Secrets of the Job Hunt
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Pounding the Keyboard for Jobs
Reposted from CareerAlley "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison I remember looking for my first "real" job (as opposed to those that I held during college). First of all, there were no personal computers, there were typewriters. This meant you were typing your resume and each cover letter (and if you made a mistake, you started over). Furthermore, there were few copy machines. You probably brought your resume... |
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Entry Level Jobs - Start Here
Reposted from CareerAlley "A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others." - Chin-Ning Chu "Launching a career", sounds kind of melodramatic and it is in a way. The age old question - "What do you want to be when you grow up?" has to be answered to really launch a career. Most of us don't actually know where we want the journey to take us other than we want it to be challenging, rewarding and enjoyable. And,... |
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How to make your cover letter unique
Your cover letter is your first impression with a company, even before an interview occurs. There is some debate among job seekers now about the importance of cover letters, now that email and online applications have replaced postal mail. However you apply for a job, though, a cover letter is still very important, and making yours stand out from your competition is equally important. So how can you make your cover letter unique, without looking desperate for attention? Here are a few guidelines... |
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What Are Your Job Search Tools?
Reposted from CareerAlley "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow So what tools are you using for your job search? I ask this question all of the time and I'm constantly amazed at how many people leverage so few of the tools available to them. Now this is not to be confused with my Job Search Marketing Toolkit (which we can revisit some other time), the tools I'm talking about are your lists of recruiters, job search sites, company... |
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Are social networks discriminatory?
In the Uk and now in France, recruiters organisations and governing bodies have tried to avoid discrimination through different measures. In the UK, you don’t have to put a photo, your address, your age or your marital status on your CV. www.laurentbrouat.com In France, in 2006, the Anonymous CV has been created to prevent any discrimination but it has not been used so far or only on a small scale by some French corporations (Loreal, Axa…). All these efforts have been made to avoid precisely... |
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Long Island Jobs
Last week I took the wraps off my latest local job board for long island jobs. Nothing fancy but thought some of you in the region might be interested in bookmarking it. Below is the press release. Long Island Jobs Employment Site Gets New Look Local Job Board Network Relaunches Longislandjobs.net, becomes the 13th employment site in the AllCountyJobs regional job board network. Trumbull, CT (PRWEB) June 14, 2010 -- Regional job board network, AllCountyJobs.com LLC recently unveiled its... |
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Jobs forum Part 1 (podcast)
I recently took part in a local jobs forum in Fairfield CT put on by state rep Tony Hwang. Listen to a panel of job experts talk about about the current state of the job market and give advice. (45 min) Download Podcast We'll have part 2 published on June 28th. Stay tuned... |
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Job Search Advice Worth Repeating
As I dig through blogs and filter through tweets I am looking for original ideas. How can I put a fresh spin on something that's been said one thousand times by hundreds of experts? The answer certainly isn't easy. Maybe it is enough to just repeat the message. They say that an adult learner needs to hear something about seven times before they actually hear it. But perhaps there is a lesson in this. Job seekers should remember this too. HOT POTATO The news about your quest for a new job shouldn't... |
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Who's Hiring from the Most Admired Companies - Vol 14
Reposted from CareerAlley "Whatever you have, you must either use or lose." - Henry Ford I had drinks with a former co-worker the other day who has been out of work for over a year. I'm sure you all know someone (maybe even you) who have been out of work for an extended period of time. My friend has excellent experience and an Ivy League graduate degree, so how can he still be out of work? I actually think the main reason is that he is just not very good at looking for a job. Sound strange?... |
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In Search of the Right Job
Reposted from CareerAlley "Stick to the knitting - stay with the business that you know." - Tom Peters and Robert Waterman Career paths do not always lead us to exactly where we want to go. Many of us take small detours (intended or not) and later in life very often wind up in a career that is very different from what we set out to do. Early in my career I opted to take a huge detour, which was more like an off ramp. Thinking that I always wanted to be a programmer (my education is Accounting... |
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Career Tips: How To Ensure Smooth Transition To A New Job
You've landed a new job. If you are interested in building a successful career, don't burn bridges to the past as you move on. Here are 13 steps you can take to help make the transition a positive step toward your career goals. First of all, be doubly sure you are making the move for the right reasons that in total mean a step forward on your career path. If you are making a change for negative reasons be certain you can leave the negatives behind. Don't jump from the frying pan into the fire. When... |
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Personal Development Is Dying
What happens to the training budgets and staff when a company is in financial trouble? They are cut, right. What kind of budget does a small company (1-100 employees) have for training there workers on soft skills? Where is the average employee getting their soft skills training today? Are colleges and universities specifically developing self-awareness knowledge in their curricula? These are the questions we need to think about and answer. We need leaders. We need good employees that won't... |
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The Best College Grad Job Search Sites - Vol 1
Reposted from CareerAlley “College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?” - David Wood A little humor for this post, but seriously, you will need to find a job once you graduate (or step it up a notch if you've already graduated). Following the trend of some of my other posts, I thought it would be a great idea to list the best college grad job search sites.... |
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Back to France...
