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Unemployment Got You Down? Build Up Your Skills! by Dawn Lennon - Mar, 2010 Being unemployed is your big break. Why? Because you can finally focus all your time on yourself — your future. Most people squander that time. Please don’t let that be you. Stress makes people stupid. Think about it. In the face of the unexpected, fear, or hard criticism, we become confused, befuddled, even frantic. When we reach our stress threshold, our decision-making ability implodes. Not having a job, for whatev... |
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Arizona Man Hired In 6 Weeks With Guerrilla Job Search Tactics by Kevin Donlin - Mar, 2010 How do you find a job quickly, in this rotten economy? Hunt like a Guerrilla. That was the experience of Mark Thomas, a systems administrator from Mesa, Arizona, who started a new job on March 8th, 2010, after a search of only 6 weeks. According to Thomas, he would have been hired sooner, but “the entire executive team was gone at a conference for a week.” Thomas succeeded after using three unconventional job-searc... |
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Write Yourself a Letter That Opens Doors by Ruth Shapiro - Mar, 2010 Adapted from the workbook, “HOW TO WRITE JOB SEARCH LETTERS THAT LEAD TO INTERVIEWS” © SALESMANSHIP IN PRINT: The job search cover letter that lands the interview is a sales letter offering a product, and that product is you. You’re selling skills, talents, accomplishments and experience that can help the employer solve problems. The letter that gets the interview follows the steps in making a sale. The formula cal... |
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Busting the Post-Grad Career Blues by Amanda Guralski - Mar, 2010 I remember visiting the bookstore with a friend back in 2006. We were high school seniors, deeply-immersed in the college application process. Way back in the career section, we stumbled upon a book that listed the average salary of each job. She was set on becoming an art teacher. I knew I was destined to be a journalist. At the time, our future salaries were our only source of concern. In a little over a year from now, we’ll... |
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What Shopping Habits Say About A Job Seeker by J.T. O'Donnell - Mar, 2010 If I had to choose the biggest mistake I see job seekers making right now, I’d say it’s diving into a job search without properly determining their value to potential employers. They throw together a resume, blast out cover letters and submit online applications without first stepping back and getting a truly clear picture of what’s going to get them hired. The result is a lot of wasted time and energy that produces very littl... |
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Job Search Spring Cleaning by Barbara Safani - Mar, 2010 Happy Spring! It’s time to spring into action and add some news strategies to your job search campaign. Here are a few things to try. 1. Go around the gatekeeper. If you find an open position through a job board or company website, don’t only submit your resume to human resources—they’re often gatekeepers who don’t have much control over who ends up getting hired. Instead, go around the gatekeeper and do some Internet resea... |
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Getting Past the Fear – How to Succeed in a 21st Century Job Search by Kris Plantrich - Mar, 2010 Most of my clients are experienced professionals in their 40’s or 50’s and come to me in the throngs of a failed job search. Usually their career has progressed easily through internal promotions or word of mouth referrals. Now faced with a struggling economy and a new job search arena, they feel unsure and even fearful of the challenge before them. Suddenly they are 6 years old again and afraid to step off their bed for fe... |
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Job Hunting? Three ways Your Competition Is Killing Your Chances by Laura Smith-Proulx - Mar, 2010 Recently, I talked with a jobseeker who had been laid off from a company in shutdown mode. A long-term employee, she had been promoted many times, with her recent job involving distributor relations. She was most interested in working for a university near her home. When I asked her what type of job she would pursue, she told me that she’d be applying to their posted career counseling position, since she did have HR experie... |
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How to Spot a Job Scam by Barbara Safani - Mar, 2010 Some people have managed to leverage the challenges of the most recent recession into a lucrative business for themselves to earn a legitimate living. Unfortunately, others are preying on uninformed and sometimes desperate job seekers to illegitimately turn a buck and ruin people’s credit or drain their bank accounts. Identity theft expert and Director of Operations at Kroll Fraud Solutions, Jeremy Miller, relates a typical... |
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From Mired to Hired: Another Guerrilla Job Search Success by Kevin Donlin - Mar, 2010 You might think there’s never been a worse time to look for work in the traditional job market, with unemployment at 10.4% and no relief in sight. But you would be only half right. While there’s never been a worse time for traditional job-search methods, “Guerrilla” job hunters are enjoying consistent success -- even in today’s awful economy. Why? Because Guerrillas choose not to participate in the recession. T... |
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