Eve Tahmincioglu, the excellent career columnist for MSNBC (and blogger at CareerDiva), includes some tips from RiseSmart in her most recent story, headlined “How older workers can rebound from a job loss.”

Here’s a summary of our tips for workers aged 55 and up:

1. Don’t wait to be laid off to look for a new job.
2. If you have been laid off, do a little soul-searching before deciding your next move.
3. “Dumb down” your resume.
4. Put personal networking first.
5. Target companies where the leadership skews older.
6. Be patient.

Read the full tips here (scroll down to the sidebar.)

RiseSmart was fortunate to be mentioned in USA Today again today, this time as part of Del Jones’ highly entertaining article talking with CEOs about their jobs as teenagers. Here’s the relevant excerpt:

USA TODAY reached out to dozens of executives who now run or once ran major corporations. Thirty-two responded, and although their ages range and they grew up diversely in big cities and rural towns, all worked as teens, eight of them before age 11. At USA TODAY’s request, RiseSmart, an Internet site for jobs that pay $100,000 and up, surveyed CEOs and former CEOs of smaller companies.

Among the 37 who responded, 32 said their summer jobs were good experience. Only four said their first jobs were awful, and one said it was just a job, neither beneficial nor traumatic. Almost all earned $3 an hour or less.

We got a lot of great anecdotes from RiseSmart members for Del’s piece. We’ll plan to do a future blog post featuring quotes from some of our members that were not included in the USA Today story.

Thanks to all RiseSmart members who participated!

I’ve always wanted to commission a survey that USA Today deemed worthy of one of its famous Snapshots — those stats-based graphics on the corner of the newspaper’s section fronts. And guess what? It’s happened!

We recently conducted a survey asking jobseekers how much time they spend searching online for work. As the USA Today chart headlined “Searching for jobs online” reported, 47 percent said they spent between one and three hours daily online, and 10 percent said they spent even more time than that.

This poll data validates the reason we started RiseSmart in the first place — to free jobseekers from being chained to their PCs when they could be polishing up their resumes, networking within their profession, and focusing on other, more time-efficient aspects of their search.

The Snapshot can be found online here, in the Money section. (It may not be posted till late Thursday night.)

We haven’t released the full results of our survey yet — although Time Magazine’s Work in Progress blog has reported on it as well.

Stay tuned!

I was honored to be included in Joann Lublin’s “Managing Your Career” column in the Wall Street Journal this morning. The column, headined “For Job Hunters, The Big Interview Is Getting Bigger,” offers advice on acing a committee interview. Here’s an excerpt:

A man vying for a vice presidency at a financial-services concern last year did a thorough Internet search about its four-member screening committee. He learned one member wrote a newspaper column about martial arts.

He broke the ice at his interview by declaring that he was going to “break a stack of boards over his head in the executive’s honor,” recalls Sanjay Sathe, a friend and head of RiseSmart, an online job-search service for senior professionals and managers. “It showed the committee that this candidate had done his homework.”…

You should intersperse colorful anecdotes about your experience with perceptive queries about the vacancy. The tactic “puts you on conversational terms with your interviewers, and also gives you a much-needed breather between the questions thrown your way,” Mr. Sathe suggests.

Read Joann’s column here.

Pegasus News is a popular Dallas-Fort Worth news Web site owned by Fisher Communications. Reporter Minnie Payne published a story today on RiseSmart. An excerpt –

In today’s economy with many companies downsizing or consolidating, top executives in the $100,000-plus-a-year job range are finding themselves displaced. Ask any person who has ever been or is in this spot and they’ll tell you that it’s a full-time job trying to find that perfect position. RiseSmart, a Carrollton firm, aims to help through their 26-member off-shore “concierge” service to jobseekers.

Read the rest here.

Dan Schawbel at Personal Branding magazine has released a preview of his May issue, which features an interview with Robert McGovern, founder of JobFox and CareerBuilder.com.

