- Online Job Search Techniques
There're many ways to conduct online job search. However, many job seekers only think of posting resumes and searching opportunities on big job sites like monster.com, hotjobs.com and careerbuilder.com etc. There's nothing wrong with it, but according to a survey conducted by careerXrooads.com, of all hires in 2002, only 3.6% come from monster.com, 1.5% come careerbuilder.com and 0.5% come from hotjobs.com. Morever, many companies only advertise their job openings on their own company websites and some other speciality websites. Wouldn't it be nice if you can use search engines to find these o ...
Author: Yulin Peng
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- The Top 3 Resume Mistakes of Career Changers and How to Avoid Them
The Top 3 Resume Mistakes of Career Changers and How to Avoid Them!
Copyright 2004, By Rita Fisher, Certified Professional Resume Writer
1. Lack of focus in the resume
Are you going from a Production Manager position to Pharmaceutical Sales?
So…why does your resume start with this objective: “To obtain a challenging position that will provide continued growth, learning and advancement”
HUH?
What does THAT mean?
I mean, if you are trying to change careers, you should probably be more specific about it.
Something like this:
“Award-winni ...
Author: Rita Fisher, CPRW
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- The 6 Stages of Modern Career Development
The 6 Stages of Modern Career Development
By Michelle L. Casto, M.Ed.
Whole Life Coach, Speaker, and Author
Career experts say that people will change careers (not jobs) 5-7 times in a lifetime. This being true, career management is an important life skill to develop and cultivate. There are six stages of modern career development: Assessment, Investigation, Preparation, Commitment, Retention, and Transition. Learning the characteristics of each stage will empower you to navigate through each stage easily and with more confidence.
In the Assessment Stage, you are getting ...
Author: Michelle Casto
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- Building A Career Of Choice
Let's face it, most career choices are not choices at all,
but people held hostage by paychecks. Most of us fall into a job;
followed by a paycheck, and then become immobilized into
taking any pro-active moves toward something we really love doing.
How much sense does this make? We don't marry on these terms.
We don't select friends on these terms. But we do spend eight,
ten, twelve hours a day in work we have no passion for and
a future we aren't particularly interested in cultivating.
Perhaps now is the time to change all that.
It doesn't matter whether ...
Author: John Hoover
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- Career Decisions in Uncertain Times
With the state of our security and economic times cracking beneath our feet, what are Americans thinking about their current career positions? Torn between building job security in a low-risk environment and pursuing a career that adds to their quality of life, will Americans be sure about which way to jump if the bottom falls out?
Since the terrorist attacks, career choices have been challenged in a few ways. “Being a career makeover coach,” says Shana Spooner, www.shanaspooner.com, “I’m finding two things – either people are ...
Author: Amy Crawford
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- A
new career will change who you are
I hear from many people who feel trapped in a career after fifteen or twenty happy, productive years. It's been a good ride, they say, but now it's time to jump off the train. They want to fulfill a creative dream, recover from burnout or just try something new. The old challenge is now a "been there, done that."
If you can relate to that description, you probably recognize that midlife career change is both easier and harder than starting out in the world of work. Change is easier because you have resources to grease the rails. You have savings, equity in your house, and a retirement f ...
Author: Cathy Goodwin, PhD
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- Find Your Ideal Career (or Business) And Create Your Life Resume
Want a career (or business) that brings a smile to your heart? Don't
know exactly what that career might be? This list of ideas can start
you on your way. Make the process fun by scheduling a visit to your
favorite place -- the beach, mountains, whatever -- where you can
compile your lists and daydream too!
Seven years ago, I completed the process described below by trial and
error -- or was it error and error?! I didn't have a non-biased
person, such as my coach or a consultant to support and assist me in
the process. I created the process as I went along. You are ...
Author: Maria Marsala
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- Importance of your job search!
So that you can decide just how critical your job hunt is in your total life scheme, let's put a kind of frame around the importance of the effort ahead.
Reflect on it.
A job is not just a job. Half of you waking hours are devoted to it. Its quality ramifies through all other aspects of your life. It determines your productivity and how far you will go in achieving f ...
