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The One Best Thing You Can Do For Your Job Search! by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 One challenge in a job search is that it seems there are a hundred things to do and you have to do all of them, all the time. That’s mostly true. The more avenues you can pursue, and the better job you can do pursuing them, the higher the likelihood you will find a new position sooner. However, if there were one thing you could give the greatest focus to that might have the greatest impact...what would that be? Attitude! ... |
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Tips For Electronic Resumes by Karen Burns - Nov, 2009 Your job hunt should never consist solely of submitting your resume to the online job boards. You need to be out there in the real world networking with real people. But you do still need to know how to format your resume so it can be submitted online and/or be scanned. Hence, here are a dozen tips, gathered from here and there: 1. Guess what, for electronic resumes you no longer have to worry about that old one-p... |
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Tough Job Search? Ask Yourself These Five Questions! by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 Is your job search taking longer than expected? Most are right now. Certainly the difficult job market is making things harder. However, a great number of people could speed up the process by asking themselves five critical questions. Take time, think them through, be honest, and your job search may improve dramatically! 1. What makes me unique? Companies are seeing dozens or hundreds of resumes for each opening. They i... |
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Type-A in a Laid-Back World by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 When looking for a new job, most people certainly look for opportunities that fit their skill sets, interests, and salary requirements. Often, however, the culture of the organizations they are pursuing is very low on their list of considerations. So what? The culture of an organization will make or break your career, success, and well being. It should be as important a consideration as the jobs’ responsibilities, title, and ... |
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Want Faster Job Search Results? Use a Dollar-Driven Resume by Laura Smith-Proulx - Nov, 2009 Readying your resume for an executive job search? You might find that the traditional data—career titles, management assignments, projects, and education—aren’t enough anymore. Now more than ever, companies have intensified their focus on one area of your performance: money. Employer want leaders who can make, save, and control it, which will give them strength to fight the economic downturn. If you’re an executive in t... |
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What Is “Good” Work? by Karen Burns - Nov, 2009 Did you see the piece in the New York Times about people moving out of desk jobs and into blue-collar “trade” jobs? Apparently, it’s a thing. Apparently, folks are disenchanted with jobs that show no tangible results at the end of the day. They’re tired of being penned in cramped cubicles, hunching over keyboards and squinting into monitors, producing products they may only half understand. Ain’t it refreshing to see... |
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What’s Your Purpose? by Harry Urschel - Nov, 2009 Ever spend much time thinking about that? What’s your purpose? What does that have to do with your job search or career? Everything! Do you find your purpose in your job, or in something outside of your career? What animates you from day-to-day? - Advancement in your career? - More money? - Ability to have more toys, nicer houses, cars, jewelry, or ‘stuff’? - Provide better for your family? - Provide value... |
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Your Hidden Dream Job by Karen Burns - Nov, 2009 When deciding on a career, you have one huge limitation: You can only pursue fields of work you know about. This is why, in WG’s nsho, so many young people announce they want to be an ”athlete” or “actor” or even (eek) a ”politician.” Girls who like fashion want to be runway models. Boys who like sports picture themselves playing for the Dodgers. The problem being, of course, that the higher profile the job–the more ... |
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Leadership Strategies For Virtual Work Environments by Beth Wellesley - Nov, 2009 According to the International Data Corporation, the mobile workforce in the United States, which has been the largest percentage of mobile workers in the world, is set to become 73% of the nation’s workforce by 2011. New strategies for managing a virtual workforce are required for leaders, which begins by embracing these competencies for their own development. Promoting Brilliance, Inc. recommends developing a new vision o... |
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If Money Were No Object, What Would You Do With Your Time? by Kris Parfitt - Nov, 2009 I love this question because the possibilities are endless. To me not having to be concerned about money leads my imagination everywhere! I’d be a philanthropist and travel to remote places to see what projects are best funded to better the world. I’d be a National Geographic photographer. I’d row across the Atlantic. I’d work for a season at the Palmer Station in Antarctica. I’d live in Peru and study the Inca architecture to... |
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