In association with this cover story, I’m fortunate to be interviewed as one of 10 “thought leaders” on job hunting. I encourage you to check it out.

Martin Desmarais of the IndUS Business Journal published a profile of RiseSmart last week. An excerpt —

RiseSmart is not without competition in the executive online job search market – competitors include TheLadders and ExecuNet – but the company separates itself by actively searching the Web for jobs, as opposed to relying on recruiters or companies to post jobs to its site…

According to Sathe, he came up with the idea for RiseSmart during his own job search for an executive position in 2006. He said he tried executive search firms, as well as looking on his own online and was disappointed in the results, particularly in searching online. “There was a huge mess. There was literally thousands of listings and posting,” he said. His quest with RiseSmart was to help combat this mess.

And, so far, Sathe is happy with the way things have turned out.

“I think our service will alleviate the pain of a lot of people in the job search,” he said. “Plus, with the economy today and layoffs, we can help people find jobs.”

We’re proud of how fast RiseSmart is growing — and of the wonderful reception our service has received from the media and bloggers.

Here are a few excerpts from stories and posts on us to date:

Jeff Altman, the Big Game Hunter –

I wish I had thought of this service for senior level professionals. RiseSmart came up with an idea that I think is simple AND terrific. Their idea is that searching the job boards is horrible. You have to search a lot of them, scroll though useless job spec after useless job spec, and waste a lot of time.

RiseSmart has a simple idea with two prongs–the first is to select the kind of job you are looking for based upon a number of criteria. They search the boards and then have a human being review results and refer them to you. You have responses within 48 hours and then at least weekly after that! Yeah, you have to pay for the service but not a lot.

alarm:clock –

Would we use RiseSmart? Sure. $44 isn’t much if it gives you an edge … If you are at the VP level, you are used to having underlings do the work for you. So you probably are not very comfortable searching for jobs on your own.

Gautam Ghosh –

So would there be takers for RiseSmart’s services? I think so. Senior executives, in my personal experiences, are really not very technology savvy and while jobs have moved to the jobsites, CXO level folks are chary about doing a job hunt through job sites. One CEO I was talking to was so concerned about his privacy that he hadn’t even opened a Linkedin profile.

About.com –

If your time is in short supply and you can afford to spend money on your job search, you might want to consider giving RiseSmart a try…If you think RiseSmart may work for you, but you are not sure, you can find out more about how it works and view a demo video or sign up for a free 3 day trial.

KillerStartups –

RiseSmart is part job board and part career coach. Each member is assigned a “Job Concierge” who takes care of matching member profiles to the most suitable jobs by using an automated search of the job database. With over 1 million jobs in its database, RiseSmart has a lot to offer to C-Level executives looking for that next perfect job.

Job Search Guy Blog –

Risesmart aims for the executive and upper employment demographic by employing a “concierge” to match available $100K+ jobs with your submitted profile … They already claim paying customers and their site page appears to be getting significant traffic with an Alexa ranking of around 495K [now 247K]. If you’re looking for a $100K+ job and don’t want to spend time looking, then check them out.

BORN (Broadcasting Online Recruitment News) –

The rise of smart recruiting … The interesting thing about RiseSmart is the fact that its search engine is human-powered … It has the quality advantages that come with putting humans into the loop … RiseSmart is certainly a company to watch.

Bloggers: If you want to try out RiseSmart’s service for free for purposes of a review of the service (good, bad or indifferent), please e-mail me at sanjaysathe@risesmart.com and we’ll make it happen. Or, if you’d like access to a sample account so you can see exactly what subscribers receive, we can do that do. Just contact us.

Here’s an embedded version of that WPVI-TV report highlighting RiseSmart so everyone can view it:

Reporter Erin O’Hearn of WPVI-TV in Philadelphia provides an overview of niche job sites in this report. We’re pleased, of course, that Erin chose to highlight RiseSmart in her coverage!