The changing nature of résumés, use of applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn and other social media sites, Skype video conferencing, big data applications and more are all impacting the way employers and hope-to-be-employees find, communicate and interact with each other.

Employers have ever more candidates to evaluate in their search for the perfect fit solution to their need for talent. And in the continuing wake of the Great Recession, career expectations have changed for new grads trying to get a career started, baby boomers with dated skills and just about everyone in between.

With so much chatter online and elsewhere about the changing landscape, it can be difficult to determine what the real story is, what trends are newly emerging and where we are all heading.

To document and make sense of it all, the Career Thought Leaders Consortium conducts a Global Career Brainstorming Day annually. Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark, co-executive directors, gathered more than 150 of the top career professionals from the U.S. and five other countries for 15 live and virtual concurrent sessions for the 2013 event. The white paper detailing the discussions of that day has just been published, and it contains hundreds of valuable facts, insights and tips. The following 10 points are excerpted from the report with permission from the Career Thought Leaders Consortium...Read More