Author: Paul Debognies
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- Making Sense of the Internet Job Search... Fine-tune your job search and save valuable time!
When I first started job hunting on the Internet, I would spend countless
hours searching for anything and everything. I would search one site, then
jump to another, and search some more. One of the most frustrating things
about job searching on the Internet is that most of the same job postings
are duplicated across hundreds of job search sites! It's like having three
hundred Houston Chronicles from the same day on your desk!
--- Why so many? ---
Monster.com (http://www.monster.com) and Headhunter.net
(http://www.headhunter.net) contain numerous newly posted jo ...
Author: Edward B. Toupin
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- Over-Enthusiasm in the Job Search
Over-Enthusiasm in the Job Search
You have just had an interview that was great by your standards. You want to celebrate, maybe have a drink,
dinner, and relax. You are SURE you will be the candidate who has won the job prize.
In fact, you have had several of these kinds of interviews this week. Three of them!
You were enthused after each one! However, doubts overcame you after the second one
did not produce a job offer, nor did the first one, and you are now once again on a "high" over this
third one.
It's close to the weekend and you have decided t ...
Author: Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A.
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- Three Ways to Transition to a New Career
Three Ways to Transition to a New Career
As a Certified Personnel Consultant working for Find Great People International in Greenville, South Carolina, I receive telephone calls from people who are considering a career change. For some, transitioning to a new career is easier than others. Some professionals already possess a foundation of skills to make the transition easier. I’ll give an example. An unemployed network engineer and hobby electrician decides to become an electrical contractor for new construction. His transition might be easier because he needs minimal training to enter the ...
Author: Steve Hall, Certified Personnel Consultant
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- Interview skills - Going for a Job
Hints and tips on CVs, interview skills and jobhunting.
Going for a New Job?
Jo Ellen has been offering some form of Careers advice for the past 15 years. She used to run career development workshops, and now does one-to-one sessions called Career Action. A couple of years ago Jo Ellen had a Careers Advice column in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Lots of the queries she got were on Interview Techniques and how to get the perfect job. Here are some of her thoughts after years of helping people get where they want to go:
Interview rules
You hear all sorts of rules about job ...
Author: Jo Ellen Grzyb
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- Career Transitions Made Easy
Changing careers can be a scary thing. A variety of unknowns can creep into the career transition process. How will you know if you like it? What if you have to go back to school? What is the future outlook for the field that interests you? Like with any other endeavor, the best way to handle the inevitable fear that will appear is to arm yourself with as much information as possible. The 5 steps outlined below are designed to help you prepare for your new career change and make an informed decision.
1. Volunteer. This is a great way to "try it before you buy it." Are you interested in ...
Author: Myrtis Smith
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- How to Track Your Right Career
Are you lost in the wilderness when it comes to choosing a career? Once, we knew the way. As children, we played at different roles, but some became our favorites. Those favorites hinted at our gifts. They pointed the way to our exciting futures as entrepreneurs, dancers or astronauts. We did what was fun, and, in the process, we began to find and follow our paths.
As young adults, however, our paths began to fade under thickets of obstacles: other people's expectations, poor self-esteem and /or lack of faith. ...
Author: Jody Gothard and Cardell Phillips
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- Formatting A Career Change Resume
I'M CHANGING CAREERS - HOW DO I FORMAT MY RESUME?
The best resume format to use is the combination resume. This resume format is not chronological nor
functional. It combines both! It is extremely flexible and allows you to use strategies in a way that would
normally be considered wrong.
The difference between the combination format and the chronological format is that the chronological
format resume is very easy to follow. The hiring manager will typically start to read the chronological
resume at the bottom of the work history or professional experience section ...
Author: Ann Baehr
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- TAKE THIS CAREER AND SHOVE IT -- IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!
Are you listening to that little voice in your head telling you how much you dislike your job? If not, you may
become angry with those around you, when in fact, you'll be angry at yourself for failing to taking the
necessary steps to change your career -- or job within the same industry. Career change is not always
easy. For some, the simple task of deciding what to do is often the hardest part. For others who know
what they want to do, they often feel it will take too long to achieve their career goals when there ...
