Look for a Job BEFORE You Need One
They say hindsight is 20/20, and that’s certainly the truth. It’s far easier to realize what you SHOULD have done after you should have done it. The same can be said for job hunting. Ideally, you should start looking for a job before you need one because you have the luxury of a paycheck and [...]
Continue reading...26. January 2012
Narrow Your Search, Keep Your Sanity
While this might not be the case for you, many job hunters have found themselves going a bit crazy with their job hunt for one main reason: sending out too many resumes. Though you certainly want to start sending out your information to places that are hiring, the ‘let’s send one to everyone’ approach isn’t [...]
Continue reading...25. January 2012
What about Campus Career Centers?
If you’re new to the idea of a career, you need to remember that everyone started out somewhere. If you’re in college or you’re just out of school, it might be a good idea to look into the resources already around you. For example, your campus probably has a career center that you can utilize, [...]
24. January 2012
What are Examples of Your Accomplishments?
In the time that you’ve been working, you have done impressive things, even if you don’t think they’re all that impressive. Think about it – no matter what job you’ve held, you’ve done something that has gotten you noticed. Even if you’ve just been flipping burgers, there are accomplishments you can share with others (how [...]
23. January 2012
What’s Your Elevator Pitch?
Right now, if a hiring department representative was standing right in front of you, what would you tell them about yourself? Not sure? You might want to think about it. Start thinking about the thirty seconds of time you have to impress someone who you’ve just met. And then think about how you can wow [...]
20. January 2012
Create the Job of Your Dreams
You might like where you’re working right now and you don’t want things to change, but it’s still not the job of your dreams. While you can certainly try to make something better out of your current position, why not try building a new job for yourself, outside of your work time? It’s not as [...]
18. January 2012
Should You Pick Up the Phone to Get a New Position?
When you look at the job boards, you might notice that many of the descriptions note that you shouldn’t respond to the ad by phone. So, you don’t. And while you’re showing that you can read the ad correctly, you might also be limiting your ability to get a new job. The phone shouldn’t be [...]
13. January 2012
Test Your Personality BEFORE the Interview
Some people seem to shine in interviews, and you might wonder why this is the case. Though they may lack certain skills, they can still manage to get a job right when they need it, and they continue to succeed when they are employed. What can you learn from them? While you might not want [...]
12. January 2012
What Your Emails are Saying to Hiring Departments
You’re emailing and emailing, but not getting the responses you want? It might be time for an email lesson. Though you might be sending your emails to the right person and providing the right information, if you’re not coming across well in your emails, you’re not going to make as great of an impression as [...]
11. January 2012
When You Don’t Have a College Degree
Many more people in the job market today are worried about changing careers or being forced to change careers because of one minor blip in their resume – no college degree. In the past, it wasn’t necessary to have this sort of education because you learned the skills you needed to learn when you were on the job. Today is different and if you don’t have a degree, you’ll need to work hard to prove you’re just as good as any college graduate.
10. January 2012
Why You Need to Change Your Email Address Today
Applying for jobs online is so commonplace these days that it can seem like an afterthought. But the truth is that online job applications are so easy that most everyone is trying out this sort of job hunt, leading hiring departments to start looking for ways to avoid reading an entire resume. And what part [...]
8. January 2012
Creating a Video Interview
You’ve already seen the explosion of videos on the Internet, and while you might have forwarded them onto your friends, you may have also noticed some videos of people presenting themselves to employers. Why aren’t you doing this too? While you want to get in a room with a hiring department representative, you can boost [...]
7. January 2012
If You’ve Been Fired…
No one wants to be fired and, most of the time, it’s an unexpected situation. While you’re hunting for a new job, you need to present yourself as the best possible job applicant there is, but if you’ve been fired, does that mean you’re going to get turned down for every position to which you [...]
6. January 2012
Use Old Skills to Change to a New Career
Though you might think getting a new job is all about you, that’s not the whole story. Instead, it’s the skills you have that will make you marketable and that will ensure your future success. If you’ve been thinking about a new career, you need to leverage your old skills into that new position. Here are [...]
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- Look for a Job BEFORE You Need One
- Narrow Your Search, Keep Your Sanity
- What about Campus Career Centers?
- What are Examples of Your Accomplishments?
- What’s Your Elevator Pitch?
- Create the Job of Your Dreams
- Should You Pick Up the Phone to Get a New Position?
- Test Your Personality BEFORE the Interview
- What Your Emails are Saying to Hiring Departments
- When You Don’t Have a College Degree
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27. January 2012
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