools in the process.
• I mentioned awhile back that recruiters generally do not take too much notice of the “Hobbies and Interests” section on a CV, as they really only want the merest indication that a candidate has some sort of life away from work. That depends on what someone volunteers as a “hobby” of course. And there are certainly some very interesting examples about. #5 is my favourite: Candidate specified that his availability was limited because Friday, Saturday and Sunday was “drinking time.”