Author: Ann Baehr
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- Leadership Skill Training
Quality leadership is a positive asset that is needed in every organization. Observe any successful club, committee or team and you will find a capable leader in each of these organizations. What makes a successful leader? Why do some leaders inspire confidence and have an innate ability to motivate while other “leaders” are mired in mediocrity?
Most successful leaders have received good leadership training as they have advanced in their careers. Here are three ideas that each organization can utilize to train their employees to become successful leaders:
Author: Stephanie Tuia
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- How to Transform a Boring Note Into A Killer Cover Letter
The AIDA formula is as old as dirt. It was taught when I was in school over a decade ago. And it's still being taught for good reason - it works! When you apply it to your cover letter, it has the power to transform a regular cover letter into an attention-grabbing "Killer Cover Letter" that'll make your phone ring off the hook.
AIDA is an acronym. It stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action. It describes the process marketers want to take their prospect through in order to make a sale.
In this case, ...
Author: Robert Phillips
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- How to Transform a Boring Note Into A Killer Cover Letter - Part II
In Part I, we covered how to grab the reader's attention with the opening sentence. Now
we'll get them interested, arouse desire, and get them to take action. Let's get moving.
Interest
Now that you have the reader's undivided attention. The next step is get them interested in what you have to offer. In this case, since you're applying for a job, the goal is to get the reader interested in you, right?
So how do you do that? You feed them interesting facts. Like how much money you saved your ...
Author: Robert Phillips
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- Face reality – Forced Career Change will happen during your working life.
Most of us enter the world of work as employed and soon start to wish that we could change career or be our own boss.
It is probably true that after a while a large percentage start dreaming they could work from home or start a home based business, few actually do something about it. They continue dreaming
These days this is in explicable because it is possible to change career no matter what your age or profession. There is now less continuity in employment so adaptability and being forced the make a career or job change could face anyone at any time. You are certain to ...
Author: Michael Harrison
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- Career Change.
Coping with change is now an everyday occurance. What's more the pace of change is accelerating and the need for us all to adjust is greater than ever. Yet, this is a time of opportunity.
Career change - Ignore it at your peril or seize the opportunity
All around we constantly see the changes which are affecting us. Economically power is shifting and the consequences are massive.
China and India are emerging nations using modern technology to massive effect as their economies grow at rates previously unheard of. It is predicted that China will be the 4th largest worl ...
Author: Michael Harrison
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- Get Inspired About Your Career
Do you linger in bed long after your alarm goes off on work mornings? Do you dread Sunday nights because they lead to Monday mornings? Do you watch the clock and wonder if the day will ever end? Do you look outside your workplace and ask, “Is there more to life than just this job?”
If you suffer from any of these symptoms, it is time for you to create a new career! In her CD book, Advanced Energy Anatomy, Carolyn Myss, Ph.D. lays out a seven-step process for bringing an idea to physical creation. Here’s that seven-step process applied to creating a ...
Author: Richard Hanes
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- Building Performance Trust
You can have outstanding ideas, yet never leverage them into winning at working results. That's because the secret behind those ideas lies in performance. Yours.
Getting the okay to pursue your idea is directly related to the level of confidence other people have in your ability to deliver it. And if you do, you will create for yourself opportunities on a regular basis. One successful idea delivery leads to another and another and another. Bigger and bigger ideas are entrusted to people who consistently turn ideas into reality.
You see, not only does an idea need to be a good one ...
Author: Nan S. Russell
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- Don't Fear Failure
What a great admonition - Don't Fear Failure! It sounds so simple and so easy to achieve when you see it like that, but when it comes to life changing decisions that we all face, we often get sweaty palms, weak knees, and panic attacks at the thought of failing. But, unfortunately, failure is unavoidable. All successful people have failures in their past, and many will tell you that their failures have led them to the success they have today. It is hard to believe sometimes, though, when you see people that seem to have it all, that they have ever failed. Imagine if Thomas Edison had quit afte ...
Author: Jonathan R Taylor
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