On this blog, I have never talked about myself…and for the first time, I am about to do it. I have been living in London for about 3 years, and I have decided to move back to France. I am quite happy even if I still have a lot of work in the UK and I do love working here…a lot of career and job expertise books are written in English so I must say that today I am heavily influenced by the Anglosaxon way of helping my clients: mindmap, proudest achievements, targets, social networks… I think... |
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Texting and Work among the Young
A new survey by free texting app textPlus shows certain workplace interactions - those typically reserved for a face-to-face or phone conversation -- are taking place more and more over text message. The results may surprise you: When it comes to college kids and recent grads (18-24 years old): · 11% think it’s appropriate to ask for a raise via text · 32% say it’s ok to “call in sick” to work via text (22% have actually done it) · 11% think it’s alright to quit a job via text And... |
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Who's Hiring from the Fortune 500 - Vol 15
Reposted from CareerAlley "Money don't get everything it's true. What it don't get I can't use." - from the song "Money" by Barrett Strong and performed by The Beatles Now I'm not trying to say that business is only about money, but let's face it, business is about money. Number one on the list in 1955 was General Motors and Chrysler was number 6 (how times have changed). The basis for the Fortune 500 list is Gross Revenue (which does not necessarily mean profit), but it is about money. That... |
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The Best College Grad Job Search Resources - Vol 2
Reposted from CareerAlley "There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs." - Anonymous There are few of us who enter college knowing what we want to be when we grow up, and many of us change our major one or more times. So what does that mean about finding your first job out of school? Well for one, don't stress out looking for the right answer (or the elevator to success) because there isn't always a right answer. The trick is to find a job that closely aligns to your skill... |
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MIA The First Day of Work - How to Recover?
So you're supposed to start your job here But you find yourself lost here two full days before your first day. You can't find your cell phone. You can't feel your legs. You ache. Your car is upside down and smashed. And time passes from day to night. You drink swamp water because it's the only thing you can do. And you wait to be found because you can't drag yourself any farther. This is the situation Thomas Wopat-Moreau found himself in earlier this week. A 2009 graduate of William &... |
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Your College Grad Kid Is Living At Home With You...Why?
Thousands of new graduates have been released into the world. What percentage of them have secured jobs? Figures as low as 25% (from Careerealism). Sure the market is tough and there aren't a lot of jobs. But what exactly did they learn in college? Were they taught about what jobs to compete for? Were they taught how to network and develop relationships? Were they taught how to look for a job or better yet compete for jobs in this economy? Maybe, if they visited the campus career center (where... |
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Job Search - The Best Job Search Sites - Vol 1
Reposted from CareerAlley “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Like many of my posts, today's is about being the best. We've done "the best companies to work for" and numerous other "best" lists. As with most of these lists, much of being rated the best is subject to the person writing the list or the criteria used to "rank" the pool of participants. Likewise, much about being the best you can at any one thing is subject to opinion. What we... |